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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Yesterday's Vision, Tomorrow's Reality.
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nasagoddard [ T | M | L | O ]  13h
NASA Goddard Normal

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  • nasagoddard Incandescent Sun - This still SDO image was created by applying additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are in the 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet. This wavelength shows plasma in the solar atmosphere, called the corona, that is around 600,000 Kelvin. The loops represent plasma held in place by magnetic fields. They are concentrated in "active regions" where the magnetic fields are the strongest. These active regions usually appear in visible light as sunspots. The events in this video represent 24 hours of activity on September 25, 2011. To download the full length video (and or more stills) go to: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10990 Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO #nasa #sun #sdo #nasagoddard   13h
  • lvtt1130 WOW !!!!!!!   6h
  • shanibachar Wow!   6h
  • selby735 Wow   6h
  • razalas Sooo amazing!!!   5h
  • totemtotem Black gold of the sun.   5h
  • lapaty_bell Dude long comment   3h
  • tw33t_dreams Wow its so beautiful   2h
  • jerry_ep wow.....   2h

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nasagoddard [ T | M | L | O ]  1d
NASA Goddard Normal

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  • nasagoddard Alaska’s Columbia Glacier - NASA image acquired May 30, 2011 The Columbia Glacier descends from an ice field 3,050 meters (10,000 feet) above sea level, down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains, and into a narrow inlet that leads into Prince William Sound in southeastern Alaska. It is one of the most rapidly changing glaciers in the world. The Columbia is a large tidewater glacier, flowing directly into the sea. When British explorers first surveyed it in 1794, its nose—or terminus—extended south to the northern edge of Heather Island, a small island near the mouth of Columbia Bay. The glacier held that position until 1980, when it began a rapid retreat that continues today. This false-color image, captured by the Thematic Mapper (TM) instrument on Landsat 5, show the glacier and the surrounding landscape in 2011. Snow and ice appears bright cyan, vegetation is green, clouds are white or light orange, and the open ocean is dark blue. Exposed bedrock is brown, while rocky debris on the glacier’s surface is gray. The 2011 image has more snow because it was captured in May, while the 1986 image was captured in July. Credit: NASA/Landsat #nasa #nasagoddard #alaska   1d
  • dt_la Bootyful   1d
  • totemtotem This is why it rains all the time.   1d
  • jojoshawel Tnx NASA nice pic .   1d
  • kungfu_vernon Nice picture NASA. There looks like a phoenix in this picture. Can anyone else see it?   1d
  • malalou That's so cool.   1d
  • utagumo Amazing   1d
  • la_peke_ ¡Hermosa fotografía! Los colores son impresionantes. Gracias NASA por esta hermosa fotografía   23h
  • romano1976 Cool...   11h

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nasagoddard [ T | M | L | O ]  3d
NASA Goddard Normal

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  • nasagoddard JAXA/NASA Captures 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse - The joint JAXA/NASA Hinode mission captured this images of an annular eclipse of the Sun on May 20, 2012. During an annular eclipse the moon does not block the entirety of the sun, but leaves a bright ring of light visible at the edges. For the May eclipse, the moon was at the furthest distance from Earth that it ever achieves – meaning that it blocked the smallest possible portion of the sun, and leaves the largest possible bright ring around the outside. Scientists often use an eclipse to help calibrate the instruments on the telescope by focusing in on the edge of the moon as it crosses the sun and measuring how sharp it appears in the images. Credit: JAXA/NASA/Hinode #nasa #nasagoddard #eclipse #solareclipse #ringoffire #sun #moon #space #annulareclipse   3d
  • diegoo018 New followers=5 likes '   1d
  • jessithequeen07 Beautiful!   1d
  • greenbriarpoet God does good work! Nice job NASA.   23h
  • churieheart amazing   22h
  • skibum82 Wow...   12h
  • mister_jones75 Look at what God can do...   11h
  • crisloveszavala Bello!   9h
  • cegeraldini Amazing!   9h

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nasagoddard [ T | M | L | O ]  3d
NASA Goddard Normal

