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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterAlt text: Narrated video introducing simulations of merging neutron star magnetospheresMusic: “A Theory Develops,” Pip Heywood [PRS], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || NS_Binary_Sim_Still.jpg (5760x3240) [1.4 MB] || NS_Binary_Sim_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.6 KB] || NS_Binary_Sim_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || 14884_NeutronStarBinarySim2_good.mp4 (1920x1080) [220.4 MB] || 14884_NeutronStarBinarySim2_best.mp4 (1920x1080) [363.9 MB] || NeutronStarBinarySimulationCaptions.en_US.srt [2.4 KB] || NeutronStarBinarySimulationCaptions.en_US.vtt [2.2 KB] || 14884_NeutronStarBinarySim2_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || ", "hits": 450 }, { "id": 14818, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14818/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Plunge: Behind the Scenes Creating NASA's Black Hole Visualization", "description": "Behind the scenes video about the Black Hole visualization from 2024", "hits": 375 }, { "id": 5557, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5557/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-09-08T16:30:00-04:00", "title": "Daily Visualizations of the Largest Wildfires in the United States: 2025", "description": "Wildland fires pose significant threats to ecosystems, property, and human lives. Leveraging NASA’s satellite data, advanced models, visualization capacity and computing power, we analyze fire events, monitor how weather conditions impact fires and how regional air quality affects communities. Through this webpage we offer daily updated visualizations of the two largest active wildfires events in the continental United States throughout fire season.", "hits": 446 }, { "id": 14778, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14778/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-05T21:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fast Field Trips", "description": "Thermal Blanket Technician Paula Cain gives us a tour of the lab, including a special look at how she created the Artemis II zero-gravity indicator \"Rise.\"\"Found in a Dream,\" \"Looking Back,\" Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available. || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise_thumb.png (1080x1920) [1.6 MB] || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise_thumb_print.jpg (1024x1820) [312.1 KB] || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise_thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.5 KB] || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise_thumb_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise_NoCap.webm (1080x1920) [17.6 MB] || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise_IG.mp4 (1080x1920) [165.4 MB] || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise_NoCap.mp4 (1080x1920) [165.3 MB] || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise.en_US.srt [5.2 KB] || FFT_ThermalBlanketxRise.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 14749, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14749/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-14T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "OpenUniverse: Simulated Universe Views for Roman", "description": "This video begins with a tiny one-square-degree portion of the full OpenUniverse simulation area (about 70 square degrees, equivalent to an area of sky covered by more than 300 full moons). 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The MAGE model simulates real events that happened throughout May 10-11, 2024.White orbit trails: All satellites orbiting Earth during the stormOrange orbits: Proposed orbits for six GDC spacecraftOrange-to-purple lines: Magnetic field lines around EarthBlue trails: Solar wind velocity tracersGreen clouds: Electric field current intensityCredit:NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_print.jpg (1024x576) [191.2 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_web.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [253.6 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall (5760x3240) [2880 Item(s)] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [773.4 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_3240p30_h265.mp4 (5760x3240) [779.4 MB] || ", "hits": 308 }, { "id": 14655, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14655/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-14T11:50:00-04:00", "title": "Globular Star Cluster Exploration (Dome Version)", "description": "Globular Star Cluster Exploration || THUMB.jpg (1920x1080) [90.1 KB] || PRINT_2.jpg (1920x1080) [90.1 KB] || Search.jpg (320x180) [11.5 KB] || Globular_Star_Cluster_Exploration_Dome_Version.mp4 (1280x720) [73.9 MB] || 3800x3800_1x1_30p [256.0 KB] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 14656, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14656/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-14T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Galaxy Collision Simulation (Dome Version)", "description": "Galaxy Collision Simulation || PRINT.jpg (1920x1080) [62.5 KB] || THUMB.jpg (1920x1080) [62.5 KB] || SEARCH.jpg (320x180) [8.3 KB] || Galaxy_Collision_Simulation_Dome_Version.mp4 (1280x720) [28.6 MB] || 1024x1024_1x1_30p [128.0 KB] || 2048x2048_1x1_30p [128.0 KB] || 3200x3200_1x1_30p [128.0 KB] || 3800x3800_1x1_30p [128.0 KB] || ", "hits": 132 }, { "id": 40521, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsdbgallery2024goddardsummerfilmfest/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2024-06-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "2024 Goddard Summer Film Fest", "description": "Hosted by the Goddard Office of Communications, the 15th annual Goddard Film Festival is a special two-day event this year, highlighting the center’s achievements over the past year in astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science.\n \nOn Wednesday, July 17th at 2 pm, the Goett Auditorium in Building 3 will host a screening that will feature missions and topics such as OSIRIS-REx, PACE, CLPS, Voyager, Hubble, black holes, solar eclipses and much more.", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 14604, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14604/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers", "description": "This graphic highlights part of a new simulation of what NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could see when it launches by May 2027. The background spans about 0.11 square degrees (roughly equivalent to half of the area of sky covered by a full Moon), representing less than half the area Roman will see in a single snapshot. The inset zooms in to a region 300 times smaller, showcasing a swath of brilliant synthetic galaxies at Roman’s full resolution. Having such a realistic simulation helps scientists study the physics behind cosmic images –– both synthetic ones like these and future real ones. Researchers will use the observations for many types of science, including testing our understanding of the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe.Credit: C. Hirata and K. 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It is about 70 million miles (113 million kilometers) from the black hole’s event horizon, the boundary of no return. It’s moving inward at 19% the speed of light — nearly 127 million mph (205 million kph). A flat, swirling cloud of hot, glowing gas called an accretion disk surrounds the black hole and serves as a visual reference during the fall, as do glowing structures called photon rings, which form closer to the black hole from light that has orbited it one or more times. A backdrop of the starry sky completes the scene.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell || 1_BH_Viz_20_rg_019c.jpg (8192x4096) [6.1 MB] || ", "hits": 448 }, { "id": 5214, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5214/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-02-08T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic Storm Causes Satellite Loss for Fulldome", "description": "In February 2022, a Coronal Mass Ejection led to 38 commercial satellites being lost. Solar plasma from a geomagnetic storm heated the atmosphere, causing denser gases to expand into the satellites’ orbit, which increased atmospheric drag on the satellites and caused them to de-orbit. Johns Hopkins APL-led Center for Geospace Storms (CGS) is building a Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) supercomputer model to predict space weather. The physics-based MAGE simulation reproduced the storm-time atmospheric density enhancement much better than empirical or standalone ionosphere-thermosphere models, emphasizing the need for fully-coupled whole-of-geospace models for predicting space weather events.This is 4k fulldome imagery intended for projection in a planetarium or other hemispherical dome theater. || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 5193, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5193/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-12-11T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic Storm Causes Satellite Loss", "description": "In February 2022, a Coronal Mass Ejection led to 38 commercial satellites being lost. Solar plasma from a geomagnetic storm heated the atmosphere, causing denser gases to expand into the satellites’ orbit, which increased atmospheric drag on the satellites and caused them to de-orbit. Johns Hopkins APL-led Center for Geospace Storms (CGS) is building a Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) supercomputer model to predict space weather. The physics-based MAGE simulation reproduced the storm-time atmospheric density enhancement much better than empirical or standalone ionosphere-thermosphere models, emphasizing the need for fully-coupled whole-of-geospace models for predicting space weather events. || ", "hits": 524 }, { "id": 40461, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/cosmic-cycles7-echoesofthe-big-bang/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2023-03-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cosmic Cycles 7: Echoes of the Big Bang", "description": "NASA studies the makeup and workings of the universe, from the smallest particles of matter and energy to its large-scale structure and evolution. Scientists look far back in space and time to learn the full cosmic history of stars and galaxies. They tease out details of the environments around black holes and observe the most powerful explosions since the big bang. NASA is discovering numerous planets beyond our solar system, decoding how planetary systems form, and learning how environments hospitable for life develop.