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New Lakes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice with NASA's ICESat-2
Hundreds of meltwater lakes hide deep beneath the expanse of Antarctica’s ice sheet. With a powerful laser altimeter system in space, NASA’s Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is helping scientists “see” under the ice....
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NASA Studies an Unusual Arctic Warming Event
Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as...
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NASA | See Goddard in 3D!
See NASA Goddard in 3D! This short promotional video highlights some of the best that the Goddard Space Flight Center has to offer - showcasing the science and technology born from the efforts of the dedicated Goddard family.
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NASA | SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit
Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a...
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NASA | GEOS-5 Aerosols
Satellites, balloon-borne instruments and ground-based devices make 30 million observations of the atmosphere each day. Yet these measurements still give an incomplete picture of the complex interactions within Earth's atmosphere. Enter...
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Landsat 9 Data Available!
The data from Landsat 9 is available for anyone to download. With both Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 in orbit, there will be high-quality, medium-resolution images of Earth’s landscapes and coastal regions every eight days. Landsat 9 was...
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How Does NASA Model Atmospheric Patterns?
Better and faster computers have improved how we model and study Earth. More information is the other piece of the puzzle improving how we model and forecast our planet’s atmosphere. Since 1980, the 10th anniversary of Earth Day, the...
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GLOBE Observer's Basic Mosquito Habitat Mapper: Getting Started
In many parts of the world, mosquitoes are more than just a summertime nuisance. Their ability to carry and spread disease to humans causes millions of deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization. Using the GLOBE...
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Flying Alaska’s Glaciers with Operation IceBridge
After the launch of ICESat-2 in 2018, Operation IceBridge mostly came to a close. However, Operation IceBridge Alaska continues to work in the field studying and recording ice thickness in the region. Scientists from University Alaska...
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NASA | Ring-shaped Prominence Erupts from Sun
An Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) on Jan. 31, 2013 was accompanied by a large prominence eruption best visible in light with a wavelength of 304 angstroms. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this footage from 10 p.m....
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NASA | Operation Icebridge: Recovery Offshore 01
On Nov. 2, 2012 Operation IceBridge flew an 11-hour mission over the Recovery Glacier and Filchner Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica. On the transit back home, NASA scientist John Sonntag gave a two-minute breakdown of the mission over the...
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NASA | New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images
This compilation of video shows some of the first imagery and data sent back from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Most of the imagery comes from SDO's AIA instrument, and different colors are used to represent different...
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NASA | "Come Fly With Landsat" director's cut
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission offers a vicarious flight with a crisper view than our eyes alone would be capable of if we were in space. This animation, made from data collected on April 19, allows viewers to fly with the satellite...
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NASA | GROVER in Greenland
From May 6 to June 8, 2013, GROVER was in Greenland. GROVER, the Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, also known as the Greenland Rover, was based at Summit Camp on the ice sheet of Greenland. NASA's Dr. Lora...
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NASA | ARISE Arctic Mission Takes Shape
Crews at NASA Goddard’s Wallops Flight Facility are hard at work integrating a suite of instruments into a C-130 aircraft in preparation for the start of the ARISE campaign later this month. ARISE, which stands for Arctic Radiation...
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Greenland's Extreme Melt, 1 Year Later
Last spring, NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew over one of Greenland’s earliest melt seasons on record. This year, the melt is progressing more typically, despite warm temperatures in the Arctic. Brooke Medley reflects on the differences...
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Fly Above Alaskan Glaciers in 360
The area of coastline where the glacier-laden mountains of Alaska meet the Pacific Ocean has some of the most stunning scenery on Earth. This 360 video takes you flying low over the landscape of Icy Bay from a vantage point just under...
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NASA | 3 Days in 1 Minute: Stacking the MMS Spacecraft
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission stacked all four of its spacecraft in preparation for vibration testing. This time lapse shows one image every thirty seconds over three days of work. First, the spacecraft are assembled...
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Comparing Visions of the Future to the Posters that Inspired It
Side-by-side views of the original JPL travel posters and their animated versions. Music: "Luminance" from Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle) and NASA/JPL-Caltech Chris Smith...
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One Image, One Million Galaxies
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang. Hubble peered at a single...
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Unusual Winds Drive a Small 2019 Ozone Hole
Every year, NASA and NOAA track the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica as it grows to its annual winter maximum. This year, the hole was smaller than expected, due to an unusual weather pattern in the stratosphere. Music credit:...
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NASA's Webb Telescope Shines with American Ingenuity
The James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex spacecraft ever made. Over 100 different companies, and multiple NASA facilities throughout the United States have contributed to its development. Each in some way have helped to build...
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Active October Sun Releases X-Class Flare
Brighter than a shimmering ghost, faster than the flick of a black cat’s tail, the Sun cast a spell in our direction, just in time for Halloween. This imagery captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory covers a busy few days of...
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The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic dance in this NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes distort and redirect light emanating from the maelstrom of hot gas – called an...