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2020 Goddard Summer Film Festival
Presented virtually, the festival highlights Goddard’s achievements over the past year in astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics, and planetary science, including recent and upcoming missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope,...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 69, Parker Solar Probe Small Steps, Giant Leaps
Parker Solar Probe Mission Scientist Adam Szabo discusses NASA's journey to the Sun.
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Gravity Assist: Gravity Assist Podcast: Your Moon Questions Answered
Why do we see only one face of the Moon? What would happen to Earth if the Moon didn't exist? We dive into questions you asked on social media.
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Voyagers’ readings yield new clues about the solar system’s structure
Voyager 2 registered a sharper difference in magnetic particles and plasma density than expected upon crossing the heliopause.
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Gravity Assist: Gravity Assist Podcast: Where Could We Go on the Moon? With Steve Mackwell
With NASA planning to send astronauts to the Moon by 2024, Steve Mackwell chats about the Moon’s exciting unexplored areas.
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Gravity Assist: Meet a Space Weather Scientist, with Yaireska Collado-Vega
Yaireska Collado-Vega leads a team at NASA’s Goddard Spacecraft Center that is studying the solar weather environment so that robots and people exploring space can be protected. In this episode of Gravity Assist, she describes the...
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The Rocket Ranch: Episode 2: Some Like it Hot
Even though our Sun shines bright in the sky, it is shrouded in mystery. In this episode, we'll sit down with scientists working to get us closer to the Sun than ever before.
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Martian Atmosphere Loss Explained by NASA
Scientists have long suspected the solar wind of stripping the Martian atmosphere into space, a process that may have turned Mars from a blue world early in its history into the red planet that we see today. In 2014, NASA's MAVEN orbiter...
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NASA | IBEX Spacecraft Observes Matter from Interstellar Space
A great magnetic bubble surrounds the solar system as it cruises through the galaxy. The sun pumps the inside of the bubble full of solar particles that stream out to the edge until they collide with the material that fills the rest of...
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NASA | ARTEMIS Orbits Magnetic Moon
Launched in 2007, NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have now successfully completed their 2 year mission to determine the cause of geomagnetic substorms. Because they are continuing to work perfectly, NASA is re-directing the outermost two...
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12th Annual Goddard Film Festival
This year’s 12th Annual Goddard Film Festival will highlight Goddard’s achievements over the past year in astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science. Highlights include recent and upcoming missions such as the Nancy...
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NASA | Voyager Finds Magnetic Bubbles at Solar System's Edge
The sun's magnetic field spins opposite directions on the north and south poles. These oppositely pointing magnetic fields are separated by a layer of current called the heliospheric current sheet. Due to the tilt of the magnetic axis in...
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NASA's MMS Captures Magnetic Reconnection in Action
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of space radiation and so it is a key...
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NASA Hangout: Comet ISON LIVE
NASA Hangout: Comet ISON LIVE The ultimate battle of fire and ice! Who will win, the sun or Comet #ISON? Join #NASA as we followed the journey of Comet ISON as it slingshot around the sun. During this LIVE event NASA scientists answered:...
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Gravity Assist: Gravity Assist Podcast: Beyond Apollo with Planetary Geologist Jake Bleacher
It's been 50 years since humans walked on the moon. Now NASA is planning to return, this time to stay. What will future lunar missions look like? Why do we go back at all?
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NASA | IBEX Provides First View of the Solar System's Tail
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system's tail, called the heliotail. By combining observations from the first three years of IBEX imagery, scientists have mapped out a tail that...
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On a Mission: Worlds of Wonder
Technology can take you to unexpected places. The MarCO cubesats, flying towards Mars with InSight, are breaking new ground on how far these small satellites can go.
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Solar Wind at Martian Moon Could Impact Future Missions
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Both are small, airless bodies with irregular shapes. Because they lack protective atmospheres and magnetospheres, Phobos and Deimos are directly exposed to the solar wind for part of their orbits....
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Exploring the Wonders of Aurora
In this video, we explore the fascinating natural phenomenon of auroras, where swirling lights appear in the sky. We learn about the science behind auroras, how they are formed near the Earth's polar regions, and the interaction between...
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Getting SET - The Mission to Protect Satellites from Radiation
Summer 2019, NASA's Space Environment Testbeds, or SET, will launch on its mission to study how to better protect satellites in space. SET studies the very nature of space itself -- which isn't completely empty, but brimming with...
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International Observe the Moon Night 2020
International Observe the Moon Night 2020 welcomed participants from all 7 continents, 103 countries, all 50 U. S. states, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, D.C. Hear from observers around the world, and view...
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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 | Spacecraft Track Solar Storms From Sun To Earth
NASA's STEREO spacecraft and new data processing techniques have succeeded in tracking space weather events from their origin in the Sun's ultrahot corona to impact with the Earth 96 million miles away, resolving a 40-year mystery about...
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NASA | MAVEN: NASA's Next Mission to Mars
Ancient riverbeds, crater lakes and flood channels all attest to Mars's warm, watery past. So how did the Red Planet evolve from a once hospitable world into the cold, dry desert that we see today? One possibility is that Mars lost its...