NASA’s New Solar Scope Is Ready For Balloon Flight

Trailer without text introduction. Music credit: Luminous Skies [Underscore] by Andrew Prahlow from www.killertracks.comComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. Image of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: APL/NASA GSFC Beauty pass animation of Parker Solar Probe in the solar wind. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe Animation of the solar wind. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim Photo of Eugene Parker. Credit: University of Chicago Animation of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim Animation of a spacecraft being damaged by space weather. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim Graphic illustrating the layers of the Sun. Credit: NASA GSFC/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith Animation of Parker Solar Probe during a Venus flyby. Credit: Johns Hopkins University/APL/Steve Gribben Animation of Parker Solar Probe's trajectory. Credit: Johns Hopkins University/APL/Steve Gribben Animation of Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Credit: Johns Hopkins University/APL/Steve Gribben Graphic identifying the solar limb sensors on Parker Solar Probe. The sensors help the spacecraft stay oriented behind its protective shield. Credit: NASA/APL Engineer Patrick Hill (Johns Hopkins APL) gives a tour of the Parker Solar Probes's systems. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Lee HobsonComplete transcript available. July 20, 2018 - Live from NASA Kennedy - 1:00 p.m. ESTHosted by Karen Fox - Heliophysics Communications Lead, NASA Goddard/NASA HQSpeakers:Nicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabAlex Young - Solar Scientist from NASA GoddardThomas Zurbuchen - Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASABetsy Congdon - Thermal Protection System Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Related pages

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.Music credit: Patisserie Pressure by Benjamin James Parsons Animation simulating how the polarization camera improves speed during the experiment. Animation simulating the traditional way of conducting the experiment without a polarization camera. A team of three scientists have two minutes to complete an experiment during the 2017 total solar eclipse. Related pages

Highlights from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's five years of watching the sun.The music is "Expanding Universe" and "Facing the Unknown" both from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.Information about the individual clips used in this video is here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO Large square version of the SDO 5 Year mosaic.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day. Capturing an image more than once per second, SDO has provided an unprecedentedly clear picture of how massive explosions on the sun grow and erupt ever since its launch on Feb. 11, 2010. The imagery is also captivating, allowing one to watch the constant ballet of solar material through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. In honor of SDO's fifth anniversary, NASA has released a video showcasing highlights from the last five years of sun watching. Watch the movie to see giant clouds of solar material hurled out into space, the dance of giant loops hovering in the corona, and huge sunspots growing and shrinking on the sun's surface. The imagery is an example of the kind of data that SDO provides to scientists. By watching the sun in different wavelengths – and therefore different temperatures – scientists can watch how material courses through the corona, which holds clues to what causes eruptions on the sun, what heats the sun's atmosphere up to 1,000 times hotter than its surface, and why the sun's magnetic fields are constantly on the move.Five years into its mission, SDO continues to send back tantalizing imagery to incite scientists' curiosity. For example, in late 2014, SDO captured imagery of the largest sun spots seen since 1995 as well as a torrent of intense solar flares. Solar flares are bursts of light, energy and X-rays. They can occur by themselves or can be accompanied by what's called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, in which a giant cloud of solar material erupts off the sun, achieves escape velocity and heads off into space. In this case, the sun produced only flares and no CMEs, which, while not unheard of, is somewhat unusual for flares of that size. Scientists are looking at that data now to see if they can determine what circumstances might have led to flares eruptions alone. Goddard built, operates and manages the SDO spacecraft for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. SDO is the first mission of NASA's Living with a Star Program. The program's goal is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to address those aspects of the sun-Earth system that directly affect our lives and society. For More InformationSee [http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/videos-highlight-sdos-fifth-anniversary/](http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/videos-highlight-sdos-fifth-anniversary/) Related pages

