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This visualization captures the spacecraft's journey as the Orion spacecraft leaves the safety of the magnetosphere (shown here in green) and travels into open space, where it will encounter the solar wind streaming from the Sun.", "hits": 0 }, { "id": 40550, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/voyager/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2026-03-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Voyager", "description": "Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager spacecraft are NASA’s longest operating and most distant spacecraft. Hurtling through space at over 38,000 miles per hour, Voyager 1 and 2 were the first confirmed human-made objects to cross the threshold into interstellar space. After completing an in-depth reconnaissance of the outer planets, the Voyager spacecraft departed the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the Sun, in two separate directions and are now exploring the edges of interstellar space. \n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/", "hits": 679 }, { "id": 40548, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/solarand-heliospheric-observatory-soho/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2026-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "SOHO – Solar and Heliospheric Observatory", "description": "Launched in December 1995, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a joint mission between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) designed to study the Sun inside out. Though its mission was originally scheduled to last until 1998, SOHO continues to collect observations about the Sun’s interior, the solar atmosphere, and the constant stream of solar particles known as the solar wind, adding to scientists' understanding of our closest star and making many new discoveries, including finding more than 5,000 comets.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/soho/", "hits": 468 }, { "id": 40549, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/interstellar-boundary-explorer-ibex/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2026-03-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "IBEX – Interstellar Boundary Explorer", "description": "The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a NASA spacecraft studying how our heliosphere — the protective bubble surrounding the Sun and planets that is inflated by a constant stream of solar particles — interacts with interstellar space. IBEX created the first maps showing the interactions at that border, and how they change over time due to variations in the Sun’s activity. IBEX studies the heliosphere’s boundaries by measuring a type of uncharged particle called energetic neutral atoms.\n\nIBEX launched on Oct. 19, 2008, from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. \n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ibex/", "hits": 211 }, { "id": 40544, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hinode/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2026-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hinode (Solar-B)", "description": "Hinode (Solar-B) is an international mission, led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), to study the Sun. Hinode explores the magnetic fields of the Sun, from tracking their strength and direction on the solar surface, or photosphere, to decoding their role in heating and powering eruptions in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, to driving the constant outflow from the Sun, the solar wind. \n\nThe mission launched on Sept. 23, 2006, from Uchinoura Space Center in Japan aboard a JAXA M-V rocket.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hinode/", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 5617, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5617/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2026-02-26T10:30:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Visits the Distant Magnetotail", "description": "Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.", "hits": 297 }, { "id": 14957, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14957/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-27T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Arrives at L1", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) reached its destination at Lagrange point 1, or L1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun on Jan. 10, 2026.The mission’s operations team sent commands to the spacecraft on the morning of Jan. 9 to begin trajectory maneuvers to enter orbit at L1. Early on the morning of Jan. 10, the team confirmed the spacecraft had successfully entered its final L1 orbit, where it will stay for the duration of its mission.From L1, IMAP will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — the protective bubble created by the solar wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.Learn more about the milestone: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2026/01/12/nasas-imap-mission-reaches-its-destination/ || ", "hits": 417 }, { "id": 14956, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14956/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-26T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Space Weather Effects Animations", "description": "Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar particle events, and the solar wind form the recipe for space weather that affects life on Earth and astronauts in space. A farmer stops their planting operations due to poor GPS signal for their autonomous tractor. A power grid manager changes the configuration of their network to ensure a blackout doesn’t occur due to voltage instability. A pilot switches to back-up communication equipment due to loss of high-frequency radio. A commercial internet company providing service to the military must change the orbit of their spacecraft to avoid a collision due to increased atmospheric drag.These are a few examples of the ways the Sun influences our everyday lives. This is what we define as space weather – the conditions of the space environment driven by the Sun and it’s impacts on objects in the solar system. Learn more about space weather: https://science.nasa.gov/space-weather-2/ || ", "hits": 482 }, { "id": 5609, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5609/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2026-01-26T05:00:00-05:00", "title": "Heliophysics Satellite Fleet - 2026", "description": "A tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.", "hits": 861 }, { "id": 14954, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14954/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-23T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Illuminate Series (2026)", "description": "NASA's Illuminate is a video series about out-of-this-world images that shine light on our Sun and solar system. || ", "hits": 361 }, { "id": 14718, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14718/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2026-01-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Fleet Graphics (2025)", "description": "NASA has a fleet of spacecraft strategically placed throughout our heliosphere—from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the farthest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system—all helping us untangle the effects of the star we live with.The graphics below show the Heliophysics Division fleet as of December 2025. Green indicates missions in operation and blue indicates missions in extended operation. Numbers in parentheses indicate how many spacecraft the mission currently includes. || ", "hits": 168 }, { "id": 14949, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14949/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-09T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Monitors Space Weather 24/7", "description": "Our Sun creates conditions in space, called space weather, that can affect our technologies both in space and on Earth — from GPS satellites to airplanes to power grids. NASA’s Space Weather Program monitors space weather 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This important work helps decision makers not only protect people and equipment but maintain the services our modern-day society relies on every day. NASA’s space weather monitoring is also critical for safeguarding astronauts as they journey to the Moon and onward to Mars. || ", "hits": 243 }, { "id": 14921, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14921/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-21T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft arrived May 10, 2025, for processing at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will study how the Sun shapes the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble around our solar system. A semitrailer transported the spacecraft from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, after completing thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the harsh conditions of space, at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility. Astrotech provides the facility and technicians to prepare the spacecraft for launch, including fueling and encapsulation. The IMAP spacecraft launched Sept. 24, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy. || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 