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As it watched the comet, one of K1’s smaller pieces also broke up. Because Hubble’s sharp vision can distinguish extremely fine details, the team could trace the history of the fragments back to when they were one piece. That allowed them to reconstruct the timeline. But in doing so, they uncovered a mystery: Why was there a delay between when the comet broke up and when bright outbursts were seen from the ground? When the comet fragmented and exposed fresh ice, why didn’t it brighten almost instantaneously?Sometimes the best science happens by accident!For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubbleCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead ProducerOriginal Story Written by: Ann Jenkins / Christine Pulliam of the Space Telescope Science InstituteVideo Credits:Milky Way with comets timelapse. Credit: POND5Comet Shoemaker Levy colliding with Jupiter from ESA's movie \"15 Years of Discovery\". Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. 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The Trojan asteroids are remnants of the early solar system clustered in two “swarms” leading and following Jupiter in its path around the Sun. The live briefing will stream on NASA Television, the agency's website, NASA’s Twitter account and the NASA App.Lucy engineering briefing participants include:• Joan Salute, associate director for flight programs, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters.• Katie Oakman, Lucy structures and mechanisms lead, Lockheed Martin Space.• Jessica Lounsbury, Lucy project systems engineer, Goddard.• Coralie Adam, deputy navigation team chief, KinetX Aerospace.Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids. The spacecraft will fly by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, which will make it the first spacecraft ever to return to our planet’s vicinity from the outer solar system.Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Lucy’s principal investigator is based out of the Boulder, Colorado, branch of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland provides overall mission management, systems engineering, and safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, built the spacecraft. Lucy is the 13th mission in NASA’s Discovery Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Discovery Program for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The launch is managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 13945, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13945/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy L-2 Science and Instrument Briefing", "description": "NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 14th, to preview the launch of the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Trojan asteroids are remnants of the early solar system clustered in two “swarms” leading and following Jupiter in its path around the Sun.The live briefing will stream on NASA Television, the agency's website, NASA’s Twitter account and the NASA App.Participants in Thursday's briefing will include:• Alana Johnson, Senior Communications Specialist, NASA Planetary Science Division• Adriana Ocampo, Lucy Program Executive, NASA Headquarters• Cathy Olkin, Lucy Deputy Principal Investigator, Southwest Research Institute • Keith Noll, Lucy Project Scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center• Hal Weaver, L’LORRI Instrument PI, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory • Phil Christensen, L’TES Instrument PI, Arizona State University • Dennis Reuter, L’RALPH Instrument PI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record number of asteroids in separate orbits around the Sun. The spacecraft will fly by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, followed by seven Trojans. In addition, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to travel out to the distance of Jupiter and return to the vicinity of Earth.The Lucy mission is named after the fossilized skeleton of an early hominin (pre-human ancestor) discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and named “Lucy” by the team of paleoanthropologists who discovered it. Just as the Lucy fossil provided unique insights into humanity’s evolution, the Lucy mission promises to revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.Southwest Research Institute is the home institution of the principal investigator. NASA Goddard Space provides overall mission management, systems engineering, plus safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space built the spacecraft. Lucy is the 13th mission in NASA’s Discovery Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Discovery Program for the Science Mission Directorate. 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The Trojan asteroids are remnants of the early solar system clustered in two “swarms” leading and following Jupiter in its path around the Sun.The live briefing will stream on NASA Television, the agency's website, NASA’s Twitter account and the NASA App.Participants in Tuesday's briefing will include:• Alana Johnson, Senior Communications Specialist, NASA Planetary Science Division• Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.• Hal Levison, Lucy Principal Investigator, Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.• Keith Noll, Lucy Project Scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. • Rich Lipe, Lockheed Marin Spacecraft Program Manager, Denver, Colorado. • Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, Lucy Project Manager, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record number of asteroids in separate orbits around the Sun. The spacecraft will fly by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, followed by seven Trojans. In addition, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to travel out to the distance of Jupiter and return to the vicinity of Earth.The Lucy mission is named after the fossilized skeleton of an early hominin (pre-human ancestor) discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and named “Lucy” by the team of paleoanthropologists who discovered it. Just as the Lucy fossil provided unique insights into humanity’s evolution, the Lucy mission promises to revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.Southwest Research Institute is the home institution of the principal investigator. NASA Goddard Space provides overall mission management, systems engineering, plus safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space built the spacecraft. Lucy is the 13th mission in NASA’s Discovery Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Discovery Program for the Science Mission Directorate. The launch is managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.For more information about Lucy, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/lucy || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 4936, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4936/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Studying vegetation canopy with ICESAT-2", "description": "This visualization depicts how ICESat-2 data is being used to study vegetation canopy. The visualization begins with a view of 6 beams passing over forested mountains, before zooming in on a single beam and introducing the data classification scheme. Data points are classified as ground (light brown), vegetation (green), vegetation canopy (tan), or unclassified (grey). A transparent scale using meters for distance and altitude is overlaid momentarily before the camera moves on and explores the rest of the beam data. 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The ocean flows are colored by temperature with blue indicating colder and red showing warmer currents. This version is in Dome Master format. || Antarctic_flows_v209.1700_print.jpg (1024x1024) [133.8 KB] || Antarctic_flows_v209.1700_searchweb.png (180x320) [56.2 KB] || Antarctic_flows_v209.1700_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || Antarctic_flows_v209_2048p30.mp4 (2048x2048) [153.2 MB] || Antarctic_flows_v209_4096p30_h265_3.webm (4096x4096) [47.5 MB] || 4096x4096_1x1_30p (4096x4096) [0 Item(s)] || Antarctic_flows_v209_4096p30_h265_3.mp4 (4096x4096) [186.8 MB] || ", "hits": 150 }, { "id": 4888, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4888/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-08-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Antarctic Ocean Flows: an excerpt from Atlas of a Changing Earth (4k format)", "description": "This visualization shows how the ocean circulation in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica flows around and under the floating ice shelves and glaciers. The ocean flows are colored by temperature with blue indicating colder and red showing warmer currents. This version includes a title, credits, narration and music.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || Antarctic_flows_2021_flat_HD_Audio.00310_print.jpg (1024x576) [81.9 KB] || Antarctic_flows_2021_flat_HD_Audio.webm (1920x1080) [16.4 MB] || Antarctic_flows_2021_flat_HD_Audio.mp4 (1920x1080) [286.8 MB] || Antarctic_flows_2021_flat_4k_Audio.en_US.srt [1.3 KB] || Antarctic_flows_2021_flat_4k_Audio.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || Antarctic_flows_2021_flat_4k_Audio.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.1 GB] || Antarctic_flows_2021_flat_HD_Audio.mp4.hwshow [200 bytes] || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 4913, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4913/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-07-29T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Maps Subglacial Lakes in Antarctica", "description": "Data visualization featuring precise map of Mercer and Conway subglacial lakes in West Antarctica. The visualization sequence starts with a view of the Americas and slowly zooms into the suture between the Mercer and Whillans ice streams. Surface-height anomaly data from NASA's ICESat-2 mission provide critical insight for the drain-fill cycles of subglacial lakes and aid in the discovery of two new water bodies within the same region. This data-driven visualization includes labels of ice formations close to the area of interest and repeats playback of the segment of the subglacial lakes surface-height anomalies. || SubglacialLakesCompositex2_4K60fps_0904_print.jpg (1024x576) [88.8 KB] || SubglacialLakesCompositex2_4K60fps_0904.png (3840x2160) [5.9 MB] || Compositex2 (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SubglacialLakesCompositex2_HD60fps.mp4 (1920x1080) [58.4 MB] || SubglacialLakesCompositex2_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [53.8 MB] || SubglacialLakesCompositex2_HD60fps.webm (1920x1080) [6.9 MB] || Compositex2_4K (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || SubglacialLakesCompositex2_4K60fps.mp4 (3840x2160) [58.5 MB] || SubglacialLakesCompositex2_4K30fps.mp4 (3840x2160) [182.4 MB] || SubglacialLakesCompositex2_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [200 bytes] || ", "hits": 154 }, { "id": 13883, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13883/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-07-19T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "LIVE SHOT: NASA and Boeing for Starliner’s Uncrewed Flight Test to International Space Station", "description": "Live Virtual Interview Opportunities || 13883_NASA_Boeing_Starliner.jpg (800x304) [33.9 KB] || 13883_NASA_Boeing_Starliner_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.7 KB] || 13883_NASA_Boeing_Starliner_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 4889, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4889/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-03-03T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Variability of Water Storage in Global Hydrological Basins", "description": "Variability of Water Level || figure_2.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [92.0 KB] || figure_2.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [46.0 KB] || figure_2.00001_thm.png (80x40) [4.7 KB] || figure_2.mp4 (1920x1080) [82.9 MB] || figure_2.webm (1920x1080) [5.1 MB] || figure_2.mp4.hwshow [174 bytes] || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 13738, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13738/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-10-19T11:30:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Science and Engineering Briefing", "description": "Main title for T-1 OSIRIS-REx Science and Engineering Briefing || t-1_title.jpg (2878x1618) [2.5 MB] || t-1_title_searchweb.png (320x180) [58.9 KB] || t-1_title_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 13724, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13724/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-09-24T14:25:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx: Countdown to TAG", "description": "Trailer for the OSIRIS-REx TAG EventUniversal Production Music: \"The Glory of Victory\" by Frederik WiedmannCredit: NASA/Goddard || tagtrailer13725_print.jpg (1024x576) [67.1 KB] || tagtrailer13725.jpg (3840x2160) [354.2 KB] || tagtrailer_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [18.8 MB] || tagtrailer_facebook_720.webm (1280x720) [11.4 MB] || tagtrailer_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [107.3 MB] || tagtrailercaption.en_US.srt [1.6 KB] || tagtrailercaption.en_US.vtt [1.6 KB] || tagtrailer.mp4 (3840x2160) [106.9 MB] || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 40413, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/earth-science-playlist/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2020-04-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Playlist", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 5 }, { "id": 4791, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4791/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-02-24T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Apollo 13 Moon View Using LRO Data", "description": "Path 75:02:00 − 80:01:50. The path of the Apollo 13 spacecraft near the Moon. The one-minute animation covers five hours of real time, at 10 seconds per frame. The view is centered on the lunar north pole, with the center of the near side facing the top of the frame. Versions both with and without the annotations in the bottom right are available, as are the separate components (Moon and path with alpha, starry background). || path.0900_print.jpg (1024x576) [59.6 KB] || path.0900_thm.png (80x40) [2.3 KB] || path.0900_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.9 KB] || path_annotated_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [16.1 MB] || path_annotated_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [7.3 MB] || path_annotated_720p30.webm (1280x720) [7.0 MB] || path_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [14.9 MB] || path_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [6.6 MB] || path_ann (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || path_stars (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || path (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || path_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || path_annotated_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [50.4 MB] || path_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [1.5 MB] || path_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [43.7 MB] || path_annotated_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [1.8 MB] || path_2160p30_prores.mov (3840x2160) [4.3 GB] || path_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [178 bytes] || ", "hits": 440 }, { "id": 31094, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31094/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2020-02-12T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Vintage Photos of Earth at Night—NASA’s Mercury-Atlas Mission", "description": "Vintage Photos of Earth at Night—NASA’s Mercury-Atlas Mission || Page10-11_MercuryHyperwall_5760x3240_19.2x10.8_print.jpg (1024x576) [95.7 KB] || Page10-11_MercuryHyperwall_5760x3240_19.2x10.8.png (5760x3240) [16.0 MB] || Page10-11_MercuryHyperwall_5760x3240_19.2x10.8_searchweb.png (180x320) [86.6 KB] || Page10-11_MercuryHyperwall_5760x3240_19.2x10.8_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || vintage-photos-of-earth-at-nightnasas-mercury-atlas-mission.hwshow [375 bytes] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 13527, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13527/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "New Mission Will Take First Peek at Sun’s Poles", "description": "A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7, 2020, at 11:15 p.m. EST. Launching on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, the spacecraft will use Venus’ and Earth’s gravity to swing itself out of the ecliptic plane — the swath of space, roughly aligned with the Sun’s equator, where all planets orbit. From there, Solar Orbiter's bird’s eye view will give it the first-ever look at the Sun's poles.Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-mission-will-take-first-peek-at-sun-s-poles || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 13505, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13505/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-11T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Orbiter - ESA Animations", "description": "Solar Orbiter is an European Space Agency (ESA) mission with strong NASA participation. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high-latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. || ", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 40389, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/operation-ice-bridge-produced-videos-antarctic-campaigns/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2019-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge - Antarctic Campaigns: Produced Videos", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 13330, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13330/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-10-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Has All Eyes on Sea Ice", "description": "Music: \"Coveted Jewels,\" Universal Production Music || underflight_thumb.png (1908x1072) [2.5 MB] || underflight_thumb_print.jpg (1024x575) [98.7 KB] || underflight_thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [90.1 KB] || underflight_thumb_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || 13330_Underflight_prores.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || 13330_Underflight.mp4 (1920x1080) [64.9 MB] || 13330_Underflight_prores.webm (1920x1080) [9.6 MB] || 13330_Underflight.en_US.srt [1005 bytes] || 13330_Underflight.en_US.vtt [1018 bytes] || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 4734, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4734/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-09-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Measuring Sea Ice Thickness with ICESat-2", "description": "This visualization depicts sea ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean as measured by ICESat-2 over the course of several months. The visualization begins with a global view of the north pole as individual tracks are drawn over time representing each time the satellite passes overhead and collects sea ice data. A closeup view of one track is revealed, showing how the ICESat-2 laser can measure ice freeboard (height above sea level), which can be used to calculate total ice thickness. The visualization concludes by showing monthly average of sea ice thickness from November 2018 to March 2019. || sea_ice_thickness_comp_0665_print.jpg (1024x576) [89.1 KB] || sea_ice_thickness_comp_0665_searchweb.png (320x180) [59.6 KB] || sea_ice_thickness_comp_0665_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || ICESat-2_sea_ice_thickness_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [62.7 MB] || ICESat-2_sea_ice_thickness_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [10.1 MB] || sea_ice_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || ICESat-2_sea_ice_thickness_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [173.8 MB] || ICESat-2_sea_ice_thickness_1080p30.mp4.hwshow || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 