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NASA Goddard Normal

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  • nasagoddard (FILE PHOTO: Jan. 6, 2011) On Sunday, May 20, 2012, the Moon will pass in front of the sun, transforming sunbeams across the Pacific side of Earth into fat crescents and thin rings of light. It's an annular solar eclipse, in which the Moon will cover as much as 94% of the sun. Hundreds of millions of people will be able to witness the event. The eclipse zone stretches from southeast Asia across the Pacific Ocean to western parts of North America. In the United States, the eclipse begins around 5:30 pm PDT. For the next two hours, a Moon-shaped portion of the sun will go into hiding. Greatest coverage occurs around 6:30 pm PDT. Because some of the sun is always exposed during the eclipse, ambient daylight won't seem much different than usual. Instead, the event will reveal itself in the shadows. Look on the ground beneath leafy trees for crescent-shaped sunbeams and rings of light. Near the center-line of the eclipse, observers will experience something special: the "ring of fire." As the Moon crosses the sun dead-center, a circular strip or annulus of sunlight will completely surround the dark lunar disk. Visually, the sun has a big black hole in the middle. The "path of annularity" where this occurs is only about 200 miles wide, but it stretches almost halfway around the world passing many population centers en route: Tokyo, Japan; Medford, Oregon; Chico, California; Reno, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lubbock, Texas. In those locations the ring of fire phenomenon will be visible for as much as 4 and a half minutes. #nasa #nasagoddard #ringoffire #sun #eclipse #annulareclipse   3d
  • justcher86 Amazing!!! 2016 it will pass over my home in columbia, SC --/ can't wait   2d
  • frogfoote Cool   2d
  • chocopudding95 Hahaha love u for seeing mordor.   2d
  • gentelmankw سبحان اللللللللله   2d
  • lazyboy504 AWSOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   2d
  • atie_donald Perfect   22h
  • flossiebeasley @am_newman thought you might like this page   12h
  • kstari_ Whoa   7h

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NASA Goddard Normal

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  • nasagoddard Smoke from Far Eastern Russia’s spring wildfires reached the Bering Sea by May 11, 2012. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the region at 23:30 UTC on that same day and acquired this true-color image of a broad band of smoke stretching across the blue waters. In this image, the plume of smoke appears light gray while banks of cloud are bright white. Snow covers much of Kamchatka the land mass in the west. Karaginsky Island, just off Kamchatka’s eastern shore, is surrounded by sea ice. Clouds stream off the southwest shores of Beringa and Medny Islands. To the east, Attu Station, Alaska, is surrounded by cloud. #nasa #nasagoddard #earth   4d
  • pinkclocks It's not his fault that he is smarter than you; also it's not his fault he has a brighter ( and definitely nicer ) future than you   4d
  • jandrosantos Astronauts get all the fun!!   4d
  • ale_carolina Love it!!   4d
  • jacob_matta Cool   4d
  • frogfoote Looks fun   3d
  • syeryn So..nice....   3d
  • maximgorlin i am from Kamchatka, it was very cool to see something about it here.   3d
  • loopy78 This is amazing! I wish I knew you when my little 3-5yr olds were learning about space   3d

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NASA Goddard Rise

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NASA Goddard Earlybird

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NASA Goddard Earlybird

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NASA Goddard Lord Kelvin

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NASA Goddard Lord Kelvin

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NASA Goddard Earlybird

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  • nasagoddard Getting ready to go inside the NASA Goddard clean room where they are assembling the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite. The GPM mission is an international network of satellites that provide the next-generation global observations of rain and snow. #nasa #nasagoddard #gpm   1w
  • svmacpherson Why does it need to be built in a clean room?   1w
  • jackpease So it doesn't get dirty...   1w
  • liz21x ^ roflwaffles   1w
  • shyskin A/S/L   1w
  • ronniebailey   1w
  • sup6969 Dream job   6d
  • forrest_maccormack This is rad!!   5d
  • sarai99 I just loveeeeee NASA and scientist thank u guys   3d

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NASA Goddard X-Pro II

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NASA Goddard X-Pro II

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NASA Goddard Rise

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NASA Goddard Rise

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