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NASA | An Introduction to Aqua
The first in a series of episodes looking at the instruments and applications of the Aqua satellite.
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NASA | GLASTcast | Episode 1: What is GLAST?
NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany,...
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New Mission Will Take First Peek at Sun’s Poles
A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-O: Countdown To Launch
In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to NASA GOES N-P Deputy Project Manager Andre' Dress, about the factors that...
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NASA | WFIRST: Uncovering the Mysteries of the Universe
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is an upcoming space telescope designed to perform wide-field imaging and spectroscopy of the infrared sky. One of WFIRST's objectives will be looking for clues about dark energy--the...
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NASA | Welcome to the Sun
This short teaser video introduces NASA's newest spacecraft to the heliophysics fleet, the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | Space Geodesy Profiles: Jan McGarry
Mathematician Jan McGarry discusses the science and history of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), her role in developing the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging system, and her career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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NASA | RRM: Mission to the Future Delivers the Goods
Fill'er up! That's the promise of robotic refueling on orbit: aging satellites can get a new lease on life from a robotic machine making a service call. Or, at least, the dream of such a system got dramatically closer after NASA's...
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NASA | Fermi's Close Call with a Soviet Satellite
NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she...
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NASA | Meet the SAM Team: Dan Carrigan
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 | Laser Comm: The Next Generation of Space Communications
NASA is looking for the next generation of space communications technology and Laser Comm may be the answer. Optical communications provide higher bandwidth, which allows for faster data flow and even opens the door to streaming high-def...
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NASA | Intro to LIDAR - 2D Version
Want to know the 3D shape of terrain on another planet? Want to study the height and density of Earth's forests? An amazing tool called LIDAR can help! Learn more in this video.
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NASA | GPM: The Fresh(water) Connection
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a...
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NASA | Firefly Mission to Study Lightning
Somewhere on Earth, there's always a lightning flash. The globe experiences lightning some 50 times a second, yet the details of what initiates this common occurrence and what effects it has on the atmosphere - lightning may be linked to...
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NASA | Goddard Summer Interns: Danielle Wood
A video profile of NASA intern Danielle Wood. During her career, Danielle has pursued diverse experiences with NASA as an intern, guest researcher, graduate fellow, contractor and Student Ambassador. Danielle is currently interning at...
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Guiding Farmers With NASA Satellites
Agriculture in Pakistan is dependent on irrigation from the Indus River. But over the years, these freshwater resources have become scarce. Today, it is one of the world’s most depleted basins. To tackle this, farmers are attempting to...
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Build Your Own Fermi Satellite
Building paper models of spacecraft is a fun, interactive way to learn more about NASA's missions. Watch this video to see how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope paper model comes together, then try making your own. (If you like this...
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NASA | Climate Change Highlights
From polar ice to phytoplankton, parts of the earth system are constantly changing. At NASA, scientists strive to better understand these changes and how they are interconnected. Using remote-sensing data from satellites, this research...
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Short circuits in magnetosphere cause radiation spots on Earth
Scientists are starting to understand how solar storms use currents in Earth’s magnetic shield to land some punches.
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Kepler's Third Law Derivation
Kepler’s third law is derived and demonstrated. This is an AP Physics C: Mechanics topic. Content Times: 0:00 Kepler’s Third Law 0:34 Kepler’s Third Law Derivation 3:38 Satellite mass is irrelevant
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Traversing the South Pole: 14 days, 4 people and 750 kilometers
NASA cryospheric scientist Kelly Brunt and ICESat-2 Deputy Project Scientist Tom Neumann recall some of the highlights and challenges from the recent 88-South Antarctic Traverse, which provided elevation data support for the upcoming...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES Weather With Topper Shutt
WUSA 9 Chief Meteorologist Topper Shutt answers viewers questions about how he uses GOES satellite data to accurately predict the weather. On March 4th, 2010, NASA launched GOES-P (soon to be re-named GOES-15), the last satellite in the...
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NASA/NOAA | First Images from NOAA's GOES-14 Weather Satellite
Exactly a month ago on June 27, 2009. NASA launched a new and improved weather satellite called GOES-O. Now that GOES-O is safely into its orbit, it has been renamed to GOES-14. Today, we visited NOAA's Satellite Operations Facility in...
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NASA | Space Station Robots Test Techniques of the Future
In an important demonstration of new technical methodologies, from January 14-24, 2013, NASA engineers will try to simulate the transfer of fuel from one vehicle to another, in space, with nothing but robots doing the physical work....