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Data is revealed within a moving 1.5 hour window centered on the time shown. || gmao_HW.00300_print.jpg (1024x345) [102.7 KB] || gmao_HW.00300_searchweb.png (320x180) [93.0 KB] || gmao_HW.00300_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || gmao_HW_1920_648p30.webm (1920x648) [11.9 MB] || gmao_HW_1920_648p30.mp4 (1920x648) [134.3 MB] || 9600x3240_80x27_30p (9600x3240) [0 Item(s)] || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 4683, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4683/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-10-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Scientists see Gravity Waves in Concentric Rings", "description": "NASA scientists have tracked gravity waves traveling thousands of miles across our atmosphere in concentric rings. Large storms can create these waves, which grow and spread upward hundreds of miles above Earth's surface. The AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite detected gravity waves in the troposphere and stratosphere 12 hours before a deadly EF5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, in 2013. On the instrument's next pass 11 hours later, it detected even stronger waves.We pull up 250 miles to the ionosphere, where the waves can be observed by GPS satellites. Here gravity waves are shown in greens and yellows, like ripples in a pond. The waves and tornado were both produced by a long-lived storm system.Understanding the spread of gravity waves improves global weather forecasting and space weather forecasting.Complete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740_print.jpg (1024x576) [131.1 KB] || GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.9 KB] || GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740_thm.png (80x40) [8.3 KB] || GravityWavesBeforeAfterMooreTornado_0740.tif (1920x1080) [3.2 MB] || GravityWavesMooreOK-SameWordsDifferentOrder.webm (1920x1080) [7.4 MB] || GWfacebook-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio.mp4 (1920x1080) [76.1 MB] || GravityWavesMooreOK-SameWordsDifferentOrder.mp4 (1920x1080) [117.1 MB] || composite (3849x2160) [0 Item(s)] || GW4k-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio-youtube.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || GW4k-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio-youtube.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || GW4k-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio-youtube.mp4 (3840x2160) [240.0 MB] || GWfacebook-AIRS-TEC-GOES-4k-audio.mp4.hwshow [199 bytes] || ", "hits": 125 }, { "id": 30988, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30988/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2018-08-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth System Diagram", "description": "Diagram showing parts of the Earth system. || earth_system_diagram_print.jpg (1024x574) [115.6 KB] || earth_system_diagram.png (4104x2304) [1.2 MB] || earth_system_diagram_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.5 KB] || earth_system_diagram_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || earth_system_diagram.hwshow [208 bytes] || ", "hits": 588 }, { "id": 12963, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12963/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-06-02T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Airglow Imagery", "description": "Airglow occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light in order to shed their excess energy. The phenomenon is similar to auroras, but where auroras are driven by high-energy particles originating from the solar wind, airglow is sparked by day-to-day solar radiation. Airglow carries information on the upper atmosphere’s temperature, density, and composition, but it also helps us trace how particles move through the region itself. Vast, high-altitude winds sweep through the ionosphere, pushing its contents around the globe — and airglow’s subtle dance follows their lead, highlighting global patterns. || ", "hits": 907 }, { "id": 12960, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12960/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2018-05-31T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ionosphere Graphics", "description": "Stretching from roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth’s surface, the ionosphere is an electrified layer of the upper atmosphere, generated by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. It’s neither fully Earth nor space, and instead, reacts to both terrestrial weather below and solar energy streaming in from above, forming a complex space weather system of its own. The particles of the ionosphere carry electrical charge that can disrupt communications signals, cause satellites in low-Earth orbit to become electrically charged, and, in extreme cases, cause power outages on the ground. Positioned on the edge of space and intermingled with the neutral atmosphere, the ionosphere’s response to conditions on Earth and in space is difficult to pin down. || ", "hits": 332 }, { "id": 12850, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12850/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-03-28T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's New Planet Hunter: TESS", "description": "Watch an overview of the TESS mission.Music: \"Drive to Succeed\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || TESS_Still_B1_00812_print.jpg (1024x576) [56.9 KB] || TESS_Still_B1_00812.png (3840x2160) [5.6 MB] || TESS_Still_B1_00812_searchweb.png (320x180) [53.1 KB] || TESS_Still_B1_00812_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || 12850_TESS_Overview_1080.webm (1920x1080) [34.9 MB] || 12850_TESS_Overview_1080.m4v (1920x1080) [321.6 MB] || TESS_Overview_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [5.8 KB] || TESS_Overview_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [5.8 KB] || 12850_TESS_Overview_4K_Good_H264.mov (3840x2160) [931.4 MB] || 12850_TESS_Overview_4K_Best_H264.m4v (3840x2160) [1.5 GB] || 12850_TESS_Overview.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.6 GB] || 12850_TESS_Overview_YOUTUBE.mov (3840x2160) [3.2 GB] || 12850_TESS_Overview_Prores_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [17.2 GB] || ", "hits": 213 }, { "id": 12880, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12880/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-03-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Cosmic Designs and The Planets", "description": "Greetings and welcome to “Cosmic Designs” a performance by the National Philharmonic presented in partnership with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.“Cosmic Designs” is a voyage that blends together science and art. The pursuit of knowledge and the creative drive for artistic expression are inherent to the human condition. The melding of NASA imagery and symphonic music we present here showcases the imagination that underpins both and highlights how inspiring the combination can be. || CD_Intro_Image_print.jpg (1024x567) [135.2 KB] || CD_Intro_Image.png (2918x1618) [5.8 MB] || CD_Intro_Image_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.7 KB] || CD_Intro_Image_web.png (320x177) [101.8 KB] || CD_Intro_Image_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.mov (1920x1080) [1.0 GB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [35.9 MB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.webm (1920x1080) [3.3 MB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_4K.mov (3840x2160) [4.3 GB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [55.1 MB] || ", "hits": 163 }, { "id": 12825, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12825/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2018-01-24T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "GOLD Resources", "description": "The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission is designed to explore the nearest reaches of space. Capturing never-before-seen