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Short musical interlude showing the lifting of the GPM Core satellite into the Space Environmental Simulator for...
Manufacturing engineer, Roman Nilov, inspects flight hardware after technicians install the Short Wave Infrared...
Mechanical technician, Dave Nolan, tightens bolts on the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) Short Wave Infrared (SWIR)...
The projection of Saturn's shadow on the rings grows shorter as Saturn's season advances toward northern summer,...
Center Director John McCarthy, left, and researcher Al Johns pose with a one-third scale model of a Grumman...
animation scenes depict NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful rocket for a new era of human...
This video includes animation and shows work being completed to build, assemble and test NASA's new heavy-lift...
Professor Gerold Willing from the University of Louisville talks about research on Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cell...
Saturn small moon Pan, brightly overexposed, casts a short shadow on the A ring in this image taken by NASA Cassini...
Short video montage of the GPM shipping container leaving Goddard Space Flight Center for Joint Base Andrews, Md....
This short video explains how a raindrop falls through the atmosphere and why a more accurate look at raindrops can...
Short promo for Sun-Earth Day 2009 featuring scientists and students talking about the most fascinating things...
Second short promo for Sun-Earth Day 2009 featuring more people talking about what they find interesting about the sun.
Third short promo for Sun-Earth Day 2009 featuring a modern Galileo pitching all of his greatest discoveries over...
lsp_whyrockets- What type of rockets are required to bring equipment.
This VIS image captured by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a short section of Reull Vallis. Reull Vallis...
The shadow of the moon Janus dwarfs the shadow of Daphnis on Saturn A ring in this image taken as the planet...
NASA Stennis recently completed a critical infrastructure project to refurbish the gates of the center’s waterway...
The Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program, Cathy Peddie, expresses her personal...
A short video profile about research physical scientist Dalia Kirschbaum, who focuses on landslide modeling as well...
A short animation illustrating the relationship of temperature and wavelength. Hotter objects have a shorter...
The effects of the small moon Prometheus loom large on two of Saturn rings in this image taken by NASA Cassini...
As comets C/2012 S1 ISON and the well-known short-period comet 2P/Encke both approached their closest distances to...
This mosaic of images shows the soil in front of NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after a series of short backward...