\n\nWant to know more?\nNASA Universe Webb Space Telescope images Hubble Space Telescope", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 14203, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14203/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-11-15T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Simulations of Weak Black Hole Jets", "description": "This sequence shows the simulated evolution of weak jets (orange, pink, and purple) formed by a supermassive black hole as they interact with stars and gas clouds (green, yellow) at the center of a galaxy. The jet is angled about 15 degrees toward the plane of its galaxy and is shown in 12 time steps, with each interval representing 50,000 years. The image at bottom right shows the jets 600,000 years after they formed. Each step is available as a 4K video and as frames by selecting \"Download Options.\"Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/R. Tanner and K. 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Because these jets are more difficult to detect, the simulations help astronomers link these interactions to features they can observe, such as various gas motions and optical and X-ray emissions.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credit: \"Lost Time;\" \"Ascension;\" \"Flowing Cityscape;\" \"Jupiter's Eye;\" \"Pizzicato Piece;\" \"Facts;\" \"Final Words\" all from Universal Production MusicVideo Descriptive Text available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 14217_AGN_OUtflow_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [1.0 MB] || 14217_AGN_OUtflow_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.9 KB] || 14217_AGN_OUtflow_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || 14217_AGN_Outflow_FINAL_1080.webm (1920x1080) [67.5 MB] || AGN_Outflow_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [11.4 KB] || 14217_AGN_Outflow_FINAL_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [632.4 MB] || 14217_AGN_Outflow_FINAL_1080_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || 14217_AGN_Outflow_FINAL_ProRes_1920x1080_24.mov (1920x1080) [6.4 GB] || ", "hits": 184 }, { "id": 14146, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14146/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Black Hole Desktop & Phone Wallpapers", "description": "While black holes can’t emit their own light, matter surrounding and falling toward it can create quite a light show. Here you’ll find a collection of data visualizations, illustrations, and telescope images of black hole environments. Download these phone and desktop wallpapers for your screens. || ", "hits": 9666 }, { "id": 14132, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14132/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Black Hole Week: Black Hole GIFs", "description": "Black Hole WeekThis page provides social media assets used during previous celebrations of Black Hole Week. Join in! Below, you'll find many GIFs to use. || ", "hits": 505 }, { "id": 14130, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14130/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-04-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Searches for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes", "description": "The length of a gravitational wave, or ripple in space-time, depends on its source, as shown in this infographic. 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Our goal is that no matter where people turn that week they will run into a black hole. (Figuratively, of course — we don’t want anyone falling in!)", "hits": 278 }, { "id": 14000, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14000/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-11-26T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Supercomputer Simulations Test Star-destroying Black Holes", "description": "Watch eight model stars stretch and deform as they approach a virtual black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun. The black hole’s gravity rips some stars apart into a stream of gas, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Others manage to withstand their close encounters. These simulations show that destruction and survival depend on the stars’ initial densities. Yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Taeho Ryu (MPA)Music: \"Lava Flow Instrumental\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 14000_TDE_Simulation_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [205.0 KB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [42.8 KB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_Still_thm.png (80x40) [4.9 KB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [357.4 MB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [164.7 MB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [17.6 MB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.7 KB] || 14000_TDE_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.7 KB] || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 12772, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12772/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-05-05T10:25:00-04:00", "title": "2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation", "description": "Tracking aerosols over land and water from August 1 to November 1, 2017. Hurricanes and tropical storms are obvious from the large amounts of sea salt particles caught up in their swirling winds. The dust blowing off the Sahara, however, gets caught by water droplets and is rained out of the storm system. Smoke from the massive fires in the Pacific Northwest region of North America are blown across the Atlantic to the UK and Europe. This visualization is a result of combining NASA satellite data with sophisticated mathematical models that describe the underlying physical processes.Music: Elapsing Time by Christian Telford [ASCAP], Robert Anthony Navarro [ASCAP]Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p_youtube_1080.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [161.7 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p_youtube_1080.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [108.8 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p_youtube_1080.00001_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [78.1 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [34.1 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols.webm (960x540) [65.0 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [78.1 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [163.1 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [184.9 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [247.2 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [247.9 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_aerosols_captions.en_US.srt [3.1 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_aerosols_captions.en_US.vtt [3.1 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_UHD.mp4 (3840x2160) [739.9 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p-prores.mov (1920x1080) [4.3 GB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_UHD_4444.mov (3840x2160) [40.1 GB] || ", "hits": 213 }, { "id": 13831, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-04-15T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Visualization Probes the Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes", "description": "Explore how the extreme gravity of two orbiting supermassive black holes distorts our view. In this visualization, disks of bright, hot, churning gas encircle both black holes, shown in red and blue to better track the light source. The red disk orbits the larger black hole, which weighs 200 million times the mass of our Sun, while its smaller blue companion weighs half as much. Zooming into each black hole reveals multiple, increasingly warped images of its partner. Watch to learn more. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. PowellMusic: \"Gravitational Field\" from Orbit. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [726.7 KB] || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [18.9 KB] || Supermassive_BlackHole_Binary_Still_thm.png (80x40) [2.5 KB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [23.8 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [234.7 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [348.3 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [936.6 MB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_ProRes_3840x2160_30.mov (3840x2160) [4.1 GB] || 13831_BlackHoleBinary_Simulation_4k_Best.mp4.hwshow [137 bytes] || ", "hits": 267 }, { "id": 10662, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10662/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-04-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Science Simulations: Planetary Systems and Origins of Life", "description": "Supercomputer simulations of planeratry evolution. Part 1: Turbulent Molecular Cloud Nebula with Protostellar ObjectsThe Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) collaborated with NASA and Drs. Alexei Kritsuk and Michael Norman to visualize a computational data set of a turbulent molecular cloud nebula forming protostellar objects and accretion disks approximately 100 AU in diameter, on the order of the size of our solar system. AVL used its Amore software to interpolate and render the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulation generated from ENZO code for cosmology and astrophysics. The AMR simulation was developed by Drs. Kritsuk and Norman at the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics. The AMR simulation generated more than 2 terabytes of data and follows star formation processes in a self-gravitating turbulent molecular cloud with a dynamic range of half-a-million in linear scale, resolving both the large-scale filamentary structure of the molecular cloud (~5 parsec) and accretion disks around emerging young protostellar objects (down to 2 AU). Part 2: Protoplanetary Disk and Planet FormationThe Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) collaborated with NASA and Dr. Aaron Boley to visualize the 16,000 year evolution of a young, isolated protoplanetary disk which surrounds a newly-formed protostar. The disk forms spiral arms and a dense clump as a result of gravitational collapse. Dr. Aaron Boley developed this computational model to investigate the response of young disks to mass accretion from their surrounding envelopes, including the direct formation of planets and brown dwarfs through gravitational instability. The main formation mechanism for gas giant planets has been debated within the scientific community for over a decade. One of these theories is 'direct formation through gravitational instability.' If the self-gravity of the gas overwhelms the disk's thermal pressure and the stabilizing effect of differential rotation, the gas closest to the protostar rotates faster than gas farther away. In this scenario, regions of the gaseous disk collapse and form a planet directly. The study, presented in Boley (2009), explores whether mass accretion in the outer regions of disks can lead to such disk fragmentation. The simulations show that clumps can form in situ at large disk radii. If the clumps survive, they can become gas giants on wide orbits, e.g., Fomalhaut b, or even more massive objects called brown dwarfs. Whether a disk forms planets at large radii and, if so, the number of planets that form, depend on how much of the envelope mass is distributed at large distances from the protostar. The results of the simulations suggest that there are two modes of gas giant planet formation. The first mode occurs early in the disk's lifetime, at large radii, and through the disk instability mechanism. After the main accretion phase is over, gas giants can form in the inner disk, over a period of a million years, through the core accretion mechanism, which researchers are addressing in other studies.Thanks to R. H. Durisen, L. Mayer, and G. Lake for comments and discussions relating to this research. This study was supported in part by the University of Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics, and by a Swiss Federal Grant. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center.AVL at NCSA, University of Illinois. || ", "hits": 250 }, { "id": 13580, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13580/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-04-14T10:30:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Models the Complex Chemistry of Earth's Atmosphere", "description": "Music: \"Interconnecting Threads\" by Axel Tenner [GEMA]; \"Night Drift\" by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS], from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. Complete transcript available. || ChemicalSpecies_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [313.1 KB] || ChemicalSpecies_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [2.0 MB] || ChemicalSpecies_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.5 KB] || ChemicalSpecies_Still_web.png (320x180) [104.5 KB] || ChemicalSpecies_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || 13580_ChemSpecies_Final.mov (1920x1080) [1.8 GB] || 13580_ChemSpecies_Final_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [82.5 MB] || 13580_ChemSpecies_Final.mp4 (1920x1080) [467.4 MB] || 13580_ChemSpecies_Final.webm (1920x1080) [2.7 MB] || ChemicalSpecies.en_US.srt [4.2 KB] || ChemicalSpecies.en_US.vtt [4.2 KB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 13197, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13197/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-02-11T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Gravitational Wave Simulations of Merging Black Holes: 1080 and 8k Resolutions", "description": "This visualization shows gravitational waves emitted by two black holes (black spheres) of nearly equal mass as they spiral together and merge. Yellow structures near the black holes illustrate the strong curvature of space-time in the region. Orange ripples represent distortions of space-time caused by the rapidly orbiting masses. These distortions spread out and weaken, ultimately becoming gravitational waves (purple). The merger timescale depends on the masses of the black holes. For a system containing black holes with about 30 times the sun’s mass, similar to the one detected by LIGO in 2015, the orbital period at the start of the movie is just 65 milliseconds, with the black holes moving at about 15 percent the speed of light. Space-time distortions radiate away orbital energy and cause the binary to contract quickly. As the two black holes near each other, they merge into a single black hole that settles into its \"ringdown\" phase, where the final gravitational waves are emitted. For the 2015 LIGO detection, these events played out in little more than a quarter of a second. This simulation was performed on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center. Fixed view.Credit: NASA/Bernard J. Kelly (Goddard and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County), Chris Henze (Ames) and Tim Sandstrom (CSC Government Solutions LLC)Watch this video on the NASAgovVideo YouTube channel. || Merger_Fixed_Still.png (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || Merger_Fixed_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [59.6 KB] || BH_merger_fixed_camera_close_H264_YouTube_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [65.5 MB] || BH_merger_fixed_camera_close_H264_YouTube_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [65.2 MB] || BH_merger_fixed_camera_close_H264_YouTube_720p.webm (1280x720) [3.9 MB] || BH_merger_fixed_camera_close_ProRes_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || ", "hits": 390 }, { "id": 13518, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13518/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-01-23T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earth Climate Models Bring Exoplanet To Life", "description": "Music: \"Machine Learning\" by Jon Cotton and Ben Niblett; \"No Wave\" by Julien Vignon; \"The Missing Star\" by Matthew Charles Gilbert Davidson; all from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || ProxCenB_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [315.6 KB] || ProxCenB_Thumbnail.png (3840x2160) [18.9 MB] || ProxCenB_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [145.7 KB] || ProxCenB_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || ProxCenB.mp4 (1920x1080) [369.8 MB] || ProxCenB.webm (1920x1080) [48.9 MB] || ProxCenB.en_US.srt [7.3 KB] || ProxCenB.en_US.vtt [7.3 KB] || ProxCenB.mov (3840x2160) [28.4 GB] || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 40409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/fermi-stills/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2020-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Stills", "description": "A collection of Fermi-related still images, illustrations, graphics and short clips.", "hits": 277 }, { "id": 40365, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/earth-science-oct2018-briefing/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2018-10-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Overview Oct 2018 Briefing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 13058, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13058/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-10T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulations Create New Insights Into Pulsars", "description": "Explore a new “pulsar in a box” computer simulation that tracks the fate of electrons (blue) and their antimatter kin, positrons (red), as they interact with powerful magnetic and electric fields around a neutron star. Lighter colors indicate higher particle energies. Each particle seen in this visualization actually represents trillions of electrons or positrons. Better knowledge of the particle environment around neutron stars will help astronomers understand how they produce precisely timed radio and gamma-ray pulses.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Reaching for the Horizon\" and \"Leaving Earth\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Pulsar_Still_1_print.jpg (1024x576) [436.1 KB] || Pulsar_Still_1.jpg (3840x2160) [4.5 MB] || Pulsar_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [134.5 KB] || Pulsar_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [9.1 KB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [25.8 MB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [208.0 MB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_H264_1080.mov (1920x1080) [313.3 MB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.7 KB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.6 KB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_2160.mp4 (3840x2160) [523.3 MB] || 13058_Pulsar_Particle_Simulation_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [10.6 GB] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 13043, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13043/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-02T10:50:00-04:00", "title": "New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes", "description": "Gas glows brightly in this computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging. Models like this may eventually help scientists pinpoint real examples of these powerful binary systems. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018Music: \"Games Show Sphere 01\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || SMBH_Sim_Still_1.jpg (1920x1080) [333.8 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_print.jpg (1024x576) [138.8 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [69.3 KB] || SMBH_Sim_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_1080.webm (1920x1080) [17.4 MB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [202.8 MB] || SMBH_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || SMBH_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || 13043_SMBH_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || ", "hits": 237 }, { "id": 13086, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13086/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-02T10:50:00-04:00", "title": "Supermassive Black Hole Binary Simulation Visualizations in 4k", "description": "Simulation of the light emitted by a supermassive black hole binary system where the surrounding gas is optically thin (transparent). Viewed from 0 degrees inclination, or directly above the plane of the disk. The emitted light represents all wavelengths.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018 || image-000-_000150_print.jpg (1024x576) [33.9 KB] || image-000-_000150.png (3840x2160) [5.1 MB] || 0Degrees (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || SMBH_Sim_Thin0_4kFull.mp4 (3840x2160) [15.0 MB] || SMBH_Sim_Thin0_4kFull.webm (3840x2160) [2.2 MB] || SMBH_Sim_Thin0_4kFull.mov (3840x2160) [427.6 MB] || ", "hits": 550 }, { "id": 12807, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12807/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-01-11T14:10:00-05:00", "title": "Debris Disks Generate Spirals, Rings and Arcs in Simulations", "description": "Astronomers thought patterns spotted in disks around young stars could be planetary signposts. But is there another explanation? A new simulation performed on NASA's Discover supercomputing cluster shows how the dust and gas in the disk could form those patterns no planets needed.