images of Earth’s upper atmosphere, GOLD explores in unprecedented detail our space environment — which is home to astronauts, radio signals used to guide airplanes and ships, as well as satellites that provide communications and GPS systems. The more we know about the fundamental physics of this region of space, the more we can protect our assets there.Gathering observations from geostationary orbit above the Western Hemisphere, GOLD measures the temperature and composition of neutral gases in Earth’s thermosphere. This part of the atmosphere co-mingles with the ionosphere, which is made up of charged particles. Both the Sun from above and terrestrial weather from below can change the types, numbers, and characteristics of the particles found here — and GOLD helps track those changes.Activity in this region is responsible for a variety of key space weather events. GOLD scientists are particularly interested in the cause of dense, unpredictable bubbles of charged gas that appear over the equator and tropics, sometimes causing communication problems. As we discover the very nature of the Sun-Earth interaction in this region, the mission could ultimately lead to ways to improve forecasts of such space weather and mitigate its effects. || ", "hits": 122 }, { "id": 4594, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4594/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-10-31T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICON Scans the Ionosphere", "description": "ICON orbits Earth at 575 kilometers altitude, measuring the composition and motions of the ionosphere. || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000870_print.jpg (1024x576) [105.7 KB] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000870_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.8 KB] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.clockSlate_CRTT.HD1080i.000870_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [76.4 MB] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [10.9 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.UHD3840_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [217.4 MB] || IRIDaily.limbwICON_OionHwindIGRF.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [210 bytes] || ", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 11937, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11937/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-07-20T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth's Energy Budget", "description": "Earth's energy budget is a metaphor for the delicate equilibrium between energy received from the Sun versus energy radiated back out in to space. Research into precise details of Earth's energy budget is vital for understanding how the planet's climate may be changing, as well as variabilities in solar energy output. NASA’s (The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) CERES and NASA's Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), missions play key roles in our continued understanding of Earth’s Energy Budget.NASA’s TSIS helps scientists keep a close watch on the sun’s energy input to Earth. Various satellites have captured a continuous record of this solar energy input since 1978. TSIS-1 sensors advance previous measurements, enabling scientists to study the sun's natural influence on Earth's ozone layer, atmospheric circulation, clouds, and ecosystems. These observations are essential for a scientific understanding of the effects of solar variability on the Earth system. TSIS-1 makes two key measurements: total solar irradiance, or TSI, the sun's total energy input into Earth, and solar spectral irradiance (SSI), the distribution of the sun's energy input across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths of light. TSI measurements are needed to quantify the solar variations in the total amount of energy input to the Earth. SSI measurements are also vital because different wavelengths of light are absorbed by different parts of the atmosphere.For more than 20 years, NASA Langley's CERES (System) instruments have measured the solar energy reflected by Earth, the heat the planet emits, and the role of clouds in that process. The final CERES Flight Model, CERES FM6 launched aboard NOAA’s JPSS-1 in Fall 2017. CERES FM6 contributes to an already extensive CERES dataset that helps scientists validate models that calculate the effect of clouds on planetary heating and cooling. The same data can also be helpful for improving near-term, seasonal forecasts influenced by weather events such as El Niño and La Niña. El Niño and La Niña are weather patterns that develop when ocean temperatures fluctuate between warm and cool phases in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Built by Northrop Grumman and managed by Langley, CERES FM6 joins five other CERES instruments orbiting the planet on three other satellites.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center manages the TSIS-1 project. The University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) built both instruments and provides mission operations. The International Space Station carries TSIS-1.Earth's energy budget is a metaphor for the delicate equilibrium between energy received from the Sun versus energy radiated back out in to space. Research into precise details of Earth's energy budget is vital for understanding how the planet's climate may be changing, as well as variabilities in solar energy output. NASA’s (The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) CERES and NASA's Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1), missions play key roles in our continued understanding of Earth’s Energy Budget.NASA’s TSIS helps scientists keep a close watch on the sun’s energy input to Earth. Various satellites have captured a continuous record of this solar energy input since 1978. TSIS-1 sensors advance previous measurements, enabling scientists to study the sun's natural influence on Earth's ozone layer, atmospheric circulation, clouds, and ecosystems. These observations are essential for a scientific understanding of the effects of solar variability on the Earth system. TSIS-1 makes two key measurements: total solar irradiance, or TSI, the sun's total energy input into Earth, and solar spectral irradiance (SSI), the distribution of the sun's energy input across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths of light. TSI measurements are needed to quantify the solar variations in the total amount of energy input to the Earth. SSI measurements are also vital because different wavelengths of light are absorbed by different parts of the atmosphere.For more than 20 years, NASA Langley's CERES (System) instruments have measured the solar energy reflected by Earth, the heat the planet emits, and the role of clouds in that process. The final CERES Flight Model, CERES FM6 launched aboard NOAA’s JPSS-1 in Fall 2017. CERES FM6 contributes to an already extensive CERES dataset that helps scientists validate models that calculate the effect of clouds on planetary heating and cooling. The same data can also be helpful for improving near-term, seasonal forecasts influenced by weather events such as El Niño and La Niña. El Niño and La Niña are weather patterns that develop when ocean temperatures fluctuate between warm and cool phases in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Built by Northrop Grumman and managed by Langley, CERES FM6 joins five other CERES instruments orbiting the planet on three other satellites.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center manages the TSIS-1 project. The University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) built both instruments and provides mission operations. The International Space Station carries TSIS-1. || ", "hits": 219 }, { "id": 4514, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4514/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-12-13T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Carbon Dioxide from GMAO using Assimilated OCO-2 Data", "description": "Carbon Dioxide from the GEOS-5 modelThis video is also available on our YouTube channel. || co2_30.with_labels.2000_print.jpg (1024x576) [90.1 KB] || co2_30.with_labels.2000_searchweb.png (180x320) [64.0 KB] || co2_30.with_labels.2000_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || co2_30.with_labels_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [75.6 MB] || co2_30.with_labels_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [11.3 MB] || co2_30.with_labels_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [12.2 MB] || final_no_dates (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || final_with_labels (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || co2_30.with_labels.key [77.8 MB] || co2_30.with_labels.pptx [77.4 MB] || co2_30.with_labels_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [306.7 MB] || co2_30.with_labels_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [192 bytes] || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 12285, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12285/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-28T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "NAAMES (North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study)", "description": "Most people wouldn't expect microscopic life forms in the ocean to have much to do with Earth's atmosphere. It turns out that their influence is profound, which is why an extraordinary team of scientists has taken to the sea and the air for a novel research mission. In this video we take a look at the scientific goals behind the NAAMES field campaign, with spotlights on the primary components of the mission.http://naames.larc.nasa.gov. || The_Science_of_NAAMES_youtube_hq.00533_print.jpg (1024x576) [172.1 KB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES_youtube_hq.00533_searchweb.png (320x180) [99.2 KB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES_youtube_hq.00533_web.png (320x180) [99.2 KB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES_youtube_hq.00533_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES.webm (960x540) [72.5 MB] || APPLE_TV_The_Science_of_NAAMES_appletv-2.m4v (1280x720) [87.7 MB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [87.7 MB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [478.4 MB] || APPLE_TV_The_Science_of_NAAMES_appletv-2.webm (1280x720) [19.4 MB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES-2.mov (1280x720) [820.9 MB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES-2.webm (960x540) [72.5 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_The_Science_of_NAAMES_youtube_hq-2.mov (1280x720) [478.4 MB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [87.8 MB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES.en_US.srt [3.7 KB] || The_Science_of_NAAMES.en_US.vtt [3.5 KB] || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 4397, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4397/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-06-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat...", "description": "This visualization shows the Asian monsoon and how it develops using observational and modeled data. 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This action may have played a significant role in stripping Earth's twin planet of its oceans, according to new research results from the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission led by NASA-funded researchers. Lead author of the research paper, Glyn Collinson, explains that \"electric wind\" can strip Earth-like planets of oceans and atmospheres. || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 4431, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4431/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-02-24T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Ozone Transport in the Tropical Western Pacific", "description": "An animation showing flight 13 from the CONTRAST campaign and the backflow trajectories. The trajectories are coloured by observed aircraft ozone level where blue values represent low concentrations of ozone and red represents high values. 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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.I've always been fascinated by our atmosphere. Think about it: even though we don't see it, above us is a great aerial ocean! Over time my fascination has grown from weather maps and pondering the origins of storms, to learning all about the physics that surround our everyday lives. From as early as grade school I was also very interested in computers: diagnosing errors, developing programming skills and learning all about hardware and operating systems. So you might say my interests naturally led me to a career as a NASA scientist, where I create visualizations to study the underlying factors that drive weather patterns. Visualizations help us to see the world differently and actively.Many of you have no doubt seen your homes from space using a program called Google Earth™. But did you know you could do a lot more with the right data? In fact I often use it to map atmospheric data in three-dimensions (3-D) around the globe. But one of the challenges I often face is that data comes from many different sources, such as NASA and NOAA satellites or ground-observation stations. This means the data is stored on computer disks all over the country and are named and organized according to different standards, requiring us to customize techniques for producing accurate visualizations in one, 3-D display of the Earth. We do this in order to analyze atmospheric relationships more easily because many weather phenomena arise from physical interactions, both horizontally and vertically, in the global circulation.A big part of atmospheric research relies on using computer models to simulate what our atmosphere will do under different conditions. A great example of this is the data used to prepare the daily weather forecast. This data originates from weather forecasting models that calculate atmospheric motions using the world’s fastest supercomputers. But how do we know these forecasts are accurate? Researchers can verify a model's performance by visualizing one of the variables such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, or air pressure and then using color shading, contour curves, and wind \"barbs\" to graph that data. Then they overlay the observations from NASA satellites such as cloud-top imagery, cloud-top temperature, and vertical distributions of clouds and aerosols, with the graph (it can be challenging to synchronize the data display as these times usually don't match). After this process, the display confirms the model's accuracy. This method is used to study many atmospheric events, such as timing of a storm system, precipitation, or the direction of dust or smoke transport. || ", "hits": 140 }, { "id": 4365, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4365/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-09-30T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Airborne in the Arctic", "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. 