5577, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5577/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-11-20T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO Sun This Week", "description": "This visualization shows SDO AIA-304 imagery from the past 7 days with a color table and image processing applied. Archive folders are provided in the Download menu.", "hits": 0 }, { "id": 5503, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5503/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-11-19T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Theoretical Flight Through Active Mars Magnetosphere", "description": "NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers mission, or ESCAPADE, aims to study Mars' real-time response to the solar wind and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time, helping us better understand Mars' climate history. In this data visualization, we use the September 13, 2017 solar storm that arrived at Mars as an example of a storm that the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft might study.", "hits": 413 }, { "id": 14926, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14926/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-14T23:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Launch", "description": "NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Ground controllers for the ESCAPADE mission established communications with both spacecraft by 10:35 p.m. EST the same day.The twin spacecraft, built by Rocket Lab, will investigate how a never-ending, million-mile-per-hour stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind, has gradually stripped away much of the Martian atmosphere, causing the planet to cool and its surface water to evaporate. The mission is led by the University of California, Berkeley.Learn more on NASA.gov. || ", "hits": 364 }, { "id": 14925, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14925/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Intense Solar Storm Delays ESCAPADE Launch", "description": "NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched on Nov. 13, 2025!But it wasn’t without any hiccups — or maybe a series of violent burps? — from the Sun!The launch of ESCAPADE, our next mission to Mars, was delayed by a day due to the most powerful geomagnetic storm of 2025. The storm was caused by multiple flares and eruptions known as coronal mass ejections heading toward Earth.With the help of NASA satellites and models, the team could monitor when the storm subsided and by the following day, it was safe to launch. || ", "hits": 723 }, { "id": 14666, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14666/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Launch Phase and Deployment Animations", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE mission will be carried into orbit on the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. New Glenn is a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying both spacecraft and people to low Earth orbits, geostationary transfer orbits, cislunar orbits (between Earth and the Moon), and beyond via Earth-departure orbits like the one required for ESCAPADE. The vehicle is named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 143 }, { "id": 14920, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14920/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Preparing for Martian Explorers: NASA's ESCAPADE Investigates Mars Space Weather", "description": "NASA’s new ESCAPADE mission is launching to Mars to help us better understand the Sun’s influence on Mars’ past and present. Its work could help protect future human explorers from potentially dangerous space weather when they set foot on the Red Planet.For the first time, the mission will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. Its observations will reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE orbiters build on earlier Mars missions, such as NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) orbiter. The MAVEN mission has one spacecraft that has been studying Mars’ atmospheric loss since arriving at the Red Planet in 2014.ESCAPADE is scheduled to launch no earlier than fall 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 36 in Florida.Find out more about the ESCAPADE mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade/ || ", "hits": 159 }, { "id": 14915, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14915/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Trajectory Animations", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE mission is being carried into orbit on the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket (NG-2) and is scheduled to launch in November 2025 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. New Glenn is a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying both spacecraft and people to low Earth orbits, geostationary transfer orbits, cislunar orbits (between Earth and the Moon), and beyond via Earth-departure orbits like the one required for ESCAPADE. The vehicle is named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin.Below are animations demonstrating the different phases of the mission's trajectory from traveling from Earth to Mars to implementing its science orbits around the Red Planet. || ", "hits": 562 }, { "id": 14918, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14918/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Prepares for Flight (2025)", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE mission is being carried into orbit on the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket (NG-2) and is scheduled to launch in November 2025 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. New Glenn is a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying both spacecraft and people to low Earth orbits, geostationary transfer orbits, cislunar orbits (between Earth and the Moon), and beyond via Earth-departure orbits like the one required for ESCAPADE. The vehicle is named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 280 }, { "id": 14907, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14907/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-30T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "What is space weather?", "description": "Though it is almost 100 million miles away from Earth, the Sun influences our daily lives in ways you may not realize.A farmer stops their planting operations due to poor GPS signal for their autonomous tractor. A power grid manager changes the configuration of their network to ensure a blackout doesn’t occur due to voltage instability. A pilot switches to back-up communication equipment due to loss of high-frequency radio. A commercial internet company providing service to the military must change the orbit of their spacecraft to avoid a collision due to increased atmospheric drag.These are a few examples of the ways the Sun influences our everyday lives. This is what we define as space weather – the conditions of the space environment driven by the Sun and its impacts on objects in the solar system. || ", "hits": 250 }, { "id": 14904, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14904/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun’s Influence Across Space", "description": "NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system.At 7:30 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/Learn more about Carruthers Geocorona Observatory: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/Learn more about SWFO-L1: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/swfo-l1/ || ", "hits": 197 }, { "id": 14895, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14895/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping the Boundaries of Our Home in Space with NASA’s IMAP Mission", "description": "NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our solar system — and study how that boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support near real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about IMAP science: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-imap-mission-to-study-boundaries-of-our-home-in-space/Find out more about the IMAP mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 177 }, { "id": 14898, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14898/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-15T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Our Home In Space Series", "description": "The heliosphere, the massive bubble created by our Sun, is like our “house” in space. It shelters us from harsh weather outside and regulates the environment inside. Without our heliosphere, Earth may never have developed life at all. But there’s a lot we still don’t know about our cosmic home. How big is it, and what is it shaped like? How does it compare to the “houses” created by other stars? A new NASA mission will soon unlock answers to these questions and more. Launching as early as Sept. 23, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will help us construct the “blueprints” or our home in space. This three-part series explores how we learn about our heliosphere, how it protects us, and how it advances the search for life elsewhere in the Universe. || ", "hits": 177 }, { "id": 14885, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14885/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-12T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Groundbreaking New NASA Mission Will Give Us The Most Detailed Look Yet At Our Solar System’s Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for associated cut b-roll and pre-recorded soundbites. || IMAP_banner.jpeg (1600x640) [185.0 KB] || IMAP_banner_print.jpg (1024x409) [110.6 KB] || IMAP_banner_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.1 KB] || IMAP_banner_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 14893, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14893/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Three Missions Launch to Track Space Weather (Official NASA Trailer)", "description": "Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Launching September 23, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the missions include NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft.The missions will each study different effects of the solar wind — the continuous stream of particles emitted by the Sun — and space weather — the changing conditions in space driven by the Sun — from their origins at the Sun to their farthest reaches billions of miles away at the edge of our solar system. Research from the missions will help us better understand the Sun’s influence on Earth’s habitability, map our home in space, and protect satellites and voyaging astronauts from space weather threats.Watch the launch with NASA from anywhere in the world. We will provide live broadcast coverage on September 23 from 6:40 a.m. to about 9:15 a.m. EDT (1040 to 1415 UTC) on NASA+, Amazon Prime, Twitch, YouTube, and more. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.Media Resources• Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)• Carruthers Geocorona Observatory• Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) || ", "hits": 240 }, { "id": 14892, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14892/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-29T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Wind Animations", "description": "The Sun releases a constant stream of charged particles, called the solar wind. The solar wind originates in the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, when plasma is heated to a point that the Sun’s gravity can’t hold it down. When this plasma escapes – often reaching speeds of over one million miles per hour – it drags the Sun’s magnetic out across the solar system. When the solar wind encounters Earth, it is deflected by our planet's magnetic shield, causing most of the solar wind's energetic particles to flow around and beyond us. However, some of these high-energy particles can sneak past Earth’s natural magnetic defenses and produce hazardous conditions for satellites and astronauts, as well as power grids and infrastructure on Earth.Learn more about the solar wind: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/what-is-the-solar-wind/ || ", "hits": 920 }, { "id": 14889, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14889/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-25T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliosphere Maps", "description": "The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 14888, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14888/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-22T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Traveling to L1", "description": "The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond. Additionally, IMAP will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. The IMAP spacecraft is situated at the first Earth-Sun Lagrange point (L1), at around one million miles from Earth toward the Sun. There, it will collect and measure particles that have traveled from the Sun, the heliosphere’s boundary 6 to 9 billion miles away, and interstellar space. At L1, it can also provide about a half hour's warning to voyaging astronauts and spacecraft near Earth of harmful radiation coming their way. || ", "hits": 260 }, { "id": 20406, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20406/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Heliosphere Within The Milky Way Galaxy", "description": "Our solar system is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy, home to more than 100 billion stars. Stretching for millions of miles around the solar system is a protective bubble called the heliosphere. Created by particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, the heliosphere separates our solar system from the vast galaxy beyond — and much of its harsh space radiation that can be damaging to life on Earth. || ", "hits": 888 }, { "id": 40543, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/imap/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-08-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP – Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe", "description": "NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) maps the boundaries of the heliosphere — the protective bubble surrounding the Sun and planets that is inflated by the constant stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind. As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP also explores and charts the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate important issues in heliophysics, the field studying the Sun and its sphere of influence. IMAP provides near-real-time information about the solar wind to provide advanced space weather warnings from its location at Lagrange point 1, one million miles from Earth toward the Sun.\n\nThe mission launched on Sept. 24, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/", "hits": 414 }, { "id": 20410, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20410/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will also explore and chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind at its boundary with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. The IMAP spacecraft will be located at Lagrange Point 1, or L1. Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At L1, which is around 1 million miles from Earth towards the Sun, the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth are balanced, allowing spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position. At L1, IMAP will have a clear view of the heliosphere and will also be positioned to provide advanced warning of incoming solar storms headed to Earth. Learn more about IMAP.Below are conceptual animations highlighting the IMAP spacecraft. || ", "hits": 297 }, { "id": 5375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5375/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-08-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carrington Class Coronal Mass Ejection - ENLIL Simulation of A Series of CMEs", "description": "A series of visualizations of the simulation of a series of CMEs between July 2012 and August 2012, including a carrington class coronal mass ejection that hit STEREO-A.", "hits": 433 }, { "id": 14882, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14882/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-07T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Interstellar Visitor is Fastest Comet Ever Recorded", "description": "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just captured an incredible image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS racing through our solar system at 130,000 mph!This cosmic wanderer from beyond our solar system may have been traveling for billions of years before astronomers spotted it.Watch now to discover what this ancient visitor reveals about our galaxy's history and why scientists are racing to study it before its close encounter with the Sun in 2025!For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubbleCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead ProducerMusic Credit:\"God is in the Wind\" by Yat Fung Wong [CASH] via Universal Publishing Production Music Asia [CASH] and Universal Production MusicVideo Credits:Halley’s Comet Animation by Parky via Pond5Milky Way Timelapse via Pond5Comet Grazing the Sun (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)Exocomets in Solar SystemESO/L. Calçada/N. RisingerComets orbiting White Dwarf StarESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. KornmesserOumuamua ImageESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser || ", "hits": 209 }, { "id": 14876, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14876/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-25T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Mission Launches to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield", "description": "NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather. Short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, the twin TRACERS spacecraft lifted off at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, July 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 5567, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5567/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-21T18:59:59-04:00", "title": "New Missions to L1", "description": "Three missions, Carruthers, IMAP and SWFO-L1 will be launched to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point, L1.", "hits": 151 }, { "id": 14863, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14863/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-17T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Quickshot: New NASA Mission Launching Soon To Study Earth’s Space Weather Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for advisory with suggested questions and anchor intro. You will also find the associated cut b-roll and pre-recorded soundbites below.Click here for more information about TRACERS || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final.jpg (1800x720) [256.8 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_print.jpg (1024x409) [150.1 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.8 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || ", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 5555, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5555/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-15T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS through Earth's Polar Cusps", "description": "Visualization of the orbit of the twin TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) satellites that will explore the process of magnetic reconnection in Earth's polar regions and its effects on our atmosphere.", "hits": 185 }, { "id": 14862, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14862/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-14T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Studies Magnetic Explosions Above Earth", "description": "NASA's TRACERS mission, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, will fly in low Earth orbit through the polar cusps, funnel-shaped holes in the magnetic field, to study magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth's atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection is a mysterious process that happens when the solar wind, made of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, collides with Earth's magnetic shield, causing magnetic field lines to violently snap and explosively fling away particles at high speeds. This process has huge impacts on Earth, from causing breathtaking auroras to disrupting communications and power grids on Earth. TRACERS is launching no earlier than summer 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Find out more about the TRACERS mission and how it will help us better understand the ways space weather affects us on Earth: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 369 }, { "id": 14865, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14865/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-10T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Closest Images Ever Taken of the Sun’s Atmosphere", "description": "On its record-breaking pass by the Sun in December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before — are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.Parker Solar Probe started its closest approach to the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, flying just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. As it skimmed through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, in the days around the perihelion, it collected data with an array of scientific instruments, including the Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR.Learn more - https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/Find the latest WISPR imagery here. || ", "hits": 480 }, { "id": 31354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31354/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-06-13T16:19:00-04:00", "title": "PUNCH", "description": "NASA’s PUNCH Releases Its First Images of Huge Eruptions from Sun", "hits": 173 }, { "id": 5419, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5419/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-06-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1", "description": "The Carruthers Geocorona Obervatory observes Earth's exosphere, or geocorona, from the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1.", "hits": 120 }, { "id": 14855, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14855/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-06-06T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Beauty Pass Animations", "description": "The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a SmallSat mission at Lagrange Point 1 (L1) where it will use an advanced ultraviolet imager to monitor Earth’s exosphere — the outermost layer of the atmosphere — and the exosphere’s response to solar-driven space weather. Carruthers is poised to become the first SmallSat to operate at L1 and the first to deliver continuous exospheric observations from this vantage point.Led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2025 as a rideshare component of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which will explore the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble that is inflated by the solar wind and surrounds the Sun and planets. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a vital addition to NASA’s fleet of heliophysics satellites. NASA Heliophysics Division missions study a vast, interconnected system from the Sun to the space surrounding Earth and other planets to the farthest limits of the Sun’s constantly flowing streams of solar wind. || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 20404, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20404/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-06-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Science Animations", "description": "The TRACERS, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 261 }, { "id": 5530, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5530/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-05-14T08:00:59-04:00", "title": "Webb Confirms Seasonal Variations in Titan Climate Model", "description": "This global circulation model simulates a year of weather on Titan, depicting seasonal variations in wind currents, methane cloud cover, and sunlight over the course of a Saturn year (approximately 29.5 Earth years). New observations from the James Webb Science Telescope confirm this seasonal variation.", "hits": 143 }, { "id": 14841, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14841/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-12T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Assembly & Testing at BAE Systems", "description": "The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a SmallSat mission at Lagrange Point 1 (L1) where it will use an advanced ultraviolet imager to monitor Earth’s exosphere — the outermost layer of the atmosphere — and the exosphere’s response to solar-driven space weather. Carruthers is poised to become the first SmallSat to operate at L1 and the first to deliver continuous exospheric observations from this vantage point.Led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2025 as a rideshare component of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which will explore the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble that is inflated by the solar wind and surrounds the Sun and planets. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a vital addition to NASA’s fleet of heliophysics satellites. NASA Heliophysics Division missions study a vast, interconnected system from the Sun to the space surrounding Earth and other planets to the farthest limits of the Sun’s constantly flowing streams of solar wind. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 14829, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14829/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Thermal Vacuum Testing at Millennium Space Systems", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of Millennium Space Systems’ team members conducting Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing at the Boeing Space Systems Laboratory in El Segundo, California.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 168 }, { "id": 14827, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14827/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Instrument Development & Testing at the University of Iowa", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of TRACERS’ instrument design, build, and testing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 14828, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14828/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Testing & Integration at Millennium Space Systems", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of TRACERS’ testing and integration at the Millennium Space Systems Small Satellite Factory in El Segundo, California. Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 14830, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14830/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-23T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Images", "description": "The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a SmallSat mission at Lagrange Point 1 (L1) where it will use an advanced ultraviolet imager to monitor Earth’s exosphere — the outermost layer of the atmosphere — and the exosphere’s response to solar-driven space weather. 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NASA Heliophysics Division missions study a vast, interconnected system from the Sun to the space surrounding Earth and other planets to the farthest limits of the Sun’s constantly flowing streams of solar wind. || ", "hits": 128 }, { "id": 40535, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/tracers/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS – Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites", "description": "The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) helps understand magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when two magnetic fields, such as the Sun’s and Earth’s, intertwine and explosively realign. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth.\n\nTRACERS launched on July 23, 2025, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/", "hits": 232 }, { "id": 14815, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14815/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-04-09T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is embarking on its yearlong integration and testing campaign, during which its instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission.", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 14814, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14814/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-04-09T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is embarking on its yearlong integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission.", "hits": 174 }, { "id": 5514, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5514/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-04-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Storm Excites Martian Magnetosphere for Fulldome", "description": "On September 13, 2017, a coronal mass ejection from the Sun arrived at Mars. This data visualization shows how solar-wind-induced currents and magnetic fields combine with Mars' relatively weak and irregular native crustal magnetic fields to contribute to Mars’ \"hybrid\" magnetosphere.", "hits": 318 }, { "id": 5502, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5502/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-04-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Storm Excites Martian Magnetosphere", "description": "On September 13, 2017, a coronal mass ejection from the Sun arrived at Mars. This data visualization shows how solar-wind-induced currents (green colors) and magnetic fields (pink lines) combine with Mars' relatively weak and irregular native crustal magnetic fields to contribute to Mars’ \"hybrid\" magnetosphere.", "hits": 370 }, { "id": 14811, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14811/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP: Mapping The Heliosphere & Sun", "description": "The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.The mission’s investigation of the boundaries of the heliosphere will be primarily done with energetic neutral atoms, or ENAs. An ENA is a type of uncharged particle formed when an energetic positively charged ion runs into a slow-moving neutral atom. The ion picks up an extra negatively charged electron in the collision, making it neutral — hence the name energetic neutral atom. This process frequently happens wherever there is plasma in space, such as throughout the heliosphere, including its boundary.The IMAP-Lo, IMAP-HI, and IMAP-Ultra instruments on IMAP are imaging the energies and composition of ENAs.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 173 }, { "id": 14802, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14802/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-28T14:31:59-04:00", "title": "Earth to Space: A National Symphony Orchestra Concert", "description": "Explore the vastness of space with music inspired by the planets, stars, and beyond! In anticipation of the upcoming voyage of Artemis II, the National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the discoveries and beauty of space through music and images produced by NASA. 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By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 151 }, { "id": 14803, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14803/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-17T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s SPHEREX and PUNCH Missions Launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "Ignition, and liftoff! At 11:10 p.m. EDT (8:10 p.m. PDT) March 11, 2025, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4 East, carrying NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions.SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will orbit Earth for a two-year prime mission and create a three-dimensional map of the cosmos. This will help scientists answer major questions about what happened in the first second after the big bang, how galaxies form and evolve, and the origins and abundance of water and other key ingredients for life in our galaxy.Ride-sharing with SPHEREx was NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study the outer portion of the Sun, the corona, to understand how solar wind forms.For more information on SPHEREx: nasa.gov/spherexFor more information on PUNCH: science.nasa.gov/mission/punch || ", "hits": 170 }, { "id": 14784, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14784/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-13T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Mission Media Teleconference", "description": "NASA held a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 4, to share information about the agency’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than Thursday, February 27, 2025.The agency’s PUNCH mission is a constellation of four small satellites. When they arrive in low Earth orbit, the satellites will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, and help NASA learn how the mass and energy there become solar wind. By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission will share a ride to space with NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) space telescope on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.The Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, leads the PUNCH mission. 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The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.For more information visit science.nasa.gov/mission/punch || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 14776, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14776/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-30T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Integration and Testing", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 95 }, { "id": 14771, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14771/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-24T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Instruments", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system. By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.Three of the PUNCH satellites will carry a Wide Field Imager (WFI), and the fourth will carry the Narrow Field Imager (NFI).The Narrow Field Imager (NFI)The Narrow Field Image (NFI) is a coronagraph, a type of device that blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. The coronagraph will have a similar field of view as the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C3 field, from 6 to 32 solar radii on the sky, and it will view the corona in both polarized and unpolarized light.Wide Field Imager (WFI)The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a heliospheric imager, a device that provides views from 18 to 180 solar radii (45 degrees) away from the Sun in the sky. Heliospheric imagers use an artificial “horizon” and deep baffles to view the very faint outermost portion of the solar corona and the solar wind itself. The instrument reduces direct sunlight by over 16 orders of magnitude, which is like the ratio between the mass of a human and the mass of a cold virus. The wide-field imaging optics are based on the design of the famous Nagler eyepieces, which are known among observational astronomers for their clarity, low distortion, wide field, and achromatic focus. Three of the PUNCH spacecraft will carry a WFI instrument. || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 14770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14770/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-24T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Test Operations at Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 14768, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14768/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Solar Array Deployment Test", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 14767, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14767/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Arrival at Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 14765, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14765/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Assembly and Testing", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 40532, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/punch/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH – Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit capturing global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind, a stream of charged particles from the Sun that fills the solar system. By using PUNCH to image the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere — including the Sun, solar wind, and Earth — as a single connected system.\n\nPUNCH launched on March 11, 2025, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.\n\nLearn more: science.nasa.gov/mission/punch", "hits": 294 }, { "id": 14739, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "From the Moon, NASA’s LEXI Will Reveal Earth’s Magnetic Shield", "description": "NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation.From the surface of the Moon, LEXI will capture wide-field images of Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, in low-energy (or \"soft\") X-rays. LEXI will study changes in the magnetosphere and help us learn more about how it interacts with a stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind, which can pose hazards for Artemis astronauts traveling to the Moon.Learn more about LEXI and its CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) flight to the Moon from Hyunju Connor, LEXI co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.More on LEXI: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-lexi-will-provide-x-ray-vision-of-earths-magnetosphere/ || ", "hits": 180 }, { "id": 14744, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14744/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "GDC and DYNAMIC to Explore Earth’s Upper Atmosphere", "description": "Two upcoming missions, the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) and Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) will revolutionize our understanding of Earth’s upper atmosphere. This region includes Earth’s ionosphere, thermosphere, and mesosphere, and stretches from roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth’s surface. Space weather disturbances can impact communications, navigation signals, and satellite orbits, and induce currents can trigger power outages on Earth — making the region a crucial area of study.GDC is a team of satellites that will study Earth’s upper atmosphere and provide the first direct global measurements of our planet’s dynamic and complex interface with the space environment. Working in tandem with the DYNAMIC spacecraft, scientists will be able paint a fuller picture of how energy transforms and travels throughout the upper atmosphere. GDC will fly at an altitude of 350-400 km.DYNAMIC is a pair of satellites that will work in tandem with GDC to study how changes in Earth’s lower atmosphere influence our planet’s upper atmosphere. Between the multiple spacecraft of GDC and DYNAMIC, simultaneous observations from different locations can give scientists a more complete picture of how atmospheric waves propagate up through this unique part of the atmosphere. DYNAMIC will fly at an altitude of 550-800 km. || ", "hits": 192 }, { "id": 5443, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5443/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-12-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Heliophysics Sentinels 2024", "description": "There have been some changes since the 2022 Heliophysics Fleet. AIM and ICON have been decommissioned while two other instruments have been added. AWE is an instrument mounted on the ISS, and RAD is a particle detector on the Curiosity Mars rover. As of Winter 2024, here's a tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from the near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 5435, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5435/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic and Atmospheric Response to May 2024 Solar Storm", "description": "This visualization shows the Earth's magnetosphere being hit by a geomagnetic storm. The MAGE model simulates real events that happened throughout May 10-11, 2024.White orbit trails: All satellites orbiting Earth during the stormOrange orbits: Proposed orbits for six GDC spacecraftOrange-to-purple lines: Magnetic field lines around EarthBlue trails: Solar wind velocity tracersGreen clouds: Electric field current intensityCredit:NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_print.jpg (1024x576) [191.2 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_web.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [253.6 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall (5760x3240) [2880 Item(s)] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [773.4 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_3240p30_h265.mp4 (5760x3240) [779.4 MB] || ", "hits": 337 }, { "id": 14722, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14722/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-06T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: NASA Spacecraft Days Away From Historic Close Approach to the Sun", "description": "Scroll down the page for associated cut b-roll for the live shots and pre-recorded soundbites.Find out more about NASA's Parker Solar Probe here! nasa.gov/parker || Screenshot_2024-12-06_at_2.24.02 PM.png (1546x606) [1.9 MB] || Screenshot_2024-12-06_at_2.24.02 PM_print.jpg (1024x401) [195.3 KB] || Screenshot_2024-12-06_at_2.24.02 PM_searchweb.png (320x180) [128.7 KB] || Screenshot_2024-12-06_at_2.24.02 PM_thm.png (80x40) [12.2 KB] || ", "hits": 148 }, { "id": 5428, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5428/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Towards its Ultimate Perihelion", "description": "Parker Solar Probe is making its final planned orbits around the Sun.On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed it's final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 kilometers) of Venus' surface. The flyby adjusted Parker's trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing the spacecraft to within an unprecedented 3.86 million miles from the solar surface on December 24, 2024. It will be the closest any human-made object has been to the Sun. || ", "hits": 512 }, { "id": 20392, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20392/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2024-11-12T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Space Weather and NOAA's Space Weather Follow On at Lagrange point 1 (SWFO-L1)", "description": "NOAA and Impacts of Space Weather || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_HD_v02.01800_print.jpg (1024x576) [187.1 KB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_HD_v02.01800_searchweb.png (180x320) [89.8 KB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_HD_v02.01800_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_FHD_v02.mp4 (1920x1080) [159.2 MB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_HD_v02.mp4 (1280x720) [157.5 MB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_SD_v02.mp4 (852x480) [156.8 MB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_4k_v02.mp4 (3840x2160) [231.9 MB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_4k_v02.mov (3840x2160) [15.8 GB] || ", "hits": 130 }, { "id": 14714, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14714/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2024-11-06T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "CODEX Heads to the Space Station for Install", "description": "On Nov. 4, 2024, the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) launched to space aboard NASA’s SpaceX CRS-31 – a commercial resupply mission of an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft headed for the International Space Station. Liftoff occurred at 9:29 p.m. EST.CODEX is a solar coronagraph that will be installed on the Space Station to gather important information about the solar wind and how it forms. A coronagraph blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. CODEX is a collaboration between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) with additional contributions from Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF).To learn more about the experiment, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/codex/ || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 14709, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14709/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-28T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sun Releases Strong Solar Flare on October 23, 2024", "description": "NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an X3.3 solar flare – as seen in the bright flash and loop on the left – on Oct. 23, 2024. The image shows a blend of 171 Angstrom, 304 Angstrom and 131 Angstrom light, subsets of extreme ultraviolet light. Credit: NASA/SDO || SDO_X3pt3_10-23-2024_0340_131-304-171.jpg (4096x4096) [4.7 MB] || SDO_X3pt3_10-23-2024_0340_131-304-171_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.1 KB] || SDO_X3pt3_10-23-2024_0340_131-304-171_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 5344, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5344/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-10-15T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Cycle 25 - the Solar Magnetic Field from Solar Minimum to Pole Flip", "description": "One advantage of long-lived missions like Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is the ability to see slow but significant changes over long periods of time.This view from SDO's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) shows the evolution of sunspots on the solar disk starting from solar minimum (around December 2019) and into the maximum solar activity phase. The video ends in September 2024, however this maximum phase is expected to continue into 2025.", "hits": 790 }, { "id": 14690, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14690/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-09-23T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ten Years at Mars with NASA’s MAVEN Mission", "description": "During its first decade at Mars, MAVEN has helped to explain how the Red Planet evolved from warm and wet into the cold, dry world we see today. Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Executive Deceit” by Samuel Karl Bohn [PRS], Chalk Music [PRS]; “Quasar” by Ross Stephen Gilmartin [PRS], Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd [PRS]; “Modular Odyssey” and “Synthology” by Laetitia Frenod [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview_print.jpg (1024x576) [160.7 KB] || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview.jpg (1280x720) [622.5 KB] || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview.png (1280x720) [1.2 MB] || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.6 KB] || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || 14690_MAVEN_10th_Anniversary_720.mp4 (1280x720) [92.2 MB] || 14690_MAVEN_10th_Anniversary_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [516.6 MB] || Maven10thAnniversaryCaptionsV3.en_US.srt [8.9 KB] || Maven10thAnniversaryCaptionsV3.en_US.vtt [8.5 KB] || 14690_MAVEN_10th_Anniversary_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [6.3 GB] || 14690_MAVEN_10th_Anniversary_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [36.5 GB] || ", "hits": 150 }, { "id": 40523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/escapade/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2024-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE – Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorer", "description": "Using two identical spacecraft in orbit around Mars, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission will investigate how a stream of charged particles from the Sun called the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE will use its twin orbiters to take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time. The data returned from ESCAPADE will provide new insight into the evolution of Mars’ climate, helping to understand how Mars began losing its atmosphere and water.\n\nESCAPADE launched on Nov. 13, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is expected to reach Mars in September 2027.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade/ ", "hits": 366 }, { "id": 14675, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14675/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-09-03T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Testing and Integration", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.The spacecraft were designed, built, integrated, and tested by Rocket Lab at their Spacecraft Production Complex and Headquarters in Long Beach, California. Based on Rocket Lab’s Explorer spacecraft, a configurable, high delta-V interplanetary platform, the duo features Rocket Lab-built components and subsystems, including solar panels, star trackers, propellant tanks, reaction wheels, reaction control systems, radios, and more.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 14628, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14628/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-28T11:30:00-04:00", "title": "Discovering Earth’s Third Global Energy Field", "description": "High above the Earth’s North and South Poles, a steady stream of particles escapes from our atmosphere into space. Scientists call this mysterious outflow the “polar wind,” and for almost 60 years, spacecraft have been flying through it as scientists have theorized about its cause. The leading theory was that a planet-wide electric field was drawing those particles up into space. But this so-called ambipolar electric field, if it exists, is so weak that all attempts to measure it have failed – until now.In 2022, scientists traveled to Svalbard, a small archipelago in Norway, to launch a rocket in an attempt to measure Earth’s ambipolar electric field for the first time. This was NASA’s Endurance rocketship mission, and this is its story.To learn more, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-discovers-long-sought-global-electric-field-on-earth/ || ", "hits": 360 }, { "id": 14664, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14664/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-23T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Mission Trailer", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.The first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.ESCAPADE will analyze how Mars’ magnetic field guides particle flows around the planet, how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through the magnetosphere, and what processes control the flow of energy and matter into and out of the Martian atmosphere. The data returned from the ESCAPADE spacecraft will provide new insight into the evolution of Mars’ climate, contributing to the body of research investigating how Mars began losing its atmosphere and water system.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 95 }, { "id": 14667, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14667/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-22T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Instrument Build and Testing", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.ESCAPADE will analyze how Mars’ magnetic field guides particle flows around the planet, how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through the magnetosphere, and what processes control the flow of energy and matter into and out of the Martian atmosphere. The data returned from the ESCAPADE spacecraft will provide new insight into the evolution of Mars’ climate, contributing to the body of research investigating how Mars began losing its atmosphere and water system.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 14665, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14665/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-21T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Spacecraft Development Images", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.The first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time. The data returned from the ESCAPADE spacecraft will provide new insight into the evolution of Mars’ climate, contributing to the body of research investigating how Mars began losing its atmosphere and water system.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin.The spacecraft were designed, built, integrated, and tested at Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft Production Complex and headquarters in Long Beach, California. Based on Rocket Lab’s Explorer spacecraft, a configurable, high delta-V interplanetary platform, the duo features Rocket Lab-built components and subsystems, including solar panels, star trackers, propellant tanks, reaction wheels, reaction control systems, radios, and more. || ", "hits": 82 }, { "id": 14647, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14647/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2024-08-12T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "CODEX – Coronal Diagnostic Experiment", "description": "The Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is a solar coronagraph that will be installed on the International Space Station to gather important information about the solar wind and how it forms. A coronagraph blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. CODEX is a collaboration between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) with additional contribution from Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF).Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/codex/ || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 14641, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14641/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2024-07-30T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Mission Posters", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.The first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.ESCAPADE will analyze how Mars’ magnetic field guides particle flows around the planet, how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through the magnetosphere, and what processes control the flow of energy and matter into and out of the Martian atmosphere. The data returned from the ESCAPADE spacecraft will provide new insight into the evolution of Mars’ climate, contributing to the body of research investigating how Mars began losing its atmosphere and water system.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 14642, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14642/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2024-07-30T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Spacecraft Specifications", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, led by Rob Lillis at the University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory (UCBSSL), is a twin-spacecraft science mission that will orbit two spacecraft around Mars to understand the structure, composition, variability, and dynamics of Mars' unique hybrid magnetosphere. The mission will leverage its unique dual viewpoint on the Mars environment to explore how the solar wind strips atmosphere away from Mars to better understand how its climate has changed over time. ESCAPADE is being developed under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program in the Science Mission Directorate (SMD). The mission is led by UCBSSL with spacecraft design provided by Rocket Lab.The spacecraft were designed, built, integrated, and tested at Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft Production Complex and headquarters in Long Beach, California. Based on Rocket Lab’s Explorer spacecraft, a configurable, high delta-V interplanetary platform, the duo features Rocket Lab-built components and subsystems, including solar panels, star trackers, propellant tanks, reaction wheels, reaction control systems, radios, and more. || ", "hits": 207 }, { "id": 14635, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14635/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Mission Spacecraft Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission will study the interaction between the solar wind and Martian atmosphere. Two identical spacecraft will orbit around the Red Planet to understand the structure, composition, variability, and dynamics of Mars’ unique hybrid magnetosphere, including its real-time response to space weather.The mission will leverage its unique dual viewpoint on the Mars environment to explore how the solar wind strips atmosphere away from Mars to better understand how its climate has changed over time — so much that Mars no longer supports liquid water on its surface. The pair will be the first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to Mars.ESCAPADE is part of the NASA Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. The mission is managed by the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 163 }, { "id": 14608, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14608/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-06-24T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "BurstCube Deploys from International Space Station", "description": "The shoebox-sized BurstCube and SNOOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation) satellites entered low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station on April 18, 2024.BurstCube will study gamma-ray bursts, the universe’s most powerful explosions. SNOOPI will demonstrate technology for measuring soil moisture. These CubeSats launched to the space station aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission on March 21, 2024 || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 5248, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5248/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-03-25T13:30:00-04:00", "title": "Insolation during the 2024 Eclipse", "description": "Insolation (the amount of sunlight reaching the ground) is affected dramatically by the Moon's shadow during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. || insol.0765_print.jpg (1024x576) [144.8 KB] || insol.0765_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.2 KB] || insol.0765_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || eclipse2024_insol_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [10.4 MB] || eclipse2024_insol_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [21.3 MB] || eclipse2024_insol_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [66.1 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || eclipse2024_insol_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [3.2 MB] || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 14541, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14541/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-12T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast (DEB) Initiative", "description": "In visible wavelengths of light, the Sun’s surface is much brighter than its corona. During a total solar eclipse, however, observers can see the corona – and scientists can investigate how solar material moves out from the Sun to form the solar wind, an ever-flowing particle stream that impacts Earth and our entire solar system.The Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast (DEB) Initiative, led by Bob Baer and Matt Penn of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, organizes volunteers as they capture images of the corona during the 2024 eclipse. Using identical instruments at more than 70 different locations across North America, participants document the moment-by-moment appearance of the corona throughout the eclipse. Comparing these images across locations, scientists track plumes of solar material in the difficult-to-study inner corona, estimating their speed and rate of acceleration and linking these observations to those from NASA spacecraft.The project expands on the team’s efforts during the 2017 total solar eclipse, this time including observation sites outside the path of totality, where part of the solar disk will remain visible. Images from these locations will reveal the source of solar material later observed as outflows in the corona, allowing the team to trace them back to their origins on the Sun.DEB Initiative is one of many participatory science projects happening during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Click here to learn more. || ", "hits": 89 }, { "id": 14542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14542/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-05T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "EZIE – Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer", "description": "Slated to launch in 2025, NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) will be the first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of the auroral electrojets — intense electric currents flowing high above Earth’s poles that are central to the electrical circuit coupling the planet’s magnetosphere to its atmosphere.Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), EZIE will use a trio of small satellites to characterize and record the electrojets’ structure over space and time. It will fill gaps in our understanding of this space weather phenomenon and provide findings that scientists can apply to other magnetized planets, both within and outside our solar system.Learn more:https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ezie/ || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 5210, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5210/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-02-16T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Active Christmas Eve 2023 Ultraviolet Sun", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes a very active hemisphere of the Sun on Christmas Eve 2023. No significant flares - just fifteen hours of small eruptions, bright coronal loops, dark filaments hovering above photosphere, and other small-scale phenomena in the life of a star evolving towards the peak of it's activity cycle.The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all this imagery. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 5214, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5214/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-02-08T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic Storm Causes Satellite Loss for Fulldome", "description": "In February 2022, a Coronal Mass Ejection led to 38 commercial satellites being lost. Solar plasma from a geomagnetic storm heated the atmosphere, causing denser gases to expand into the satellites’ orbit, which increased atmospheric drag on the satellites and caused them to de-orbit. Johns Hopkins APL-led Center for Geospace Storms (CGS) is building a Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) supercomputer model to predict space weather. The physics-based MAGE simulation reproduced the storm-time atmospheric density enhancement much better than empirical or standalone ionosphere-thermosphere models, emphasizing the need for fully-coupled whole-of-geospace models for predicting space weather events.This is 4k fulldome imagery intended for projection in a planetarium or other hemispherical dome theater. || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 5200, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5200/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-12-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mars Disappearing Solar Wind: MAVEN Visualizations", "description": "This data visualization depicts a period of decreased solar wind at Mars that occurred on December 25, 2022, causing the planet’s magnetosphere to expand outward. Ion velocity and density data collected by the MAVEN spacecraft is presented using a color-mapped satellite orbit tail and vectors along MAVEN’s orbit. || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_print.jpg (1024x576) [84.4 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_searchweb.png (320x180) [47.3 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || maven_solar_wind_comp_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [187.6 MB] || maven_solar_wind_comp_prores.mov (3840x2160) [10.1 GB] || ", "hits": 347 }, { "id": 14477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14477/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared from Mars", "description": "Learn about the “disappearance” of the solar wind at Mars that was witnessed by MAVEN – an event last seen nearly a quarter-century ago at Earth.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Space Museum” by Harry Gregson Williams [BMI], Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS]; “Currents and Crime Scenes” by Dylan Matthew Love and Harry Gregson Williams [BMI], Atmosphere Music Ltd. 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Solar plasma from a geomagnetic storm heated the atmosphere, causing denser gases to expand into the satellites’ orbit, which increased atmospheric drag on the satellites and caused them to de-orbit. Johns Hopkins APL-led Center for Geospace Storms (CGS) is building a Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) supercomputer model to predict space weather. The physics-based MAGE simulation reproduced the storm-time atmospheric density enhancement much better than empirical or standalone ionosphere-thermosphere models, emphasizing the need for fully-coupled whole-of-geospace models for predicting space weather events. || ", "hits": 571 } ] }