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Hyperborea\" from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 12807_Disk_Simulation_4k_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [241.9 KB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_4k_still.jpg (3840x2160) [2.4 MB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_4k_still_thm.png (80x40) [4.5 KB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_4k_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.2 KB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_H264_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [263.9 MB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_H264_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [131.7 MB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [15.3 MB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.1 KB] || 12807_Disk_Simulation_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.0 KB] || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 4588, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4588/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-10-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Improvements in Groundwater and Soil Moisture Measurements Derived from the GRACE Mission", "description": "From space, we track water in the ground – whether it is a centimeter, a meter, or a kilometer below the surface. Around the world, NASA's GRACE satellites have provided unprecedented views of water storage in natural aquifers. These underground reserves are so massive that they affect Earth's gravity field. When their mass changes, the satellites detect the change in gravity. Droughts can affect deep groundwater stores when water users pump hundreds of billions of gallons out of their aquifers to compensate for the lack of rainfall – and GRACE can detect this change.This view from space has revolutionized our understanding of water stores beneath the surface. But scientists at NASA Goddard can combine GRACE data with sophisticated computer models to give decision makers in the continental US an otherwise unseen view, helping to trigger critical water conservation measures.These computer models help us decompose the GRACE signal to identify changes in both the shallow groundwater and the root zone where crops are actually drawing moisture to survive. Stations on the ground provide a connect-the-dots picture. The vantage point from space – combined with modeling – provides a comprehensive view of how the drought evolved over time and ultimately ended.This constantly changing snapshot of shallow groundwater conditions is now used every week in the US Drought Monitor, the benchmark relied upon by decision makers at the local, state, and federal level.This visualization shows the global Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly from GRACE data, and then highlights the contiguous United States to show groundwater anomaly. This more detailed view is made by assimilating GRACEwater storage data into a supercomputer model of the land surface. The visualization dives into California, showing further detail by separating out the surface soil moisture (top 2 centimeters) and the root zone soil mositure (top 100 centimeters). || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 12601, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12601/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-05-26T10:30:00-04:00", "title": "A 3D Look at the 2015 El Niño", "description": "Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have combined ocean measurements with cutting-edge supercomputer simulations to analyze the 2015-2016 El Niño in three dimensions. This visualization looks at the top 225 meters of the ocean, showing warmer than normal water in red, colder than normal water in blue. In the second half, current information is included, with east-flowing currents in yellow and west-flowing currents in white.Music: Bourrée from Handel's Water MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 12601-El-Nino-3D-print.jpg (3840x2160) [2.7 MB] || 12601-El-Nino-3D-print_searchweb.png (320x180) [93.3 KB] || 12601-El-Nino-3D-print_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || 12601-El-Nino-3D-UHD.mp4 (3840x2160) [381.6 MB] || 12601-El-Nino-3D-captions.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || 12601-El-Nino-3D-captions.en_US.vtt [1.7 KB] || 12601-El-Nino-3D-UHD.webm (3840x2160) [24.9 MB] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 12587, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12587/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-05-02T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Gigantic Wave Discovered in Perseus Galaxy Cluster", "description": "A wave spanning 200,000 light-years is rolling through the Perseus galaxy cluster, according to observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory coupled with a computer simulation. The simulation shows the gravitational disturbance resulting from the distant flyby of a galaxy cluster about a tenth the mass of the Perseus cluster. The event causes cooler gas at the heart of the Perseus cluster to form a vast expanding spiral, which ultimately forms giant waves lasting hundreds of millions of years at its periphery. Merger events like this are thought to occur as often as every three to four billion years in clusters like Perseus.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"The Undiscovered\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Perseus_Simulation_Final_Frame_print.jpg (1024x575) [47.6 KB] || Perseus_Simulation_Final_Frame.png (7342x4129) [4.0 MB] || Perseus_Simulation_Final_Frame_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || Perseus_Simulation_Final_Frame_searchweb.png (320x180) [39.3 KB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_FINAL_VX-281959_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [85.7 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_1080.webm (1920x1080) [18.2 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_FINAL_VX-281959_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [85.6 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [160.3 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_1080.mov (1920x1080) [241.7 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_SRT_Caption.en_US.vtt [1.7 KB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_SRT_Caption.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || WMV_12587_Perseus_Wind_FINAL_VX-281959_HD.wmv (3840x2160) [154.8 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind.mp4 (3840x2160) [306.3 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_Good_4k.mov (3840x2160) [468.4 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_4K.m4v (3840x2160) [792.0 MB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_FINAL_VX-281959_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [1.2 GB] || 12587_Perseus_Wind_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [5.2 GB] || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 12221, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12221/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-05-12T13:30:00-04:00", "title": "Tracking Volcanic Ash With Satellites", "description": "Data from the Suomi NPP satellite is used by NASA scientists to map the full three-dimensional structure of volcanic clouds, allowing a more accurate forecast of where the volcanic ash is spreading. The information will be used by air traffic management to re-route flights around the hazardous ash clouds, which can damage airplane engines.Complete transcript available.Music: \"Dangerous Clouds\" by Guy & Zab Skornik [SACEM]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.00596_print.jpg (1024x576) [66.2 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.00596_searchweb.png (180x320) [43.0 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.00596_web.png (320x180) [43.0 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.00596_thm.png (80x40) [4.0 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [60.8 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER.webm (960x540) [46.9 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [60.8 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [21.9 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_captions.en_US.srt [2.2 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_captions.en_US.vtt [2.2 KB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [149.2 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [119.1 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER.mpeg (1280x720) [394.4 MB] || 12221_Volcanic_ash_MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.6 GB] || ", "hits": 82 }, { "id": 12216, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12216/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Preps to Narrow Down Gravitational Wave Sources", "description": "Fermi's GBM saw a fading X-ray flash at nearly the same moment LIGO detected gravitational waves from a black hole merger in 2015. This movie shows how scientists can narrow down the location of the LIGO source on the assumption that the burst is connected to it. In this case, the LIGO search area is reduced by two-thirds. 