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NASA | Shadow of the Moon
- Published_at:2015-03-13
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- description: On March 20th, 2015, the Moon’s shadow will create a total solar eclipse. This video presents several visualizations of what this shadow would look like from space, and highlights the areas of the world in the path of the umbra and penumbra. The...
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NASA | Measuring Mars' Ancient Ocean
- Published_at:2015-03-05
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- description: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasa-research-suggests-mars-once-had-more-water-than-earth-s-arctic-ocean/ For decades, planetary scientists have suspected that ancient Mars was a much warmer, wetter environment than it is today, but estimates...
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NASA | Satellite Tracks Saharan Dust to Amazon in 3-D
- Published_at:2015-02-24
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- description: For more information: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazon-s-plants For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from...
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NASA | SDO: Year 5
- Published_at:2015-02-11
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- description: 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 unprecedentedly clear...
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NASA | A View From The Other Side
- Published_at:2015-02-04
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- description: A number of people who've seen NASA's annual lunar phase and libration videos have asked what the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth. This video answers that question. The imagery was created using Lunar...
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NASA | 2014 Continues Long-Term Global Warming
- Published_at:2015-01-16
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- description: The year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. This video shows a time series of five-year global temperature averages, mapped from 1880 to 2014, as estimated by scientists at NASA’s Goddard...
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NASA | NASA Ve las Luces de Festividades desde el Espacio
- Published_at:2014-12-24
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- description: Ya es oficial - nuestras luces de Navidad son tan brillantes que podemos verlas desde el espacio. Gracias al instrumento VIIRS en el satélite Suomi NPP, en una misión conjunta entre NASA y NOAA, los científicos están presentando una nueva forma de...
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NASA | Holiday Lights On the Sun
- Published_at:2014-12-22
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- description: The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:24 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation...
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NASA | NASA Sees Holiday Lights from Space
- Published_at:2014-12-16
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- description: It’s official — our holiday lights are so bright we can see them from space. Thanks to the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite, a joint mission between NASA and NOAA, scientists are presenting a new way of studying satellite data that can...
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NASA | Need To Know: Sample Analysis at Mars Findings
- Published_at:2014-12-16
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- description: There’s big news coming out of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. For the first time, organic matter has definitively been detected on Mars. In addition to finding organic compounds in rocks, SAM has also...
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NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
- Published_at:2014-11-17
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- description: An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the greenhouse gas...
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NASA | The Arctic and the Antarctic Respond in Opposite Ways
- Published_at:2014-10-07
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- description: For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/qa-what-is-happening-with-antarctic-sea-ice The Arctic and the Antarctic are regions that have a lot of...
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NASA | The Difference Between CMEs and Solar Flares
- Published_at:2014-09-22
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- description: Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares are both solar events, but they are not the same. This video shows the differences between the two by highlighting specific features of each. This video is public domain and can be downloaded at:...
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NASA | September 10, 2014 X1.6 flare
- Published_at:2014-09-11
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- description: The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 10, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through...
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NASA | RXTE Satellite Catches the Beat of a Midsize Black Hole
- Published_at:2014-08-18
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- description: Astronomers from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare breed of black hole in archival data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. The...
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NASA | Fermi Catches a 'Transformer' Pulsar
- Published_at:2014-07-22
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- description: In late June 2013, an exceptional binary system containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold in...
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NASA | Firework Flare
- Published_at:2014-07-09
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- description: 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 ejection, a giant...
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NASA | A First for IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Solar Eruption
- Published_at:2014-05-30
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- description: 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 Earth's wide...
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NASA | Earth from Orbit 2013
- Published_at:2014-04-21
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- description: A fleet of orbiting satellites monitors Earth constantly. The satellites from NASA and other space agencies give us a fresh, wide perspective on things that we can see from the ground -- and things that we can't. A look back at Earth in 2013 from the...
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NASA | Graceful Eruption
- Published_at:2014-04-04
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- description: 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 304...
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NASA | Studying the Solar Wind on Mars
- Published_at:2014-03-05
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- description: Robert Lin, the late director of the Space Sciences Laboratory, discusses how NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study the interaction of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. MAVEN's findings will reveal how Mars lost its early atmosphere, turning it...
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SDO: Year 4
- Published_at:2014-02-11
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- description: Music: Stella Maris courtesy of Moby Gratis. Information about the individual clips used in this video is available at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011400/a011460/SDO_Year_4_Visuals_List.html The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar...
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NASA | SDO Lunar Transit, Prominence Eruption, and M-Class Flare
- Published_at:2014-01-30
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- description: On Jan 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m EST, the moon moved between NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and the sun, giving the observatory a view of a partial solar eclipse from space. Such a lunar transit happens two to three times each year....
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NASA | Six Decades of a Warming Earth
- Published_at:2014-01-21
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- description: This visualization shows how global temperatures have risen from 1950 through the end of 2013. NASA scientists say 2013 tied for the seventh warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the...
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NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary
- Published_at:2013-12-20
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- description: In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they...
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NASA | The Coldest Place in the World
- Published_at:2013-12-09
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- description: What is the coldest place in the world? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter night -- colder...
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NASA | Alien Atmospheres
- Published_at:2013-12-03
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- description: 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 of their...
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Comet ISON Fizzles
- Published_at:2013-11-28
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- description: These images from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory and the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show Comet ISON growing dim as it made the journey around the sun. The comet was not visible at all in NASA's Solar Dynamics...
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NASA | Mars Evolution
- Published_at:2013-11-13
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- description: Billions of years ago when the Red Planet was young, it appears to have had a thick atmosphere that was warm enough to support oceans of liquid water - a critical ingredient for life. The animation shows how the surface of Mars might have appeared...
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NASA | Canyon of Fire on the Sun
- Published_at:2013-10-24
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- description: A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon...
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