4464, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4464/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-12-14T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Using Tree Rings to Study Human Influence on Hydroclimate", "description": "This visualization displays a global drought atlas dating back to 1400, created using data from tree rings. The data is displayed on a flat rectangular map projection with a simple overlay depicting the differences in tree ring sizes for dry and wet years. In the second half of the visualization, a ‘fingerprint’ thumbnail is introduced, which is an indicator for human influences on climate change. A signal-to-noise ratio graph is depicted comparing the fingerprint to both tree ring drought atlas data and observational meteorological data (CRU and Dai) || hydroclimate_comp5_4k_1210_print.jpg (1024x576) [62.1 KB] || hydroclimate_comp5_4k_1210_searchweb.png (320x180) [41.3 KB] || hydroclimate_comp5_4k_1210_thm.png (80x40) [4.9 KB] || hydroclimate_comp5_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [9.4 MB] || TreeRing_hydroclimate_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || hydroclimate_comp5_4k_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [25.6 MB] || hydroclimate_comp5_4k_2160p30.webm (3840x2160) [7.6 MB] || hydroclimate_comp5_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [192 bytes] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 12916, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12916/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-12-11T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "50th Anniversary of NASA's OAO 2 Mission", "description": "“Seas of Infinity” (1968), full-length version scanned from 16mm color film and color corrected; run time 14:25. Original description: The film opens with an explanation of the electromagnetic spectrum. The limited capabilities of skyhook balloons and sounding rockets are used to illustrate the need for orbiting observatories. Reviews the planning, development, launching and function of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, a series of orbiting telescopes which are being used to study our solar system and the stars beyond. Features comments by the following leading scientists on the potential of this advancement in astronomy: Dr. Arthur Code, Wisconsin telescopes; Dr. James Kupperian, Goddard Flight Center using Cassegrain designs; Dr. Fred Whipple on the ultraviolet light sky mapping project; and Dr. Donald Morton on the Princeton OAO ultraviolet spectroscopy project. The film has scenes of the assembly of the OAO. The OAO will be launched by an Atlas-Centaur. Credit: NASAComplete transcript available. || Seas_Of_Infinity_OAO2_Color_Corrected.22261_print.jpg (1024x768) [40.5 KB] || Seas_Of_Infinity_OAO2_Color_Corrected.22261_searchweb.png (320x180) [42.3 KB] || Seas_Of_Infinity_OAO2_Color_Corrected.22261_thm.png (80x40) [4.5 KB] || Seas_Of_Infinity_OAO2_Color_Corrected.mp4 (640x480) [136.1 MB] || Seas_Of_Infinity_OAO2_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [16.6 KB] || Seas_Of_Infinity_OAO2_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [16.6 KB] || Seas_Of_Infinity_OAO2_Color_Corrected.webm (640x480) [110.9 MB] || ", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 13062, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13062/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-09-10T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Por Los Números (en Español)", "description": "ICESat-2 es un láser espacial de gran precisión que integra la tecnología más puntera de la NASA. Para poder medir la altura del hielo del planeta, los ingenieros deben llevar el instrumento ATLAS de ICESat-2 al extremo: a veces yendo a lo grande, otras a lo pequeño, pero siempre manteniéndolo preciso.ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology. To measure ice heights, engineers have to take ICESat-2’s instrument ATLAS to the extreme – sometimes going big, sometimes going small, but always keeping it precise.Click here for English-language versions. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 13065, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13065/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-09-06T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Countdown to ICESat-2 Launch", "description": "\"Stars Align,\" Andrew Michael Britton, Atmosphere Music Ltd.; \"A New Hope,\" Al Lethbridge, Atmosphere Music Ltd.Complete transcript available. || countdown_Thumb_print.jpg (1024x577) [75.2 KB] || countdown_Thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [76.0 KB] || countdown_Thumb_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || 13065_Countdown_prores.mov (1920x1080) [2.4 GB] || 13065_Countdown_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [228.5 MB] || 13065_Countdown_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [40.0 MB] || 13065_Countdown_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [314.1 MB] || 13065_Countdown.webm (960x540) [73.1 MB] || 13065_Countdown.en_US.srt [3.7 KB] || 13065_Countdown.en_US.vtt [3.7 KB] || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 13044, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13044/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 L-30 Science Briefing Graphics", "description": "Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure – in unprecedented detail – changes in the heights of Earth’s polar ice.NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to within the width of a pencil, capturing 60,000 measurements every second.“ICESat-2’s new observational technologies will advance our knowledge of how the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica contribute to sea level rise while also helping us understand the connection of sea ice loss to the global system,” said Thomas Wagner, cryosphere program scientist in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.ICESat-2 will extend and improve upon NASA's 15-year record of monitoring the change in polar ice heights, which started in 2003 with the first ICESat mission and continued in 2009 with NASA’s Operation IceBridge, an airborne research campaign that monitors the accelerating rate of change.ICESat-2 represents a major technological leap in our ability to measure changes in ice height. Its Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) measures height by timing how long it takes individual light photons to travel from the spacecraft to Earth and back.NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 22, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2), which will fly NASA's most advanced laser altimeter to measure Earth’s changing ice. The teleconference will stream live on NASA's website.ICESat-2 is scheduled to launch Sept. 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base.The briefing participants are: • Tom Wagner, cryosphere program scientist in the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) at NASA Headquarters • Richard Slonaker, ICESat-2 program executive in SMD • Doug McLennan, ICESat-2 project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center • Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument project manager at Goddard • Tom Neumann, ICESat-2 deputy project scientist at GoddardFor more information:Media AdvisoryICESat-2 Video Resources || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 12874, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12874/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Space Laser Heads on a Road Trip", "description": "A selection of shots of the ICESat-2 ATLAS instrument leaving Goddard Space Flight Center for Orbital ATK.Music: \"We Learn,\" Andrew Michael Britton, Atmosphere Music Ltd.Complete transcript available. || ATLAS_Leaves_Highlights_v2.00972_print.jpg (1024x576) [169.2 KB] || ATLAS_Leaves_Highlights_v2.00972_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.3 KB] || ATLAS_Leaves_Highlights_v2.00972_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || ATLAS_Leaves_v4_YOUTUBE.mp4 (1920x1080) [67.0 MB] || ATLAS_Leaves_v4_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [12.0 MB] || ATLAS_Leaves_v4_prores.webm (1920x1080) [7.0 MB] || ATLAS_Leaves_v4_prores.mov (1920x1080) [889.1 MB] || ATLAS_Leaves_v4.en_US.srt [833 bytes] || ATLAS_Leaves_v4.en_US.vtt [845 bytes] || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 4373, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4373/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-11-03T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Orbit", "description": "ICESat-2 orbiting Earth: starting with global view building up ground track, then riding the satellite view, then back to a global view with full ground track || icesat2_orbit26.2100_print.jpg (1024x576) [114.4 KB] || icesat2_orbit26.2100_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.7 KB] || icesat2_orbit26.2100_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || icesat2_orbit_long_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [42.8 MB] || long (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || long (1280x720) [0 Item(s)] || icesat2_orbit_long_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [18.2 MB] || icesat2_orbit_long_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [104.5 MB] || icesat2_orbit_long_360p30.m4v (640x360) [27.8 MB] || long (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || icesat2_orbit_long_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [406.6 MB] || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 12768, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12768/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-11-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 By the Numbers", "description": "ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights, engineers have to take ICESat-2’s instrument ATLAS to the extreme – sometimes going big, sometimes going small, but always keeping it precise. || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 12707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12707/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-08T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Launch Anniversary", "description": "Highlights and interviews from the launch of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on September 8, 2016. 