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It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.You may have heard of \"ocean garbage patches,\" areas in the ocean where litter and debris concentrates. This might stir up a vivid image of large blanketed areas of trash on the ocean surface that are easy to spot. But that’s not the case. Much of the debris consists of smaller pieces of plastic that are always moving and changing with the ocean currents, waves and winds. These can be difficult to see and predict. We set out to explore the processes and interactions that cause debris to flow to these patches using buoy and model data, and created a visualization based on our results. || ", "hits": 127 }, { "id": 11936, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11936/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-10-01T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Superstar Eta Carinae", "description": "NASA observatories take an unprecedented look into two stars with a violent past. || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [497.1 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [199.4 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [115.0 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [128.5 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [70.7 KB] || c-1024_web.png (320x180) [70.7 KB] || c-1024_thm.png (80x40) [10.7 KB] || ", "hits": 185 }, { "id": 30686, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30686/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-09-25T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations", "description": "A galaxy collision simualtion compared, at different stages, to different galaxy collision images from Hubble || gc_sim_vs_obs_example_frame-1920x1080.jpg (1920x1080) [66.6 KB] || gc_sim_vs_obs_example_frame-1920x1080.png (1920x1080) [378.2 KB] || gc_sim_vs_obs_example_frame-1920x1080_searchweb.png (180x320) [21.0 KB] || gc_sim_vs_obs_example_frame-1920x1080_thm.png (80x40) [2.4 KB] || gc_sim_vs_obs-b-1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [34.4 MB] || gc_sim_vs_obs-b-1920x1080.m4v (1920x1080) [29.4 MB] || gc_sim_vs_obs-b-1280x720.m4v (1280x720) [12.6 MB] || gc_sim_vs_obs-b-1920x1080.wmv (1920x1080) [65.7 MB] || gc_sim_vs_obs-b-1920x1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [9.3 MB] || gc_sim_vs_obs-b-30686.key [15.1 MB] || gc_sim_vs_obs-b-30686.pptx [12.7 MB] || gc_sim_vs_obs-b-1920x1080p30.mov (1920x1080) [108.5 MB] || galaxy-collisions-simulation-vs-observations.hwshow [240 bytes] || ", "hits": 127 }, { "id": 40111, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/astro-star/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Star Listing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 179 }, { "id": 40244, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-universe/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-07-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Universe", "description": "hyperwall-ready visualizations about astrophysics\nReturn to Main Hyperwall Gallery.", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 11896, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11896/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-06-25T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Planet Around Beta Pictoris Makes Waves", "description": "Watch: Erika Nesvold and Marc Kuchner discuss how their new supercomputer simulation helps astronomers understand Beta Pictoris.Music:\"Deep Layer\" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of the artist.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. 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In the visualization, dark matter particles are gray spheres attached to shaded trails representing their motion. Redder trails indicate particles more strongly affected by the black hole's gravitation and closer to its event horizon (black sphere at center, mostly hidden by trails). The ergosphere, where all matter and light must follow the black hole's spin, is shown in teal. 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This movie shows a wide view of the system looking down on the orbital plane of the two stars, which are located at the center. The view spans 3,200 times the average distance between Earth and the sun, or 298 billion miles (478 billion kilometers). Lighter colors indicate greater densities, with the highest densities occurring near the primary and in the wind interaction region. The faster wind of the smaller star carves a spiral cavity into the dense wind of the primary star, and this structure expands outward with the primary wind at about 1 million mph (1.6 million km/h. || R100_density_xy_axes_and_colorbar_print.jpg (1024x1024) [84.9 KB] || R100_density_xy_axes_and_colorbar.png (4096x4096) [2.8 MB] || R100_density_xy_axes_and_colorbar_web.jpg (320x320) [17.8 KB] || Eta_Car_R100_Density_XY_H264_Good_1024x1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [57.8 KB] || Eta_Car_R100_Density_XY_H264_Good_1024x1024.mov (1024x1024) [3.8 MB] || Eta_Car_R100_Density_XY_H264_Good_1024x1024.webm (1024x1024) [2.4 MB] || Eta_Car_R100_Density_XY_4k.mov (4096x4096) [876.4 MB] || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 40415, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/whats-newwith-earth-today/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "What's New with Earth Today", "description": "Explore the latest visualizations of NASA's Earth Observing satellites and the data they collect. NASA researchers are constantly tracking remote-sensing data and modeling processes to better understand our home planet.", "hits": 200 }, { "id": 11683, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11683/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-11-18T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Simulating Carbon", "description": "Carbon dioxide is the key driver of global warming, however, despite its significance, much remains unknown about the pathways it takes from emission source to the atmosphere or carbon reservoirs such as oceans and forests. Using a NASA supercomputer model called GEOS-5, scientists created a visualization that simulates how the greenhouse gas travels through Earth’s atmosphere over the course of a year. The model run produced nearly four petabytes (million billion bytes) of data and required 75 days of dedicated computation to complete. In addition to providing a striking look at the movements of the invisible gas as it is transported by winds across the globe, the visualization illustrates differences in carbon dioxide levels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and distinct swings in global carbon dioxide concentrations as the growth cycle of plants and trees changes with the seasons. Watch the video for a tour of the visualization. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 11632, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11632/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-09-04T11:45:00-04:00", "title": "Visualizing Big Data", "description": "Clouds bend and swirl into a massive Category 4 typhoon that spins toward China. Luckily the storm only exists inside the mind of a supercomputer. The artificial storm is seen in a new visualization of Earth’s atmosphere that’s based on an extremely high-resolution supercomputer simulation created by NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5). The model uses data to generate virtual scenes that mimic the natural world. Seeded with observations that include sea surface temperatures, industrial emissions and volcanic eruptions, the model simulated clouds around the globe over a two-year period from 2005 to 2007. Watch the video to see a sample of the results. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 4180, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4180/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-08-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Volume-Rendered Global Atmospheric Model", "description": "This visualization shows early test renderings of a global computational model of Earth's atmosphere based on data from NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5). This particular run, called 7km GEOS-5 Nature Run (7km-G5NR), was run on a supercomputer, spanned 2 years of simulation time at 30 minute intervals, and produced petabytes of output. The model uses a 7.5 km cube-sphere parameterization. Geographic coordinate output volumes from the model are 5760 x 2881 x 72 voxels per time step. For each voxel numerous physical parameters are available such as temperature, wind speed and direction, pressure, humidity, etc. This visualziation uses a combination of the CLOUD and TAUIR parameters.The visualization spans a little more than 7 days of simulation time which is 354 time steps. The time period was chosen because a simulated category-4 typhoon developed off the coast of China. The frames were rendered using Renderman. Brickmap volumes generated for each time step are about 2.6 gigabytes. This short visualization referenced nearly a terabyte of brickmap files. The 7 day period is repeated several times during the course of the visualization.This visualization was presented at SIGGRAPH 2014 during the Dailies session. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 11541, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11541/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-06-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Creating Gas Giants", "description": "Ancient civilizations observed Jupiter in the night sky, but humanity still doesn’t completely understand how it and other giant gas planets are born. One theory is that they began as rocky planets that slowly accumulated thick atmospheres and expanded into big gaseous bodies over millions of years. But there might be a faster route. Solar systems grow from protoplanetary disks, a large stew of primordial gases surrounding a massive solar seed called a protostar. Over thousands of years, the protostar’s gravity sucks in material from the disk’s outer reaches. As more gas swirls inward, it’s packed into dense spiral arms. While the protostar will eventually consume the gas closest to it, material farther away may spin off and condense into a Jupiter-like planet. Watch the video to see this process unfold. || ", "hits": 165 }, { "id": 11530, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11530/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-13T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole", "description": "This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun's mass explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars pack about 1.5 times the mass of the sun — equivalent to about half a million Earths — into a ball just 12 miles (20 km) across. As the simulation begins, we view an unequally matched pair of neutron stars weighing 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses. They are separated by only about 11 miles, slightly less distance than their own diameters. Redder colors show regions of progressively lower density. As the stars spiral toward each other, intense tides begin to deform them, possibly cracking their crusts. Neutron stars possess incredible density, but their surfaces are comparatively thin, with densities about a million times greater than gold. Their interiors crush matter to a much greater degree densities rise by 100 million times in their centers. To begin to imagine such mind-boggling densities, consider that a cubic centimeter of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest. By 7 milliseconds, tidal forces overwhelm and shatter the lesser star. Its superdense contents erupt into the system and curl a spiral arm of incredibly hot material. At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a new black hole is born. The black hole's event horizon — its point of no return — is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less dense, faster moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus. This torus extends for about 124 miles (200 km) and contains the equivalent of 1/5th the mass of our sun. The entire simulation covers only 20 milliseconds.Scientists