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NASA | Fermi's Close Call with a Soviet Satellite
NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she...
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NASA | Meet the SAM Team: Dan Carrigan
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite...
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NASA | LRO Team Spirit: Joanne Plans How To Build a Satellite
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is a first step to future missions, Mars, and beyond. But a lot has to happen before we get there and one woman played a key role.
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NASA | Behind the Scenes at the Satellite Servicing Center and Robotic Lab
NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important milestones in satellite-servicing technology...
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NASA | Back to the Moon. It's Official.
After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2014 Minimum Extent
Sea ice acts as an air conditioner for the planet, reflecting energy from the sun. On September 17, the Arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for 2014. At 1.94 million square miles (5.02 million square kilometers), it’s the sixth...
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Javier Colon & Matt Cusson: The Moon and More (NASA Collaboration)
"The Moon and More" is a music video starring musicians Javier Colon (Season 1 winner of NBC's "The Voice"), and Matt Cusson in collaboration with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission....
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NASA | "Buzz Descends" - Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video
This video comparison between the original and the newly restored Apollo 11 video shows Buzz Aldrin as he follows Neil Armstrong down the lunar module ladder. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released partially...
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NASA | 2014 Continues Long-Term Global Warming
The year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. This video shows a time series of five-year global temperature averages, mapped from 1880 to 2014, as estimated by scientists at...
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Folding the James Webb Space Telescope to Fit Inside the Ariane V Rocket Fairing
This video shows how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is designed to fold to a much smaller size in order to fit inside the Ariane V rocket for launch to space. The largest, most complex space observatory ever built, must fold itself to...
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NASA | 2009 Tied For Second Hottest Year Ever Recorded
Scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Science found that 2009 was tied as the second hottest year ever recorded.
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NASA | "Plant the Flag" - Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video
This video comparison between the original and the newly restored Apollo 11 video shows Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raise the American flag on the moon. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released partially...
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NASA | Anatomy of a Solar Explosion
Dr. Angelos Vourlidas, the Project Scientist for STEREO's Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investivation (SECCHI) instrument, explains how the STEREO satellites have been able to observe the true size, shape, and...
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Landsat 9 At Work
Landsat 9, which NASA is launching in September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of...
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NASA | Moon Phase & Libration 2013: Moon Only
This visualization shows the moon's phase and libration throughout the year 2013, at hourly intervals. Each frame represents one hour.
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NASA | Little SDO: Looking Inside the Sun
Little SDO explains both how he can see inside the sun and how he can tell what you ate for lunch today.
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NASA | A Warming World
This short video announces the launch of the A Warming World Web page on NASAs Global Climate Change Web site: A Warming World features videos, images, articles and interactive visuals that discuss rising global temperatures and the...
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TDRS Profile: Badri Younes
Badri Younes is the deputy associate administrator for Space Communication Navigation. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite project, or TDRS, is building the follow-on and replacement spacecraft necessary to maintain and expand NASA’s...
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TDRS Network 360 - for Virtual Reality Headsets
- for use with Virtual Reality 360 headsets - Take a 360-degree look at the network of satellites that helps more than 40 NASA missions transmit their data to Earth. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) form a constellation...
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: Year 7 Ultra HD (4k)
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has now captured nearly seven years worth of ultra-high resolution solar footage. This time lapse shows that full run from two of SDO's instruments. The large orange sun is visible light captured by...
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NASA Sees High Temperatures, Wildfires, Sea Ice Minimum Extent in Warming Arctic
On Sept. 15, 2020, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent -- the second-lowest on record. This summer, temperatures soared in the Siberian Arctic, and intense fires burned through peatland. The Arctic region is warming three...
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NASA | Water for Tea: Part II
View "Water for Tea: Part I" at:One of the critical components of the Earth's hydrological cycle is precipitation. Rainfall is essential for providing the fresh water that sustains life. Water cycling and the future availability of fresh...
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NASA Spacecraft Uncover Mystery Behind Auroral Beads
A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is helping scientists better understand the science of auroras and their powerful drivers out in space. Known as auroral beads, these lights...