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The third satellite of the third generation, TDRS-M, is set to launch in August 2017. TDRS-M will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket. This satellite will join a constellation of space-based communications satellites providing tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 12663, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12663/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-08-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Elevates Our View of Earth", "description": "\"Eternal Circle,\" Laurent Dury, Koka Media SACEMComplete transcript available. || ICESat-2_Height_SHORT_prores_youtube_1080.00258_print.jpg (1024x576) [131.1 KB] || ICESat-2_Height_SHORT_prores_youtube_1080.00258_searchweb.png (180x320) [91.2 KB] || ICESat-2_Height_SHORT_prores_youtube_1080.00258_web.png (320x180) [91.2 KB] || ICESat-2_Height_SHORT_prores_youtube_1080.00258_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || 12663_SHORT_HEIGHT_prores.webm (1920x1080) [27.5 MB] || 12663_SHORT_HEIGHT_prores_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [77.5 MB] || 12663_SHORT_HEIGHT_prores_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [13.9 MB] || 12663_SHORT_HEIGHT_prores_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [105.2 MB] || 12663_SHORT_HEIGHT_prores_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [103.3 MB] || 12663_SHORT_HEIGHT_prores.mov (1920x1080) [956.6 MB] || 12663_SHORT_HEIGHT.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || 12663_SHORT_HEIGHT.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 4201, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4201/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-08-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tracking Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Orbital Fleet Communicating with User Spacecraft 2017 - 360 video", "description": "Visualization depicting TDRS satellites communicating with customer satellites. 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The animation was created and produced by media art students from the Savannah College of Art in Design (SCAD) in Georgia, in collaboration with NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission. Their goal was to communicate the science and engineering of the mission, slated for launch in 2018. ICESat-2, managed by NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, Maryland, will measure the height of a changing Earth, one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses a second. ICESat-2 will carry a photon-counting laser altimeter that will allow scientists to measure the elevation of ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and more - all in unprecedented detail. The workings of this laser helped inspire students to create the character of Pho and plot his adventure. Our planet's frozen and icy areas, called the cryosphere, are a key focus of NASA's Earth science research. ICESat-2 will help scientists investigate why, and how much, our cryosphere is changing in a warming climate. The satellite will also measure heights across Earth's temperate and tropical regions, and take stock of the vegetation in forests worldwide. For more about the mission, visit https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov. || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 40317, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/vcearth-video-wall/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2017-02-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "VC Earth Video Wall", "description": "list of videos to display on video wall in Earth science exhibit at Goddard Visitor Center", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 4492, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4492/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-11-09T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Measurements Over Antarctica (prelaunch)", "description": "ICESat-2 has 3 pairs of lasers that will measure the heights of ice and snow at very high resolution || walls75.1870_print.jpg (1024x576) [34.7 KB] || walls75.1870_searchweb.png (320x180) [29.8 KB] || walls75.1870_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || walls_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [50.0 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || walls_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [11.9 MB] || walls_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [8.1 MB] || Slide1.hwshow || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 12368, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12368/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-09-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rocket-Lovers Watch OSIRIS-REx Launch", "description": "Music credit: \"In the Bag\" by Rob Bagshaw [PRS]; Sound Pocket Music; Killer Tracks Production Music || osiris_launch_thumbnail.png (1920x1080) [2.6 MB] || osiris_launch_thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [119.2 KB] || osiris_launch_thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.6 KB] || osiris_launch_thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || OSIRIS_launch.mp4 (1920x1080) [387.3 MB] || OSIRIS_launch.webm (1920x1080) [54.1 MB] || OSIRIS_launch.mov (1920x1080) [12.4 GB] || RocketLoversWatchOSIRISRExLaunch_Output.en_US.srt [10.0 KB] || RocketLoversWatchOSIRISRExLaunch_Output.en_US.vtt [10.0 KB] || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 12716, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12716/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2016-09-08T20:30:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Launch Footage", "description": "On September 8, 2016, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft began its journey to near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Just as the sun began to set over Cape Canaveral, OSIRIS-REx made a picture-perfect liftoff at 7:05 pm EDT. It departed Space Launch Complex 41 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket, cheered on by crowds of mission personnel and space enthusiasts. The launch sent OSIRIS-REx on a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.An excerpt of the launch broadcast appears at the top of this page. Raw camera feeds from Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center appear below. These clips are intended as a video editor's resource, and are available for download in their original DVCPRO HD format. Launch commentary is provided by KSC host Mike Curie.Learn more about OSIRIS-REx from NASA and the University of Arizona. || ", "hits": 342 }, { "id": 20261, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20261/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-09-07T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Journey to Bennu Trailer", "description": "Official trailer for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Journey_to_Bennu_Still_Image_print.jpg (1024x576) [149.3 KB] || Journey_to_Bennu_Still_Image_searchweb.png (320x180) [86.7 KB] || Journey_to_Bennu_Still_Image_web.png (320x180) [86.7 KB] || Journey_to_Bennu_Still_Image_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || 0816_OSIRIS-REx_Bennu_Trailer_1080_h264.webm (1920x1080) [12.1 MB] || 0816_OSIRIS-REx_Bennu_Trailer_1080_h264.mp4 (1920x1080) [352.9 MB] || 20261_Journey_To_Bennu_TRAILER_MASTER2997.en_US.srt [44 bytes] || 20261_Journey_To_Bennu_TRAILER_MASTER2997.en_US.vtt [57 bytes] || Journey_to_Bennu_Still_Image.tif (3840x2160) [31.7 MB] || 0816_OSIRIS-REx_Bennu_Trailer_4K_h264.mp4 (3840x2160) [390.2 MB] || 20261_Journey_To_Bennu_TRAILER_MASTER2997_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [5.4 GB] || 0816_OSIRIS-REx_Bennu_Trailer_MASTER_4K_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [18.5 GB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 12360, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12360/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-09-06T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "To Bennu and Back", "description": "NASA's latest New Frontiers mission, OSIRIS-REx, will venture to a near-Earth asteroid to discover clues about the unique resources asteroids hold, processes that affect asteroids' orbital paths and their potential for impacting Earth, and the origins of life in the solar system. In addition, OSIRIS-REx will collect a sample from the surface of the asteroid and return it to Earth for generations of scientists to study and analyze, making this the first American asteroid sample return mission and the largest sample returned from an extraterrestrial body since Apollo. OSIRIS-REx's launch window opens September 8, 2016. This is the journey #ToBennuAndBack. || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 20253, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20253/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-08-17T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Launch and Deployment Animations", "description": "OSIRIS-REx begins its journey to near-Earth asteroid Bennu from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. In addition to the launch vehicle's liquid-fueled main engine, its 411 configuration includes a strap-on solid rocket booster and a Centaur upper stage. When the launch window opens on the evening of September 8, 2016, the Atlas V will lift OSIRIS-REx above the Florida coastline and propel it eastward over the night side of Earth. Fifty-nine minutes later, OSIRIS-REx will separate from the Centaur upper stage, point its solar arrays at the rising sun, and embark on its nearly two-year cruise to Bennu. || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 12141, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12141/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-02-03T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Beam Pairs", "description": "Side view of the beam pairs. || ICESat-2_beams_side_print.jpg (1024x576) [121.7 KB] || ICESat-2_beams_side_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.0 KB] || ICESat-2_beams_side_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || ICESat-2_beams_side.mp4 (1920x1080) [19.9 MB] || ICESat-2_beams_side.webm (1920x1080) [1.6 MB] || sideview (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || ICESat-2_beams_side.mov (1920x1080) [221.5 MB] || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 12101, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12101/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Hyperwall--2016 AAS Technical", "description": "Upresed 5760x3240 animation of the Fermi spacecraft.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab || frame-000020_print.jpg (1024x576) [147.2 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [1.4 MB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [25.4 MB] || FermiBeautyDraft (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_4k.mov (4096x2304) [47.9 MB] || Fermi_Beauty_EarthandStars_4k_ProRes.mov (5760x3240) [808.7 MB] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 12041, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12041/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-11-04T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Measures Slope", "description": "Animation with info key. || icesat_tracks_still.png (1919x1076) [2.8 MB] || icesat_tracks_still_print.jpg (1024x574) [146.6 KB] || icesat_tracks_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.8 KB] || icesat_tracks_still_web.png (320x179) [102.4 KB] || icesat_tracks_still_thm.png (80x40) [9.3 KB] || IceSatTracks.mp4 (1920x1080) [80.7 MB] || IceSatTracks.webm (1920x1080) [6.6 MB] || key (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || IceSatTracks.mov (1920x1080) [1.8 GB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 11952, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11952/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-07-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "New Horizons Media Page", "description": "New Horizons' Closest Approach to Pluto Video FileEdited B-Roll and Press Briefing Excerpts || NH_Closest_Approach_to_Pluto_VF_print.jpg (1024x576) [98.4 KB] || NH_Closest_Approach_to_Pluto_VF.webm (1280x720) [27.0 MB] || NH_Closest_Approach_to_Pluto_VF.mov (1280x720) [1.6 GB] || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 11944, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11944/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-07-02T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Overview", "description": "Animated informational slides designed to introduce the viewer to the ICESat-2 mission and ATLAS instrument. || ICESat-2_Kiosk_print.jpg (1024x576) [89.3 KB] || ICESat-2_Kiosk_searchweb.png (320x180) [62.7 KB] || ICESat-2_Kiosk_web.png (320x180) [62.7 KB] || ICESat-2_Kiosk_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || Kiosk_2019_final.webm (1920x1080) [14.8 MB] || Kiosk_2019_final.mp4 (1920x1080) [150.4 MB] || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 4306, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4306/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-06-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "FROZEN: The Full Story", "description": "On March 27, 2009, NASA released FROZEN, a twelve-minute show about the Earth's frozen regions designed for Science On a Sphere. Science On a Sphere was created by NOAA and displays movies on a spherical screen, which is ideal for a show about the Earth or the planets. The audience can view the show from any side of the sphere and can see any part of the Earth. Making a movie for this system is challenging, and FROZEN was an exciting project to create. Until now, only the \"trailer\" for FROZEN has been available for viewing from our site. Here, for the first time, is an on-line version of the complete show, presented in several different formats that show different aspects of the movie. || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 11800, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11800/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-03-10T07:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA On Air: NASA's Data Shows A Windy World (3/10/2015)", "description": "LEAD: Where is the windiest region of the world?1. NASA’s assimilation of wind measurements from ship buoys and satellites show a global view of winds, especially over the oceans.2. There are strong winds over the Atlantic.3. Take a closer look at the Roaring Forties in the Southern Hemisphere. This is a region that circles the globe with wide-open oceans. Here winds easily howl at 30 meters per second, or 65 miles per hour.TAG: One hundred and fifty years ago 'clipper' sailing ship captains used these windy zones as long distance 'express lanes’. || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_print.jpg (1024x576) [268.0 KB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180.00277_print.jpg (1024x576) [240.8 KB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_searchweb.png (320x180) [109.3 KB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_web.png (320x180) [109.3 KB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_WEA_CEN.wmv (1280x720) [19.5 MB] || WC_Windy_Worlds2.avi (1280x720) [20.5 MB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_baron.mp4 (1920x1080) [23.9 MB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180.webm (1920x1080) [6.4 MB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_960x540.m4v (960x540) [281.9 MB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_prores.mov (1920x1080) [507.6 MB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_1280x720.m4v (1280x720) [496.9 MB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_NBC_Today.mov (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180.m4v (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || WC_Windy_Worlds-1920-MASTER_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [1.7 GB] || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 4240, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4240/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-09T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "CCMP Winds from June through October 2011", "description": "North Atlantic surface wind vector flow lines over sea surface temperature from June 1, 2011 to October 31, 2011. || ccmp_atlantic_sstHD36.4800_print.jpg (1024x576) [249.9 KB] || ccmp_atlantic_sstHD36.webm (1920x1080) [37.2 MB] || ccmp_atlantic_sstHD36 (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || ccmp_atlantic_sstHD36.mp4 (1920x1080) [593.5 MB] || ccmp_atlantic_sstHD36.m4v (640x360) [44.2 MB] || ccmp_atlantic_sst35 (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || CCMP_atlantic_sstHD36.key [150.9 MB] || CCMP_atlantic_sstHD36.pptx [149.1 MB] || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 11726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11726/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-01-07T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "ATLAS: Laser Focus", "description": "Laser Focus: TimingDeputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how the ATLAS transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to calculate the timing of photons, which, in turn, measure the elevation of ice.Complete transcript available.Music: \"Electric Works\" by Philippe Lhommet, Koka Media; 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With high-resolution data from ICESat-2’s laser altimeter, scientists will track changes to Earth’s polar ice caps – regions that are a harbinger of warming temperatures worldwide. The mission will also take stock of forests, map ocean surfaces, track the rise of cities and measure everything in between. ICESat-2 continues key elevation observations begun by ICESat-1 (2003 to 2009) and Operation IceBridge (2009 through present), to provide a portrait of change in the beginning of the 21st century.\n\nFor more information, please visit the ICESat-2 website.", "hits": 298 }, { "id": 20212, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20212/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2014-09-18T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "MAVEN Launch and Deployment Animations", "description": "This animation follows the MAVEN spacecraft through launch on an Atlas V rocket from KSC through it's solar panel deployments and ending with MAVEN begining it's journey to MARS. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 11490, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11490/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-26T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Celebrates First Year in Orbit", "description": "On Feb. 11, 2013, Landsat 8 launched into Earth orbit, riding on an Atlas V rocket. Weighing 6,133 pounds, Landsat 8 is the eigth satellite in the long-running Landsat program, jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. At 16 feet tall, with a 32 foot long solar array, Landsat 8 orbits Earth at an altitude of 438 miles, moving at a speed of 16,760 miles per hour. It takes 99 minutes to complete one orbit, with about 14.5 orbits each day. There have been 5,319 orbits in the first year of Landsat 8's mission. It takes 16 days to build a complete scan of the globe, and on the 17th day the orbit cycle begins again.Between the two instruments on board, Landsat 8 records data in 11 separate wavelength regions spanning visible, infrared, and thermal radiation. The data is transmitted several times a day to the USGS Earth Resources and Observation Science Center in Sioux Falls, SD, where it is added to the archive of Landsat data stretching back to 1972. In its first year, users have downloaded 1,322,969 scenes of Landsat 8 data from the USGS.Landsat 8 continues the decades-long Landsat record of Earth's land surface at a scale where the impacts of humans and nature can be detected and monitored over time. Every continent, every season, every year, at a resolution that can distinguish an area the size of a baseball field. With help from Landsat we can monitor the cultivation of our food crops, quantify