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The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. GSFC, one of ten major NASA field centers, is named in recognition of Dr. Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), the pioneer of modern rocket propulsion in the United States.
GSFC is the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the United States dedicated to increasing knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe via observations from space. GSFC is a major U.S. laboratory for developing and operating unmanned scientific spacecraft. GSFC conducts scientific investigation, development and operation of space systems, and development of related technologies. Goddard scientists can develop and support a mission, and Goddard engineers and technicians can design and build the spacecraft for that mission. Goddard scientist John C. Mather shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on COBE.
Come visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Putting ideas in space.... bringing knowledge home. For more info: nasa.gov/goddard
Description: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's 2013 college interns kicked off the summer at their orientation on Monday, June 3. Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA's Goddard Shorts HD podcast: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net 'In late June 2013, an exceptional binary system containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed. The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold in gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, according to measurements by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The system, known as AY Sextantis, is located about 4,400 light-years away in the constellation Sextans. It pairs a 1.7-millisecond pulsar named PSR J1023+0038 -- J1023 for short -- with a star containing about one-fifth the mass of the sun. The stars complete an orbit in only 4.8 hours, which places them so close together that the pulsar will gradually evaporate its companion...' Public domain...
more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net '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 ...
A Tour of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
See 13.7 billion years of cosmic evolution in under a minute. This is a repost of the NASA Goddard simulation so I had an emendable version to talk about it here: http://space.io9.com/13-7-billion-years-in-45-seconds-1576436024. Visit their site for the HD version: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011534/index.html From the NASA description: Galaxies are collections of stars, gas, dust and dark matter held together by gravity. Their appearance and composition are shaped over billions of years by interactions with groups of stars and other galaxies. Using supercomputers, scientists can look back in time and simulate how a galaxy may have formed in the early universe and grown into what we see today. Galaxies are thought to begin as small clouds of stars and dust swirling thr...
Lynn Carter, is research space scientist in the planetary geodynamics group at Goddard Space Flight Center. She studies the geology of planetary surfaces; The Earth, Moon, Mars, Venus, etc. Her job consists of a wide range of activities, for instance, looking at images of the moon taken with radar trying to understand cratering and how the cratering process happens on the Moon.
Webb Telescope's Backplane arrived at Joint Base Andrews on Monday, August 24, 2015 aboard a U.S. Air Force C-5 cargo plane. The Backplane, inside the Space Telescope Transporter for Air Road and Sea (STTARS) container, is off-loaded from the C-5 and carefully transported to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. There the container is moved into the cleanroom and opened in preparation for the removal of the Backplane. The Webb Telescope's Backplane is a large composite structure that holds and supports Webb's hexagonal mirrors. The backplane supports the weight of the 21-foot (6.5 m) diameter mirror, and 5,300 lbs (2,400 kg) of telescope optics and instruments.
A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon of fire. The glowing canyon traces the channel where magnetic fields held the filament aloft before the explosion. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. combined two days of satellite data to create a short movie of this gigantic event on the sun. In reality, the sun is not made of fire, but of something called plasma: particles so hot that their electrons have boiled off, creating a charged gas that is interwoven with magnetic fields. These images were captured on Sept. 29-30, 2013, by NASA's Solar Dynamics O...
Take a look inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the Hubble Space Telescope was designed and constructed. These shots are featured in the fulldome show "From Dream to Discovery: Inside NASA". Experience the challenges of the next generation of space exploration in this brand-new Planetarium show. By using exciting real-life projects like NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the New Horizons mission to Pluto, the show highlights the extreme nature of spacecraft engineering and the life cycle of a space mission - from design and construction to the rigors of testing, launch, and operations. Blast off and take the voyage with us! Full show preview - http://www.fddb.org/fulldome-shows/from-dream-to-discovery-inside-nasa/ Produced by the Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of S...
Flowing through the heart of mainland Southeast Asia, the Lower Mekong Water Basin is a complex water system that houses sixty million people, as well as a thriving natural ecosystem. Booming populations and food demands have resulted in intricately crafted landscapes to promote agricultural yields and food security. Annual floods perpetrated by monsoon rains and cyclones can negatively impact these vulnerable landscapes, but they also provide numerous essential services, such as irrigation reservoir replenishment. This project aims to improve flood impact mapping techniques for the area, as well as aggregating current flood and weather products into an online dashboard, allowing policy makers and managers to alleviate negative flooding impacts while preserving the benefits. For more info...
NASA film about science activities at Goddard Space Flight Center. From Wikipedia: "The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately 6 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. GSFC, one of ten major NASA field centers, is named in recognition of Dr. Robert H. Goddard (1882--1945), the pioneer of modern rocket propulsion in the United States. GSFC is the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the United States dedicated to increasing knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe via observations from space. GSFC is a major U.S. laboratory for...
Part 2: Putting It Together Building satellites isn't easy. They're complex, expensive, and not to mention hard to make! This is why whenever NASA makes a new satellite--like the MAVEN mission to Mars--its scientists and engineers do everything they can to make sure it's done right. Now, putting a satellite together is nothing like putting together, say, an office chair. A single bolt can take hours to install, and you can't even imagine how complex the electronics are! Find out more about the whole process in this video! This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10782 Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA's Goddard Shorts HD podcast: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on...
Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles, in a steady stream. Many lakes in the boreal regions of Alaska are emitting methane, the product of decomposing organic matter left over from the Ice Age. Thawing permafrost has caused areas of land to slump and fill up with water, creating these bodies of water called 'thermokarst lakes.' The water then exacerbates the thawing, expanding the size of the lake and producing even more methane. In the early cold season, ice covers the lakes and traps methane in large pockets just beneath the surface. University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists working as part of NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) find and measure the methane gas in these pockets seep-by-seep and lake-by-lake. ABoVE combines precise methane measurements from individual l...
In a googol (10^100) years from now, what will our galaxy look like? Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/AhSharkee Facebook Facebook.com/AhSharkee Links and References: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701131 (A Dying Universe: The Long Term Fate and Evolution of Astrophysical Objects) http://www.universetoday.com/26749/formation-of-the-milky-way/ (Formation of the milk way) http://phys.org/news/2012-05-older-cosmologically.html (The older we get, the less we know (cosmologically) Credits: Music: Two Thousand Years Later by moshimoss TEARS (demo 2009) by moshimoss Thumbnail Picture: Nick Risinger - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Milky_Way_Galaxy.jpg Some of the footage was captured using Space Engine http://en.spaceengine.org/ NASA - https://archive.org/de...
NASA GSFC solar scientist Holly Gilbert explains a computer model of the sun’s magnetic field. Grasping what drives that magnetic system is crucial for understanding the nature of space throughout the solar system: The sun's invisible magnetic field is responsible for everything from the solar explosions that cause space weather on Earth – such as auroras – to the interplanetary magnetic field and radiation through which our spacecraft journeying around the solar system must travel. We can observe the shape of the magnetic fields above the sun's surface because they guide the motion of that plasma – the loops and towers of material in the corona glow brightly in EUV images. Additionally, the footpoints on the sun’s surface, or photosphere, of these magnetic loops can be more precisely m...
Atmospheric scientists Bernadett Weinzierl of the University of Vienna, Paul Newman of Goddard Space Flight Center, and Róisín Commane of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from the last three legs of the Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom mission. Departing Ascension Island in the tropics, the science team traveled up the Atlantic to Terceira Island in the Azores off the coast of Portugal, and then back to the Arctic by way of Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Finally the team crossed North America to return home to Palmdale, California. This is the fourth of four video postcards. The ATom mission aboard NASA's DC-8 aircraft and flying laboratory is sampling world-wide in one of the most extensive surveys of the atmosphere to date, measuring over 200 gases as well as airborne particles. T...
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Dr. Stefanie Milam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - James Webb Space Telescope Mission Update
SPACETV.NET - NASA is sending the Juno spacecraft to peer beneath the cloudy surface of Jupiter. Juno's twin magnetometers, built at Goddard Space Flight Center, will give scientists their first look at the dynamo that drives Jupiter's vast magnetic field. Video credit: NASA This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
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NASA Goddard interns take you on a fanciful futuristic tour of Saturn's moon - Titan. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Connor Nixon For more information: http://www.nasa.gov/subject/3163/titan/ This video is public domain. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer 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: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ http://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts
NASA’s Precipitation Measurement Missions' GPM core satellite captured Hurricane Matthew in 3-D as it made landfall on Haiti and as it traveled up to the Florida coast. The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission or GPM flew directly over the storm several times between October 2 - October 6, 2016. The view on October 6 reveals massive amounts of rainfall being produced by the storm as it approaches Florida. The GPM core satellite carries two instruments that show the location and intensity of rain and snow, which defines a crucial part of the storm structure – and how it will behave. The GPM Microwave Imager sees through the tops of clouds to observe how much and where precipitation occurs, and the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar observes precise details of precipitation in 3-dimens...
The most powerful ever built, the James Webb Space Telescope is an international project led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large infrared telescope that will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe. JWST is an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center managing the development effort. The main industrial partner is Northrop Grumman; the Space Telescope Science Institute will operate JWST after launch. Several innovative technologies have been developed for JWST. These include a 6.5-meter prima...
Scientists use satellite data to peer into the massive storm – learning how and why it changed throughout its course. http://www.nasa.gov/matthew Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Clare Skelly 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/12387 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer 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: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram http://www.ins...
Amanda Trosten-Bloom as a speaker at NASA presenting about Appreciative Leadership in 2011.
"The Moon and More" is a music video starring musicians Javier Colon (Season 1 winner of NBC's "The Voice"), and Matt Cusson in collaboration with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd Music: "The Moon and More" - Written, produced, and performed by Javier Colon and Matt Cusson, Bass by Uriah Duffy. Audio Mix & Mastering by Jack Deboe. Javier Colon appears courtesy of Concord Records For more information: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/lro-presents-the-moon-and-more 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/12366 If you liked this video, subscribe to the ...
In summer 2016, the Exploration and Space Communications division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, hosted 48 interns from across the country. Their many projects made a valuable contribution to NASA’s missions. In this video, the interns describe their work. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Amber Jacobson, producer Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/students-team-up-with-nasa-to-push-space-communications-and-navigation-forward