think neutron star mergers like this produce short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Short GRBs last less than two seconds yet unleash as much energy as all the stars in our galaxy produce over one year. The rapidly fading afterglow of these explosions presents a challenge to astronomers. A key element in understanding GRBs is getting instruments on large ground-based telescopes to capture afterglows as soon as possible after the burst. The rapid notification and accurate positions provided by NASA's Swift mission creates a vibrant synergy with ground-based observatories that has led to dramatically improved understanding of GRBs, especially for short bursts. || ", "hits": 745 }, { "id": 11534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11534/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Galaxy Formation", "description": "Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, dust and dark matter held together by gravity. Their appearance and composition are shaped over billions of years by interactions with groups of stars and other galaxies. Using supercomputers, scientists can look back in time and simulate how a galaxy may have formed in the early universe and grown into what we see today. Galaxies are thought to begin as small clouds of stars and dust swirling through space. As other clouds get close, gravity sends these objects careening into one another and knits them into larger spinning packs. Subsequent collisions can sling material toward a galaxy’s outskirts, creating extensive spiral arms filled with colonies of stars. Watch the video to see this process unfold. || ", "hits": 415 }, { "id": 11411, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11411/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Stormy Coasts", "description": "Antarctica is a hot spot for stormy weather. The constant mixing of warm and cold air happening above ocean waters miles from its shores generates fierce storms that circle the ice-covered continent. But you’d be hard-pressed to find a storm drifting over the South Pole. Storms are restricted to the coasts due to the extreme cold and high elevation of Antarctica’s interior, which blocks storms from penetrating inland. As a result, the center of the ice sheet is a large polar desert that receives less than 0.2 inches of precipitation per year. Watch the video to see a NASA supercomputer climate model simulation that shows the movement of clouds and storm systems around Antarctica. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 11407, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11407/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-21T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Briefing Materials: NASA Missions Explore Record-Setting Cosmic Blast", "description": "On Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, NASA held a media teleconference to discuss new findings related to a brilliant gamma-ray burst detected on April 27. Audio of the teleconference is available for download here.Related feature story: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-sees-watershed-cosmic-blast-in-unique-detail/.Audio of Sylvia Zhu interview for a Science Podcast. Briefing Speakers Introduction: Paul Hertz, NASA Astrophysics Division Director, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.Charles Dermer, astrophysicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.Thomas Vestrand, astrophysicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.Chryssa Kouveliotou, astrophysicist, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Presenter 1: Charles Dermer || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 11347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11347/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Virtual Sky", "description": "Europe owes much of its weather to prevailing winds known as the westerlies. These consistent breezes, created in part by the planet’s rotation, blow from the west, bringing rain and moisture from the Atlantic Ocean to the continent. They also influence the migration of clouds. Throughout the year, the winds carry clouds east above Europe's vegetated, and sometimes snow-covered, landscape. Using a NASA supercomputer climate model called GEOS-5, scientists are able to simulate cloud movement over Europe and other parts of the world. Such models can help improve scientists' understanding of Earth's climate. In GEOS-5 simulations of Europe’s atmosphere, computer-generated clouds take on the appearance and motion of clouds imaged by Earth-observing satellites and astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Watch the video to see 15 days of simulated cloud changes across Europe. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 11206, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11206/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA-led Study Explains How Black Holes Shine in Hard X-rays", "description": "A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light. By analyzing a supercomputer simulation of gas flowing into a black hole, the team finds they can reproduce a range of important X-ray features long observed in active black holes. Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., led the research.Black holes are the densest objects known. Stellar black holes form when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse, crushing up to 20 times the sun's mass into compact objects less than 75 miles (120 kilometers) wide. Gas falling toward a black hole initially orbits around it and then accumulates into a flattened disk. The gas stored in this disk gradually spirals inward and becomes greatly compressed and heated as it nears the center, ultimately reaching temperatures up to 20 million degrees Fahrenheit (12 million C), or some 2,000 times hotter than the sun's surface. It glows brightly in low-energy, or soft, X-rays.For more than 40 years, however, observations show that black holes also produce considerable amounts of \"hard\" X-rays, light with energy tens to hundreds of times greater than soft X-rays. This higher-energy light implies the presence of correspondingly hotter gas, with temperatures reaching billions of degrees. The new study involves a detailed computer simulation that simultaneously tracked the fluid, electrical and magnetic properties of the gas while also taking into account Einstein's theory of relativity. Using this data, the scientists developed tools to track how X-rays were emitted, absorbed, and scattered in and around the disk. The study demonstrates for the first time a direct connection between magnetic turbulence in the disk, the formation of a billion-degree corona above and below the disk, and the production of hard X-rays around an actively \"feeding\" black hole.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 145 }, { "id": 11269, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11269/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tracking A Superstorm", "description": "Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East Coast late in 2012’s Atlantic hurricane season, causing 159 deaths and $70 billion in damages. Days before landfall, forecasts of its trajectory were still being made. Some computer models showed that a trough in the jet stream would kick the monster storm away from land and out to sea. Among the earliest to predict its true course was NASA’s GEOS-5 global atmosphere model. The model works by dividing Earth’s atmosphere into a virtual grid of stacked boxes. A supercomputer then solves mathematical equations inside each box to create a weather forecast predicting Sandy’s structure, path and other traits. The NASA model not only produced an accurate track of Sandy, but also captured fine-scale details of the storm’s changing intensity and winds. Watch the video to see it for yourself. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 11268, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11268/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth From Orbit", "description": "Earth is constantly changing, which is why NASA has a fleet of Earth-observing satellites continuously monitoring the globe, recording every moment of what they see. Luckily for us, many of the views are not only deeply informative but also awe-inspiring. A selection of some of the best views of Earth from space in 2012 can be seen in the video compilation. Included in the collection are satellite images, data visualizations, supercomputer model simulations and time-lapse observations of our planet captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. || ", "hits": 135 }, { "id": 30017, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30017/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-03-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "GEOS-5 Nature Run Collection", "description": "Through numerical experiments that simulate the dynamical and physical processes governing weather and climate variability of Earth's atmosphere, models create a dynamic portrait of our planet. This 10-kilometer global mesoscale simulation (Nature Run) using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5) explores the evolution of surface temperatures as the sun heats the Earth and fuels cloud formation in the tropics and along baroclinic zones; the presence of water vapor and precipitation within these global weather patterns; the dispersion of global aerosols from dust, biomass burning, fossil fuel emissions, and volcanoes; and the winds that transport these aerosols from the surface to upper-levels.The full GEOS-5 simulation covered 2 years—from May 2005 to May 2007. It ran on 3,750 processors of the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, consuming 3 million processor hours and producing over 400 terabytes of data. GEOS-5 development is funded by NASA's Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program. || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 11087, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11087/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Astronomers Uncover a Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution", "description": "A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years, or more than half the age of the universe.\"Astronomers thought disk galaxies in the nearby universe had settled into their present form by about 8 billion years ago, with little additional development since,\" said Susan Kassin, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the study's lead researcher. \"The trend we've observed instead shows the opposite, that galaxies were steadily changing over this time period.