our precious water resources as they ebb and flow, and track deforestation globally. Landsat data constitute a key ingredient in decision making for agriculture, climate research, disaster mitigation, ecosystems, forestry, human health, urban growth, and water management. || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 10194, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10194/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "MAVEN Launch Highlights", "description": "MAVEN Launch Compilation with music || MAVEN_Launch_screenshot.png (1400x785) [1.2 MB] || MAVEN_Launch_screenshot_print.jpg (1024x574) [105.1 KB] || MAVEN_Launch_screenshot_searchweb.png (320x180) [89.9 KB] || MAVEN_Launch_screenshot_web.png (320x179) [89.6 KB] || MAVEN_Launch_screenshot_thm.png (80x40) [9.3 KB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_appletv.m4v (960x540) [45.2 MB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [54.7 MB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_720x480.webmhd.webm (960x540) [19.0 MB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [174.8 MB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [17.9 MB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_720x480.wmv (720x480) [47.8 MB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_nasaportal.mov (640x360) [45.3 MB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.6 GB] || MAVEN_Launch_Compilation_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [9.5 MB] || maven-launch-movie-with-sound.hwshow [208 bytes] || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 11289, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11289/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Launch footage", "description": "The Landsat Data Continuity Mission launched on February 11, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard an Atlas V-401 rocket.LDCM will be renamed Landsat 8 when operations are handed over to the US Geological Survey on May 30, 2013. NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available data over the Internet. || ", "hits": 155 }, { "id": 11203, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11203/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-02-11T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO: Year 3", "description": "On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) flew up on an Atlas V rocket, carrying instruments that scientists hoped would revolutionize observations of the sun. If all went according to plan, SDO would provide incredibly high-resolution data of the entire solar disk almost as quickly as once a second. When the science team released its first images in April of 2010, SDO's data exceeded everyone's hopes and expectations, providing stunningly detailed views of the sun. In the three years since then, SDO's images have continued to show breathtaking pictures and movies of eruptive events on the sun. Such imagery is more than just pretty, they are the very data that scientists study. By highlighting different wavelengths of light, scientists can track how material on the sun moves. Such movement, in turn, holds clues as to what causes these giant explosions, which, when Earth-directed, can disrupt technology in space. SDO is the first mission in a NASA's Living With a Star program, the goal of which is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to address those aspects of the sun-Earth system that directly affect our lives and society. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. built, operates, and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.SDO: Year One here.SDO: Year 2 here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 11200, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11200/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-30T20:48:00-05:00", "title": "TDRS-K Video File", "description": "NASA is preparing to launch the first in a series of three third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS-K. This latest addition to the fleet of seven will augment a space communications network that provides the critical path for high data-rate communication to the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope, past shuttle missions and a host of other spacecraft. It has been 10 years since NASA last launched a TDRS. This launch is the beginning of a welcome replenishment to the space network, which has served numerous national and international space missions since 1983. || ", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 11035, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11035/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-10T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Video File", "description": "The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and improve on that record with observations that advance a wide range of Earth sciences and contribute to the management of agriculture, water and forest resources.The LDCM observatory was successfully launched aboard an Atlas V-401 rocket on February 11, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The operation of the satellite will be handed over to the U.S. Geological Survey on May 30, 2013. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 11177, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11177/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-10T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "LDCM Launch Animation", "description": "The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and improve on that record with observations that advance a wide range of Earth sciences and contribute to the management of agriculture, water and forest resources.The Landsat Program is a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The first Landsat satellite launched in 1972 and the next satellite in the series, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission — LDCM, is scheduled to launch on February 11, 2013.LDCM will launch from Vandenburg Air Force Base using an Atlas V-401 rocket from ULA. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 11143, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11143/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sea Ice Atlas", "description": "Flying long, aerial transects over the center of a sea ice pack rendered nearly featureless by snow can get a bit monotonous. But when NASA's Operation IceBridge aircraft travels along the varied margins of the ice, even seasoned researchers take a break from monitoring their instruments to steal a quick view of the icescape below. With its radar and laser data, Operation IceBridge is working to extend the long-term record of how ice at the poles is changing from year to year. During spring in Antarctica, the environment constantly shapes the sea ice that surrounds the continent. Ice thaws back into the water when temperatures warm, freezes into new layers when cold, and splinters, crashes and rafts on top of itself when pushed by winds and ocean currents. Watch the video to explore the different types of sea ice seen by Operation IceBridge during its 2012 Antarctic campaign. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 11069, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11069/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-11-09T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Van Allen Probes Overview", "description": "The Van Allen Probes (formerly the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, RBSP) will explore the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Earth's magnetosphere. The charged particles in these regions can be hazardous to both spacecraft and astronauts. Project Scientist Dr. David Sibeck explains the how the mission will explore space weather — changes in Earth's space environment caused by the sun — that can disable satellites, create power grid failures and disrupt GPS service. The mission also will allow researchers to understand fundamental radiation and particle acceleration processes throughout the universe.The 2-year mission launched Thursday, Aug. 23 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The twin probes lifted off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. || ", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 11077, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11077/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Built To Last", "description": "NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) satellites were launched into space just before dawn on August 30, 2012. The mission was designed like none before it to penetrate and observe the Van Allen Belts, two dynamic swaths of radiation surrounding Earth that can wreak havoc on spacecraft electronics and potentially harm astronauts. Most satellites are put into orbit above or below the belts for protection. But, with thick aluminum shielding sensitive instruments, the twin RBSP satellites were built to go into the heart of the harshest radiation anywhere around Earth. As the belts vary unpredictably in size and intensity, the two identical spacecraft will provide multiple vantage points of these changes and ultimately lead to a better understanding of how energy from the sun affects the fluctuations. The visualization shows how the spacecraft will fly in an unusual, highly elliptical orbit to collect data throughout the vastness of the Van Allen Belts. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 40124, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/arctic-sea-ice-resources/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2012-08-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice", "description": "Sea ice cover is a key indicator of the Earth's polar climate system.