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NASA | NPP: Making the News
When it comes to a NASA mission, it is not just about the science and engineering but it is also important to educate the public about the program. In this video television crews work night and day to make sure that the audience is well...
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NASA | Landsat Senses a Disturbance in the Forest
This is a sequence of Landsat-based data in the Pacific Northwest. There is one data set for each year representing an aggregate of the approximate peak of the growing season (around August). The data was created using a sophisticated...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Yearly Minimum -- Sept. 9, 2011
On Sept. 9th, 2011, Arctic sea ice most likely hit its minimum extent for the year. On Sept. 20th, NASA's Cryosphere Program Manager, Tom Wagner, shared his perspectives on the ice with television audiences across the country. On the top...
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NASA | Mona Lisa on the Moon
As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth. The iconic image traveled...
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Seas of Infinity: OAO 2's 50th Anniversary
On Dec. 7, 1968, an Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying NASA’s heaviest and most ambitious uncrewed satellite to date blasted into the sky from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Formally known as Orbiting...
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Our Living Planet From Space
Life. It's the one thing that, so far, makes Earth unique among the thousands of other planets we've discovered. Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of the land...
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ClearSpace wins contract for space debris collecting spacecraft: ESA
The European Space Agency has commissioned the world’s first mission to capture a piece of space debris from Earth's orbit in 2025.
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Why Observe?: Land Cover
Nearly every aspect of our lives is fundamentally tied to the land on which we live. Citizens using GLOBE Observer can observe land cover in much greater detail and more frequently than scientists can using satellite data alone. But why...
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NASA | Landsat's Orbit
How long does it take for Landsat 8 to orbit the Earth? Or view the full surface of the globe? Jim Irons, the Project Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center tells you what you want to know. As a Landsat satellite flies over the...
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NASA | IBEX: Exploring The Edge Of Our Solar System
IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our solar system called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out from the sun inflates a bubble that we call the...
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A Trip Through Time With Landsat 9
For half a century, the Landsat mission has shown us Earth from space. Now, come along with us on a "roadtrip" through the decades to see how the technology on this NASA and U.S. Geological Survey partnership has evolved with the times...
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MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon is very common at Earth and causes...
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Painting Space Scenery: Techniques and Tips
In this video, the teacher demonstrates various painting techniques to create a space scenery. The tutorial covers painting the base with Prussian blue and black, highlighting different parts using different colors, creating celestial...
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Mysterious weak spot in the Earth’s magnetic field is spreading: ESA
A mysterious anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field that stretches from South America to Africa is spreading.
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NASA Satellite Measures Human Impact in Water Storage
To investigate humans’ impact on freshwater resources, scientists have now conducted the first global accounting of fluctuating water levels in Earth’s lakes and reservoirs – including ones previously too small to measure from space....
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Tour the Plane Giving NASA’s ICON a Ride to Space
Early in the morning of Nov. 7, 2018, NASA launches the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, a spacecraft that will explore the dynamic region where Earth meets space. ICON launches on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, which is...
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NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover World Orbiting Unique Young Star
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope have found a young Neptune-size world orbiting AU Microscopii, a cool, nearby M dwarf star surrounded by a vast disk of debris. The discovery makes...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-P: Mission Overview Video
GOES-P is set to launch in 2010. It will be the last in an improved series of satellites that has helped forecast the development of severe weather for 35 years. Operated by NOAA and launched by NASA, GOES-P will continue providing...
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NASA | SDO's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)
Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument will allow us to see activity inside the sun and even on the other side of the sun. This video is available for download from the...
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NASA | Hurricane Hunters
During the 2010 hurricane season, NASA deployed its piloted DC-8 and WB-57, and unmanned Global Hawk aircraft in a massive effort to collect as much data as possible, arming hurricane researchers with the information needed to predict...
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NASA | Laser Comm: That's a Bright Idea
Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will revolutionize the way we move...
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NASA | For Good Measure
The need for measuring the when and where and how much of precipitation goes beyond our weekend plans. We also need to know precipitaiton on a global scale. Rain gauges and radars are useful but are inconsistent and do not cover enough...
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9 Things About Landsat 9
In anticipation of the launch of Landsat 9, we count down 9 things about the Landsat mission, the science, the technology and the people who continue its legacy. Music: "Thought and Passion," "Hot Air Balloon Trip," "Cristal Delight,"...
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Discovering Eurybates' Satellite
On Jan. 9, 2020, the Lucy Mission officially announced that it would be visiting not seven, but eight asteroids. As it turns out, Eurybates, one of the asteroids along Lucy’s path, has a small satellite. Shortly after the Lucy team...