Showing posts with label NASA VIDEO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA VIDEO. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
VIDEO OF JOHN GLENN'S HISTORIC 1962 ORBITAL FLIGHT
FROM: NASA
Archival films document John Glenn's historic Feb. 20, 1962 Mercury flight in his Friendship 7, in which he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Clips include boarding the capsule, splashdown and recovery, and receiving an award from President Kennedy
Archival films document John Glenn's historic Feb. 20, 1962 Mercury flight in his Friendship 7, in which he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Clips include boarding the capsule, splashdown and recovery, and receiving an award from President Kennedy
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
AN ALIEN'S LOOK AT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
FROM: NASA
Dust Models Paint Alien's View of Solar System
Dust in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune's gravitational imprint on the dust is detectable in new simulations of how this dust moves through the solar system. The simulations show how the distant view of the solar system might have changed over its history.
THE MARS ROVER CELEBRATES THE NEW YEAR
FROM: NASA
From Mars Curiosity to Times Square - Happy New Year
New Year's Eve revelers watching giant screens in New York's Times Square saw a special Happy New Year greeting from Mars, currently 206 million miles away.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
From Mars Curiosity to Times Square - Happy New Year
New Year's Eve revelers watching giant screens in New York's Times Square saw a special Happy New Year greeting from Mars, currently 206 million miles away.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Saturday, December 29, 2012
SPACE-TO-GROUND COMMUNICATIONS
FROM: NASA
TDRS: Communicating Critical Data
As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation fulfills NASA's broadest communication demands. Now into it's fourth operational decade, the TDRS legacy continues to be communications excellence. The addition of the third generation of spacecraft will replenish the constellation and ensure that the critical lifeline of space-to-ground communication support will be available for many years to come.
TDRS: Communicating Critical Data
As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation fulfills NASA's broadest communication demands. Now into it's fourth operational decade, the TDRS legacy continues to be communications excellence. The addition of the third generation of spacecraft will replenish the constellation and ensure that the critical lifeline of space-to-ground communication support will be available for many years to come.
Friday, December 28, 2012
NIGHT LIFE IN SPACE
FROM: NASA
Earth at Night
This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite. A joint program by NASA and NOAA, Suomi NPP captured this nighttime image by the day-night band of the satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite VIIRS. It combines the Earth at night view created by NASA's Earth Observatory with data processed by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center with the EO Blue Marble: Next Generation.
Credit-NASA Goddard-NASA's Earth Observatory-NOAA-DOD
Earth at Night
This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite. A joint program by NASA and NOAA, Suomi NPP captured this nighttime image by the day-night band of the satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite VIIRS. It combines the Earth at night view created by NASA's Earth Observatory with data processed by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center with the EO Blue Marble: Next Generation.
Credit-NASA Goddard-NASA's Earth Observatory-NOAA-DOD
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
GALAXY EVOLUTION
FROM: NASA
The Hubble Legacy: Galaxy Evolution
Three astronomers explain how Hubble acts like a time machine by detecting which galaxies are moving toward and away from us.
The Hubble Legacy: Galaxy Evolution
Three astronomers explain how Hubble acts like a time machine by detecting which galaxies are moving toward and away from us.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
THE DAY AFTER AND THE MYAN PREDICTION OF THE END OF THE WORLD
NASA is so sure the world won't come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, that they already released a video for the day after. More questions about December 21, 2012?
NASA VIDEO ON FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL
FROM: NASA
NASA Now Minute: The Future of Space Travel
NASA astronaut Greg Johnson joins NASA Now to discuss the future of space exploration and the logical progression of sending humans to Mars. He talks about sending astronauts back to the moon and the possibility of building a lunar habitat to understand more about working and living in space. NASA Now Minutes are excerpts from a weekly current events program available for classroom use at the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus located at:
› http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
THE 2012 DOOMSDAY PROPHECY NASA VIDEO
FROM: NASA
Beyond 2012: NASA Seeks to Debunk Doomsday Prophecy
As 2012 draws to a close, many websites, books and cable television shows are erroneously predicting the end of the world. These claims range from fears that a rogue planet is heading toward Earth, to solar flares torching our planet.
David Morrison, a senior scientist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center is working to inform the public that each of the claims are false and there is no reason that December 21, 2012 will be different from any other day on Earth
Beyond 2012: NASA Seeks to Debunk Doomsday Prophecy
As 2012 draws to a close, many websites, books and cable television shows are erroneously predicting the end of the world. These claims range from fears that a rogue planet is heading toward Earth, to solar flares torching our planet.
