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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 34, Science in the 2020s Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA Scientist Michelle Thaller discusses anticipated discoveries and exciting missions planned during this decade.
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 9, Mars Opportunity Rover Mission Small Steps, Giant Leaps
Abigail Fraeman, deputy project scientist on the Mars Exploration Rover mission, discusses the Opportunity rover mission.
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Why Can You See the Moon During the Day? We Asked a NASA Scientist
Why can you see the Moon during the day? Easy, because it’s there! It may seem odd to look up at the daytime sky and see the Moon but it’s perfectly natural. Planetary geologist Sarah Noble breaks it down so you know when to look up....
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Jessica Marquez Talks About Planning and Managing Daily Tasks for Astronauts
A conversation with Jessica Marquez, human systems engineer and research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The View From Mission Control
Experts of NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston recount what it has taken to support 20 years of continuous presence on the International Space Station. HWHAP Episode 187.
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NASA | Earth Science Week: Climate Change & The Global Ocean
"Climate Change and The Global Ocean" is the first episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. We know climate change can affect us, but does climate change...
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Dive Into TESS's Southern Sky Panorama
The glow of the Milky Way -- our galaxy seen edgewise -- arcs across a sea of stars in a new mosaic of the southern sky produced from a year of observations by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Constructed from 208...
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NASA's Curious Universe: Bonus: Still Curious?
At NASA, we are driven by curiosity, and we know you are too! Join us as we hear from our previous episode experts about what they’re interested in and answer some questions from listeners like you. What are you still curious about?
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The Story of Robert Goddard, Father of Modern Rocketry
Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. It is in memory of this brilliant scientist that NASA’s Goddard...
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OSIRIS-REx Tech – Surveying an Asteroid with Light
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on a mission explore to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich body that may contain clues to the origins of life. OSIRIS-REx is equipped with a suite of technologies designed to map and study Bennu in...
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Simulated Image Shows the Power of NASA’s WFIRST
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, WFIRST, will capture the equivalent of 100 high-resolution Hubble images in a single shot, imaging large areas of the sky 1,000 times faster than Hubble. In several months, WFIRST could survey...
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Scientists Uncover Origins of Dynamic Jets on Sun's Surface
At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun's surface. They erupt as fast as 60 miles per second, and can reach lengths of 6,000 miles before collapsing. These are spicules, and despite their...
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Photon Phriday' Digs Deep for Western U.S. SnowEx Campaign
Snow is vital for Earth’s ecosystems and humans, from its temperature-regulating reflection of sunlight and insulating properties, to its life-sustaining water as it melts in the springtime. Snow provides freshwater for drinking,...
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OSIRIS-REx Sample Site Selection Trailer
On Sept. 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, OSIRIS-REx began its journey -- the most ambitious sample collection mission since the Apollo Program. Now, with just months to go before sample collection on asteroid Bennu, the team has...
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NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole
For the first time ever, scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy. This neutrino traveled 3.7 billion years at nearl-light speed before being detected...
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NASA Google+ Hangout: NASA Kicks Off Antarctic Mission
NASA Kicks Off Antarctic Mission This is the first year that IceBridge will operate directly from Antarctica, flying from McMurdo Station starting in mid-November instead of from southern Chile. This change will allow IceBridge...
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NASA | Using Quasars to Measure the Earth: A Brief History of VLBI - 3D
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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NASA | TDRS: Continuing The Fleet
NASA is preparing to launch the first in a series of three third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS-K. This latest addition to the fleet of seven will augment a space communications network that...
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NASA | Return to Venus | Director's Cut
From Galileo and the Heliocentric model of the Solar System to James Hansen and climate research, observations of the planet Venus throughout history have given us the perspective we need to understand our own place in the universe. Yet...
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NASA | Our Violent Universe
Our universe is more than a serene landscape of stars--it is teeming with activity from some extremely violent events. In a presentation at the IMAX theatre at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on...
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NASA | ESW12 Career Spotlight: Christy Hansen
Join Operation IceBridge Project Manager Christy Hansen on location near Antarctica as she discusses her career at NASA. Hansen, who began in NASA's space flight program, recently joined the Operation IceBridge team. As Project Manager,...
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NASA | Birth of a Space Laser Instrument
A new C02 laser, which will globally measure carbon dioxide from space, is due to be launched in 2023 on the ASCENDS mission. One of the exciting things about this project is that you can actually watch trees eat and breathe. Of course,...
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NASA | Fermi Finds a Youthful Pulsar Among Ancient Stars
In three years, NASA's Fermi has detected more than 100 gamma-ray pulsars, but something new has appeared. Among a type of pulsar with ages typically numbering a billion years or more, Fermi has found one that appears to have been born...
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NASA | Exoplanet Atmosphere Blasted by Stellar Flare
An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system. The scientists conclude the atmospheric variations...