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.Four turboprop engines roar to life under the autumnal Alaskan sun, and we begin to taxi to the main runway of Eielson Air Force Base. After extensive pre-flight configurations, our science payload is primed for our eight-hour mission. Without delay, the engines’ roar becomes a howl as we hurtle down the nearly three-mile stretch of runway until that near-weightless moment we become airborne. Our mission into the clouds of the arctic is underway.Clouds are important drivers of Earth’s climate by regulating the amount of sunlight that is absorbed at the ground versus what is reflected back into space. You’ve probably experienced this firsthand when sitting outside on a hot and sunny summer day when a fluffy cumulus cloud crosses the sky between you and the sun. The respite that you feel from the heat of the sun’s rays means that that energy is no longer reaching you at the surface. At the lower latitudes where most of us live, these thick, stratiform and cumuliform clouds have a cooling effect because the white cloud reflects the sun’s energy back to space instead of being absorbed by the dark brown soil, green trees and plants, or the blue ocean waters. The story is much more complicated at the high latitudes where the frozen ice surface is also very bright white and reflective. Under these conditions, clouds can actually have a net warming effect because they reflect a similar or smaller amount of the incoming sunlight, but also trap more of the outgoing heat radiation and keep it close to the surface (like a blanket.)The exact balance between heating and cooling depends on the cloud properties - droplet number and size - and where the clouds are located in the atmosphere (high or low altitude as well as overlying dark water or bright ice.) Unraveling these effects is important for understanding how the Earth’s radiation balance and climate exist now and how they are likely to change in the future.Differentiating the impacts of low-level clouds versus Arctic sea ice on sunlight from space is hard, because to a passive satellite sensor orbiting many hundreds of kilometers above the Earth’s surface, both the ice and cloud look very similar. To best visualize this system, we must go to the Arctic with scientific research aircraft to measure the cloud properties just below, above, and within the clouds themselves. This was precisely the motivation behind the NASA Arctic Radiation – IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE), which was conducted in the Alaskan Arctic from September-October, 2014.ARISE carried out 14 science flights aboard the NASA Wallops Flight Facility C-130 Hercules aircraft, which was outfitted with a comprehensive suite of scientific instrumentation including a laser altimeter for measuring the sea ice surface properties, in situ cloud probes, and a sun photometer and two radiometers (SSFR, BBR) for measuring the surface, aerosol, and cloud radiative properties. An example 8-hour flight track is shown for the September 7th science flight in the Google Map below. The aircraft was based at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, AK, and began each flight by transiting approximately 2 hours north to the vicinity of the ice edge in the Beaufort Sea. On the 7th, the aircraft flew a series of parallel, horizontal legs to cover a single satellite grid box of the overflying NASA Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite. These measurements help CERES scientists to understand how small-scale variability in ice and cloud extent and properties affect their satellite-based retrievals. Google map showing the flight track of the NASA C-130 aircraft during a research flight conducted on 7 September 2014 north of the Alaskan coast. Before wrapping up the research flight on the 7th and beginning our 2-hour transit back to Fairbanks, we descended into the low-level clouds to measure their microphysical properties with the in situ cloud probes. The video below shows what it’s like to measure an Arctic cloud from inside it! The left side of the video shows the real-time data time series from our research instruments that we are continuously monitoring in flight. The top-right imagery is from the forward-facing camera in the C-130 cockpit. The bottom-right imagery is from the downward-facing, nadir camera mounted on the bottom of the aircraft. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 4362, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4362/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-09-28T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dust in the Wind", "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. 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.Each year, millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa is swept up into the atmosphere. The dust travels across the Atlantic Ocean, with some of it reaching as far as the Amazon Rainforest. African dust contains phosphorus, which is an important nutrient for plants, so each year the Amazon Rainforest is fertilized by dust blown all the way from Africa! We created this data visualization to tell the incredible story of this great migration.To create this visualization, I used data from NASA’s CALIPSO satellite, which measures aerosols in the atmosphere. Using Autodesk Maya and Pixar’s Renderman software (the same software Pixar uses to make movies), I created a virtual Earth with vertical walls for each time the CALIPSO satellite passed over the dust cloud. Each wall has a picture (we call them \"textures\") that represents the data collected by the satellite at that location. Each wall slices through the dust cloud, and shows us a cross-sectional view of dust distribution in the atmosphere. Although dust clouds can be seen in satellite imagery as hazy brown sections, it’s hard to determine their altitude. Knowing the height at which dust travels will help scientists determine where the dust will go, how it moves at different altitudes and how it will interact with the Earth’s climate. CALIPSO allows scientists to clearly see the shape of a dust cloud in three dimensions.The second section of the visualization describes dust flux, or how much dust flows through a specific region over a period of time. To visualize flux, I used a particle system in Autodesk Maya that creates particles at a rate and velocity relative to the flux value for a region at each time step. As the flux value increases, additional particles are created and they move faster. As flux goes down, fewer particles are created and they move slower. The result is a particle cloud that changes shape with the seasons as flux values go up and down. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 40254, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-heliophysics/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Heliophysics", "description": "A topically-organized Gallery of Hyperwall-ready heliophysics content.", "hits": 147 }, { "id": 4346, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4346/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-09-02T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "MAVEN Stellar Occultation Atmospheric Coverage", "description": "Visualization depicting NASA's MAVEN satellite in an elliptical orbit around Mars. The horizon is scanned to determine atmospheric makeup. Blue sections of the atmosphere represent regions that have been scanned, and total coverage is achieved after roughly six orbits. 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MAVEN's goal is to determine how Mars lost its thick early atmosphere, and with it, its once hospitable climate.While previous Mars orbiters have peered down at the planet's surface, MAVEN is spending part of its time gazing at the stars, observing the Martian atmosphere through a series of stellar occultations. As Mars rolls beneath MAVEN, due to the spacecraft's own orbital motion, background stars rise and set behind the planet. Their light dims as it passes through the tenuous atmosphere, with specific gases absorbing specific wavelengths. MAVEN uses its Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph to break apart this light and see which wavelengths are absorbed, allowing it to determine atmospheric composition at varying altitudes. || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 40243, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-earth/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-07-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Earth", "description": "Hyperwall stories in the Earth Category\nReturn to Main Hyperwall Gallery.", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 11898, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11898/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-06-12T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Detects \"Sunscreen\" Layer on Distant Planet", "description": "ANIMATION Using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, scientists detected a stratosphere on the planet WASP-33b. A stratosphere occurs when molecules in the atmosphere absorb ultraviolet and visible light from the star. This absorption warms the stratosphere and acts as a kind of sunscreen layer for the planet below.Watch this video on YouTube. || CoolHotAll3av8_print.jpg (1024x576) [49.2 KB] || CoolHotAll3av8_searchweb.png (320x180) [48.2 KB] || CoolHotAll3av8_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || CoolHotAll3av8.mp4 (1920x1080) [46.7 MB] || CoolHotAll3av8sm.mp4 (1280x720) [16.4 MB] || CoolHotAll3av8sm.webm (1280x720) [2.2 MB] || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 30590, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30590/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-05-07T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "From Observations to Models", "description": "NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) uses the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 Data Assimilation System (GEOS­-5 DAS) to produce global numerical weather forecasts on a routine basis. GMAO forecasts play important roles in managing NASA’s fleet of science satellites and in researching the impact of new satellite observations. In order to provide timely information about the state of the atmosphere for NASA instrument teams and researchers, the GMAO runs the GEOS-­5 DAS four times each day in real time. For each forecast, it is necessary to provide accurate initial conditions that drive the GEOS-­5 forecasts. To do this, the best estimate of the full, three-dimensional atmospheric state is determined by combining the latest observations and a short-term, 6-­hour forecast—a process known as data assimilation. The GEOS-­5 DAS assimilates more than 5 million observations during each 6-hour assimilation period.These observations are assembled from a number of sources from around the globe, including NASA, NOAA, EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), commercial airlines, the US Department of Defense, and many others. Similarly, each observation type has its own sampling characteristics. It can be seen in the animation how different observation types have different strategies. One of the main challenges of data assimilation is to understand how all these observations are alike, how they differ, and how they interact with each other.Funding for the development of the GEOS-5 model and data assimilation system development comes from NASA's Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program and the NASA Weather Focus Area's contribution to the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation.The GEOS-5 DAS runs at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, which is funded by NASA’s High-End Computing Program.For More Information:http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/http://www.nccs.nasa.gov/images/data_assim_story_072815.pdf || ", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 4273, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4273/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-02-24T09:55:00-05:00", "title": "CALIPSO observes Saharan dust crossing the Atlantic Ocean", "description": "Subtitled visualization depicting Saharan dust travelling across the Atlantic Ocean to the Amazon Basin. MODIS imagery shows a 2D representation of the dust cloud, which is then compared to CALIPSO data curtains showing dust throughout the air column. Seasonal dust flux measurements are visualized using particles systems. Finally, average annual dust deposition into the Amazon Basin is shown by Amazon boundary import/export measurements. || Dust_Entire_1080p_60fps.3072_print.jpg (1024x576) [124.9 KB] || Dust_Entire_1080p_60fps.3072_searchweb.png (180x320) [69.8 KB] || Dust_Entire_1080p_60fps.3072_web.png (320x180) [69.8 KB] || Dust_Entire_1080p_60fps.3072_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || SaharanDust_720p_60fps.mp4 (1280x720) [73.6 MB] || SaharanDust_1080p_60fps.webm (1920x1080) [12.3 MB] || SaharanDust_1080p_60fps.mp4 (1920x1080) [189.6 MB] || entire_4k (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Dust_4k_30fps_2160p.mp4 (3840x2160) [365.9 MB] || ", "hits": 187 }, { "id": 30641, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30641/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2014-12-10T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Simulated Sulfur Dioxide and Sulfate Aerosols", "description": "Sulfur and Sulfates animation of Sept 1 - Dec 31, 2006 || sulfur_globe_c1440_NR_BETA9-SNAP_20060901_0000z.png (5760x2880) [19.9 MB] || sulfur_globe_c1440_NR_BETA9-SNAP_20060901_0000z_print.jpg (1024x512) [117.1 KB] || sulfur_globe_c1440_NR_BETA9-SNAP_20060901_0000z_searchweb.png (180x320) [93.4 KB] || sulfur_globe_c1440_NR_BETA9-SNAP_20060901_0000z_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || geos_sulfur_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [95.0 MB] || geos_sulfur_720p.webm (1280x720) [11.6 MB] || sulfur_small_c1440_NR_BETA9-SNAP_20060329_1600z_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [357.4 MB] || geos_sulfur_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [667.5 MB] || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 30637, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30637/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2014-12-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "GEOS-5 Aerosols Simulation for SC 2014", "description": "GEOS-5 aerosols shown at SC 2014. || aerosols-sc2014-preview.jpg (1024x512) [140.7 KB] || aerosols_globe_c1440_NR_BETA9-SNAP_20070228_2200z_searchweb.png (180x320) [97.6 KB] || aerosols_globe_c1440_NR_BETA9-SNAP_20070228_2200z_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] || aerosols (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || aerosols-sc14.webm (1920x1080) [10.2 MB] || aerosols-sc14.mp4 (1920x1080) [155.5 MB] || 30637_aerosols_sim_1920x1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [204.3 MB] || aerosols (5760x2881) [0 Item(s)] || 30637_aerosols_sim_4K.mp4 (4096x2048) [206.8 MB] || 30637_aerosols_sim_UHD_large.mp4 (3840x2160) [206.3 MB] || 30637_aerosols_sim_1280x720_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.5 GB] || 30637_aerosols_sim_UHD_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [4.0 GB] || 30637_aerosols_sim_UHD.mov (3840x2160) [11.2 GB] || 30637_aerosols_sim_MASTER.mov (5760x2881) [23.5 GB] || ", "hits": 286 }, { "id": 11428, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11428/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Alien Atmospheres", "description": "Since the early 1990's, astronomers have known that extrasolar planets, or \"exoplanets,\" orbit stars light-years beyond our own solar system. Although most exoplanets are too distant to be directly imaged, detailed studies have been made of their size, composition, and even atmospheric makeup - but how? By observing periodic variations in the parent star's brightness and color, astronomers can indirectly determine an exoplanet's distance from its star, its size, and its mass. But to truly understand an exoplanet astronomers must study its atmosphere, and they do so by splitting apart the parent star's light during a planetary transit. || ", "hits": 355 }, { "id": 30394, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30394/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monthly Aerosol Optical Thickness (Aqua/MODIS)", "description": "Tiny solid and liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere are called aerosols. These particles are important to scientists because they represent an area of great uncertainty in their efforts to understand Earth's climate system.These maps show monthly aerosol optical thickness, derived using measurements from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite, from July 2002 to the present. Aerosol optical thickness is a measure of how much light the airborne particles prevent from traveling through the atmosphere. Aerosols absorb and scatter incoming sunlight, thus reducing visibility and increasing optical thickness. Dark orange pixels show high aerosol concentrations, while light orange pixels show lower concentrations, and light yellow areas show little or no aerosols. Black shows where the sensor could not make its measurement. An optical thickness of less than 0.1 (light yellow) indicates a crystal clear sky with maximum visibility, whereas a value of 1 (dark orange) indicates the presence of aerosols so dense that people would have difficulty seeing the sun. || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 30395, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30395/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monthly Aerosol Particle Radius (Aqua/MODIS)", "description": "Tiny solid and liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere are called aerosols. These particles are important to scientists because they can affect climate, weather, and people's health. Using satellites scientists can tell whether a given plume of aerosols came from a natural source or were produced by human activities. Two important clues about aerosols' sources are particle size and location of the plume. Natural aerosols (such as dust and sea salts) tend to be larger than man-made aerosols (such as smoke and industrial pollution). These maps show monthly aerosol particle radius from July 2002 to the present, derived using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. Red areas show aerosol plumes made up of smaller particles. These red-colored plumes are over regions where we know humans produce pollution. Green areas show aerosol plumes made up of larger particles. These green-colored plumes are over regions where we know aerosols occur naturally. Yellow areas show plumes in which large and small aerosol particles are intermingling. Black shows where the satellite could not measure aerosols. Maps such as these allow scientists to estimate the location and size of aerosol particles present in the atmosphere. || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 3925, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3925/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NPP Ceres Shortwave Radiation", "description": "The CERES experiment is one of the highest priority scientific satellite instruments developed for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure continued availability of measurements of the energy leaving the Earth-atmosphere system.CERES products include both solar-reflected and Earth-emitted radiation from the top of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface. Cloud properties are determined using simultaneous measurements by other EOS and NPP instruments such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible and Infrared Sounder (VIRS). Analyses using CERES data, build upon the foundation laid by previous missions such as NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), leading to a better understanding of the role of clouds and the energy cycle in global climate change. The sun's radiant energy is the fuel that drives Earth's climate engine. The Earth-atmosphere system constantly tries to maintain a balance between the energy that reaches the Earth from the sun and the energy that flows from Earth back out to space. Energy received from the sun is mostly in the visible (or shortwave) part of the electromagnetic spectrum. About 30% of the solar energy that comes to Earth is reflected back to space. The ratio of reflected-to-incoming energy is called \"albedo\" from the Latin word meaning whiteness. The solar radiation absorbed by the Earth causes the planet to heat up until it is radiating (or emitting) as much energy back into space as it absorbs from the sun. The Earth's thermal emitted radiation is mostly in the infrared (or longwave part of the spectrum. The balance between incoming and outgoing energy is called the Earth's radiation budget. This global view shows CERES top-of-atmosphere (TOA) shortwave radiation from Jan 26 and 27, 2012. Thick cloud cover tends to reflect a large amount of incoming solar energy back to space (blue/green/white image). For more information on the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) see http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov || ", "hits": 148 }, { "id": 3926, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3926/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NPP Ceres Longwave Radiation", "description": "The CERES experiment is one of the highest priority scientific satellite instruments developed for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure continued availability of measurements of the energy leaving the Earth-atmosphere system.CERES products include both solar-reflected and Earth-emitted radiation from the top of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface. Cloud properties are determined using simultaneous measurements by other EOS and NPP instruments such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible and Infrared Sounder (VIRS). Analyses using CERES data, build upon the foundation laid by previous missions such as NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), leading to a better understanding of the role of clouds and the energy cycle in global climate change.The sun's radiant energy is the fuel that drives Earth's climate engine. The Earth-atmosphere system constantly tries to maintain a balance between the energy that reaches the Earth from the sun and the energy that flows from Earth back out to space. Energy received from the sun is mostly in the visible (or shortwave) part of the electromagnetic spectrum. About 30% of the solar energy that comes to Earth is reflected back to space. The ratio of reflected-to-incoming energy is called \"albedo\" from the Latin word meaning whiteness. The solar radiation absorbed by the Earth causes the planet to heat up until it is radiating (or emitting) as much energy back into space as it absorbs from the sun. The Earth's thermal emitted radiation is mostly in the infrared (or longwave part of the spectrum. The balance between incoming and outgoing energy is called the Earth's radiation budget.This global view shows CERES top-of-atmosphere (TOA) longwave radiation from Jan 26 and 27, 2012. Heat energy radiated from Earth (in watts per square meter) is shown in shades of yellow, red, blue and white. The brightest-yellow areas are the hottest and are emitting the most energy out to space, while the dark blue areas and the bright white clouds are much colder, emitting the least energy. Increasing temperature, decreasing water vapor, and decreasing clouds will all tend to increase the ability of Earth to shed heat out to space.For more information on the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) see http://ceres.larc.nasa.gov || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 11019, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11019/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-28T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble, Swift Detect First-ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere", "description": "An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system. The scientists conclude the atmospheric variations occurred in response to a powerful eruption on the planet's host star, an event observed by NASA's Swift satellite.The exoplanet is HD 189733b, a gas giant similar to Jupiter, but about 14 percent larger and more massive. The planet circles its star at a distance of only 3 million miles, or about 30 times closer than Earth's distance from the sun, and completes an orbit every 2.2 days. Its star, named HD 189733A, is about 80 percent the size and mass of our sun.Astronomers classify the planet as a \"hot Jupiter.