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NASA ScienceCasts: The Space We Travel Through

As NASA prepares to send astronauts and spacecraft long distances through space, scientists are keeping an eye on the weather. Space weather. NASA Science: http://science.nasa.gov/ Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA

ScienceCasts: Solar Minimum is Coming

Intense solar activity such as sunspots and solar flares subsides during solar minimum, but that doesn’t mean the sun becomes dull. Solar activity simply changes form. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.

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: 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/

NASA ScienceCasts: On the Cusp of Understanding

NASA is using sounding rockets to study the cusp, a point where the magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet dips inward and touches down to Earth. NASA Science: http://science.nasa.gov/ Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA

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: Indonesian Solar Eclipse

During the early hours of March 9, 2016 the new moon will pass directly in front of the sun, producing a total eclipse of the sun over South East Asia. A partial eclipse will be viewable the evening of March 8, 2016 in westernmost parts of the USA including Alaska and Hawaii. Click here to see mor

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