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New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin A new NASA and Durham University simulation puts forth a different theory of the Moon’s origin – the Moon may have formed in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth and a Mars sized-body were launched directly into orbit after the impact. The simulations used in this research are some of the most detailed of their kind, operating at the highest resolution of any simulation run to study the Moon’s origins or other giant impacts. Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/lunar-origins-simulations Credit: NASA/Durham University/Jacob Kegerreis Music Provided by Universal Production Music: Genosequence by Alessandro Rizzo. This video can be downloaded from the NASA Image and Video Library at: https://images.nasa.gov/details-ARC-20221004-AAV3443-MoonOrigin-Social-NASAWeb-1080p NASA's Ames Research Center is located in California's Silicon Valley. Follow us on social media to hear about the latest developments in space, science, technology, and aeronautics. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nasaames​Twitter https://twitter.com/nasaames​Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasaames Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

Lucy Spacecraft Will Slingshot Around Earth NASA’s Lucy mission is heading to the Jupiter Trojans – two swarms of primitive asteroids trapped in Jupiter’s orbit that may hold clues to the formation of the planets. Lucy launched on October 16, 2021. After a year in orbit around the Sun, it is returning home on its launch anniversary for the first of three Earth gravity assists. On October 16, 2022, Lucy will fly by the Earth like a partner in a swing dance, boosting its speed and elongating its orbit around the Sun. At 7:04 am, Eastern Time, Lucy will make its closest approach at just 219 miles above the planet: lower than the International Space Station. This exceptionally close shave will increase its velocity by four-and-a-half miles per second, setting Lucy on track to gain even more speed when it returns to Earth for its second gravity assist in December 2024. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/lucy-ega Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dan Gallagher (KBRwyle): Producer Kel Elkins (USRA): Lead Visualizer Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Lead Animator Jenny McElligott (AIMM): Animator Krystofer Kim (KBRwyle): Animator Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Animator Katherine Kretke (SwRI): Support Ernie Wright (USRA): Support Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Universal Production Music: “Determined Arrival 5” by Joel Goodman; “Finding Solace” by Eric Chevalier; “Subtle Confidence 3” by Joel Goodman This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14225. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14225. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

Cosmic Dust Rings Spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope An image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars located about 5,300 light-years from Earth. Each ring was created when the stars came close together and their colliding stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) caused some of the gas to compress into dust. Collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140, the stars’ orbits bring them together about once every eight years, so just like the growth rings of a tree trunk, these dusty loops mark the passage of time: The 17 rings reveal more than a century of stellar interactions. And while other Wolf-Rayet stars produce dust, no other pair is known to produce rings quite like Wolf-Rayet 140. Because the stars’ orbits are elliptical rather than circular, the distance between the stars changes constantly, and dust forms only when they are close. The amount of dust produced by this interaction varies, so the system doesn’t form a perfect bullseye. One of the densest regions of dust production creates the bright feature repeating at 2 o’clock. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For more information about the Webb telescope’s mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/webb Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

Liquid Ping Pong in Space - RED 4K NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who marked day 300 of a historic year in space on Jan. 21, 2016, shows off another fascinating feature of life in microgravity. Kelly used two paddles with hydrophobic, or water repellant, features to pass a sphere of water back and forth. Scientists use the microgravity environment of the space station to advance scientific knowledge in Earth, space, physical, and biological sciences that otherwise wouldn't be possible down here on the planet. The paddles are polycarbonate laser etched so that the surfaces are actually arrays of 300 micrometer posts (0.3mm). The surfaces were then spray coated with a Teflon coat. The combined effects of surface roughness and non-wettability produce a super-hydrophobic surface capable of preventing water adhesion in dynamic processes. The larger the drop, the less force it takes to break it up. The smaller the drop, the harder you can hit it. Scott is demonstrating about a 4 mL drop (over 100 times larger than a rain drop). Learn more and follow along with the one-year mission online or using #YearInSpace http://www.nasa.gov/oneyear Read more on 4K in space: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/red_epic_dragon_camera *To view in 4k, be sure to change resolution under "Settings" menu in YouTube viewer to "2160p 4k". (Video: NASA) HD download link: https://archive.org/details/NASA-Ultra-High-Definition ________________________________________ FOLLOW THE SPACE STATION! Twitter: https://twitter.com/Space_Station Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISS Instagram: https://instagram.com/iss Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

Zero G Hail Mary Pass - UHD UHD download link: https://archive.org/details/NASA-Ultra-High-Defintion Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

Europe from Space in 4K Got three minutes to spare for a tour of southern Europe? That’s all the time it takes, when you have a 4K camera orbiting Earth 250 miles up—and we do, on the International Space Station. This Ultra High Definition video was shot in August 2016 as the station traveled nearly 1000 miles, taking in views from above the western coast of France to the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Switzerland, southern Germany and Austria, and southward to the countries of the Balkan Peninsula. Music by Joakim Karud. HD download link: https://archive.org/details/jsc2017m000654_Europe-from-Space-in-4K _______________________________________ FOLLOW THE SPACE STATION! Twitter: https://twitter.com/Space_Station Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISS Instagram: https://instagram.com/iss Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

NASA’s Global Tour of Precipitation in Ultra HD (4K) Precipitation (falling rain and snow) is our fresh water reservoir in the sky and is fundamental to life on Earth. This video shows the most detailed and worldwide view of rain and snowfall ever created and uses satellite measurements from the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, or GPM, a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Tracking precipitation from space with satellites provides information of where, when, and how much it rains and snows anywhere in the world and gives insight into the behavior of our weather, climate, and ecological systems. To download near real-time global precipitation data visit: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4285 For more information on GPM visit: http://pmm.nasa.gov/GPM This video is an abridged 2-D version of a Science On a Sphere production, a film that is projected onto a spherical screen developed by NOAA. On this platform, audiences can view the film from any side of the sphere and can see any part of Earth. The film concludes with near real-time global precipitation data from GPM, which is provided to Science On a Sphere roughly six hours after the observation. To download this movie formatted for a spherical screen, visit NOAA's official Science On a Sphere website below: · Narrated film: http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=610 · Near real-time global precipitation data: http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=610 Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng Music credit: ‘Tides’ by Ben Niblett and Jon Cotton, ‘Developing Over Time’ by Ben Niblett and Jon Cotton from the KillerTracks catalog. This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=12126 Like our videos? Subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/goddardtv Or subscribe to NASA’s Goddard Shorts HD Podcast: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center: · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter: https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Google+: https://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

Ultra High Definition (4K) View of Planet Earth NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. The International Space Station hosts a variety of payloads and experiments supporting climate research, weather predictions, hurricane monitoring, pollution tracking, disaster response and more. For more on how NASA uses space to understand our home planet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow Read more on 4K in space: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/red_epic_dragon_camera *To view in 4k, be sure to change resolution under "Settings" menu in YouTube viewer to "2160p 4k". (Video: NASA) HD download: https://archive.org/details/NASA-Ultra-High-Definition ________________________________________ FOLLOW THE SPACE STATION! Twitter: https://twitter.com/Space_Station Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISS Instagram: https://instagram.com/iss Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

'Home' - 4K Views from Space NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. The International Space Station hosts a variety of payloads and experiments supporting climate research, weather predictions, hurricane monitoring, pollution tracking, disaster response and more. For more on how NASA uses space to understand our home planet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow Read more on 4K in space: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/red_epic_dragon_camera *To view in 4k, be sure to change resolution under "Settings" menu in YouTube viewer to "2160p 4k". (Video: NASA) ________________________________________ FOLLOW THE SPACE STATION! Twitter: https://twitter.com/Space_Station Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISS Instagram: https://instagram.com/iss Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA

Space Station Fisheye Fly-Through 4K (Ultra HD) Join us for a fly-through of the International Space Station. Produced by Harmonic exclusively for NASA TV UHD, the footage was shot in Ultra High Definition (4K) using a fisheye lens for extreme focus and depth of field. Nasa National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Official: Brian Dunbar No Fear Act FOIA Privacy Accessibility Office of Inspector General Office of Special Counsel Agency Financial Reports Contact NASA