\"Today, star-forming galaxies take the form of orderly disk-shaped systems, such as the Andromeda Galaxy or the Milky Way, where rotation dominates over other internal motions. The most distant blue galaxies in the study tend to be very different, exhibiting disorganized motions in multiple directions. There is a steady shift toward greater organization to the present time as the disorganized motions dissipate and rotation speeds increase. These galaxies are gradually settling into well-behaved disks.Blue galaxies — their color indicates stars are forming within them — show less disorganized motions and ever-faster rotation speeds the closer they are observed to the present. This trend holds true for galaxies of all masses, but the most massive systems always show the highest level of organization.Researchers say the distant blue galaxies they studied are gradually transforming into rotating disk galaxies like our own Milky Way.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 123 }, { "id": 11083, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11083/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Under The Influence", "description": "Sheets of crisp, bright white clouds blanket our planet. That's true even in particularly dry places like the island continent of Australia. There, cloud-filled skies are mainly observed during the rainy winter season, except in the north, where the majority of storms take place in summer. Australia sits far south of the equator and under a strong, migrating zone of high-pressure called the subtropical ridge. These conditions influence its climate and expose the continent to a variety of weather extremes: drought, floods, heat waves, severe storms and tropical cyclones. At the same time, Australia gets more than 3,000 hours of sunshine each year, making it one of the sunniest places in the world. And, its clouds look incredibly cool from space. Using an advanced supercomputer climate model called GEOS-5, NASA scientists recreated 19 days of changing cloud cover over Australia. Watch the visualization to explore the movement of different systems that formed across the continent. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 11086, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11086/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes", "description": "According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves — distortions in the very fabric of space and time — that ripple outward across the universe at the speed of light. While astronomers have found indirect evidence of these disturbances, the waves have so far eluded direct detection. Ground-based observatories designed to find them are on the verge of achieving greater sensitivities, and many scientists think that this discovery is just a few years away. Catching gravitational waves from some of the strongest sources — colliding black holes with millions of times the sun's mass — will take a little longer. These waves undulate so slowly that they won't be detectable by ground-based facilities. Instead, scientists will need much larger space-based instruments, such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, which was endorsed as a high-priority future project by the astronomical community. A team that includes astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is looking forward to that day by using computational models to explore the mergers of supersized black holes. Their most recent work investigates what kind of \"flash\" might be seen by telescopes when astronomers ultimately find gravitational signals from such an event. To explore the problem, a team led by Bruno Giacomazzo at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and including Baker developed computer simulations that for the first time show what happens in the magnetized gas (also called a plasma) in the last stages of a black hole merger. In the turbulent environment near the merging black holes, the magnetic field intensifies as it becomes twisted and compressed. The team suggests that running the simulation for additional orbits would result in even greater amplification. The most interesting outcome of the magnetic simulation is the development of a funnel-like structure — a cleared-out zone that extends up out of the accretion disk near the merged black hole. The most important aspect of the study is the brightness of the merger's flash. The team finds that the magnetic model produces beamed emission that is some 10,000 times brighter than those seen in previous studies, which took the simplifying step of ignoring plasma effects in the merging disks. || ", "hits": 128 }, { "id": 11016, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11016/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Simulated Nature Runs Its Course", "description": "The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season smashed records with 28 named storms, four Category 5 hurricanes (including Wilma, the all-time strongest), and the costliest U.S. natural disaster (Katrina). A NASA Goddard climate model called GEOS-5 revisited the season as part of a gigantic two-year simulation to better understand the processes of weather and climate. Seeded with observed sea surface temperatures—a key driver of hurricane formation—the model simulated weather events worldwide. One of the highest resolutions to date for a full-Earth model was used to run the simulation, taxing Goddard's Discover supercomputer for weeks. In total, the model spawned 23 Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms during 2005—an impressive comparison to the actual number observed—and demonstrated an increased ability to model how these volatile cyclones change intensity as they evolve. The visualization shows simulated storms for September 2005 emerging and churning across the North Atlantic. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 10977, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10977/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-05-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Paint By Particle", "description": "Satellites, balloon-borne instruments and ground-based devices make 30 million observations of the atmosphere each day. Yet these measurements still give an incomplete picture of the complex interactions within the membrane surrounding Earth. Enter climate models. Through mathematical experiments, modelers can move Earth forward or backward in time to create a dynamic portrait of the planet. Researchers from NASA Goddard's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office recently ran a simulation of the atmosphere that captured how winds whip aerosols around the world. Such simulations allow scientists to better understand how these tiny particulates travel in the atmosphere and influence weather and climate. In the visualization below, covering August 2006 to April 2007, watch as dust and sea salt swirl inside cyclones, carbon bursts from fires, sulfate streams from volcanoes—and see how these aerosols paint the modeled world. || ", "hits": 142 }, { "id": 10740, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10740/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-04-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "When Neutron Stars Collide", "description": "Armed with state-of-the-art supercomputer models, scientists have shown that colliding neutron stars can produce the energetic jet required for a gamma-ray burst. Earlier simulations demonstrated that mergers could make black holes. Others had shown that the high-speed particle jets needed to make a gamma-ray burst would continue if placed in the swirling wreckage of a recent merger. Now, the simulations reveal the middle step of the process—how the merging stars' magnetic field organizes itself into outwardly directed components capable of forming a jet. The Damiana supercomputer at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics needed six weeks to reveal the details of a process that unfolds in just 35 thousandths of a second—less than the blink of an eye.For the researchers' website, with more video and stills of their simulations, go here. || ", "hits": 496 }, { "id": 10661, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10661/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "JWST Science Simulations: Galaxy Formation", "description": "Supercomputer Simulations of Galaxy Formation and Evolution. This visualization shows small galaxies forming, interacting, and merging to make ever-larger galaxies. This 'hierarchical structure formation' is driven by gravity and results in the creation of galaxies with spiral arms much like our own Milky Way galaxy. The Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulation generated from ENZO code for cosmology and astrophysics was developed by Drs. Brian O'Shea and Michael Norman. The AMR code generated 1.8 terabytes of data and was computed at NCSA. AVL used Amore software (http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/what-we-do/software) to interpolate and render 2700 frames (42 gigabytes of HD images). The simulation spans a time period of 13.7 billion years. This visualization provides insight into the assembly and formation of galaxies. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will probe the earliest periods of galaxy formation by looking deep into space to see the first galaxies that form in the universe, only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) collaborated with NASA and Drs. Brian O'Shea and Michael Norman to visualize the formation of a Milky Way-type galaxy. The Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulation generated from ENZO code for cosmology and astrophysics was developed by Drs. Brian O'Shea and Michael Norman. The AMR code generated 1.8 terabytes of data and was computed at NCSA. AVL used Amore software (http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/what-we-do/software) to interpolate and render 2700 frames (42 gigabytes of HD images). The simulation spans a time period of 13.7 billion years. This visualization provides insight into the assembly and formation of galaxies. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will probe the earliest periods of galaxy formation by looking deep into space to see the first galaxies that form in the universe, only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.AVL(http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/) at NCSA (http://ncsa.illinois.edu/), University of Illinois (www.illinois.edu) || ", "hits": 359 }, { "id": 3793, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3793/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Artificial World Captures Reality", "description": "A gold standard for supercomputer models that simulate Earth is the ability to recreate real events—snowstorms, tropical cyclones, long-term climate trends. By that benchmark, this 20-day run of one of the highest-resolution climate models in the world glitters. Called GEOS-5, the model was given data leading up to Feb. 2, 2010 and then predicted the atmosphere's response until Feb. 22, 2010 without any further input. The model simulated real weather events that took place during this period—two major snowstorms that struck the East Coast and a Pacific cyclone that formed out of intense convection in the tropics. A closer look at the simulation below reveals its complexity: 3-D cloud layers, the day-night cycle of humidity appearing and disappearing over the Amazon and streaky \"cloud streets\" that trail across the Atlantic from the U.S. coastline. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 10635, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10635/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-09-23T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dust Simulations Paint Alien's View of the Solar System", "description": "Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune's gravitational imprint on the dust is always detectable in new simulations of how this dust moves through the solar system. By ramping up the collision rate, the simulations show how the distant view of the solar system might have changed over its history. More here. || ", "hits": 132 }, { "id": 3773, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3773/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-07-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Towers In The Tempest", "description": "Massive accumulations of heat pulled from the top layers of tropical ocean water and set spinning due to planetary rotation form a hurricane's spiraling vortex. But powering the inside of these storms we find one of nature's most astounding natural engines: hot towers. Scientists discovered hot towers in recent years by observing storms from space and creating advanced supercomputer models to decipher how a hurricane sustains its winding movement. The models show that when air spirals inward toward the eye of a hurricane it collides with an unstable region of air at the eyewall, where the strongest winds are found, and suddenly deflects upwards. This rush of warm, moist air is accelerated by surrounding patches of convective clouds, called hot towers, which strengthen and propel the hurricane by keeping the vertical ring of clouds in motion. Watch the first video below as NASA researchers look under the hood of these cloud super-engines to reveal exciting findings about a hurricane's internal motor. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 10622, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10622/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Michelle Thaller Live Shot Q&A", "description": "On Wednesday, June 2nd Michelle Thaller conducted live satellite interviews around the country. This is a version of the interviews. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 10563, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10563/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-06-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Supercomputing the Climate", "description": "Goddard Space Flight Center is the home of a state-of-the-art supercomputing facility called the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) that is capable of running highly complex models to help scientists better understand Earth's climate. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 10568, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10568/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-06-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NCCS Video Files", "description": "These three clips show highlights of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at Goddard Space Flight Center. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 40072, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/nccs/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2010-05-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS)", "description": "Goddard Space Flight Center is the home of a state-of-the-art supercomputing facility called the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) that is capable of running highly complex models to help scientists better understand Earth's climate. To learn more about the unveiling of the NCCS, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html", "hits": 100 }, { "id": 3413, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3413/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-05-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Towers in the Tempest", "description": "This visualization won Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge in September 2007. It was also shown during the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival in Los Angeles, CA. 'Towers in the Tempest' is a 4.5 minute narrated animation that explains recent scientific insights into how hurricanes intensify. This intensification can be caused by a phenomenon called a 'hot tower'. For the first time, research meteorologists have run complex simulations using a very fine temporal resolution of 3 minutes. Combining this simulation data with satellite observations enables detailed study of 'hot towers'. The science of 'hot towers' is described using: observed hurricane data from a satellite, descriptive illustrations, and volumetric visualizations of simulation data. The first section of the animation shows actual data from Hurricane Bonnie observed by NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft. Three dimensional precipitation radar data reveal a strong 'hot tower' in Hurricane Bonnie's internal structure. The second section uses illustrations to show the dynamics of a hurricane and the formation of 'hot towers'. 'Hot towers' are formed as air spirals inward towards the eye and is forced rapidly upwards, accelerating the movement of energy into high altitude clouds. The third section shows these processes using volumetric cloud, wind, and vorticity data from a supercomputer simulation of Hurricane Bonnie. Vertical wind speed data highlights a 'hot tower'. Arrows representing the wind field move rapidly up into the 'hot tower, boosting the energy and intensifying the hurricane. Combining satellite observations with super-computer simulations provides a powerful tool for studying Earth's complex systems. The complete script is available here . The storyboard is available here . There is also a movie of storyboard drawings with narration below. || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 2405, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2405/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-03-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mapping the Amazon: Mosaic tiles animation", "description": "A satellite can cover the Amazon in just two months. The mapping team chose a Japanese satellite outfitted with synthetic aperture radar, or SAR for short. SAR is a natural fit for the Amazon. It can penetrate the clouds that pour rain for half of the year and the smoke from trees burned by farmers to clear land. SAR even works at night. As you might imagine, the satellite collects a pile of data. In raw form, these observations are gibberish. Focusing them requires a supercomputer to crunch fifteen hundred trillion calculations. The output is rich images of the Amazon. Scientists listed worked as a team on Mosaicking Software and Mosaic Production. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 737, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/737/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-10-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Images of Earth and Space: SC99 Edition", "description": "From our home planet to distant neutron stars, this narrated video tape presents recent scientific visualizations of observation and simulation data. We begin with a dramatic journey over SC99 host city Portland and its surroundings. Later explorations accompany the X-33 aerospace plane on its first test flight, witness Mississippi River flooding, and follow global life over 22 months. New views of Mars reveal a basin that could swallow Mount Everest, while a simulation tests how rovers would navigate the red planet's terrain. We conclude with the first-ever supercomputer model producing a black hole from two merging neutron stars. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 550, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/550/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-01-21T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Dynamo", "description": "A dynamo is a mechanism for a star or planet to create magnetic field. One type of solar dynamo is turbulent convection, which researchers have simulated on a supercomputer. Like soup boiling on a stove, gas at the Sun's surface is heated from the bottom and cooled at the top. Since the gas conducts electricity, these motions produce magnetic fields. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 551, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/551/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-01-21T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Delta Sunspot", "description": "When a large bundle of magnetic field lines breaks through the Sun's surface, a sunspot can form. Sometimes, a smaller spot will emerge nearby, creating a magnetically complex region where particles are energized and then violently expelled. Supercomputer models show that rearranging magnetic field lines enables this process. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 97, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/97/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1996-02-08T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Images of Earth and Space: The Role of Visualization in NASA Science", "description": "This compilation video contains visualizations of Earth and Space Sciences resulting from supercomputer models. The excerpted visualizations include: Ocean Planet, El Niño, Ozone 1991, Clouds, Changes in Glacier Bay, Alaska, Biosphere, Lunar Topography from the Clementine Mission, Musculoskeletal Modeling Dynamic Simulations, Simulations of the Breakup and Dynamical Evolution of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Convective Penetration in Stellar Interiors, Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: A Model for the Outer Heliospheric Solar Wind, R-Aquarii Jet, The Evolution of Distorted Black Holes, Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Supernova, Galaxy Harassment, N-Body Simulation of the Cold Dark Matter Cosmology. || ", "hits": 265 } ] }