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NASA | The Global Snowflake Network
Like to catch snowflakes? Try using a card instead of your tongue! Join the Global Snowflake Network for the International Polar Year. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center invites you to be a part of this special data collection effort....
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NASA | Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Create Antimatter
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons....
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NASA | Taking on Titan: An Interview with Carrie Anderson
When she was a little girl, Carrie Anderson dreamed of becoming an astronomer. Now, as a space scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Carrie studies the atmosphere on Titan, one of Saturn's moons and the second largest moon in...
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NASA | Ship Tracks Reveal Pollution's Effects on Clouds
NASA's MODIS satellite instrument reveals how air pollution may alter clouds, affecting global temperatures. This narrated visualization illustrates the effect by showing how ship exhaust leaves brights cloud trails in clean ocean air....
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NASA | Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle
The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest in the modern record. "Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle" illustrates how NASA satellites enable us to study possible causes of climate change. The video explains what role fluctuations...
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 3/6)
In part 3, Dr. Garvin talks about the recent science and exploration breakthroughs at Earth's moon and explains why there's so much interest these days in near-Earth objects. (Show Description) Chief Scientist of NASA's Goddard Space...
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NASA | Black History Month 2009: Noble Jones
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 | How does NASA launch a rocket?
NASA is preparing for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O (GOES-O) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The GOES-O launch is targeted for June 26 during a launch...
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Vibration Testing of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the environmental portion of vibration testing on the telescope. A shaker table subjects satellites like Webb to the...
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NASA Uses CATS to Study Air Pollution
NASA is measuring air pollution with a laser called CATS, the Cloud Aerosol Transport System. Mounted on the International Space Station about 249 miles above Earth, CATS makes observations about the transport of aerosols by looking...
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NASA | Sentinels of the Heliosphere
What NASA calls its 'Heliophysics Observatory' is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories...
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NASA | The How-To Guide to Satellites: The Design Review
Building satellites isn't easy. They're complex, expensive, and not to mention hard to make! This is why whenever NASA makes a new satellite--like the MAVEN mission to Mars--its scientists and engineers do everything they can to make...
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NASA | Return with LRO
The Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program, Cathy Peddie, expresses her personal and professional thoughts on the upcoming LRO mission. From following in the footsteps of her childhood heroes,to...
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Going for GOLD: Exploring the Interface to Space
GOLD is a new NASA science mission that launches in January 2018 to explore Earth’s interface to space! GOLD stands for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk. It will inspect the dynamic region of near-Earth space where space...
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NASA | Fermi Sharpens its High-Energy View - 4K
Major improvements to methods used to process observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have yielded an expanded, higher-quality set of data that allows astronomers to produce the most detailed census of the sky yet made...
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 6/6)
In the final part of Dr. Garvin's lecture he continues discussion for the future of exploring Mars with the upcoming Mars Science Lab/Curiosity Rover, the concepts for a future Mars sample-return mission, and his dreams of one day...
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Launching Rockets Through the Leak in Earth's Atmosphere
NASA scientists are seeking a strange breed of northern lights in the Arctic. When these auroras shine, Earth’s atmosphere leaks into space. In the tiny Arctic town of Ny-Ålesund, where polar bears outnumber people, winter means three...
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NASA | Meet the SAM Team: Jesse Lewis
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 | Goddard Goes to Mars
The Martian climate remains one of the solar system's biggest mysteries: although cold and dry today, myriad surface features on Mars carved by flowing water attest to a much warmer, wetter past. What caused this dramatic transition?...
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NASA | Black History Month 2009: Denna Lambert
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. The employees will talk about their careers, career...
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Landsat Helps Warn of Algae in Lakes, Rivers
From space, satellites such as the NASA and USGS Landsat 8 can help scientists identify where an algal bloom has formed in lakes or rivers. It’s a complicated data analysis process, but one that researchers are automating so resource...
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A New Multi-dimensional View of a Hurricane
NASA researchers now can use a combination of satellite observations to re-create multi-dimensional pictures of hurricanes and other major storms in order to study complex atmospheric interactions. In this video, they applied those...
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The James Webb Space Telescope Completes its Final Environmental Tests
The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope has completed its environmental tests at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA. The environmental tests are a combination of acoustic and sine vibration tests. These tests simulate the...
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NASA | Sun for Kids
We look at the sun rising every day. It's bright, it's big and it warms us up. Our sun happens to be the brightest object in our universe and it has captured our curiosity and imaginations throughout history. Our sun is very dynamic and...