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NASA is celebrating the successful end of a seven-year, $1 billion mission to collect and return a sample from an asteroid named Bennu. Mark Strassmann reports scientists hope the sample will provide clues about the origin of the solar system.

A look back at the best views of our planet from space in the last year, including true color satellite images, Earth science data visualizations, time lapses from the International Space Station, and computer models.

Tracking a mission’s historic return to Earth, a year of science onboard the space station, and the safe arrival of the station’s newest resident astronaut … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

Today we will explore 5 amazing facts about the first planet from the sun, Mercury. Here we will dive into the difficulty of traveling to Mercury. Explore why Mercury is alone in space. View the strange motions of Mercury, and see how it affects the day length of the planet. Venture into the iron core of this metallic world, and dive into its drastic temperatures. Thank you all for watching and the ongoing support. Until next time, take care and be well.

From the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon to the caves of Carlsbad Caverns and the giant sequoias of Yosemite, did you know researchers use NASA satellite data in National Parks? Our view from space can help monitor water resources, assess air quality, analyze fire patterns, track vegetation changes, and more. It all helps the National Park Service make informed decisions for protecting and restoring America’s most beautiful natural spaces. This video can be freely shared and downloaded. 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.

Our Webb Space Telescope captures a cosmic ring, the team behind our upcoming Psyche mission, and the unique thing about a star that was ripped apart by a black hole … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA

NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program nurtures visionary ideas from America's innovators and entrepreneurs that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of radically better or entirely new aerospace concepts. NIAC projects study innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts to turn science fiction to science fact.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is set to return to Earth this fall after setting the record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut. He arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 21, 2022, and will return home after 371 days in space. While on the orbiting lab, Rubio and his fellow crew members conducted dozens of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations.

A new long-duration spaceflight record, our SpaceX Crew-6 mission is back home, and our asteroid sample return mission is on target … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Link to download this video:

Jaws dropped when alien-like creatures were presented to Mexico's congress by a self-proclaimed UFO expert as proof that aliens visited Earth. Supposedly, they were found in Peru in 2017. Now, the presentation is being met with international ridicule. Meanwhile, NASA held a news conference saying, after decades of speculation, its 16-member panel of experts concluded it did not find any evidence of extraterrestrial life.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the International Space Station’s Expedition 69-70 crew, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara participated in a variety of activities as they prepared for their upcoming mission on the International Space Station. Kononenko, Chub, and O’Hara are set to launch Sept. 15 from Baikonur in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft for long duration missions on the outpost. The footage includes the crew’s arrival in Baikonur, their Soyuz fit checks in the Cosmodrome’s Integration Facility, and other training milestones.

From BBC TV series "Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets" Music : 1.I Robot Soundtrack - 25 End Credits. 2. Alien 3 Score End Credits Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.The CO2-rich atmosphere, along with thick clouds of sulfur dioxide, generates the strongest greenhouse effect in the Solar System, creating surface temperatures of over 460 °C (860 °F).Venus has an extremely dense atmosphere , the atmospheric mass is 93 times that of Earth's atmosphere while the pressure at the planet's surface is about a pressure equivalent to that at a depth of nearly 1 kilometer under Earth's oceans.

In the past few billion years, Earth has been pummeled by asteroids, crashed into other planets and frozen over several times. Not to mention being ruled by all kinds of crazy lifeforms. 00:00 Earth's Evolution in 10 Minutes 00:37 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO 02:25 3.8 BILLION YEARS AGO 03:16 3.3 BILLION YEARS AGO 03:47 2.4 BILLION YEARS AGO 04:29 1.1 BILLION YEARS AGO 06:22 250 MILLION YEARS AGO 07:33 66 MILLION YEARS AGO 08:03 6 MILLION YEARS AGO

The Arctic and the Antarctic are regions that have a lot of ice and acts as air conditioners for the Earth system. This year, Antarctic sea ice reached a record maximum extent while the Arctic reached a minimum extent in the top ten lowest since satellite records began. One reason we are seeing differences between the Arctic and the Antarctic is due to their different geographies. As for what's causing the sea increase in the Antarctic, scientists are also studying ocean temperatures, possible changes in wind direction and, overall, how the region is responding to changes in the climate.

Our SpaceX Crew-6 mission safely returns to Earth, the tech demo hitching a ride on our Psyche spacecraft, and studying ancient life on Earth to better understand Mars … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA

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 during this ancient clement period, beginning with a flyover of a Martian lake. The artist's concept is based on evidence that Mars was once very different. Rapidly moving clouds suggest the passage of time, and the shift from a warm and wet to a cold and dry climate is shown as the animation progresses. The lakes dry up, while the atmosphere gradually transitions from Earthlike blue skies to the dusty pink and tan hues seen on Mars today.

In daylight our big blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. But the night - is electric. This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite (Suomi NPP). A joint program by NASA and NOAA, Suomi NPP captured this nighttime image by the satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The day-night band on VIIRS detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as city lights, gas flares, and wildfires. This new image is a composite of data acquired over nine days in April and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 satellite orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of land surface.

From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon's history. Learn more in this video!

Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do. See some of the sights and learn more about the moon here!

On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the world the first image of the sunlit side of Earth captured by the space agency's EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR satellite. The camera has now recorded a full year of life on Earth from its orbit at Lagrange point 1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth, where it is balanced between the gravity of our home planet and the sun. EPIC takes a new picture every two hours, revealing how the planet would look to human eyes, capturing the ever-changing motion of clouds and weather systems and the fixed features of Earth such as deserts, forests and the distinct blues of different seas. EPIC will allow scientists to monitor ozone and aerosol levels in Earth’s atmosphere, cloud height, vegetation properties and the ultraviolet reflectivity of Earth. The primary objective of DSCOVR, a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force, is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA.

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In this episode of World Explorer’s Corner, we dive into a remarkable milestone for humanity's safety – NASA's revolutionary experiment to defend Earth from asteroids. Join us as we unravel the kinetic impactor technique, a groundbreaking method aimed at altering the trajectory of asteroids on a collision course with our planet. Witness the awe-inspiring journey of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, from its launch to the impactful collision, showcasing how science and innovation join forces to protect our world. Engage in a thought-provoking discussion about the future potential of this technique and its ability to shield us from potentially catastrophic asteroid impacts. Subscribe and be part of the ongoing exploration at World Explorer’s Corner, where curiosity knows no bounds.

Today we take a look at the truly mind blowing number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. We also look beyond our galaxy far across the vast expanse of space and ponder how many stars may exists in the universe. Thank you so much for watching, I would love to hear your thoughts on todays video in the comment section. Take care and be well.

A new crew heads to the space station, a major storm spotted from space, and a robotic spacecraft enabling human missions to the Moon … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

Before modern telescopes, humans could only imagine what the surface of the sun and the planets looked like. Now advanced technology has made it possible to get in close, and take images of the Sun and the planets deep in our solar system. Now get ready to see the solar system as you’ve never seen it before, and see images that were so good they shocked astronomers.