Category Archives: video

NASA Suomi NPP Satellite Captures the “Black Marble” Image-Video

Last January the Suomi NPP satellite captured the Blue Marble Image of Earth. Now the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite VIIRs instrument using its enhanced capabilities to do observations at night…

Solar Back-sided Halo CME Nov 8-9 2012

The Sun erupted with several CMEs (coronal mass ejections) during a period just over a day (Nov. 8-9, 2012), the largest of which was a halo CME. In the video…

Messenger Spacecraft finds water on planet Mecury

New information from  MESSENGER spacecraft shows there is frozen water on Mecury. Its onboard instruments have been studying Mercury in unprecedented detail since its historic arrival there in March 2011….

Rocket Sled Super Slow Motion Video of Inflatable Supersonic Decelerator

As NASA plans ambitious new robotic missions to Mars, laying the groundwork for even more complex human science expeditions to come, the spacecraft needed to land safely on the red…

Rare Double Solar Prominence Eruptions 11/16/12

Video of the Two Prominence Eruptions The Sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period (Nov. 16, 2012). The action was captured in the…

Shuttle 747 transport leaves Dryden for final time

                  The iconic image original glide test of  Shuttle Enterprise as it floated away from the 747 almost forty years ago featured…

Bright Leonid Fireball November 13th 2012 Over Alabama

This video shows a very bright fireball over Alabama on Sunday, Nov. 18 at approximately 7:30 p.m. EST (6:30 p.m. CST). Southeastern cameras managed by NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office recorded…

Total Solar Eclipse Seen from Australia 11/13/12

If you have never seen a total eclipse of the sun before this is an excellent video, you can almost feel the temperature drop as the sun is covered by…