A bright flare erupts from an active region in this image from STEREO-A 304 angstrom ultraviolet filter. The resulting coronal mass ejection (CME) erupts in a 'halo' form, suggesting the CME could be heading away from, or toward, the STEREO-A spacecraft. This image is a combination of the EUVI 304 angstrom images and the STEREO-A COR2 coronagraph. In this composite of EUVI 304 angstrom, COR2 and the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1), we see particle hits of solar protons and other heavy ions striking the CCD and also appearing in the HI-1 imager. In this composite of EUVI 304 angstrom, COR-2 and the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1), we see the CME expanding in COR-2. The planet Mercury is labeled. The other bright objected in HI-1, below the line between Mercury and the sun, is the star Antares in the constellation Scorpius. A bright flare erupts in an active region in this image from STEREO-A 195 angstrom ultraviolet filter. A bright flare erupts from an active region in this image from STEREO-A 304 angstrom ultraviolet filter. Long version. The resulting coronal mass ejection (CME) erupts in a 'halo' form, suggesting the CME could be heading away from, or toward, the STEREO-A spacecraft. This image is a combination of the EUVI 304 angstrom images and the STEREO-A COR2 coronagraph. Long version. In this composite of EUVI 304 angstrom, COR2 and the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1), we see particle hits of solar protons and other heavy ions striking the CCD and also appearing in the HI-1 imager. Long version. In this composite of EUVI 304 angstrom, COR-2 and the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1), we see the CME expanding in COR-2. The planet Mercury is labeled. The other bright objected in HI-1, below the line between Mercury and the sun, is the star Antares in the constellation Scorpius. Long version. STEREO-A, at a position along Earth's orbit where it has an unobstructed view of the far side of the Sun, could clearly observe possibly the most powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) of solar cyle 24 on July 23, 2012. The visualizations on this page cover the entire day.We see the flare erupt in the lower right quadrant of the solar disk from a large active region. The material is launched into space in a direction towards STEREO-A. This creates the ring-like 'halo' CME visible in the STEREO-A coronagraph, COR-2 (blue circular image).As the CME expands beyond the field of view of the COR-2 imager, the high energy particles reach STEREO-A, creating the snow-like noise in the image. The particles also strike the HI-2 imager (blue square) brightening the image.The HI-1 imager has had 'bloom removal' enabled and filled with contents of the immediately previous HI-1 image, which creates a linear artifact above and below bright stars and planets. For More InformationSee [Science@NASA](http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/) Related pages

On May 1, 2013, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead (STEREO-A) satellite along with its twin STEREO Behind (STEREO-B), observed an active region (right) of the sun erupt. This eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, sent plasma streaming out through the solar system. STEREO has an extreme ultraviolet camera similar to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite, but it also has coronagraph telescopes like the European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) where the bright sun is blocked by a disk so it does not overpower the fainter solar atmosphere. As a result, using its two inner coronagraphs, STEREO was able to track the CME from the solar surface out to 6.3 million miles. Prominence eruption and CME captured by STEREO on May 1, 2013. For More InformationSee [svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10785](svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10785) Related pages

Follow a coronal mass ejection as is passes Venus then Earth, and explore how the sun drives Earth's winds and oceans.For complete transcript, click here.Also available for the entire Dynamic Earth show are the transcript and the educator's guide. A coronal mass ejection erupts from the Sun. A coronal mass ejection approaches Venus. A coronal mass ejection passes Venus. Ocean currents of the Gulf Stream. Ocean currents beneath the Gulf Stream. The loop current feeds into the Gulf Stream. Follow a coronal mass ejection as is passes Venus then Earth; and explore how the sun drive Earth's winds and oceans. This version has an alternate narrator.For complete transcript, click here. Unnarrated, edited version with just the Sun to Earth coronal mass ejection (with a Venus flyby). The entire sequence, unnarrated and formatted for the Hyperwall. Starting from the coronal mass ejection and formatted for the Hyperwall. Shows the coronal mass ejection only, and formatted for the Hyperwall. Shows the wind flows only, and formatted for the Hyperwall. A giant explosion of magnetic energy from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, slams into and is deflected completely by the Earth's powerful magnetic field. The sun also continually sends out streams of light and radiation energy. Earth's atmosphere acts like a radiation shield, blocking quite a bit of this energy.Much of the radiation energy that makes it through is reflected back into space by clouds, ice and snow and the energy that remains helps to drive the Earth system, powering a remarkable planetary engine — the climate. It becomes the energy that feeds swirling wind and ocean currents as cold air and surface waters move toward the equator and warm air and water moves toward the poles — all in an attempt to equalize temperatures around the world.A jury appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science magazine has selected "Excerpt from Dynamic Earth" as the winner of the 2013 NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for the Video category. This animation will be highlighted in the February 2014 special section of Science and will be hosted on ScienceMag.org and NSF.govThis animation was selected for the Computer Animation Festival's Electronic Theater at the Association for Computer Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), a prestigious computer graphics and technical research forum. This is an excerpt from the fulldome, high-resolution show 'Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine.' The Dynamic Earth dome show was selected as a finalist in the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Science Media Awards under the category "Best Immersive Cinema - Fulldome". For More InformationSee [http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/dynamic-earth.html](http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/dynamic-earth.html) Related pages