\" Previous Hubble observations show that the planet's deep atmosphere reaches a temperature of about 1,900 degrees Fahrenheit (1,030 C).HD 189733b periodically passes across, or transits, its parent star, and these events give astronomers an opportunity to probe its atmosphere and environment. In a previous study, a group led by Lecavelier des Etangs used Hubble to show that hydrogen gas was escaping from the planet's upper atmosphere. The finding made HD 189733b only the second-known \"evaporating\" exoplanet at the time.The system is just 63 light-years away, so close that its star can be seen with binoculars near the famous Dumbbell Nebula. This makes HD 189733b an ideal target for studying the processes that drive atmospheric escape.When HD 189733b transits its star, some of the star's light passes through the planet's atmosphere. This interaction imprints information on the composition and motion of the planet's atmosphere into the star's light.In April 2010, the researchers observed a single transit using Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), but they detected no trace of the planet's atmosphere. Follow-up STIS observations in September 2011 showed a surprising reversal, with striking evidence that a plume of gas was streaming away from the exoplanet.The researchers determined that at least 1,000 tons of gas was leaving the planet's atmosphere every second. The hydrogen atoms were racing away at speeds greater than 300,000 mph. Because X-rays and extreme ultraviolet starlight heat the planet's atmosphere and likely drive its escape, the team also monitored the star with Swift's X-ray Telescope (XRT). On Sept. 7, 2011, just eight hours before Hubble was scheduled to observe the transit, Swift was monitoring the star when it unleashed a powerful flare. It brightened by 3.6 times in X-rays, a spike occurring atop emission levels that already were greater than the sun's. Astronomers estimate that HD 189733b encountered about 3 million times as many X-rays as Earth receives from a solar flare at the threshold of the X class. || ", "hits": 154 }, { "id": 10903, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10903/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-02-09T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Carbonivores", "description": "We all inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide with every breath. For plants, it's the opposite. Tiny pores on leaves absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen as part of a cellular process that converts sunlight and water into energy. Individually, plants take in small amounts of carbon dioxide from the air, but en masse the world's vegetation behaves like a giant lung that can change the composition of the atmosphere. The visualization below, which is based on data from the MODIS instrument and four years of carbon dioxide measurements from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua satellite, reveals how carbon dioxide concentrations fluctuate due to vegetation cover on land. Here, flashing white squares represent carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Notice a sharp reduction in squares as vegetation thrives during the Northern Hemisphere summer. Conversely, more squares are present in winter as vegetation losses lead to rising carbon dioxide levels across the globe. || ", "hits": 120 }, { "id": 3779, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3779/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hurricane Danielle's Hot Towers August 27,2010 Stereoscopic Version", "description": "NASA's TRMM spacecraft allows us to look under Hurricane Danielle's clouds to see the rain structure on August 27, 2005 at 06:46 UTC or 2:46 EDT. At this time, Hurricane Danielle was a powerful Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale with sustained winds of 115 knots (132 mph). An area of deep convective towers (shown in red) is prominently visible in the center of the storm. These tall towers are the key to Danielle's intensification. They are associated with the strong thunderstorms responsible for the areas of intense rain. These storms within a storm are releasing vast amounts of heat into the core of Danielle. This heating, known as latent heating, is what is driving the storm's circulation and intensification. This animation shows infrared data from TRMM's Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS) sensor above a thinner swath from TRMM's Precipitation Radar (PR). TRMM reveals that Danielle now has a well-formed eye surrounded by sharply curved rainbands—all signs of mature storm with an intense circulation. TRMM also reveals that there are very powerful thunderstorms in Danielle's eye wall dropping extreme amounts of rain. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 40046, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/nasas-heliophysics-gallery/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2010-03-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Gallery", "description": "Heliophysics studies the nature of the Sun and how it influences the very nature of space and the planets and the technology that exists there. Learn more at nasa.gov/sun.", "hits": 291 }, { "id": 3669, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3669/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-02-16T02:00:00-05:00", "title": "Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica", "description": "A massive, largely unexplored region, the East Antarctic ice sheet looms large in the global climate system, yet relatively little is known about its climate variability or the contribution it makes to sea level changes. The field expedition for this international partnership involves scientific investigations along two overland traverses in East Antarctica: one going from the Norwegian Troll Station to the United States South Pole Station in 2007-2008; and a return traverse by a different route in 2008-2009. This project will investigate climate change in East Antarctica.One of the most pressing environmental issues of our time is the need to understand the mechanisms of current global climate change and the associated impacts on global economic and political systems. In order to predict the future with confidence, we need a clear understanding of past and present changes in the Polar Regions and the role these changes play in the global climate system.For more information about this project go to http://traverse.npolar.no || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 10525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10525/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hello Crud", "description": "This segment provides an introduction to aerosols- their varied sources, brief lifetimes, and erratic behavior. Glory's APS will help researchers determine the global distribution of aerosol particles. This unique instrument will unravel the microphysical properties of aerosols, and will shed light on the chemical composition of natural and anthropogenic aerosols and clouds. For complete transcript, click here. || Hello_Crud__512x288.00727_print.jpg (1024x576) [58.9 KB] || Hello_Crud__512x288_web.png (320x180) [160.9 KB] || Hello_Crud__512x288_thm.png (80x40) [15.7 KB] || Hello_Crud_960x720_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [66.8 MB] || Hello_Crud_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [4.6 GB] || Hello_Crud_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [128.2 MB] || Hello_Crud_960x720_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [160.6 MB] || Hello_Crud__640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [52.5 MB] || Hello_Crud__512x288.mpg (512x288) [37.2 MB] || Hello_Crud_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [22.3 MB] || Hello_Crud.wmv (320x180) [32.7 MB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 10395, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10395/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earth's Energy Budget Animations: Global View and Budget Breakout", "description": "Total solar irradiance (TSI) is the dominant driver of the Earth's climate. The global temperature of the Earth is almost completely determined by the balance between the intensity of the incident solar radiation and the response of the Earth's atmosphere via absorption, reflection, and re-radiation. Roughly 30 percent of the TSI that strikes the Earth is reflected back into space by clouds, atmospheric aerosols, snow, ice, desert sand, rooftops, and even ocean surf. The remaining 70 percent of the TSI is absorbed by the land, ocean, and atmosphere. In addition, different layers of the Earth's atmosphere absorb different wavelengths of light. Changes in either the TSI or in the composition of the atmosphere can cause climate change. Two conceptual science animations provide two different perspectives that both illustrate Earth's energy budget. || ", "hits": 165 }, { "id": 10350, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10350/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "STIS Repair: The Quest for Renewed Exploration", "description": "Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased operations in August 2004 due to the failure of its power supply. In order to restore STIS to operational status, astronauts will perform a never-before-attempted on-orbit replacement of an electronics board inside STIS's main electronics box. On Earth this operation is relatively simple, but in space many challenges confront the astronauts as they work to replace the failed board including working to remove 111 tiny, non-captive screws with astronaut gloves. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) that will be added during Servicing Mission 4, and STIS are highly complementary and are very complimentary to each other providing scientists with a full set of spectroscopic tools for astrophysical research. The STIS instrument's accomplishments include determining the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet as well as spectra and images at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths of the Universe from our solar system out to cosmological distances. For complete transcript, click here. || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-720p30.00852_print.jpg (1024x576) [68.6 KB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-720p30_web.png (320x180) [204.7 KB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-720p30_thm.png (80x40) [16.2 KB] || STIS_Repair_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [57.1 MB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-720p30.mov (1280x720) [133.2 MB] || STIS_Repair_YouTube.mov (1280x720) [69.8 MB] || STIS_Repair_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [143.0 MB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-iPod-lg.m4v (640x360) [45.7 MB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-iPod-sm.m4v (320x180) [19.6 MB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair.mpg (320x240) [63.3 MB] || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 10230, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10230/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 STIS Repair EVA", "description": "Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased operations in August 2004 due to failure of its power supply. In order to restore STIS to operational status, astronauts may attempt an on-orbit replacement of one electronics board inside one of its main electronics boxes. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) that will be added during Servicing Mission 4, and STIS are highly complementary and would work effectively together to provide a full set of spectroscopic tools for astrophysical research. The STIS instrument's accomplishments include determining the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet as well as spectra and images at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths of the Universe from our solar system out to cosmological distances. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 10333, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10333/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Cloud Makers", "description": "This segment provides an introduction to aerosols- their varied sources, brief lifetimes, and erratic behavior. Glory's APS will help researchers determine the global distribution of aerosol particles. This unique instrument will unravel the microphysical properties of aerosols, and will shed light on the chemical composition of natural and anthropogenic aerosols and clouds. For complete transcript, click here. || The_Cloud_Makers_512x28800502_print.jpg (1024x576) [80.6 KB] || The_Cloud_Makers_512x288_web.png (320x180) [235.4 KB] || The_Cloud_Makers_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [16.9 KB] || The_Cloud_Makers_960x540_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [45.0 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [3.0 GB] || The_Cloud_Makers_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [90.7 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_960x540_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [109.4 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_640x480.m4v (640x360) [35.4 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_512x288.mpg (512x288) [35.7 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [14.7 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers.wmv (320x180) [21.0 MB] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 3436, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3436/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-07-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "CloudSat, Calipso and MODIS over Central America", "description": "Associated with tropical thunderstorms are broad fields of cirrus clouds that flow out of the tops of the vigorous storm systems that form over warm tropical oceans. These clouds play a role in how much infrared energy is trapped in Earth's atmosphere. NASA's Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling (TC4) mission, which runs from July 16, 2007 through August 8, 2007, aims to document the full lifecycle of these clouds. Observations from four A-Train satellites flying in formation will complement the aircraft measurements with large-scale views of many different features of the atmosphere. Observations from this mission along with previous studies will improve our understanding of what effect a warming climate with rising ocean temperatures will have on these cloud systems. These images over Central America, produced in support of the TC4 mission, show a tropical storm system over Central and South America on August 2, 2006 as measured from multiple satellite sensors, including Aqua MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO. In this view from the Pacific Ocean, Panama is on the left and South America is shown on the right. In the following series of still images, each satellite's measurement is shown individually and in combination with the others from the same camera viewpoint. The profile showing CloudSat and CALIPSO data is truncated at a height of twenty kilometers and exaggerated ten times. The land topography is also exaggerated by a factor of ten. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 20105, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20105/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-06-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "AIM SOFIE and Cloud Composition", "description": "The Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE) instrument uses solar occultation to measure cloud particles, temperature and atmospheric gases involved in forming the noctilucent clouds studied by the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft. The instrument will reveal the recipe of chemicals that prompt formation of polar mesospheric clouds. It will provide the most accurate and comprehensive look to date of ice particles and chemicals within the clouds as well as of the environment in which these clouds form. || ", "hits": 33 } ] }