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OSIRIS-REx Tech - Surveying an Asteroid with X-rays
NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission launches in September 2016 and plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023. This video profiles a student-built instrument aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft called REXIS - the Regolith X-Ray...
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NASA Referees Test of Footballs vs. Webb Telescope
While two football teams will be put to the test at Super Bowl LI in Houston, engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are testing the most powerful space telescope ever built, the James Webb Space...
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NASA Hangout: All Eyes on the Sun
On March 29, 2014, an X-class flare burst off the right side of the sun . . . and NASA was watching. Coordinating their observations, five NASA observatories and one ground-based telescope were able to see things in the flare they'd...
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NASA | TIRS: The Thermal InfraRed Sensor on LDCM
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate...
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NASA | Take a "Swift" Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy
NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across...
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NASA | Supercomputer Shows How an Exoplanet Makes Waves
A new NASA supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that greatly increases collisions among the...
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NASA | The Women of Astronomy
Space science research institutions have traditionally been populated by a strong male workforce, but this structure is rapidly changing. Todays workforce is much more diverse with individuals from various cultures and backgrounds, a...
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NASA | Developing a Comet Harpoon for Sample Return
The Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission will collect subsurface samples from a comet and return them to Earth. Comets and asteroids are leftover remnants from the early solar system and by studying samples from these objects, we can...
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NASA | Aqua CERES: Tracking Earth's Heat Balance
Is the heat budget of the planet changing? Thermometers on the ground can give us a snapshot of a summer heatwave or winter cold spell, but it takes something like NASA's CERES instruments to give a long term picture of whether the...
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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 | Alien Atmospheres
Since the early 1990's, astronomers have known that extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," orbit stars light-years beyond our own solar system. Although most exoplanets are too distant to be directly imaged, detailed studies have been made...
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NASA | Afterschool Universe: Stellar Fusion Demonstration
Afterschool Universe is an out-of-school-time astronomy program for middle school students that explores basic astronomy concepts through engaging hands-on activities and then takes participants on a journey through the Universe beyond...
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HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer
A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is developing a new, third-generation facility science instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. The High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd...
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Fermi Sees Gamma Rays from Far Side Solar Flares
An international science team says NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy light from solar eruptions located on the far side of the sun, which should block direct light from these events. This apparent paradox is...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Karen Bradford Talks About Connecting People
A conversation with Karen Bradford, chief of staff for the center director at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Charlie Sobeck Talks About Kepler’s Upcoming End of Flight
A conversation with Charlie Sobeck, Kepler’s former mission manager and now system engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Doing Science with Transits and Occultations: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on August 17, 2017.
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Gravity Assist: TESS & Exoplanets with Martin Still
On Monday, April 16th, NASA is scheduled to launch its newest exoplanet hunter: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
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Gravity Assist: Science & Science Fiction with Andy Weir
NASA’s Jim Green and bestselling author Andy Weir explore the fascinating intersection of science and science fiction.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The Heroes Behind the Heroes: Part 2
In part two of this special edition of the podcast, John Hansen and Greg Wiseman take the first crack at repairing the only machine capable of playing back the voice recordings of Apollo 11 flight controllers, and they soon find out...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Test Pilot to Astronaut
Scott Tingle, NASA Astronaut, talks about his education in mechanical engineering, his time in the Navy as a test pilot, and his astronaut training before his first mission to the International Space Station in December, 2017. HWHAP...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Moon Rocks
Ryan Zeigler, a planetary scientist and the lunar sample curator, talks about the moon rocks brought to Earth during Apollo, the facilities that keep them, and what were still learning from them. HWHAP Episode 48.
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Yvonne Pendleton Talks About Building A Dream Team For Exploring The Solar System
A conversation with Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, the Director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
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On a Mission: Season 3, Episode 5: Frozen in Time
Bundle up! We’ll be diving into ice-covered waters with an upside-down robot, and exploring Greenland’s massive ice sheet with oceanographer Josh Willis.