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NASA | Earth at Night
In daylight our big blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. But the night - is electric. This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite (Suomi NPP)....
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NASA | A Selective History of Arctic Sea Ice Observations, Part 2
The study of Arctic sea ice changed forever with the dawn of the Space Age and the first Earth-observing satellites. Part 2 of our animated timeline picks up where Part 1 left off — with the launch of the TIROS weather satellite.
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NASA | Building the Nation's Newest Weather Satellite
Say you need a new weather satellite. Is it as simple as selecting options and clicking to order? Not quite. Building a vital national asset like the GOES-R spacecraft takes teams of meteorologists and engineers working together to...
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Lasers Fired At NASA's Parker Solar Probe
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is in the midst of intense environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in preparation for its journey to the Sun. These tests simulate the noise and shaking the spacecraft...
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Landsat 9 Data Available!
The data from Landsat 9 is available for anyone to download. With both Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 in orbit, there will be high-quality, medium-resolution images of Earth’s landscapes and coastal regions every eight days. Landsat 9 was...
Curated Video
CompTIA A+ Certification 220-1001: The Total Course - Broadband Connections
In this episode, Mike explores common always-on broadband connections to the Internet. Starting with DSL, the episode looks also at fiber, cable, satellite, and 80 2.11 Wi-Fi. This clip is from the chapter "The Internet" of the series...
Next Animation Studio
Clean up needed as 'space junk' reaches tipping point
According to scientists 'space junk' has reached a critical tipping point where action must be taken. Experts say China's 2007 anti-satellite missile test and the 2009 in-orbit crash of two other satellites have doubled the amount of...
Science360
NIFTY 50
Jordan and Charlie celebrate 50 episodes with 50 National Science Foundation-funded breakthroughs, discoveries, achievements and generally amazing contributions to science.
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NASA | NOAA's GOES-O: The Future of Hurricane Forecasts
The GOES-O satellite is set for launch in 2009, and will be the latest in a series of satellites that have forecasted the development of severe weather for over 25 years. Operated by NOAA and launched by NASA, GOES-O will continue...
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NASA | GOES-R: Changing the Future of Storm Prediction
This short video features highlights from a live Nationwide broadcast that took place on April 3, 2012 from the studio of NASA Goddard TV. NOAA's Deputy Administrator and Chief Scientist Dr. Kathryn Sullivan and Severe Storm Chaser and...
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NASA | Earth from Orbit 2013
A fleet of orbiting satellites monitors Earth constantly. The satellites from NASA and other space agencies give us a fresh, wide perspective on things that we can see from the ground -- and things that we can't. A look back at Earth in...
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NASA | Mission Trailer: IRIS Readies For a New Challenge
NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar wind. In late June 2013, the Interface...
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NASA | Making Science Fun For Kids Through Comics
To get young students reading about science, NASA is trying something different. Instead of a press release or a scientific paper, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission has launched a Japanese manga-style comic book. GPM, a...
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NASA | AIM Mission: Exploring Clouds at the Edge of Space
NASA's AIM mission will study Earth's Polar Mesospheric Clouds at the edge of space. The mission is led by Dr. James Russell of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Hampton University.
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LRO Mission | NASA's First Step Back to the Moon
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's first step in returning humans to the Moon and extending human presence into the solar system. LRO will create the comprehensive atlas of the Moon's features and resources necessary to...
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NASA Looks Back at 50 Years of Earth Day
It’s been five decades since Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders photographed Earth peaking over the Moon’s horizon. The iconic image, dubbed Earthrise, inspired a new appreciation of the fragility of our place in the universe. Two years...
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OLI-2 Ships From Ball Aerospace
The Landsat 9 instrument that will help scientists detect deforestation, monitor crops and track potentially toxic algal blooms, among many other uses, is now built, tested, and in place to be assembled onto the spacecraft. The...
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NASA | Wildfire and Pine Beetles
Mountain pine beetles are native to Western forests, but in recent years their numbers have skyrocketed. As they damage more trees and kill whole regions of forest, some worry that the dead forest left behind has become a tinderbox ready...
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NASA Satellite Images of California Wildfires: 10/25 Update
The Growth of California's Wildfires Between October 21-24, 2007: This series of images shows the growth of the Southern California wildfires between October 21 and October 24, 2007. The first two images depict the area immediately...
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NASA Satellite Images of California Wildfires: 10/24 Update
The Growth of California's Wildfires Between October 21-23, 2007: This series of images shows the growth of the Southern California wildfires between October 21 and October 23, 2007. The first two images depict the area immediately...
Weatherthings
Island Cloud Vortex
Downwind of isolated, small, mountainous islands, a curious feature known as an island cloud vortex can form. Visible from satellite, a series of them can line up as vortex streets of cloud vorticies.
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NASA | TDRS: Heart of Communication
The most recent evaluations of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project confirmed all systems go for TDRS-K, a third generation upgrade of the orbiting communications network. TDRS-K is scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas...
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NASA | Space Geodesy Profiles: Stephen Merkowitz
Project manager Stephen Merkowitz talks about his work with NASA's Space Geodesy Project, including a brief overview of the four fundamental techniques of space geodesy: GPS, VLBI, SLR, and DORIS.
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NASA | Preview LDCM's Liftoff!
LDCM is the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, continuing the Landsat program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and improve on that record with observations that advance a wide range of...