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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...
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NASA | NPP: Final Steps to Countdown
NPP is nearly ready to be launched! This video describes the final steps for this Earth-observing climate and weather satellite before it launches, currently scheduled for the morning of Oct. 28, 2011.
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NASA | GLAST Prelude for Brass Quintet, Op.12
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 institiutions and partners in France, Germany,...
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NASA | GPM's Stormy New View
On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone about 1055 miles (1700 kilometers) due east of Japan's Honshu Island. Satellite data shows...
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NASA | GOES-R Trailer
The new generation GOES-R satellites will carry significant improvements and technology innovation on board. GOES-R will be able to deliver a full globe scan in only 5 minutes, compared to the 25 minutes needed for the same task with the...
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NASA | Glory: The Rough Road to Space
Space is a harsh environment, and building a space-bound satellite is no small feat. Here's a look at how NASA engineers get the Glory mission off the ground and safely into space.
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NASA | Freshwater Losses In The Middle East
The visualization shows variations in total water storage from normal, in millimeters, in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins, as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, from January 2003 through...
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NASA | Earth from Orbit 2012
A look back at the best views of our planet from space in the last year, including true color satellite images, Earth science data visualizations, time lapses from the International Space Station, and computer models. NPP "Blue Marble"...
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Countdown to ICESat-2 Launch
NASA is about to launch the agency's most advanced laser instrument of its kind into space. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, will provide critical observations of how ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice are...
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NASA | Too Much, Too Little
Researchers need accurate and timely rainfall information to better understand and model where and when severe floods, frequent landslides and devastating droughts may occur. GPM's global rainfall data will help to better prepare and...
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NASA | SDO: Year 5
February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day. Capturing an image more than once per second, SDO has provided an...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-O Launch in HD
NASA/NOAA's GOES-O, the next weather satellite to join the NOAA fleet of satellites, was launched successfully on June 27, 2009 at 6:51pm EST from Cape Canaveral, FL.
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NASA Measuring Sea Ice at the Peak of Melt
The Arctic sea ice pack is nearing its annual minimum extent, which is projected to be one of the lowest since satellite observations began. Using satellite data and airborne observations, NASA researchers are monitoring the...
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NASA | WATER FALLS Trailer
Song: "Pour on Me" Bryan Elijah Smith Used by Permission The Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) is a massive, multinational mission utilizing a fleet of spacecraft, sophisticated ground based data processing systems, and...
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NASA | TIROS-1: The Forecast Revolution Begins (50th Anniversary)
April 1, 1960: the world's first experimental weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched. Within three months, TIROS-1 generated over 23,000 images of earth and its atmosphere, providing an unprecedented perspective from above and...
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NASA | SDO Launch and Deployment (animated)
This animation follows the Solar Dynamics Observatory from its launch at pad 41A from Kennedy Space Center through deployment. Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | THEMIS Mission
NASA's THEMIS mission consists of five identical probes that will track the violent, colorful eruptions of aurora near the North Pole. The satellite is scheduled to liftoff on February 15, 2007 aboard a Delta II rocket from Launch...
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NASA | STEREO Sun360 Teaser
For the past 4 years, the two STEREO spacecraft have been moving away from the Earth and gaining a more complete picture of the sun. On February 6, 2011, NASA will reveal the first ever images of the entire sun and discuss the importance...
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NASA | Landsat - From the Archives
The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of Earth observations from space -- ever. On July 23, 1972 NASA launched the first satellite in this program, then known as ERTS, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite and...
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NASA | Little SDO: Tons of Data
Little SDO demonstrates just how much data he sends every day. Read about SDO's veritable avalanche of data:Or get tweeted by NASA: