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NASA | Goddard Space Flight Center Welcomes Summer Interns
Description: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's 2013 college interns kicked off the summer at their orientation on Monday, June 3.
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NASA | Goddard: All in a Day's Work
This short promotional video highlights some of the best that the Goddard Space Flight Center has to offer - showcasing the science and technology born from the efforts of the dedicated Goddard family.
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NASA | Glory: The Rough Road to Space
Space is a harsh environment, and building a space-bound satellite is no small feat. Here's a look at how NASA engineers get the Glory mission off the ground and safely into space.
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NASA | Evolution of the Moon
From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of...
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NASA | Freshwater Losses In The Middle East
The visualization shows variations in total water storage from normal, in millimeters, in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins, as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, from January 2003 through...
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NASA | Daily Arctic Sea Ice 2005-2006
This animation shows the seasonal advance and retreat of sea ice over the Arctic from 2005-2006. The false color of the sea ice, derived from the AMSR-E instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite, highlights the fissures in the sea ice by...
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NASA | August 1, 2008 Total Solar Eclipse Preview
On August 1, 2008 a rare total solar eclipse will appear in the skies over parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia, Mongolia, and China. During this spectacular event, the moon will cross in front of the sun, completely blocking out the sun's...
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NASA | Ask a Climate Scientist: Thinning Ice Sheets
How can Greenland's ice sheets still be more than 10,000 feet thick, if carbon dioxide is warming the planet?
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NASA | "Come Fly With Landsat"
Highlights of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission observations collected on April 19, 2013. The six selections in this video all come from the same continuous data collection as the satellite passed over Europe, the Middle East, and...
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NASA | A New Dimension to Learning
The Space Operations Institute (SOI) was established at Capitol College, Laurel, MD in 2002 with a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This partnership combines the infrastructure necessary to manage satellite...
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NASA | 50 Years of Goddard
Pioneer rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard once said, 'It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.' Fifty years after its inception, NASA's Goddard Space Flight...
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Goddard's Support of Artemis and Humanity's Return to the Moon
At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, we’re leveraging our scientific and technical expertise across multiple capacities, including lunar and planetary science, sun science and space weather, space communications...
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Apollo Moon Soil Radiation Experiment
When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens into the Moon’s surface at nearly 280 miles per second (450 kilometers per second), it enriches it in ingredients that could make water. Planetary scientists Jason McLain...
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Robotic Refueling: Paving the Way for Exploration
One small box of technology is getting NASA one step closer to future exploration missions. The Robotic Refueling Mission 3, or RRM3, will prove technologies to transfer and store common consumables, like spacecraft fuel, in space. NASA...
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NASA’s Vantage Point Over Earth
No planet is better studied than the one we actually live on. NASA's fleet of Earth observing spacecraft, supported by aircraft, ships and ground observations, measure aspects of the environment that touch the lives of every person...
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NASA’s SDO Captures Brilliant Solar Eruption
This imagery captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a solar flare and a subsequent eruption of solar material that occurred over the left limb of the Sun on November 29, 2020. From its foot point over the limb, some of the...
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NASA | Ten Cool Things Seen in the First Year of LRO
To celebrate one year in orbit, here are ten cool things already observed by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Note that the stories here are just a small sample of what the LRO team has released and barely touch on the major...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-O Launch in HD
NASA/NOAA's GOES-O, the next weather satellite to join the NOAA fleet of satellites, was launched successfully on June 27, 2009 at 6:51pm EST from Cape Canaveral, FL.
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NASA | Yuri's Night 2009
Highlights of the Yuri's Night celebration held at Goddard Space Flight Center on April 4, 2009. The night was filled with energy and pulsing beats as hundreds at Goddard Space Flight Center joined millions around the globe to celebrate...
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NASA | What Do They Do at Goddard Space Flight Center?
Come visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Putting ideas in space.... bringing knowledge home.
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NASA | TIROS-1: The Forecast Revolution Begins (50th Anniversary)
April 1, 1960: the world's first experimental weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched. Within three months, TIROS-1 generated over 23,000 images of earth and its atmosphere, providing an unprecedented perspective from above and...
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NASA | THEMIS Mission
NASA's THEMIS mission consists of five identical probes that will track the violent, colorful eruptions of aurora near the North Pole. The satellite is scheduled to liftoff on February 15, 2007 aboard a Delta II rocket from Launch...
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NASA | Surprise Shrimp Under Antarctic Ice
At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day in late November 2009. This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the...
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NASA | Summer Extremes Getting More Extreme
People who live north of the equator are experiencing both higher summer temperatures and a greater frequency of extreme bouts of heat, according to a NASA statistical analysis of decades of Northern Hemisphere temperature data. A basic...