NASA ScienceCasts
NASA Science news is too exciting for plain text. Educational "ScienceCast" videos are fun, lively, entertaining--anything but plain. Join us for a new episode weekly as we look into the science behind discoveries on Earth, the Solar System, and beyond...
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ScienceCast 22: What Lies Inside Jupiter
For four long centuries the gas giant's vast interior has ...
For four long centuries the gas giant's vast interior has remained hidden from view. NASA's Juno probe, scheduled to launch on August 5th, could change all that.
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ScienceCast 21: Sun Grazing Comet
On July 5th, a comet dove into the sun and ...
On July 5th, a comet dove into the sun and disintegrated. New footage just released by NASA shows the final stages of the comet's death plunge.
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ScienceCast 20: Summer Meteor Shower
If you're camping out and can't sleep, maybe your slumber ...
If you're camping out and can't sleep, maybe your slumber is being interrupted by the flash of meteors. The summer Perseid meteor shower is getting underway as Earth enters the debris stream from comet Swift-Tuttle.
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ScienceCast 19: Dark Fireworks
NASA has just released new movies of an "inky-dark" solar ...
NASA has just released new movies of an "inky-dark" solar explosion that continues to puzzle experts more than a month after it happened.
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ScienceCast 18: An Astronomer's Dilemma
Stars are bright, but their planets are not, which makes ...
Stars are bright, but their planets are not, which makes planet hunting difficult. However, NASA's ultraviolet telescope GALEX may be providing a solution.
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ScienceCast 17: Wild Weather
Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There's no doubt about ...
Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There's no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why?
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ScienceCast 15: The Power of Sea Salt
Aquarius is the first NASA sensor to track ocean salinity ...
Aquarius is the first NASA sensor to track ocean salinity from space, and aims to help uncover how the salinity of Earth's oceans are effecting our climate.
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ScienceCast 14: Big Surprise
NASA's Voyager probes have reached the edge of the solar ...
NASA's Voyager probes have reached the edge of the solar system and found something surprising there--a froth of magnetic bubbles separating us from the rest of the galaxy.
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ScienceCast 13: Salute to Spirit
It's been more than a year since NASA has heard ...
It's been more than a year since NASA has heard from Mars rover Spirit. The agency says it may be time to say "thanks and farewell."
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ScienceCast 12: Superflares
Something is exploding in the Crab Nebula ten billion times ...
Something is exploding in the Crab Nebula ten billion times more powerful than a solar flare. These "superflares" are baffling astronomers who haven't yet figured out the source of the blasts.
