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NASA-funded Balloon Recovered From Antarctica
For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles above the Antarctic continent, riding the spiraling polar vortex. On Jan. 31, 2016, scientists sent the pre-planned command...
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NASA and ESA Spacecraft Track a Solar Storm Through Space
While we track CMEs with a number of instruments, the sheer size of the solar system means that our observations are limited, and usually taken from a distance. However, scientists have recently used data from ten NASA and ESA spacecraft...
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Earth
This live-action video program is about the word Earth. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Earth through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
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NASA | SDO: Year Three
On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) flew up on an Atlas V rocket, carrying instruments that scientists hoped would revolutionize observations of the sun. If...
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NASA | Intern Profile – Dhanesh “DK” Krishnarao
Intern Dhanesh "DK" Krishnarao works in Code 674 on space weather forecasting under mentor Dr. Yihua Zheng.
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NASA | Firework Flare
This movie from NASA's SDO shows a solar flare — the bright light on the left side of the sun — on July 8, 2014. An eruption of solar material can also be seen arcing up and away. After it left the sun, this became a coronal mass...
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How NASA Studies The Space Near Earth
NASA studies the space around our home planet, a region we call geospace. It might appear empty, but geospace is bustling with electrically charged particles and magnetic fields -- all of which can impact the technology and satellites we...
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Apollo Moon Soil Radiation Experiment
When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens into the Moon’s surface at nearly 280 miles per second (450 kilometers per second), it enriches it in ingredients that could make water. Planetary scientists Jason McLain...
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What Spacecraft Saw During the 2017 Solar Eclipse
On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse passed over North America. People throughout the continent experienced a partial solar eclipse, and a total solar eclipse passed over a narrow swath of land stretching from Oregon to South Carolina,...
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NASA | SDO: Year 2
April 21, 2012 marks the two-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft. This video highlights just some of the amazing events...
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NASA | NASA's Heliophysics Fleet Captures May 1, 2013 Prominence Eruption and CME
On May 1, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched as an active region just around the East limb (left edge) of the sun erupted with a huge cloud of solar material -- a heated, charged gas called plasma. This eruption,...
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NASA | Graceful Eruption
A mid-level flare, an M6.5, erupted from the sun on April 2, 2014, peaking at 10:05 a.m. EDT. This video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the flare in a blend of two wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light: 171 Angstroms and...
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NASA | Arching Eruption
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of an eruption on the side of the sun on June 18, 2015. The eruption ultimately escaped the sun, growing into a substantial coronal mass ejection, or CME — a giant cloud of solar...
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NASA | Active Region on the Sun Emits Another Flare
The sun emitted a significant solar flare on Oct. 22, 2012, peaking at 11:17 p.m. EDT. The flare came from an active region on the left side of the sun that has been numbered AR 1598, which has already been the source of a number of...
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NASA | A First for IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Solar Eruption
A coronal mass ejection burst off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014. The giant sheet of solar material erupting was the first CME seen by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. The field of view seen here is about five...
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September 2017 Starts With Flare
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the events. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect...
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Send Your Name to the Sun with Parker Solar Probe
NASA's historic Parker Solar Probe mission will launch in summer 2018 to travel through the Sun's atmosphere, closer to the solar surface than any spacecraft before it, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions - and you can send your...
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SDO Sees Trio of Mid-Level Flares
The sun emitted three mid-level solar flares on July 22 and 23, 2016, the strongest peaking at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The sun is currently in a period of low activity, moving toward whats called solar minimum when there are few to no...
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Intro Space Science
What is space science? What fields does a space scientist study? In this program students will learn that space scientists work in many non-engineering fields including astrophysics, cosmochemistry, planetary geology space weather and...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ‘touches’ the sun for the first time ever
For the first time ever, a spacecraft has touched the Sun, with NASA announcing its Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere.
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NASA Spacecraft Discovers New Magnetic Process in Turbulent Space
Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new discovery reported in the journal Nature, scientists working with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft — MMS —...
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Two Weeks in the Life of a Sunspot
On July 5, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory watched AR26665, an active region -- an area of intense and complex magnetic fields -- rotate into view on the sun. The satellite continued to track the region as it grew and eventually...
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Intro to Space Science
What is space science? What fields does a space scientist study? In this program students will learn that space scientists work in many non-engineering fields including astrophysics, cosmochemistry, planetary geology space weather and...
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When Nature Strikes - Space Weather
Space weather has the potential to wreak havoc on everything from satellite communications to electric power. Sarah Gibson at the National Center for Atmospheric Research is studying the behavior of the sun to help warn against a serious...