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NASA | ARTEMIS Orbits Magnetic Moon
Launched in 2007, NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have now successfully completed their 2 year mission to determine the cause of geomagnetic substorms. Because they are continuing to work perfectly, NASA is re-directing the outermost two...
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The Rocket Ranch: Episode 22: NASA Astronauts' Friendship Key to History Making SpaceX Flight
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will make history when they break the bond from Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that's never been flown by humans before. But find out how the strong bond of friendship they share gives them the edge in...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Linda Jensen and Kerry Zarchi Talk About Leadership Training
A conversation with Linda Jensen, associate director for Workforce Culture and Engagement and Kerry Zarchi, the branch chief for Entry Systems and Vehicle Development and also the acting branch chief for Aerothermodynamics. Both are at...
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Gravity Assist: If They Call, Will We Listen? The Search for Technosignatures
Jason Wright, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been thinking about the different technosignatures we could pick up using the telescopes we already have, and the telescopes that we could develop in the future.
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The Invisible Network: Bonus - Dr. Jim Garvin | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
There is perhaps no one better than Jim Garvin to outline the unique opportunities for research that the Artemis missions to the Moon could provide scientists on Earth. Jim is chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in...
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Orbital Debris
Mark Matney and Jim Cooney describe the science of orbital debris and the details behind the shielding and avoidance maneuvers of the International Space Station. HWHAP Episode 221.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
The OSIRIS-REx mission, launching in September 2016, plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 so that scientists can study pristine material left over from the early solar system. Dante Lauretta, Principal Investigator...
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12th Annual Goddard Film Festival
This year’s 12th Annual Goddard Film Festival will highlight Goddard’s achievements over the past year in astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science. Highlights include recent and upcoming missions such as the Nancy...
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NASA | Fermi Finds Radio Bursts from Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
Lightning in the clouds is directly linked to events that produce some of the highest-energy light naturally made on Earth: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). An instrument aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was recently...
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NASA | Continuing Landsat's 40-Year Legacy
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and...
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NASA | Best of "Earth As Art" -- Top Five
Counting down the Top Five Earth As Art images, as voted on by the public. Landsat has been collecting data of the Earth's surface since 1972. Some of the images are visually striking, and they have been selected for the "Earth As Art"...
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NASA | Asteroid Bennu's Journey
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system. Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years, Asteroid Bennu...
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Cassini's Infrared Saturn | Director's Cut
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and the...
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NASA | Mars' Ancient Ocean
Mars bears ample evidence of a wet past, but scientists debate just how much water the planet has lost over time. Now, isotopic measurements by researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center reveal that an ocean covered approximately...
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NASA | Mars Atmosphere Loss: Plasma Processes
Mars's thick early atmosphere was likely lost to space, and the Sun is a potential culprit. When high-energy solar photons strike the upper Martian atmosphere they can ionize gas molecules, causing the atmosphere to erode over time.
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IBEX: Exploring The Edge Of Our Solar System
This video explains the way IBEX will create a global map of the boundaries of our solar system. The two Voyager spacecraft launched in the 1970s gave data for two points on the map, but by using energetic neutral atoms, IBEX images the...
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Economics of Nature: Mapping Liberia’s Ecosystems to Understand Their Value
NASA is working alongside Conservation International and the Liberian Government through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to pilot an innovative and replicable approach to more accurately map ecosystems to support effective...
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James Webb Space Telescope Laser-Focused Sight
About 1 million miles away from the nearest eye surgeon, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be able to perfect its own vision while in orbit. Though the Webb telescope will focus on stars and galaxies approximately 13.5 billion...
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Fossils of Planet Formation: Lucy Mission Teaser
Beyond the asteroid belt are "fossils of planet formation" known as the Trojan asteroids. These primitive bodies share Jupiter's orbit in two vast swarms, and may hold clues to the formation and evolution of our solar system. Now, NASA...
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Einstein Ring Spotted by Hubble
This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a distant galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. It is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered. This object’s unusual shape is the result of...
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Echoes of the Universe's Creation
Sound waves from the nascent universe, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), left their imprint on the cosmos by influencing galaxy distribution. Researchers have explored this imprint back to when the universe was three billion...
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The Rocket Ranch: Episode 18: To Launch a Starliner
Commercial and government partnerships and contracts might not sound that fascinating, but when we're talking about certifying Boeing Starliner to carry humans to space, the challenges and complexities become a whole lot more interesting.
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The Rocket Ranch: Episode 17: Abort!
Rockets are dangerous. And before we strap our star sailors in, we need to know there is a proven escape plan.