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ScienceCasts: The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

On August 21, 2017, a continent-spanning wave of instruments from home-made pinhole cameras to the most sophisticated telescopes in operation today will be trained on the Eclipse Across America. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. eclips

ScienceCasts: Electric Blue Sunsets

Summer is the season for electric-blue noctilucent clouds. NASA's AIM spacecraft is finding that these clouds continue to reveal details about how the atmosphere works. Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA

ScienceCasts: NASA Spacecraft Fly in Record-setting Formation

MMS: http://www.nasa.gov/mms Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more Four NASA spacecraft have performed a thrilling maneuver to understand the physics of explosive reconnection in Earth's magnetosphere. Read this story: https://science.nasa.gov/news-articles/nasa-spacecraft-fly-record-setting-fo

ScienceCasts: Twinkle Twinkle GPS

Dynamic bubbles of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere can cause GPS signals to "twinkle" like stars, affecting the quality of navigation on Earth below. NASA recently conducted a mission called CINDI to investigate this phenomenon. Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Click here to see mor

ScienceCasts: The Mystery of Coronal Heating

Observations by NASA's IRIS spacecraft suggest that "heat bombs" are going off in the sun's outer atmosphere, helping to explain why the solar corona is so mysteriously hot. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. https://iris.gsfc.nasa.gov/

ScienceCasts: NASA Embraces Small Satellites

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. NASA is embracing small satellite designs, from tiny CubeSats to micro-satellites. These miniature marvels are providing many ways to collect science data and to demonstrate new technologies. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA

ScienceCasts: Listening to the Stars

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Deep in the heart of California’s Owens Valley, a strange-looking telescope stands in the desert landscape listening for echos of distant stars. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA