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After reaching the current cycle’s most active phase in 2024 — known as solar maximum — the Sun remains in a heightened period of activity.For news of the recent flares: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/solar-cycle-25/ || ", "hits": 435 }, { "id": 14942, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14942/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-20T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman and Webb Comparison Graphics from Far and Wide", "description": "This page contains individual animation clips from the Far and Wide series. These clips all focus on the relationship between the Nancy Grace Roman and James Webb space telescopes: how they are different and how they will work together. 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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": 274 }, { "id": 14164, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14164/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-06-07T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Australia Sounding Rocket Campaign Press Kit", "description": "NASA will launch three suborbital sounding rockets in June and July 2022 from the Arnhem Space Center in Australia’s Northern Territory to conduct astrophysics studies that can only be done from the Southern Hemisphere. The three missions will focus on α Centauri A and B, two of the three-star α Centauri system that are the closest stars to our Sun, and X-rays emanating from the interstellar medium, clouds of gases and particles between stars.The three sounding rocket night-time missions will be launched between June 26 and July 12 on two-stage Black Brant IX sounding rockets, from the Arnhem Space Center, which is owned and operated by Equatorial Launch Australia or ELA. The Arnhem Space Center is a commercial space launch facility, located on the Dhupuma Plateau near Nhulunbuy. The NASA missions will be the first launches from Arnhem.Learn more: Australia Sounding Rocket Fact SheetWatch more: Sounding Rockets: Cutting Edge Science, 15 Minutes at a TimeWhat Is a Sounding Rocket?Riding Along with a NASA Sounding Rocket || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 4478, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4478/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-03-18T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA)", "description": "This visualization explores the spatial resolution of the REMA data. The camera starts out at a global view of Antarctica before zooming into the Ross Archipelago region. RADARSAT DEM data is shown as the camera pushes in, showing the limits of the data resolution. A wipe transition reveals the REMA data, exposing additional details as the camera moves down towards the surface. Terrain is represented as a mesh to show the full resolution of the data. The camera flies up a valley, exploring the detailed REMA data. 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A giant space-spiderweb?In reality, it’s a look at the red giant star CW Leonis as photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — just in time for celebrating Halloween with creepy celestial sights! Be careful, this video is spooky!For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Additional Credits:Pumpkin Animation by HU Shahir via Motion ArraySpider Transition by VitApSwF via Motion ArrayHalloween Cartoon Opener (Bat) by Timur Yakupov via Motion ArrayGhost Animation from Halloween Instagram Stories Pack Vol.1 by UmutU via Motion ArrayBlack Cat by Zlajs via Motion ArraySpider Web on Alpha Loop by Mushni via Motion ArraySound Effects Credits:Bats for Halloween by Beison via Motion ArrayCat Meow by Beison via Motion ArrayDemonic Scream by Media_M via Motion ArrayHalloween Spooky Sounds by Motion Audio Sound Effects via Motion ArrayDinosaur Growl by Giraffe Music via Motion ArrayMan Screaming by Laravich via Motion ArrayWalk Cockroach by Beison via Motion ArrayExplosive Risers And Booms by NickoMusic Via Motion ArrayScary Laugh by Motion Audio via Motion ArrayMusic Credits: “Trap Door” by Sebastian Barnaby Robertson [BMI] via Killer Tracks [ BMI ] and Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 4863, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4863/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-10-08T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tour of Asteroid Bennu – Visualizations", "description": "This first shot of the sequence begins with OSIRIS-REx’s arrival at the asteroid Bennu. 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The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel announced solar minimum occurred in December 2019, marking the transition into a new solar cycle. In a press event, experts from the panel, NASA, and NOAA discussed the analysis and Solar Cycle 25 prediction, and how the rise to the next solar maximum and subsequent upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth.A new solar cycle comes roughly every 11 years. Over the course of each cycle, the star transitions from relatively calm to active and stormy, and then quiet again; at its peak, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip. Now that the star has passed solar minimum, scientists expect the Sun will grow increasingly active in the months and years to come.Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. The Sun’s outbursts—including eruptions known as solar flares and coronal mass ejections—can disturb the satellites and communications signals traveling around Earth, or one day, Artemis astronauts exploring distant worlds. Scientists study the solar cycle so we can better predict solar activity.Click here for the NOAA press kit.Listen to the media telecon.Participants:• Lisa Upton, Co-chair, Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel; Solar Physicist, Space Systems Research Corporation• Doug Biesecker, Solar Physicist, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center; Co-chair, Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel• Elsayed Talaat, Director, Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service • Lika Guhathakurta, Heliophysicist, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters • Jake Bleacher, Chief Exploration Scientist, NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate || ", "hits": 305 }, { "id": 13664, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13664/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-16T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESA and NASA Release First Images From Solar Orbiter Mission", "description": "Scientists from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA will present the first images captured by Solar Orbiter, the joint ESA/NASA mission to study the Sun, during an online news briefing at 8 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 16. Launched on Feb. 9, 2020, Solar Orbiter turned on all 10 of its instruments together for the first time in mid-June as it made its first close pass of the Sun. The flyby captured the closest images ever taken of the Sun. During the briefing, mission experts will discuss what these closeup images reveal about our star, including what we can learn from Solar Orbiter’s new measurements of particles and magnetic fields flowing from the Sun.The briefing will stream live at:https://www.nasa.gov/solarorbiterfirstlight/Participants in the call include:•Daniel Müller – Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at ESA•Holly R. Gilbert – Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at NASA•José Luis Pellón Bailón – Solar Orbiter Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA•David Berghmans – Principal investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at the Royal Observatory of Belgium•Sami Solanki – Principal investigator of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) and director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research•Christopher J. Owen – Principal investigator of the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London•ESA’s first light images•ESA press release •NASA feature story || ", "hits": 198 }, { "id": 4801, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4801/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-04-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Day 2020: Apollo-8 to Earth observing fleet", "description": "Push in from the far side of the Moon to Apollo-8 take the \"Earthrise\" photo; then push in to NASA's Earth observing fleet in 1970 (the first Earth Day), then transition to the Earth observing fleet in 2020 (the 50th anniversary of Earth Day)This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || earth_day_setup_shot01.2300_print.jpg (1024x576) [38.8 KB] || earth_day_setup_shot01.2300_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.1 KB] || earth_day_setup_shot01.2300_thm.png (80x40) [3.0 KB] || earth_day_setup_final01.mp4 (1920x1080) [17.3 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || earth_day_setup_final01.webm (1920x1080) [6.3 MB] || 5760x3240_16x9_30p (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || captions_silent.29345.en_US.srt [43 bytes] || earth_day_setup_final01.mp4.hwshow [189 bytes] || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 13123, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13123/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-12-31T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Bennu Orbit Insertion", "description": "On December 31, 2018, OSIRIS-REx completed its Preliminary Survey of asteroid Bennu and entered into orbit. Complete transcript available.Music provided by Killer Tracks: Pose dans la tess (instrumental), Ties that BindWatch this video on the OSIRIS-REx mission YouTube channel. || OSIRIS-REx_Bennu_Insertion_Preview_print.jpg (1024x576) [72.3 KB] || OSIRIS-REx_Bennu_Insertion_Preview.png (3840x2160) [4.8 MB] || OSIRIS-REx_Bennu_Insertion_Preview_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.8 KB] || OSIRIS-REx_Bennu_Insertion_Preview_thm.png (80x40) [2.0 KB] || 13123_Bennu_Orbit_Insertion_MASTER.mov (3840x2160) [4.9 GB] || 13123_Bennu_Orbit_Insertion_MASTER.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.2 GB] || 13123_Bennu_Orbit_Insertion_MASTER_small.mp4 (3840x2160) [103.1 MB] || 13123_Bennu_Orbit_Insertion_MASTER.webm (3840x2160) [22.8 MB] || 13123_Bennu_Orbit_Insertion_MASTER_small_Output.en_US.srt [2.2 KB] || 13123_Bennu_Orbit_Insertion_MASTER_small_Output.en_US.vtt [2.2 KB] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 12947, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12947/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Launching an ICON", "description": "The Ionospheric Connection Explorer will explore the mysteries of where Earth meets space. || STORYCOVER_ICON_Image_Portrait16x9_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [187.1 KB] || STORYCOVER_ICON_Image_Portrait16x9.jpg (2550x1434) [637.0 KB] || STORYCOVER_NEW_ICON_Image_Portrait.jpg (2550x3300) [707.1 KB] || STORYCOVER_ICON_Image_Portrait16x9_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.4 KB] || STORYCOVER_ICON_Image_Portrait16x9_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 12614, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12614/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-06-02T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO Anniversary Series", "description": "The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.Year 1 || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 12329, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12329/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-09-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Snapshots from the Edge of the Sun", "description": "GIF of animated sun with corona and solar wind labels. || coronasolarwind.gif (1041x586) [2.2 MB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 40302, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsyoutube-candidates/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2016-06-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SVS YouTube Candidates", "description": "These are the proposed visualization candidates to be included in the SVS YouTube Channel.", "hits": 153 }, { "id": 12162, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12162/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-02-26T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA On Air: NASA Compares El Niños: 1997 vs. 2016 (2/26/2016)", "description": "LEAD: A new NASA visualization shows the 2015 El Niño unfolding in the Pacific Ocean. The sea surface temperatures presented different patterns than seen in the 1997-1998 El Niño.1. This visualization shows how the 1997 event started from colder-than-average sea surface temperatures – but the 2015 event started with warmer-than-average temperatures. 2. The water temperature variations also occur below the surface. And these variations were also different in 2015, compared to 1997. The red in this vizualization indicates warmer than normal temperatres and the blue is cooler. TAG: In the past, very strong El Niño events typically transition to neutral conditions and then a La Niña event. This current El Niño has been different so it will be interesting to see what happens in the next forecast and the coming months. || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-10_iPad_print.jpg (1024x576) [129.8 KB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-10_iPad_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.0 KB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-10_iPad_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-1_Weather_Channel_30_fps.mov (1920x1080) [773.5 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-2_Weather_Channel_60_fps.mov (1280x720) [868.2 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-3_NBC_Today.mov (1920x1080) [373.8 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-4_WeatherChannel.wmv (1280x720) [6.6 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-5_Accuweather.avi (1280x720) [5.2 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-6_Baron_Services_MP4.mp4 (1920x1080) [29.9 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-7_APR_422_1920_30.mov (1920x1080) [482.0 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-8_iPad.m4v (960x540) [12.0 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-9_iPad.m4v (1280x720) [7.3 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-10_iPad.m4v (1920x1080) [12.8 MB] || NASA_On_Air-El_Nino_Comparison-10_iPad.webm (1920x1080) [3.2 MB] || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 4433, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4433/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-02-25T20:00:00-05:00", "title": "El Niño: GMAO Daily Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly from 1997/1998 and 2015/2016", "description": "This visualization shows how the Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly (SSTA) data and subsurface Temperature Anomaly from the 1997 El Nino year compares to the 2015 El Nino year. The visualization shows how the 1997 event started from colder-than-average sea surface temperatures – but the 2015 event started with warmer-than-average temperatures not only in the Pacific but also in in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || SSTcompare1997_2015_0000_print.jpg (1024x576) [87.4 KB] || SSTcompare1997_2015_0000_searchweb.png (320x180) [53.0 KB] || SSTcompare1997_2015_0000_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || Compare1997_2015_SSTA.mp4 (1920x1080) [28.7 MB] || compare (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Compare1997_2015_SSTA.webm (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || Compare1997_2015_SSTA.m4v (640x360) [2.5 MB] || Compare1997_2015_SSTA.mp4.hwshow [187 bytes] || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 12144, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12144/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-02-12T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO: Year 6", "description": "This ultra-high definition (3840x2160) video shows the sun in the 171 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. It covers a time period of January 2, 2015 to January 28, 2016 at a cadence of one frame every hour, or 24 frames per day. This timelapse is repeated with narration by solar scientist Nicholeen Viall and contains close-ups and annotations. 171 angstrom light highlights material around 600,000 Kelvin and shows features in the upper transition region and quiet corona of the sun. The video is available to download here at 59.94 frames per second, double the rate YouTube currently allows for UHD content. 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This visualization shows the heavy rainfall throughout Northern Texas and across Oklahoma as well as the drought in Southern California.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || usa_drought_accum.6400_print.jpg (1024x576) [143.8 KB] || usa_drought_accum.6400_searchweb.png (320x180) [91.0 KB] || usa_drought_accum.6400_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || usa_drought_accum.6.mp4 (1920x1080) [6.5 MB] || rainfall_only_on_land (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || usa_drought_accum_w_cbar_comp_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [7.0 MB] || rainfall_only_on_land_with_colorbar (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || usa_drought_accum.6.webm (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || ", "hits": 218 }, { "id": 11746, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11746/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-02-10T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "3-D Blizzard", "description": "A NASA satellite looks inside the winter storm that hit the northeastern U.S. in January 2015. || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [180.9 KB] || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [366.9 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [242.0 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [180.5 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.9 KB] || c-1024_print_thm.png (80x40) [19.2 KB] || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 11651, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11651/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-09-11T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "September 10, 2014 X1.6 flare", "description": "The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.This flare is classified as an X1.6 class flare. \"X-class\" denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 11560, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11560/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-08-27T11:50:00-04:00", "title": "Summer 2014 Interns", "description": "All the videos of Goddard's summer 2014 interns can be found below. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 11609, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11609/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-07-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Catches a 'Transformer' Pulsar", "description": "In late June 2013, an exceptional binary system containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold in gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, according to measurements by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.The system, known as AY Sextantis, is located about 4,400 light-years away in the constellation Sextans. It pairs a 1.7-millisecond pulsar named PSR J1023+0038 — J1023 for short — with a star containing about one-fifth the mass of the sun. The stars complete an orbit in only 4.8 hours, which places them so close together that the pulsar will gradually evaporate its companion. To better understand J1023's spin and orbital evolution, the system was routinely monitored in radio. These observations revealed that the pulsar's radio signal had turned off and prompted the search for an associated change in its gamma-ray properties.What's happening, astronomers say, are the last sputtering throes of the pulsar spin-up process. Researchers regard the system as a unique laboratory for understanding how millisecond pulsars form and for studying details of how accretion takes place on neutron stars. In J1023, the stars are close enough that a stream of gas flows from the sun-like star toward the pulsar. The pulsar's rapid rotation and intense magnetic field are responsible for both the radio beam and its powerful pulsar wind. When the radio beam is detectable, the pulsar wind holds back the companion's gas stream, preventing it from approaching too closely. But now and then the stream surges, pushing its way closer to the pulsar and establishing an accretion disk. When gas from the disk falls to an altitude of about 50 miles (80 km), processes involved in creating the radio beam are either shut down or, more likely, obscured. Some of the gas may be accelerated outward at nearly the speed of light, forming dual particle jets firing in opposite directions. Shock waves within and along the periphery of these jets are a likely source of the bright gamma-ray emission detected by Fermi. || ", "hits": 131 }, { "id": 11581, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11581/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-06-25T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "Goddard Goes to Mars", "description": "The Martian climate remains one of the solar system's biggest mysteries: although cold and dry today, myriad surface features on Mars carved by flowing water attest to a much warmer, wetter past. What caused this dramatic transition? Scientists think that climate change on Mars may be due to solar wind erosion of the early atmosphere, and NASA's MAVEN mission will test this hypothesis. Project Manager David F. Mitchell discusses MAVEN and the Goddard Space Flight Center's role in sending it to the Red Planet. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 11522, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11522/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-07T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Best Observed X-class Flare", "description": "On March 29, 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS; NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO; NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, or RHESSI; the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hinode; and the National Solar Observatory's Dunn Solar Telescope located at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico. To have a record of such an intense flare from so many observatories is unprecedented. Such research can help scientists better understand what catalyst sets off these large explosions on the sun. Perhaps we may even some day be able to predict their onset and forewarn of the radio blackouts solar flares can cause near Earth – blackouts that can interfere with airplane, ship and military communications. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 11499, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11499/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-03-06T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Beta Pictoris: Icy Debris Suggests 'Shepherd' Planet", "description": "An international team of astronomers exploring the disk of gas and dust the bright star Beta Pictoris have uncovered a compact cloud of poisonous gas formed by ongoing rapid-fire collisions among a swarm of icy, comet-like bodies. The researchers suggest the comet swarm may be frozen debris trapped and concentrated by the gravity of an as-yet-unseen planet.Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers mapped millimeter-wavelength light from dust and carbon monoxide (CO) molecules in a disk surrounding the star. Located about 63 light-years away and only 20 million years old, Beta Pictoris hosts one of the closest, brightest and youngest debris disks known, making it an ideal laboratory for studying the early development of planetary systems. The ALMA images reveal a vast belt of carbon monoxide located at the fringes of the system. Much of the gas is concentrated in a single clump located about 8 billion miles (13 billion kilometers) from the star, or nearly three times the distance between the planet Neptune and the sun. The total amount of CO observed, the scientists say, exceeds 200 million billion tons, equivalent to about one-sixth the mass of Earth’s oceans.The presence of all this gas is a clue that something interesting is going on because ultraviolet starlight breaks up CO molecules in about 100 years, much faster than the main cloud can complete a single orbit around the star. Scientists calculate that a large comet must be completely destroyed every five minutes to offset the destruction of CO molecules. Only an unusually massive and compact swarm of comets could support such an astonishingly high collision rate.The researchers think these comet swarms formed when a as-yet-undetected planet migrated outward, sweeping icy bodies into resonant orbits. When the orbital periods of the comets matched the planet's in some simple ratio – say, two orbits for every three of the planet – the comets received a nudge from the planet at the same location each orbit. Like the regular push of a child's swing, these accelerations amplify over time and work to confine the comets in a small region. || ", "hits": 91 }, { "id": 11314, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11314/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-07-25T13:55:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS First Light", "description": "The images and video on this page are from the IRIS first light media teleconference on July 25, 2013.For supporting media resources, please click here.On July 17, 2013 at 11:14 pm PDT (2:14 pm EDT) the IRIS Lockheed Martin instrument team successfully opened the door on NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, which launched June 27, 2013, aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.As the telescope door opened, IRIS’s single instrument began to observe the sun for the first time. Designed to research the interface region in more detail than has ever been done before, IRIS’s instrument is a combination of an ultraviolet telescope and a spectrograph. The telescope provides high-resolution images, capturing data on about 1 percent of the sun at a time. The images can resolve very fine features, as small as 150 miles across. While the telescope can look at only one wavelength of light at a time, the spectrograph collects information about many wavelengths of light at once. The instrument then splits the sun’s light into its various wavelengths and measures how much of any given wavelength is present. Analysis of the spectral lines can also provide velocity, temperature and density information, key information when trying to track how energy and heat moves through the region. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 11286, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11286/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS L-14 Media Briefing", "description": "Lying just above the sun's surface is an enigmatic region of the solar atmosphere called the interface region. A relatively thin region, just 3,000 to 6,000 miles thick, it pulses with movement: zones of different temperature and density are scattered throughout, while energy and heat course through the solar material. Understanding how the energy travels through this region – energy that helps heat the upper layer of the atmosphere, the corona, to temperatures of 1,000,000 kelvins, some thousand times hotter than the sun’s surface itself – is the goal of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, scheduled to launch on June 26, 2013 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Scientists wish to understand the interface region in exquisite detail, since energy flowing through this region has an effect on so many aspects of near-Earth space. For one thing, despite the intense amount of energy deposited into the interface region, only a fraction leaksthrough, but this fraction drives the solar wind, the constant stream of particles that flows out to fill the entire solar system. The interface region is also the source of most of the sun's ultraviolet emission, which impacts both the near-Earth space environment and Earth's climate. IRIS's capabilities are uniquely tailored to unravel the interface region by providing both high-resolution images and a kind of data known as spectra, which can see many wavelengths at once. For its high-resolution images, IRIS will capture data on about one percent of the sun at a time. While these are relatively small snapshots, IRIS will be able to see very fine features, as small as 150 miles across. || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 11255, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11255/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-22T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Three Years of SDO Images", "description": "In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day. Each image is displayed for two frames at a 29.97 frame rate.SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and shows solar material at around 600,000 Kelvin. In this wavelength it is easy to see the sun's 25-day rotation as well as how solar activity has increased over three years.During the course of the video, the sun subtly increases and decreases in apparent size. This is because the distance between the SDO spacecraft and the sun varies over time. The image is, however, remarkably consistent and stable despite the fact that SDO orbits the Earth at 6,876 miles per hour and the Earth orbits the sun at 67,062 miles per hour.Such stability is crucial for scientists, who use SDO to learn more about our closest star. These images have regularly caught solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the act, types of space weather that can send radiation and solar material toward Earth and interfere with satellites in space. SDO's glimpses into the violent dance on the sun help scientists understand what causes these giant explosions — with the hopes of some day improving our ability to predict this space weather.The four wavelength view at the end of the video shows light at 4500 angstroms, which is basically the visible light view of the sun, and reveals sunspots; light at 193 angstroms which highlights material at 1 million Kelvin and reveals more of the sun's corona; light at 304 angstroms which highlights material at around 50,000 Kelvin and shows features in the transition region and chromosphere of the sun; and light at 171 angstroms.Noteworthy events that appear briefly in the main sequence of this video:00:30;24 Partial eclipse by the moon00:31;16 Roll maneuver01:11;02 August 9, 2011 X6.9 Flare, currently the largest of this solar cycle01:28;07 Comet Lovejoy, December 15, 201101:42;29 Roll Maneuver01:51;07 Transit of Venus, June 5, 201202:28;13 Partial eclipse by the moonWatch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 188 }, { "id": 11089, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11089/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-18T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS Launch, Deploy and Beauty Passes", "description": "Understanding the interface between the photosphere and corona remains a fundamental challenge in solar and heliospheric science. The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission opens a window of discovery into this crucial region by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the chromosphere and transition region into the corona using spectrometry and imaging. IRIS is designed to provide significant new information to increase our understanding of energy transport into the corona and solar wind and provide an archetype for all stellar atmospheres. The unique instrument capabilities, coupled with state of the art 3-D modeling, will fill a large gap in our knowledge of this dynamic region of the solar atmosphere. The mission will extend the scientific output of existing heliophysics spacecraft that follow the effects of energy release processes from the sun to Earth.IRIS will provide key insights into all these processes, and thereby advance our understanding of the solar drivers of space weather from the corona to the far heliosphere, by combining high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for the entire chromosphere and adjacent regions. IRIS will resolve in space, time, and wavelength the dynamic geometry from the chromosphere to the low-temperature corona to shed much-needed light on the physics of this magnetic interface region. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 3682, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3682/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-10-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ARTEMIS Mission", "description": "An extension to the THEMIS mission is to send two of the THEMIS satellites into lunar orbit to study the magnetospheric environment near the Moon. The new mission is named ARTEMIS (Acceleration, Reconnection Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of Moon's Interaction with the Sun).The outermost two THEMIS spacecraft (Probes B and C) are on route to the Moon, where they will become the ARTEMIS mission's Probes 1 and 2 (red and green, respectively) , tasked with studying not only the tenuous cavity carved out by the Moon in the supersonic solar wind, but also reconnection, particle energization and turbulence in both the solar wind and the Earth's distant magnetotail at lunar distance. ARTEMIS stands for Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun.Thanks to careful planning, sufficient fuel remained on both spacecraft at the successful completion of their primary mission to raise their apogees to lunar distance, where they could receive the multiple gravitational assists needed to fling the spacecraft first beyond the Moon and then assist them in entering in orbits that parallel that of the Moon at the L1 and L2 Lagrange points. Maneuvers in April 2011 enable the spacecraft to enter into prograde and retrograde lunar orbits (the 'braided' motion).The direction of the Sun is indicated by the yellow arrow. || ", "hits": 593 }, { "id": 10496, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10496/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science for a Hungry World: Land Cover Land Use Change", "description": "NASA remote sensing data is used to measure how much land is used for agriculture and where farms are in relation to population density. This episode explore the transition between native vegetation, farms, and cities. Satellites show where land use changes have been most significant.For complete transcript, click here. || 320x190.10127_print.jpg (1024x576) [132.1 KB] || 80x40_thumbnail.jpg (80x40) [5.6 KB] || 160x80_gallery_thumbnail.jpg (160x80) [16.8 KB] || 320x190_web_thumbnail.jpg (320x239) [73.7 KB] || 320x190_web_thumbnail_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [121.2 KB] || LCLUC_1280x720_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [59.0 MB] || LCLUC_1280x720_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [157.9 MB] || LCLUC_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [178.8 MB] || LCLUC_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [50.4 MB] || LCLUC_320x240_ipod.mp4 (320x180) [18.5 MB] || Ag_LCLUC_Ep3_FullRes.mov (1280x720) [4.2 GB] || bigmovie-agriculture_part3_video.hwshow || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 3621, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3621/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-07-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Transition from Earth-Centered to Moon-Centered Coordinates", "description": "This animation illustrates the solution to a human factors problem in the visualization of an orbit path, in this case the launch and lunar orbit insertion of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite.The visualization (found HERE) shows LRO orbiting the Earth, traveling from the Earth to the moon, and entering lunar orbit. Throughout the visualization, a trail is drawn to show LRO's path. This trail is a history of LRO's motion.The viewer's expectation is that LRO first travels in a circular orbit centered on the Earth, then follows a smoothly curving path connecting the Earth to the moon, and finally enters an elliptical orbit around the moon. The problem for the animator is that an accurate trail satisfying all of these expectations is impossible to draw in a single coordinate system. A trail drawn in Earth-centered coordinates forms a looping, spring-like path when LRO enters lunar orbit, and a trail drawn in moon body-fixed coordinates becomes disconnected from the Earth and precesses through space.Simply switching from one coordinate system to the other would make the trail appear to jump suddenly and dramatically. Creating a hybrid trail would leave a visually confusing elbow in LRO's path.The solution illustrated here is to morph the trail from one coordinate system to the other. The blue trail is the Earth-centered path, the orange trail is the moon body-fixed path, and the white trail is the morph between the two. In the visualization, the Earth trail shortens, disconnecting it from the Earth, and then morphs over about 400 frames into the moon body-fixed trail. With careful timing, the result is a visually seamless transition from one coordinate system to the other.Notice that the difference in coordinate systems creates no ambiguity about the present position of LRO at any given time. LRO is always at the intersection of the trails. The problem arises when attempting to depict the history of its motion. That history takes different shapes in coordinate systems that move relative to one another.An animation showing LRO's entire path in both coordinate systems simultaneously can be found HERE. || ", "hits": 141 }, { "id": 3618, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3618/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-07-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO in Earth Centered and Moon Centered Coordinates", "description": "This visualization shows the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) orbit insertion from two different points of view (i.e., coordinate systems): Earth centered inertial coordinates and moon centered fixed coordinates. Orbit trails are shown in bright colors where the orbits have been and in darker colors for where the orbits will be. At any particular time, LRO is exactly at the intersection of the two orbit trail curves. The Earth centered coordinates are in blue and the moon centered coordinate are in orange.Why are there two different trails?Because the moon is moving, the moon centered coordinate system is moving. If the moon was stationary with respect to the Earth, both trails would look the same; but since the moon is moving, the moon's trail is always moving and the trails look different.Think of LRO orbiting the moon. From the moon's perspective, it's just going in an ellipse around the moon. In this case, the observation point (the moon) is moving with LRO. But, from the Earth's perspective, if you plotted out the trail of LRO, you would get a series of loops as LRO goes around the moon and as the moon moves through the sky.Animating an orbit trail that changes between two discrete coordinate systems is a challenge. A discontinuity arises if you just switch over from one trail to another. To animate a smooth transition one solution is to carefully select sections of the Earth centered and moon centered curves and then morph from the Earth centered curve section to the moon centered curve section while the animation was playing. This technique was used here as well. || ", "hits": 190 }, { "id": 10215, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10215/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-05-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST Video Wipe", "description": "HST as a video transition wipe || HST moves from left to right. (Frame sequence includes alpha channel) || HSTvideoWipe_0001100012_print.jpg (1024x576) [53.9 KB] || HSTvideoWipe_00011_web.png (320x180) [233.0 KB] || HSTvideoWipe_00011_thm.png (80x40) [15.1 KB] || HSTvideoWipe.webmhd.webm (960x540) [135.9 KB] || HSTvideoWipe.mov (1280x720) [352.8 KB] || 1280x720_16x9_30p (1280x720) [4.0 KB] || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 3752, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3752/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-04-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Life's Signature Colors, Captured by Satellite", "description": "Think of Earth's great life forms and images of cheetahs, whales and dinosaurs come to mind. Towering redwood trees, majestic plains of grasses on Asian steppes: Earth's living glow fills the eye with diversity, resilience, and endless Darwinian invention.But arguably one of the most essential populations on Earth would have no chance if pitted against others in a contest based on looks alone. More than any other kind of life, the Earth lives and breathes because of the profound success of lowly phytoplankton.Phytoplankton is a broad, catch-all name for a wide category of simple organisms living primarily in the world's oceans. Floating in vast fields of billions of tiny individual plants, these essential life forms make up a colossal proportion of the Earth's total biomass. It's also vital to the overall web of life on Earth. Phytoplankton serves not only as the base of the aquatic food chain, but also as the principal source of atmospheric oxygen worldwide.As global climate continues to change, a complex set of forces begins to push and pull on the ability of phytoplankton populations to thrive. Changing global ocean temperatures have enormous influences, as does changing ocean chemistry. But while this may present itself as a subject of purely academic interest, phytoplankton populations may present one of the most vital bellwethers for practical changes beginning to take hold of a planet in transition.NASA's SeaWiFS spacecraft is one of the most powerful tools in keeping up with these trends. A small, low cost vehicle and instrument package, SeaWiFS monitors the colors of the world everyday. As a proxy for bioproductivity, color is the key to understanding how these oceanic lifeforms are faring...and changing. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 2753, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2753/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-06-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "AMSR_E Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Data Used to Forecast 2003 Hurricane Season", "description": "Researchers and forecasters often study sea surface temperatures for an activity predictions for 2003 in part to changing conditions in the Pacific Ocean, such as the demise of El Niño. This sequence traces the evolution of the warmer-than-normal waters associated with the weak El Niño that developed in the late fall of 2002. By January, the warm conditions began to dissipate. Fewer than normal hurricanes generally form when El Niño is present. Researchers say the Pacific may transition to the colder-than-normal La Niña phase. Areas in red represent warmer than normal and areas in blue represent cooler than normal. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 2755, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2755/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-06-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "AMSR-E Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Data Used to Forecast 2003 Hurricane Season", "description": "Researchers and forecasters often study sea surface temperatures for an activity predictions for 2003 in part to changing conditions in the Pacific Ocean, such as the demise of El Niño. This sequence traces the evolution of the warmer-than-normal waters associated with the weak El Niño that developed in the late fall of 2002. By January, the warm conditions began to dissipate. Fewer than normal hurricanes generally form when El Niño is present. Researchers say the Pacific may transition to the colder-than-normal La Niña phase. Areas in red represent warmer than normal and areas in blue represent cooler than normal. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 2760, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2760/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-06-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "AMSR-E Anomalous Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Data Used to predict 2003 Hurricane Season", "description": "Researchers and forecasters often study sea surface temperatures to predict the upcoming year's tropical cyclone activity. This sequence tracks warmer-than-normal waters and colder-than-normal waters in the Pacific Ocean. In 2003, experts have predicted a 'normal to below normal' number of tropical cylones. Researchers say the Pacific may transition to the colder-than-normal La Niña phase. Fewer than normal hurricanes generally form when El Niño is present. Areas in red represent warmer than normal and areas in blue represent cooler than normal. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 2682, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2682/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-01-23T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Earth photo Drift-in", "description": "The Apollo 17 spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at midnight on December 7th, 1972. Just hours after lift-off, the command module aligned with the Earth and Sun, allowing the crew to photograph Earth in full light. For the first time in an Apollo mission, the Antarctic continent was visible allowing for a photo to be taken by the orbiting astronauts. The photo was taken at about 18,000 statute miles away from Earth. Virtually every picture showing the full Earth is derived from this one photograph. Television, newspapers, websites, and marketing material have all used this photograph over the years. Geostationary weather satellites, Galileo, and many other spacecraft have returned great pictures of the full Earth from space, but this image is still the number one requested photo in the NASA photo archives. || ", "hits": 474 }, { "id": 2683, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2683/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-01-23T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Drift-in", "description": "In conjunction with the 30th Anniversary Apollo 17 mission, NASA put together a special release highlighting one of the most popular photos taken during this mission. The photo (#AS17-148-22727) was taken on Dec. 7, 1972 from the Apollo 17 command module. It was the first full Earth photograph revealing the Antarctic continent. Over the years, many other satellites have taken imagery of Earth, including Terra/MODIS. This animation uses a global mosaic derived from Terra/MODIS. As a tribute to its predecessor, this Blue Marble data set has been aligned to the same angle and pitch that the famous Apollo 17 photograph was taken. || ", "hits": 247 }, { "id": 548, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/548/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-09-09T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "SeaWiFS True Color Time Lapse: San Francisco", "description": "A time lapse transition between relatively cloud-free true color images of California from SeaWiFS || a000548.00005_print.png (720x480) [636.2 KB] || a000548_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || a000548_pre.jpg (320x238) [14.9 KB] || a000548_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [85.8 KB] || a000548.webmhd.webm (960x540) [25.6 MB] || a000548.dv (720x480) [362.0 MB] || a000548.mp4 (640x480) [19.4 MB] || a000548.mpg (352x240) [14.4 MB] || ", "hits": 32 } ] }