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May 27, 2008 CHARM Telecon
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May 27, 2008
History of Saturn's Rings
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made a record-breaking 25th flight on April 18, 2022.
NASA"s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Captures Record Flight
This is a model for anyone who wants to see Europa Clipper's major components and science instruments and manipulate the solar-array-radar wings.
Europa Clipper Scale Model - 3D Print
Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2022 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
NASA's Psyche Mission to an Asteroid: Official NASA Trailer
Learn more about the best-known black hole systems in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
NASA Visualization Rounds Up the Best-Known Black Hole Systems
May 2022 skywatching highlights: Morning planets, a total lunar eclipse, and the second-closest open star cluster, which hangs out near the lion's tail.
What's Up: May 2022
Listen closely to new sounds from Mars recorded by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Puff, Whir, Zap Sounds from Mars
April 2022 skywatching highlights: Two planetary pairings make April mornings special – Mars and Saturn, and Venus and Jupiter. Plus a special "double star" to look for in the Big Dipper.
What's Up: April 2022
Following critical mirror alignment steps, the Web team is confident the observatory will meet or exceed its science goals.
NASA's Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully
Celebrate Women's History Month with us as we pay tribute to scientists, engineers, astronauts, and leaders who continue to pave the way for future generations of explorers.
Pioneers to New Frontiers: NASA Women Through the Decades
NASA’s Psyche mission is preparing for a 1.5 billion-mile (2.4 billion-kilometer) trip to a metal-rich asteroid with the same name.
NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Prepares for Trip to Asteroid by Testing Solar Arrays
March 2022 skywatching highlights: Saturn with Venus and Mars in the a.m., the Hyades star cluster, and stars with known exoplanets that you can find without a telescope.
What's Up: March 2022
A ground-based image of the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017 (gray, middle ring), is superimposed over an image of the Sun’s atmosphere, called the corona (red, outermost ring), as seen by ESA ...
Aug. 21 Solar Eclipse, From Ground and Space
The United States was in a prime orbital position and time of day to view the eclipse on April 15, 2014.
Total Lunar Eclipse
The Moon pictured during a lunar eclipse is seen from the International Space Station during a northwest to southeast orbital trek 263 miles above the Pacific Ocean.
The Moon pictured during a lunar eclipse
A perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen behind the Washington Monument during a total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Washington, DC. The combination of a supermoon and total lun...
Supermoon Eclipse in Washington
The diamond-ring effect occurred at the beginning and end of totality during a total solar eclipse. As the last bits of sunlight pass through the valleys on the moon's limb, and the faint corona ar...
Putting a Ring on it: 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
As millions of Americans watched the total solar eclipse that crossed the continental United States Aug. 21, the international Hinode solar observation satellite captured its own images of the awe-...
Hinode Satellite Views Aug. 21 Eclipse
As millions of people across the United States experienced a total eclipse as the umbra, or moon’s shadow passed over them, only six people witnessed the umbra from space.
Eclipse Shadow From Space
When depicting an eclipse path, data visualizers have usually chosen to represent the moon's shadow as an oval. By bringing in a variety of NASA data sets, visualizer Ernie Wright has created a new...
Tracing the 2017 Solar Eclipse
Whoa! It’s the middle of the day—so why is the sky getting dark? It’s a solar eclipse! A solar eclipse happens when, at just the right moment, the moon passes between the sun and Earth.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
This video explains how our moon creates a solar eclipse, why it's such a rare event to see, and how data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has enhanced our ability to map an eclipse's path ...
The Moon's Role in a Solar Eclipse
It's not often that we get a chance to see our planet's shadow, but a lunar eclipse gives us a fleeting glimpse. During these rare events, the full Moon rapidly darkens and then glows red as it ent...
Understanding Lunar Eclipses
A team of three scientists have two minutes to complete an experiment during the 2017 total solar eclipse.
2 Minutes, 6 Hands, 1 Chance
A quick visualization of the over 76,000 measurements we collected through the GLOBE Observer eclipse project on August 21st, 2017, with an estimation of the location of the eclipse shadow througho...
GLOBE Observer Quick Data Viz - 5 Min Intervals with Eclipse Shadow
On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse passed over North America. People throughout the continent experienced a partial solar eclipse, and a total solar eclipse passed over a narrow swath of land stretc...
What Spacecraft Saw During the 2017 Solar Eclipse
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