Tag: NASA
Meteors Encountering Earth’s Atmosphere
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This video was acquired August 10, 2016, with a high-resolution video camera onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Within the span of about 10 seconds, two meteors associated with the Perseid meteor shower streak across the sky above Pakistan. Video was provided by Tomoko Arai/Japan’s Planetary Exploration Research Center/Meteor Composition Determination (Meteor) investigation.
NASA Intro to LIDAR
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Want to know the 3D shape of terrain on another planet? Want to study the height and density of Earth's forests? An amazing tool called LIDAR can help! Learn more in this video.
NASA Partners with Jane Goodall Institute to Protect Chimpanzees
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Data from Landsat satellites, a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, have been critical to helping the Jane Goodall Institute in their work to protect chimpanzees and their habitat. In this video, Goodall and JGI scientist Lilian Pintea discuss the transformational role of seeing changing habitats from above.
IceBridge Flies 300 Hours of Antarctic Science Flights
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Operation IceBridge is wrapping up its eighth consecutive field season of mapping the ice sheet and glaciers of Antarctica as well as the surrounding sea ice.
SmallSats are the Next Big Thing
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NASA is about to launch six new next-generation Earth-observing small satellites — some as small as a loaf of bread. These tiny spacecraft are helping to foster creative and cost-effective approaches to studying our planet.
NASA’s MMS Satellite Breaks World GPS Record
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NASA's MMS mission now holds the Guinness World Record for highest altitude GPS fix: 43,500 miles above Earth’s surface.
NASA/JAXA GMI Sensor for Precipitation Measurement
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On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone about 1055 miles (1700 kilometers) due east of Japan's Honshu Island. Satellite data shows the full range of precipitation in the storm.
Liftoff of SpaceX CRS-10
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch vehicle is carrying a Dragon spacecraft on SpaceX CRS-10, the company's tenth commercial resupply services mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
Mapping an Asteroid with Lasers
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The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) will provide a three-dimensional map of asteroid Bennu’s shape, which will allow scientists to understand the context of the asteroid’s geography and the sample location. OLA is provided by the Canadian Space Agency in exchange for Canadian ownership of a portion of the returned asteroid sample. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space flight Center/Katrina Jackson
NASA Scanning a Snow Storm
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On March 17, 2014, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory flew over the East coast's last snow storm of the 2013-2014 winter season.
