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The Secrets behind Earth's Multi-colored Glow
What does our planet look like from space? Most are familiar with the beloved images of the blue marble or pale blue dot -- Earth from 18,000 and 3.7 billion miles away, respectively. But closer to home, within the nearest region of...
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NASA | Counting Craters on the Moon
Using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), NASA scientists have created the first-ever comprehensive catalog of large craters on the moon. In this animation, lunar craters larger than 20km in diameter...
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NASA | Name That Asteroid!
The OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission is going to an asteroid to return a sample to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch in 2016, visit the asteroid in 2019-2020 and return a sample to Earth in 2023. Scientists will study...
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NASA | Inside Astrobiology: Inge ten Kate
Inge ten Kate talks about the origin of life, the VAPOR instrument, and the unique opportunity to be both a scientist AND an engineer.
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NASA | Top Solar Discoveries: #4
A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the discoveries of sunspots, the solar cycle, the heliosphere, aurora formation, and space weather. Number 4 in the Top 5 Solar...
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NASA | Swift Targets 500 Gamma-ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions known in the Universe and a NASA satellite called Swift is the Gamma-ray burst look-out. Originally tasked with the mission to target 200 bursts, on April 13, 2010 Swift greatly outpaced...
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NASA | Earth Science Week | Introduction
Goddard's Dr. Blanche Meeson introduces questions that will be answered in short videos released throughout Earth Science Week. The videos feature other Goddard scientists talking about Earth System subjects. The videos are all part of...
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NASA | JWST Feature - Planetary Evolution
A fully produced video about planetary evolution and how the Webb Telelscope's ability to see inside dense clouds of gas and dust will help us better understand solar system formation and evolution.
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NASA | Terra@10: Terra's 10th Anniversary
The Earth-observing satellite Terra celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2009. This video highlights how Terra has helped us better understand our home planet. Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | A Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots
Using combined data from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, astronomers have obtained a rare glimpse of the powerful phenomena that accompany a...
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Following Carbon Dioxide Through the Atmosphere
Carbon dioxide plays a significant role in trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere. The gas is released from human activities like burning fossil fuels, and the concentration of carbon dioxide moves and changes through the seasons. Using...
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NASA | Moon Phase & Libration: Moon With Additional Graphics
This visualization shows the moon's phase and libration throughout the year 2013, at hourly intervals. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization also shows other relevant information, including moon orbit position,...
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NASA | Destination Earth
Of all the far-flung worlds explored by NASA, the most important may be our own....
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NASA | Black History Month 2009: Introduction
Join NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in celebrating Black History Month. Each week in February, a different African-American employee from GSFC will be featured. In the opening week, two will be featured. The...
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NASA | Earth Science Week: Water, Water Everywhere!
"Water, Water Everywhere!" is Episode 2 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Water is all around us, and its importance to nearly every natural process on...
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NASA | Earth Science Week | The Future of the Earth System
Goddard's Dr. Sushel Unninayar discusses the future of earth systems and in particular the potential human health implications associated with global warming.
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NASA | 2003 Halloween Solar Storms
On Halloween in 2003, the sun unleashed a series of spooky storms, which ignited lots of ghostly looking auroras, and effected power grids, satellites and other electrical equipment. On the fifth anniversary, NASA takes a look back at...
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NASA | Afterschool Universe: Life Cycle of a Small Star
Afterschool Universe is an out-of-school-time astronomy program for middle school students that explores basic astronomy concepts through engaging hands-on activities and then takes participants on a journey through the Universe beyond...
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NASA | Using Quasars to Measure the Earth: A Brief History of VLBI
VLBI, or Very Long Baseline Interferometry, is a technique that uses multiple radio telescopes to very precisely measure the Earth's orientation. It was originally invented back in the 1960s to take better pictures of quasars, but...
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A Story of Science and Friendship
At NASA, friendship and discovery go hand-in-hand. For more than three decades, Earth scientists Compton Tucker and Piers Sellers were co-workers, roommates, neighbors and best friends. They studied the planet and traveled it together....
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NASA | NASA Aids in Medical Imaging
**Reporters can download additional HD b-roll and interview clips at: NASA software has been incorporated into a new medical imaging device that could one day aid in the interpretation of mammograms, ultrasounds, and other medical...
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Dr. Robert Goddard successfully launches a rocket in 1930 in the New Mexico desert
Dr. Robert Goddard successfully launches a rocket in 1930 in the New Mexico desert
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WRAP Spacewalk to install equipment and repair Hubble telescope, briefing
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1. Wide of astronaut Andrew Feustel on robotic arm with astronaut John Grunsfeld assisting below
2. Cosmic Origins Spectrograph instrument being installed
3. Astronaut working
4. Shot from Grunsfield's head camera looking at...
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Inventor Robert Goddard's wife describes how her husband researched and developed rockets.
Inventor Robert Goddard's wife describes how her husband researched and developed rockets.