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NASA | LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions,...
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NASA | LRO: Coming Soon to a Moon Near You
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission will conduct investigations preparing for and supporting future human exploration of the Moon.
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NASA | Lakes On A Glacier
How deep is that icy blue water on Greenland's ice sheet? Dr. Allen Pope, of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, is using data from the NASA/USGS Landsat 8 satellite to find out. In this video, Dr. Pope shares what he sees when he...
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NASA | Interns Build CubeSat
A group of interns build a CubeSat. Interns: Anthony Yee, Christopher Erb, Jeffrey Sherwood, Tanzim Imam, Clayton Jacobs, Tiara Johnson, Liz Sauerbrunn, Alex Petrov, Marvin Cosare, Matthew Davis, Megan Robbett Co-mentors: Pat Kilroy, Joe...
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NASA | Incandescent Sun
This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are...
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NASA | Goddard Interns 2013
Every year, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. recruits hundreds of interns to spend the summer working on revolutionary missions featuring state-of-the-art technology. This orientation video introduces interns to NASA...
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NASA | Goddard Hosts a Blast to the Past
Rocketeers of all ages gathered at Goddard's Visitor Center to launch and land rockets in honor of the 44th anniversary of the first moon landing by Apollo 11.
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NASA | GEOS-5 Aerosols
Satellites, balloon-borne instruments and ground-based devices make 30 million observations of the atmosphere each day. Yet these measurements still give an incomplete picture of the complex interactions within Earth's atmosphere. Enter...
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NASA | Forest Recovering From Mt St Helens Eruption
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled surrounding forest, blasted away over a thousand feet of the mountain's summit, and claimed 57 human lives. Landsat satellites have tracked the recovery of the surrounding forest. This video...
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NASA | Earth Science Week | What are the Consequences ...
Earth's climate system has been remarkably stable over the last 20,000 years or so. Human civilization developed in that time span, and our world's average temperature warmed by about 5 degrees C to the temperature it is today. This fact...
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NASA | Computer Model Shows a Disk Galaxy's Life History
This cosmological simulation follows the development of a single disk galaxy over about 13.5 billion years, from shortly after the Big Bang to the present time. Colors indicate old stars (red), young stars (white and bright blue) and the...
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NASA | Big Sunspot 1520 Releases X1.4 Class Flare
An X1.4 class flare erupted from the center of the sun, peaking on July 12, 2012 at 12:52 PM EDT. It erupted from Active Region 1520 which rotated into view on July 6. This video uses SDO AIA footage in 131(teal), 171(gold) and 335...
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NASA | Best-Ever View of the High-Energy Gamma-ray Sky - 4K
This image, constructed from more than six years of observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is the first to show how the entire sky appears at energies between 50 billion (GeV) and 2 trillion electron volts (TeV). A...
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NASA | A Short Tour of the Cryosphere
The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. This animation portrays changes in the cryosphere through...
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NASA | A Lifeline Home: Goddard's Final Shuttle Mission
Controllers at Goddard's Network Integration Center share their thoughts as the 30-year-old Shuttle Program comes to an end with the final flight of STS-135.
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NASA | "Moon Landing Plaque" - Partially Restored ...
This video comparison between the original and the newly restored Apollo 11 video shows Neil Armstrong read the Apollo 11 plaque that is dedicated to the mission. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released partially...
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Landsat's Global View of Ice Velocity
Ice from glaciers constantly flows into the ocean, but the speed the ice moves at changes. Landsat 8 provides near-real-time mapping of ice speed in nearly all the world’s frozen regions. Information like ice speed helps scientists study...
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NASA | "One Small Step" - Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video
This video comparison between the original and the newly restored Apollo 11 video shows Neil Armstrong making his way to the lunar surface, by climbing down the lunar module ladder. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA...
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Meet the Women of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay and learn more about the women behind NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Paul Morris (KBRwyle): Lead Producer Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support “A Bright Future” by Andrew Benjamin DeWitt [ASCAP]...
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NASA | Ring-shaped Prominence Erupts from Sun
An Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) on Jan. 31, 2013 was accompanied by a large prominence eruption best visible in light with a wavelength of 304 angstroms. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this footage from 10 p.m....
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NASA | Reach, Strive, Achieve: Sandra Cauffman's TEDx Talk
On October 23, 2014 Sandra Cauffman was invited to talk at the TEDx PuraVidaJoven at the National Auditorium in San Jose, Costa Rica, where she was born. Her story is how a Costa Rican girl from a poor family nurtured an improbable dream...
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NASA | Planetary Scientist Profile: Noah Petro
Noah Petro is a NASA planetary geologist who studies the surface of airless bodies in space, primarily focusing on the moon. In this video profile, Noah talks about how he was inspired to become a NASA researcher and what excites him...
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NASA | PIG Ice Shelf: First Contact
This past January NASA scientist Robert Bindschadler led an expedition to a previously untouched part of Antarctica that may be one of the best places to gauge how global warming is affecting the continent. Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf...
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NASA | Operation Icebridge: Recovery Offshore 01
On Nov. 2, 2012 Operation IceBridge flew an 11-hour mission over the Recovery Glacier and Filchner Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica. On the transit back home, NASA scientist John Sonntag gave a two-minute breakdown of the mission over the...