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NASA | Shackleton Crater
This visualization, created using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter laser altimeter data, offers a view of Shackleton Crater located in the south pole of the moon. Thanks to these measurements, we now have our best-yet maps of the crater's...
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NASA | Operation IceBridge: Greenland, Spring 2010
The Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicked off its second year of study with NASA aircraft arriving in Greenland March 22, 2010. Visit the Operation IceBridge web site:Or check...
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NASA | Operation IceBridge: A Science Lab in the Arctic Sky
One of the keys to gathering data for Operation IceBridge is a highly modified McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jetliner, which NASA operates as a flying science laboratory. This workhorse DC-8 can fly long trips, allowing a suite of scientific...
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NASA | NOAA-N Prime Mission Overview
The NOAA-N Prime satellite is slated for launch by NASA on February 4th, 2009. Operated by NOAA, N Prime will be the last in the Television Infrared Observation Satellite Series (TIROS) that have been observing Earth’s weather and...
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Explore New Hubble Images of Celestial Objects From the Caldwell Catalog
Hubble turned 30 this year, and it has a birthday present to share with you! Newly released Hubble images of 30 celestial objects from the Caldwell Catalog show stunning cosmic sights, many of which you can see with a backyard telescope!...
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NASA | LRO Observes the LCROSS Impact
NASA scientists have revealed the lunar soil inside shadowy craters is rich in useful materials, that the moon is chemically active, and that it also has a water cycle. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, by observing the impact of the...
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NASA | It Doesn't Take a Planet to Make Some Rings
Watch the changing dust density and the growth of structure in this simulated debris disk. Dust quickly collects into clumps and then forms arcs and rings, structures similar to what astronomers observe in actual debris disks. As the...
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NASA | GLASTcast | Episode 1: What is GLAST?
NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany,...
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NASA | Comet ISON's Path Through the Solar System
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this year. Like all comets, ISON is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. Often described as "dirty snowballs," comets emit gas and...
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NASA | BEST: Graphing
Students learn the basics of graphing with a little help from NASA's BEST (Beginning Engineering, Science, and Technology). Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | Sun-Earth Day - Promo 2
On March 20, 2009, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join a panel of scientists for a live Sun-Earth Day Webcast. During the webcast, scientists will share discoveries about the sun, while students monitor the sun and prepare their own space weather...
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Titan Tours
NASA Goddard interns take you on a fanciful futuristic tour of Saturn's moon - Titan. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Connor Nixon
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Tracing the 2017 Solar Eclipse
When depicting an eclipse path, data visualizers have usually chosen to represent the moon's shadow as an oval. By bringing in a variety of NASA data sets, visualizer Ernie Wright has created a new and more accurate representation of the...
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Ten-Year Gap in Major Hurricanes Continues
Could the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season break the 10-year “hurricane drought” record? It has been a decade since the last major hurricane, Category 3 or higher, made landfall in the United States. This is the...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-O: Countdown To Launch
In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to NASA GOES N-P Deputy Project Manager Andre' Dress, about the factors that...
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NASA | Welcome to the Sun
This short teaser video introduces NASA's newest spacecraft to the heliophysics fleet, the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | The Mystery of Martian Methane
Mike Mumma and his team of researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center have made the first definitive observations of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. The evidence of methane plumes only during certain seasons and the chemical processes...
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NASA | The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) - Vintage Reissue
NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. This video was reissued by NASA for COBE's 20th Anniversary.
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NASA | Space Geodesy Profiles: Jan McGarry
Mathematician Jan McGarry discusses the science and history of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), her role in developing the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging system, and her career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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NASA | Sea Ice 2008
Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record set in 2007 may not have been an anomaly. If recent trends in the melt rate continue, we could see a virtually ice-free...
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NASA | RRM: Mission to the Future Delivers the Goods
Fill'er up! That's the promise of robotic refueling on orbit: aging satellites can get a new lease on life from a robotic machine making a service call. Or, at least, the dream of such a system got dramatically closer after NASA's...
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NASA | Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather.
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Live Interview from International Space Station with Hubble Astronaut Megan McArthur
Watch live as astronaut Megan McArthur speaks with us from the International Space Station! We’ll discuss her role on the Hubble mission and her current work as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2. Stay tuned for a Q&A!
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NASA | LRO: Mapping Our Future
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar...