Meet the Goddard Instrument Field Team
This video is an introduction into the world of the Goddard Instrument Field Team, known as GIFT. This team of scientists conducts fieldwork all over the world at sites that resemble the Moon, Mars, and other planetary surfaces. These scientists are responsible for developing and testing scientific instrumentation relevant to NASA's exploration goals, and for carrying out a wide variety of experiments.
This video has been edited from its original version for the purposes of the NASA VOYA contest.
The original version of this video can be found on the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio website at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13573 And on the Goddard
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First Mission to Study the Interior of Mars Awaits Launch
Pre-launch video file. InSight's launch to Mars is scheduled for as early as May 5, 2018. Animations: Launch visibility. EDL. Instrument deployments. HP3. Detecting a marsquake. MarCO cubesats. Video: InSight being built at Lockheed Martin Space, Denver. Atlas V rocket and encapsulated InSight spacecraft. How the Atlas V performs this mission.
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Mars Report: Update on NASA’s Perseverance Rover & Ingenuity Helicopter
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter is preparing to deploy the helicopter to the surface of the Red Planet. This video provides a mission update from Farah Alibay, Perseverance integration lead for Ingenuity, and Tim Canham, Ingenuity operations lead.
Ingenuity is the first aircraft on Mars and the first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet. If Ingenuity succeeds, future Mars exploration could include an ambitious aerial dimension.
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MAVEN Construction and Testing
Footage of MAVEN's construction. This video package was prepared for the live broadcast of MAVEN arriving at Mars.
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ISS Expedition 42 Time Lapse Video of Earth
This time lapse video taken during ISS Expedition 42 is assembled from JSC still photo collection (still photos iss042e322562 - iss042e324051). Shows Earth views
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U.S. Commercial Cargo Ship Arrives at the Space Station
Loaded with some three tons of experiments and supplies, the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station Dec. 17, where Expedition 53 crew members Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA captured it by using the Canadian-built robotic arm. Ground controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston took over after Dragon was grappled, sending commands to maneuver the ship to the Earth-facing side of the Harmony module where it was attached for a month-long stay. Dragon was launched Dec. 15 on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to begin its journey to the international outpost.
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How do you measure weight in space?
This is a package that describes how astronauts can no the weright of an object while in micro gravity.
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4K Video of Colorful Liquid in Space
Once again, astronauts on the International Space Station dissolved an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water, and captured images using a camera capable of recording four times the resolution of normal high-definition cameras. The higher resolution images and higher frame rate videos can reveal more information when used on science investigations, giving researchers a valuable new tool aboard the space station. This footage is one of the first of its kind. The cameras are being evaluated for capturing science data and vehicle operations by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Plants Are Important to Success of Space Flight
Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul talks about the Characterizing Arabidopsis Root Attractions (CARA) experiment flying onboard the International Space Station (ISS) in cooperation with NASA Glenn Research Center.
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Future of Human Space Exploration
Now that the Space Shuttle era is over, NASA is writing the next chapters in human Spaceflight with its commercial and international partners. It is advancing research and technology on the International Space Station, opening low-Earth orbit to US industry, and pushing the frontiers of deep space even farther ... all the way to Mars.
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Piers Sellers Media Resources: Nomination Video for NASA's Distinguished Service Medal
Piers Sellers, who passed away on Dec. 23 more than a year after learning he had pancreatic cancer, leaves behind a dynamic legacy at NASA. As an astronaut he helped build the International Space Station. As a manager he helped lead hundreds of scientists. And as a public figure he was an inspiration to many for his optimistic take on humanity's ability to confront Earth's changing climate. But his most lasting contributions will be in the field where he began his career: science.
He was born and educated in the United Kingdom and moved to the U.S. in 1982 to carry out climate research at NASA/GSFC. From 1982 to 1996, he worked on global climate problems, particularly those involving interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and was involved in constructing computer models of the global climate system, satellite data interpretation and conducting large-scale field ...
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Video File - NASA Tests 2nd RS-25 Flight Engine for Space Launch System
Engine Test
Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Oct. 19 completed a hot-fire test of RS-25 rocket engine E2063, a flight engine for NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Engine E2063 is scheduled to help power SLS on its Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), the first flight of the new rocket to carry humans. Flight engine E2059 was tested on March 10, 2016, also for use on the EM-2 flight.
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A Conversation with Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders (Official NASA Video)
On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called "Earthrise."
NASA’s Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Dr. Katherine Calvin sat down with Bill Anders to discuss the historic Earth
To learn about how NASA continues to study the Earth, check out: nasa.gov/Earth
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NASA Earth and Space Air Prize Highlights Video
NASA is working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to sponsor the Earth and Space Air Prize competition for a solution that could improve air quality and health in space and on Earth. This video highlights NASA Glenn Research Center's support of this competition.
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Driving A Lunar Spacecraft
This video explains how NASA operates the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft around the Moon.
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Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing
This video explores how Saturn is losing its rings at a rapid rate, and what that also reveals about the planet's history.
Infrared observations of Saturn were recorded using the 10-meter diameter Keck telescope in Hawaii. Through a careful analysis, Dr. James O'Donoghue and his team found a series of unusual bright and dark bands extending around the planet's upper atmosphere. It was found that these bands are linked to Saturn's rings by magnetic field lines, indicating that water ice from the rings is "raining" into the planet.
This mechanism is called "ring rain," and was discovered using Voyager spacecraft data in the 1980s by study co-author Dr. Jack Connerney. In this process, electrically charged icy dust in Saturn's rings is pulled into the planet along magnetic field lines by gravity. Modeling work by study co-author Dr. Luke Moore shows that if there is a small amount of ...
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Kepler Confirms First Earth-Sized Planet Outside Our Solar System (Kepler-20)
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the discovery of the first Earth-size planets outside our solar system orbiting a sun-like star. Located about 1,000 light years from Earth, the Kepler-20 solar system
has five planets orbiting a star similar to the Sun. Kepler-20f, the 4th planet in the system, is about 90 percent the size of Earth. Kepler-20f is slightly larger than Earth,with a radius that is 3 percent larger.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight Update Media Reel
B-roll for media and public use. NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. As Ingenuity approaches its 50th successful flight, this reel highlights flights from the Perseverance rover’s WATSON and Mastcam-Z cameras, as well as Ingenuity’s color Return to Earth (RTE) camera and its black-and-white navigation camera. Also included is video of Ingenuity’s deployment, blade testing, the helicopter’s first flight with team celebrations, and scenic shots of the Martian landscape.
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Human Exploration of Mars
The scientific knowledge and technologies needed to make human exploration of Mars happen are within our reach.
NASA 360 joins Dr. Jim Green, Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, as he discusses how NASA is preparing for human exploration of the Red Planet.
This video was created from a live recording at the Viking 40th Anniversary Symposium in July 2016.
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3, 2, 1 Lift-Off of the Artemis 1 Mission to the Moon
Hear the countdown and see how NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket, will send the Orion spacecraft to the Moon on the Artemis 1 Mission. This video takes you through the pre-launch sequence at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and through all the flight operations as SLS launches Orion and sends it on to lunar orbit.
For more information: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1
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How Are We Going To The Moon?
NASA Spacesuit Engineer Lindsay Aitchison answers the question “How are we going to the Moon?” Comment on this video using #AskNASA with your questions for upcoming episodes! She addresses key questions about our plans to explore the Moon and Mars in the Artemis Program. Lindsay also highlights how the Gateway will help in our missions to Mars.
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Arching Eruption NASA
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of an eruption on the side of the sun over June 18, 2015. The eruption ultimately escaped the sun, growing into a substantial coronal mass ejection, or CME — a giant cloud of solar material traveling through space. This imagery is shown in the 304 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light, a wavelength that highlights material in the low parts of the sun’s atmosphere and that is typically colorized in red. The video clip covers about four hours of the event.
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Kate Rubins: Science on the Station
Kate Rubins is both a scientist and a NASA astronaut. There is no better place to be than the International Space Station for someone with those two occupations. In this video, Kate explains how the space station is the perfect place to conduct research. Free from Earth’s gravity, the orbiting laboratory offers endless opportunities for discovery!
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GRAIL View from the Far Side of the Moon
NASA's GRAIL mission has beamed back its first video of the far side of the moon. The imagery was taken on Jan. 19 by the MoonKAM aboard the mission's 'Ebb' spacecraft. Narrated by GRAIL principal investigator Maria Zuber.
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