\n\nSee also these vital signs from climate.nasa.gov:\n\nArctic Sea Ice Extent and Ice Sheets", "hits": 580 }, { "id": 11027, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11027/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-08-09T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "RBSP L-14 Press Conference", "description": "The Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission is part of NASA's Living With a Star Geospace program to explore fundamental processes that operate throughout the solar system, in particular those that generate hazardous space weather effects near the Earth and phenomena that could affect solar system exploration.RBSP is designed to help us understand the sun's influence on the Earth and near-Earth space by studying the planet's radiation belts on various scales of space and time.Understanding the radiation belt environment and its variability has extremely important practical applications in the areas of spacecraft operations, spacecraft and spacecraft system design, mission planning, and astronaut safety.RBSP is scheduled to launch no earlier than 4:08 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The twin probes will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.News conference panelists are:— Madhulika Guhathakurta, Living With a Star program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington— Mona Kessel, RBSP program scientist, NASA Headquarters— Barry Mauk, RBSP project scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md.— Rick Fitzgerald, RBSP project manager, APL, Laurel, Md. || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 10976, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10976/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-05-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "TDRS Heart of Communication", "description": "The most recent evaluations of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project confirmed all systems go for TDRS-K, a third generation upgrade of the orbiting communications network. TDRS-K is scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida during the 2012 holiday season. || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 10953, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10953/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-04-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swirling Seas", "description": "As Earth hurtles around its axis at 1,000 miles per hour, its rotation sets the seas in motion and generates winds that bear down on the ocean surface. The fast-moving currents, swirling eddies and powerful drifts that result appear at first glance as a disorderly jumble of flows. Yet their movements are directed by enormous, rotating currents, called gyres, which slowly circulate water around the planet's major ocean basins. The visualizations below combine NASA satellite data with field measurements to present a modeled view of surface flows and gyres in the Northern Hemisphere from March 2007 to March 2008. Observe the dramatic difference in strength between westward and eastward currents as they hook clockwise in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. And notice how westward currents explode into spiraling, turbulent flows off the eastern coasts of Asia and North America. || ", "hits": 179 }, { "id": 10911, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10911/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-02-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "African-American History Month Profiles", "description": "In observance of National African American History Month and Engineers Week, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland will host a live webcast for K-12 teachers and students. Students will interact live with African-American engineers and scientists who will discuss what sparked their career choices and how students can prepare for future careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. This webcast occurs on Feb. 22, 2012, at 1 p.m. EST. During the month of February GSFC will release two videos featuring Dr. Aprille Ericsson and James Fraction. We want you to actually see what engineers do during the day. This is a great opportunity for educators and students to learn more about engineering careers at NASA. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 10858, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10858/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Discovers Youngest Millisecond Pulsar", "description": "An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects form. At the same time, another team has exploited improved analytical techniques to locate nine new gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi data.A pulsar, also called a neutron star, is the closest thing to a black hole astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. This matter is so compressed that even a teaspoonful weighs as much as Mount Everest.Typically, millisecond pulsars are a billion years or more old, ages commensurate with a stellar lifetime. But in the Nov. 3 issue of Science, the Fermi team reveals a bright, energetic millisecond pulsar only 25 million years old.The object, named PSR J1823—3021A, lies within NGC 6624, a spherical assemblage of ancient stars called a globular cluster, one of about 160 similar objects that orbit our galaxy. The cluster is about 10 billion years old and lies about 27,000 light-years away toward the constellation Sagittarius.\"With this new batch of pulsars, Fermi now has detected more than 100, which is an exciting milestone when you consider that before Fermi's launch only seven of them were known to emit gamma rays,\" said Pablo Saz Parkinson, an astrophysicist at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz. || ", "hits": 189 }, { "id": 3829, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3829/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-05-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Aquarius studies Ocean and Wind Flows", "description": "Aquarius is a focused satellite mission to measure global Sea Surface Salinity. During its nominal three-year mission, Aquarius will map the salinity at the ocean surface to improve our understanding of Earth's water cycle and ocean circulation. Aquarius will help scientists see how freshwater moves between the ocean and the atmosphere. It will monitor changes in the water cycle due to rainfall, evaporation, ice melting, and river runoff. Aquarius will also demonstrate a measurement capability that can be applied to future operational missions. Ocean circulation is driven in large part by changes in water density, which is determined by temperature and salinity. Cold, high-salinity water masses sink and trigger the ocean's \"themalhaline circulation\" - the surface and deep currents that distribute solar energy to regulate Earth's climate. By measuring salinity, Aquarius will provide new insight into this global process. Aquarius' measurements of ocean salinity will provide a new perspective on the ocean and its links to climate, greatly expanding upon limited past measurements. Aquarius salinity data - combined with data from other sensors that measure sea level, ocean color, temperature, winds and rainfall will give us a much clearer picture of how the ocean works, how it is linked to climate, and how it may respond to climate change.Aquarius will provide information that will help improve predictions of future climate trends and short-term climate events such as El Niño and La Niña. Precise salinity measurements from Aquarius will reveal changes in patterns of global precipitation and evaporation and show how these changes may affect ocean circulation. || ", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 3760, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3760/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-10-21T13:55:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Supports LCROSS", "description": "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) were launched together on the same Atlas V rocket on June 18, 2009. Months later, after following very different paths to the moon, LRO and LCROSS met once more. LCROSS struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. LRO witnessed the impact from its orbit 50 kilometers (30 miles) above the surface.The purpose of the crash was to create a plume of debris that could be examined for the presence of water and other chemicals in the lunar regolith. LRO's early reconnaissance of the moon gave LCROSS mission planners valuable data in the months before LCROSS arrived, allowing them to choose an impact site with a high probability of producing interesting findings. LRO was also there for the event itself, using its array of instruments to gather data in the aftermath of the impact.This animation shows LRO and LCROSS from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after the impact. Data gathered before the impact is represented by early results from LRO's Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND). LEND can sense hydrogen, and therefore possible water, in the lunar soil. The area of high hydrogen concentration in Cabeus (purple) is like a bullseye for LCROSS.Data gathered by LRO after the impact is represented by Diviner temperature measurements taken seconds after the crash. Diviner detected the heat from lunar soil melted and vaporized by the enormous energy of the impact. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 3785, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3785/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-10-21T13:55:00-04:00", "title": "LAMP Observes the LCROSS Impact", "description": "A two-ton Atlas Centaur rocket body, part of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. The purpose of the crash was to create a plume of debris that could be examined for the presence of water and other chemicals in the lunar regolith.The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument aboard Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) observed the tenuous vapor cloud created by the LCROSS impact. LAMP is LRO's \"night vision.\" Most of the time, it uses the ultraviolet light in starlight to peer into deep shadows on the moon's surface. For the LCROSS impact, LAMP was pointed just above the lunar horizon to watch for the arrival of a rapidly expanding cloud of vaporized debris from the crash.In this animation, the viewer looks down the LAMP boresight and through its narrow window. The LAMP sensor lights up as the leading edge of the expanding vapor cloud passes through its field of view. What's shown here is actually the difference between the data recorded after the LCROSS impact and that recorded on LRO's previous orbit. See this entry for more about the process of subtracting the background to enhance the LAMP signal. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 10601, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10601/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA DLN Presents Earth Day with Bella Gaia", "description": "NASA Digital Learning Network celebrated Earth Day and joined musician/artist Kenji Williams for a special performance of \"Bella Gaia\" (Beautiful Earth) on Monday, April 19, 2010. \"Bella Gaia\" is a \"living atlas\" multimedia journey of our planet and combines stunning perspectives of Earth from space with Williams' original and eclectic score. UMBC cryospheric scientist Christopher Shuman joined Williams on Earth Day to give a first-hand look at a changing Antarctica. Shuman discussed what it is like to work in such a difficult and rewarding place as Antarctica and showed how the glacial poles affect our entire Earth and climate system. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 40063, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2010-03-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, is a multipurpose NASA spacecraft launched in 2009 to make a comprehensive atlas of the Moon’s features and resources. Since launch, LRO has measured the coldest temperatures in the solar system inside the Moon’s permanently shadowed craters, detected evidence of water ice at the Moon’s south pole, seen hints of recent geologic activity on the Moon, found newly-formed craters from present-day meteorite impacts, tested spaceborne laser communication technology, and much more.", "hits": 3975 }, { "id": 3654, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3654/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-09T13:35:00-04:00", "title": "Modeling the LCROSS Impact Site", "description": "A two-ton Atlas Centaur rocket body, part of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), struck the floor of Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the moon, at 11:31 UT on October 9, 2009. The purpose of the crash was to create a plume of debris that could be examined for the presence of water and other chemicals in the lunar regolith. The effects of the impact were captured by sensors onboard a shepherding satellite travelling four minutes behind the Centaur. They were also watched by Earth-based observatories and several Earth-orbiting satellites, including the Hubble Space Telescope.The images here were created in the weeks prior to the impact. They visualize the viewing angle, terrain, and shadows around the target crater at the time of the impact. Astronomers in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Hawaii used them as visual reference while guiding their telescopes. LCROSS project scientists also used these and similar images to evaluate a number of potential impact locations.Using the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE421 ephemeris and early terrain data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's laser altimeter, the artist was able to accurately depict the sunlight direction, shadows, moon orientation, terrain, and field of view for several representative observing locations on the Earth. || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 3652, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3652/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-09T13:24:00-04:00", "title": "Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity and Density", "description": "Sea Surface TemperatureThe oceans of the world are heated at the surface by the sun, and this heating is uneven for many reasons. The Earth's axial rotation, revolution about the sun, and tilt all play a role, as do the wind-driven ocean surface currents. The first animation in this group shows the long-term average sea surface temperature, with red and yellow depicting warmer waters and blue depicting colder waters. The most obvious feature of this temperature map is the variation of the temperature by latitude, from the warm region along the equator to the cold regions near the poles. Another visible feature is the cooler regions just off the western coasts of North America, South America, and Africa. On these coasts, winds blow from land to ocean and push the warm water away from the coast, allowing cooler water to rise up from deeper in the ocean. || ", "hits": 880 }, { "id": 10469, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10469/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Launch - More Views", "description": "NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 18th, aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The LRO satellite will relay more information about the lunar environment than any other previous mission to the moon.This page contains several viewpoints of the LRO/LCROSS launch. The first video shows the project team at Goddard Space Flight Center and their preparations for and reaction to the launch. The remaining videos are ten different individual camera feeds of the launch captured by Kennedy Space Center.To see the full multicamera launch sequence, as well as videos from the time leading up to the launch, see entry #10443. || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 10443, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10443/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-06-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Launch Videos", "description": "The videos on this page were shot during the week of the LRO/LCROSS launch (June 15-19, 2009) at Kennedy Space Center.For more views of the LRO/LCROSS launch, including footage from inside the Missions Operations Control Room at Goddard and individual camera feeds of the launch from Kennedy, check out entry #10469. || ", "hits": 123 }, { "id": 10438, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10438/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-05-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO: Mapping Our Future", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar exploration efforts. LRO focuses on the selection of safe landing sites, identification of lunar resources and the study of how lunar radiation will affect humans.For complete transcript, click here. || LRO_MappingOurFuture_ipod.00905_print.jpg (1024x576) [30.4 KB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_ipod_web.png (320x180) [33.3 KB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_ipod_thm.png (80x40) [3.6 KB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [84.8 MB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_YouTube.mov (1280x720) [100.5 MB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_fullres.mov (1280x720) [192.6 MB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [210.6 MB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_ipod.m4v (640x360) [67.2 MB] || GSFC_20090521_LRO_m10438_Mapping1a.en_US.srt [7.5 KB] || GSFC_20090521_LRO_m10438_Mapping1a.en_US.vtt [7.5 KB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_320x240.mp4 (320x240) [16.6 MB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_portal.wmv (346x260) [48.7 MB] || LRO_MappingOurFuture_svs.mpg (512x288) [54.2 MB] || ", "hits": 260 }, { "id": 10403, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10403/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-03-12T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "FROZEN: A Spherical Movie About the Cryosphere", "description": "NASA's home for spherical films on Magic Planet. Download the Magic Planet-ready movie file here.Released on March 27, 2009, FROZEN is NASA's second major production for the Science On a Sphere platform, a novel cinema-in-the-round technology developed by the Space Agency's sibling NOAA. Viewers see the Earth suspended in darkness as if it were floating in space. Moving across the planet's face, viewers see the undulating wisps of clouds, the ephemeral sweep of fallen snow, the churning crash of shifting ice, and more.FROZEN brings the Earth alive. Turning in space, the sphere becomes a portal onto a virtual planet, complete with churning, swirling depictions of huge natural forces moving below. FROZEN features the global cryosphere, those places on Earth where the temperature doesn't generally rise above water's freezing point. As one of the most directly observable climate gauges, the changing cryosphere serves as a proxy for larger themes.But just as thrilling as this unusual—and unusually realistic—look at the planet's structure and behavior is the sheer fun and fascination of looking at a spherically shaped movie. FROZEN bends the rules of cinema, revealing new ways to tell exciting, valuable stories of all kinds. The movie may be FROZEN, but the experience itself rockets along. || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 10376, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10376/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "LRO's Team Spirit with Joanne Baker", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first step to future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. But a lot has to happen before we get there and one woman on the LRO team played a key role in 'putting it together.' || Joanne_Baker_Profile.01252_print.jpg (1024x576) [56.3 KB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_web.png (320x180) [240.1 KB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_thm.png (80x40) [16.3 KB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [30.2 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [57.0 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.mov (1280x720) [82.9 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.mpg (640x360) [31.5 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_ipod.m4v (640x360) [26.2 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.m4v (320x180) [11.8 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.mp4 (320x240) [6.2 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_SVSsmall.mpg (512x288) [21.1 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.wmv (346x260) [19.4 MB] || ", "hits": 26 } ] }