David Morrison, a senior scientist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center is working to inform the public that each of the claims are false and there is no reason that December 21, 2012 will be different from any other day on Earth
Monday, December 17, 2012
OPERATION ICE BRIDGE VIDEO
FROM: NASA
OPERATION ICEBRIDGE: Exploring Antarctica Operation IceBridge is an airbone NASA mission aimed at studying changes in land and sea ice at Earth’s poles. In October and November 2012, IceBridge completed its fourth Antarctic campaign. Twelve of the campaign’s missions focused on changes in land ice, while the remaining four studied the ice that covers the seas of Weddell, Bellingshausen and Amundsen, in the west coast of the continent.
OPERATION ICEBRIDGE: Exploring Antarctica Operation IceBridge is an airbone NASA mission aimed at studying changes in land and sea ice at Earth’s poles. In October and November 2012, IceBridge completed its fourth Antarctic campaign. Twelve of the campaign’s missions focused on changes in land ice, while the remaining four studied the ice that covers the seas of Weddell, Bellingshausen and Amundsen, in the west coast of the continent.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
VIDEO: NASA'S GROUND SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS PROGRAM
FROM: NASA
GSDO: Exploration Begins Here
NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is developing the technologies and innovations to launch the next generation of rockets and spacecraft.
GSDO: Exploration Begins Here
NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is developing the technologies and innovations to launch the next generation of rockets and spacecraft.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
NASA'S TELEROBOTICS PROJECT MANAGER TALKS ABOUT "SPHERES"
FROM: NASA
ISS Update: SPHERES with Telerobotics Project Manager Terry Fong
NASA Public Affairs Officer Brandi Dean talks with Terry Fong, Telerobotics Project Manager, about how the Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES, are being used for a Human Exploration Telerobotics test.
ISS Update: SPHERES with Telerobotics Project Manager Terry Fong
NASA Public Affairs Officer Brandi Dean talks with Terry Fong, Telerobotics Project Manager, about how the Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES, are being used for a Human Exploration Telerobotics test.
THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE, GONE WITH THE WIND
FROM: NASA
Billions of years ago, Mars had a lot more air than it does today. (Note: Martian "air" is primarily carbon dioxide, not the nitrogen-oxygen mix we breathe on Earth.) Ancient martian lake-beds and river channels tell the tale of a planet covered by abundant water and wrapped in an atmosphere thick enough to prevent that water from evaporating into space. Some researchers believe the atmosphere of Mars was once as thick as Earth's. Today, however, all those lakes and rivers are dry and the atmospheric pressure on Mars is only 1% that of Earth at sea-level. A cup of water placed almost anywhere on the Martian surface would quickly and violently boil away—a result of the super-low air pressure.
Mars Atmosphere Loss
This video illustration shows how Mars may have lost its atmosphere to the solar wind after the Red Planet's magnetic field died.
Billions of years ago, Mars had a lot more air than it does today. (Note: Martian "air" is primarily carbon dioxide, not the nitrogen-oxygen mix we breathe on Earth.) Ancient martian lake-beds and river channels tell the tale of a planet covered by abundant water and wrapped in an atmosphere thick enough to prevent that water from evaporating into space. Some researchers believe the atmosphere of Mars was once as thick as Earth's. Today, however, all those lakes and rivers are dry and the atmospheric pressure on Mars is only 1% that of Earth at sea-level. A cup of water placed almost anywhere on the Martian surface would quickly and violently boil away—a result of the super-low air pressure.
Mars Atmosphere Loss
This video illustration shows how Mars may have lost its atmosphere to the solar wind after the Red Planet's magnetic field died.
Monday, December 10, 2012
SAM ON MARS
FROM: NASA
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite on Mars Curiosity
How samples are delivered and then tested in the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite on the Mars Curiosity rover.
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite on Mars Curiosity
How samples are delivered and then tested in the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite on the Mars Curiosity rover.
CRATER SCIENCE
FROM: NASA
Planetary CSI: Crater Science Investigations
If you want to learn more about the history of Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system, craters are a great place to look. Now, thanks to LRO's LROC instrument, we can take a much closer look at Linné Crater on the moon--a pristine crater that's great to use to compare with other craters!
Credit-NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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