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NASA | STEREO Satellite
By partnering two spacecraft to view the sun simultaneously for the first time, NASA is providing a 3-D view of the ever-changing, turbulent solar atmosphere. This animation depicts one of the twin STEREO spacecraft as a stereographic...
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NASA | SDO: Year 2
April 21, 2012 marks the two-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft. This video highlights just some of the amazing events...
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NASA | NASA's Heliophysics Fleet Captures May 1, 2013 Prominence Eruption and CME
On May 1, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched as an active region just around the East limb (left edge) of the sun erupted with a huge cloud of solar material -- a heated, charged gas called plasma. This eruption,...
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Decades of Sun from ESA & NASA’s SOHO
December 2, 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO — a joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA. Since its launch on that date, the mission has kept watch on the Sun. This view of...
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NASA | Landsat - From the Archives
The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of Earth observations from space -- ever. On July 23, 1972 NASA launched the first satellite in this program, then known as ERTS, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite and...
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NASA | Greenland Ice Flights
Nearly every spring since 1991, researchers including William Krabill of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., have flown on a NASA aircraft over Greenland, collecting measurements of ice thickness from an altitude of...
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NASA | Maryland's Place in Space
What a spectacular day for the Goddard Space Flight Center. During the day the Marylands Place in Space Expo was held at the Baltimore Convention Center. It was like exploring the universe in your own back yard. There was over 100...
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NASA | Magnificent Eruption in Full HD
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled away from the sun at over 900 miles per...
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NASA | LRO Data Release
The seven instruments aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter provide varied and unique datasets, but because of its polar orbit, the data coverage from LRO is best at the lunar poles. This visualization shows datasets from three LRO...
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NASA | Little SDO: Tons of Data
Little SDO demonstrates just how much data he sends every day. Read about SDO's veritable avalanche of data:Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | LARGEST: Check Your Local Sphere for Listings
LARGEST introduces mainstream audiences to the planet Jupiter. Though the film itself has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems, this trailer showcases some of the visual themes contained in the movie...
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NASA | JWST Fine Guidance Sensor Engineering Test Unit Arrives at Goddard
A video snap shot showing the arrival and unpacking of the JWST Fine Guidance Sensor Engineering Test Unit at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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NASA | GLASTcast Episode 5: Meet the U.S. Team
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 | El Clima Espacial: Vocabulario
This video is available in English and Spanish, both with English subtitles. El vídeo está disponible en español e inglés, ambas versiones con subtítulos en inglés. Todo el mundo está familiarizado con el clima de la Tierra pero, ¿cuánto...
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NASA | Bon Voyage SDO!
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth. See SDO rolled through Goddard Space Flight Centers hallways, where it was built and tested, and prepared for transport to KSC....
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NASA | It's Coming...
The LASCO C3 coronograph on board the SOHO spacecraft has been watching the approach of Venus for its last solar transit until 2117. With coronagraphs, the Sun is being blocked by an occulting disk, seen here in blue, so that SOHO can...
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NASA | Introducing Little SDO
Meet Little SDO! This comically animated version of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is here to introduce you to all the great new ways we'll be looking at the sun and predicting how it will affect our lives on Earth. Or get tweeted by...
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NASA | First Images of the Sun in 3-D
For the first time ever, NASA has obtained 3-D images of the dynamic churning atmosphere of the sun -- thanks to the two STEREO spacecraft launched in 2006. This new view will greatly aid scientists' ability to understand solar physics...
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NASA | Earth Science Week 2009: Trailer 2
Join NASA as we celebrate Earth Science Week from October 11 through 17. This year's theme looks at climate change and our oceans. series. On Wednesday, October 14 at 1:00 PM EST, NASA will host an interactive webcast featuring NASA...
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NASA | Earth Science Week 2009: Trailer 1
Join NASA as we celebrate Earth Science Week from October 11 through 17. This year's theme looks at climate change and our oceans. series. On Wednesday, October 14 at 1:00 PM EST, NASA will host an interactive webcast featuring NASA...
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NASA | Command Accepted: SDO Music Video
SDO will help scientists better understand solar variability and aid in predictions of space weather. Ka band dishes at White Sands, New Mexico will be the go-between the satellite and the Mission Control Center at Goddard Space Flight...
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NASA | AR1520's Parting Shot - July 19 M7.7 Flare
Sun Sends Out Moderate Solar Flare The sun emitted a moderate solar flare on July 19, 2012, beginning at 1:13 AM EDT and peaking at 1:58 AM. Solar flares are gigantic bursts of radiation that cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to...
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NASA | Active Region on the Sun Emits Another Flare
The sun emitted a significant solar flare on Oct. 22, 2012, peaking at 11:17 p.m. EDT. The flare came from an active region on the left side of the sun that has been numbered AR 1598, which has already been the source of a number of...
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48 Years of Alaska's Glaciers
New time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – spanning nearly 50 years – are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet’s frozen regions are changing. Using images from the NASA-USGS...