1999 MISCELLANEOUS VIDEOTAPES |
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Tape Title | Record ID | Date Produced | TRT: | Synoposis |
| GSFC 40TH ANNIVERSARY RESOURCE TAPE | G99-036 | 04/30/99 | 00:42:30 | Compilation of video resource material about the Goddard Space Flight Center spanning over 40 years. |
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GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC) AND ITS PERSONNEL AT WORK
ITEM (1): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC)
AND ITS PEOPLE AT WORK - The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland is a national leader in the development and utilization of cutting edge technology. Because of the Center's vital role in our Nation's space program, employees of GSFC have gained significant expertise in areas such as detector development, optics, cryogenics, microelectronics, X-ray astronomy, communications, Earth observation and information systems. Approximately 11,870 persons work at the Goddard Space Flight Center and includes 3,354 civil servants and 8,516 contractor personnel. There are 32 major buildings, providing approximately 3,200,000 square feet of space, situated on approximately 1,270 acres.
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| ITEM (2): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC) AT WORK IN CLEAN ROOMS - Goddard's Greenbelt campus has personnel and facilities to create, build, test, launch and operate various satellite projects in support of Earth science, space science and advanced technology programs. It is responsible for safety, reliability and quality assurance programs to ensure flight mission success. It also provides a full range of engineering discipline expertise needed to enable end-to-end conceptualization, development, and use of Earth and space science missions, including the delivery of appropriate science products. The following footage shows testing and integration of satellites and equipment in Clean Rooms: (a) X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE) Satellite (b) Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) Satellite (c) Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Astronauts training in GSFC's Largest Clean Room (d) WIRE Satellite Testing Facility | ||||
| ITEM (3): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC) AT WORK IN THE STOCC - The Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC) truly is the nerve center and focal point of all Hubble Space Telescope (HST) operations. All commands to the space telescope are issued from this facility, and data gathered by the observatory arrive there first. The STOCC consists of six facilities: Mission Operations Room, Servicing Mission Operations Room, System Engineering and Evaluation Room, Payload Operations Control Center, Mission Support Room and Engineering Support System. | ||||
| ITEM (4): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC) AT WORK IN THE SVS - The Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) works closely with scientists in the creation of visualizations in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and space science research activities at Goddard Space Flight Center. (a) Play and experimentation with the Virtual Reality of a hurricane. (b) Oceanographers discuss La Nina Data | ||||
| ITEM (5): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC) AT WORKING ON XTE - The X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE) is designed to study one portion of the invisible universe - the X-ray band. (a) X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE) "B" Roll (b) XTE Control Room | ||||
| ITEM (6): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC) RECEIVES FIRST IMAGES - The Reward for Years of Hard Work - First Images from the MARS Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) onboard the Mars Global Surveyor. | ||||
| ITEM (7): EARTH SCIENCES - Earth Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center has responsibility for conducting scientific studies leading to a better understanding of processes affecting global change and the distribution of natural resources through research, development and application of space technologies. | ||||
| ITEM (8): EARTH SCIENCES - GOES - The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) carries two major instruments, an imager and a sounder, which acquire high-resolution visible and infrared data, as well as temperature and moisture profiles of Earth. It's now familiar weather pictures are seen daily on newscasts worldwide. (a) GOES Animation (b) Image of Hurricane Mitch and Hurricane Linda | ||||
| ITEM (9): EARTH SCIENCES - TRMM - The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), is the first mission dedicated to measuring tropical and subtropical rainfall through microwave and visible infrared sensors, and includes the first space borne rain radar. Tropical rainfall comprises more than two thirds of our global rainfall and is the primary distributor of heat through the circulation of the atmosphere. Understanding rainfall and its variability is crucial to understanding and predicting global climate change. (a) TRMM Satellite Collecting Data Animation (b) Animation of Hurricanes George | ||||
| ITEM (10): EARTH SCIENCES - EL NINO/LA NINA - TOPEX/POSEIDON uses a radar altimeter to precisely measure sea-surface height. Scientists use the data to produce global maps of ocean circulation to learn more about the El Nino phenomena; a climatic phenomenon that can bring devastating weather to several global regions including heavy rains and flooding to California, colder than normal winters across the United States, and severe droughts and dust storms to Australia. La Nina is the "rubber band" effect that can occur after an El Nina. Data acquired from TOPEX/Poseidon revealed some very interesting visuals and insight. (a) El Nino/La Nina Global Animation (b) 3-D El Nino Height and Sea Surface Temperature | ||||
| ITEM (11): EARTH SCIENCES - SEAWiFS - The SeaWiFS instrument observes the world's oceans from space by measuring "ocean color", which varies with the concentration of microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton which belong to the lowest element of the food chain and contain chlorophyll, a green pigment. Scientists were amazed to receive unexpected data that revealed measurable chlorophyll found in plants on land and other amazing images. (a) SeaWiFS Satellite Animation (b) Global Biosphere (c) SeaWiFs demonstrates its ability to see Mexico fires and flooding of the Yangtze River in China. | ||||
| ITEM (12): EARTH SCIENCES - TOMS - The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) is a NASA-developed instrument which measures ozone indirectly by mapping ultraviolet light emitted by the Sun to that scattered from the Earth's atmosphere back to the satellite. It has mapped in detail the global ozone distribution as well as the Antarctic "ozone hole," which forms September through November of each year. (a) Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Satellite Animation (b) Animation of the Antarctic Ozone Hole (c) Global Ozone Data | ||||
| ITEM (13): EARTH SCIENCES - LANDSAT - Scientists use Landsat satellites to gather remotely sensed images of the land surface and surrounding coastal regions for global change research, regional environmental change studies and other civil and commercial purposes. Landsat 7, launched in 1999, will fulfill its mission by providing repetitive coverage of continental surfaces; spectral bands in the visible, near-infrared, short-wave, thermal infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum; spatial resolution of 30 meters (98-feet); and absolute radiometric calibration. No other current or planned remote sensing system matches this combination of capabilities. (a) LANDSAT Satellite Animation. (b) San Francisco Onion Skin which demonstrates data achieved by LANDSAT (c) Take a Glorious Ride up the Grand Canyon (d) See before and after the Mississippi Flood (e) View a Dramatic Fly-over between Washington D.C. and Baltimore | ||||
| ITEM (14): EARTH SCIENCES - BEACH MAPPING - A beach mapping laser altimeter studied the serious erosion of the California coastline after the serious rainfalls and flooding that occurred in 1998. | ||||
| ITEM (15): EARTH SCIENCES - CUTTINGS FROM HOLOGLOBE ANIMATION - Cutting from the "Hologlobe" animation show GSFC's studies of global cloud cover and global water vapor on Earth. | ||||
| ITEM (16): SPACE SCIENCE - Space Science is responsible for looking at major elements associated with the study of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe, through the conduct of theoretical studies, data analysis and the development of projects and technologies for space-borne instrumentation. | ||||
| ITEM (17): SPACE SCIENCE - SOHO - Human perceptions of the star that gives us life are changing rapidly as a thousand images a day stream from the sun gazing Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. It has vastly improved the ability of scientists to probe the Sun's interior by detecting sound waves at its surface, gives the best maps of the ever-changing patterns of magnetism at the Sun's visible surface, and reveal knots of hot activity that can occur in the solar atmosphere even when the visible surface of the Sun appears completely calm. In addition, SOHO has found clues to the forces that accelerate the solar wind of atomic particles blowing increasingly through the Solar System. By relating the huge outbursts called coronal mass ejections (CMEs) to preceding magnetic changes in the Sun, SOHO scientists hope to predict such events which, in the Earth's vicinity, endanger power supplies and satellites. Meanwhile, the Sun itself is obliging us by changing modes. When SOHO was launched, the Sun was in its minimum activity phase. With each passing month, it's getting more complex as it prepares to flip the direction of its main magnetic field, sometime around AD 2000-2001. (a) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Scientists At Work (b) ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite Animation (c) SOHO Images of the sun: Orange - EIT Movie of the Lower Corona Readings at 80,000 degrees Kelvin; Blue - LASCO notes a pair of comets crashing into the sun (d) 3-D animation of the Sun (e) The Solar wind and Magnetosphere Animation | ||||
| ITEM (18): SPACE SCIENCE - XTE - The X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE) satellite will gather data about X-ray-emitting objects both within our Milky Way galaxy and beyond. Additionally, studies of the spectra will reveal the X-ray emission processes of the objects under study and, indirectly, the locations and characteristics of the regions emitting X-rays, such as the surface of a neutron star or a ring around a black hole. Following is an XTE animation of a cannible pulsar and a black hole. | ||||
| ITEM (19): SPACE SCIENCE - MOLA - Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter (MOLA) on the Mars Global Surveyor Collects Data Animation. Also, a close look at the polar caps of Mars with data obtained by MOLA. | ||||
| ITEM (20): SPACE SCIENCE - HST Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revolutionized astronomers' vision of the universe more than any prior telescopes. Many new details about planets, stars, and galaxies have been revealed in its short span. HST provided us with dramatic and detailed views of comet fragments smashing into Jupiter and we now have more clues about the existence of black holes in the core of galaxies. Also, significant progress has been made in determining the age and size of the universe. (a) Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Animation (b) Images obtained from HST: Eagle Nebula, Star-forming region of the Orion Nebula, Deep Field View of Galaxies, and the rings of gas blowing off a dying star (c) HST astronauts in space make preparations for integration of new instruments, which used tools developed by GSFC. | ||||
| ITEM (21): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER HISTORICAL FOOTAGE - Goddard's role as a leader in technology and science is as alive today as it was in 1959 when Explorer Vl, under Goddard project management, provided the world with its first image of Earth from space. | ||||
| ITEM (22): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - GSFC Aerial Image from the early 1960's. | ||||
| ITEM (23): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - Footage of the testing and integration of early instruments and satellites. | ||||
| ITEM (24): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - Old footage of the Test and Evaluation Facility which exists today. | ||||
| ITEM (25): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - GSFC Front Gate, early 1960's. | ||||
| ITEM (26): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - NASCOM Area and Voice Communications. | ||||
| ITEM (27): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - GSFC personnel study LANDSAT Images | ||||
| ITEM (28): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - IUE Scientists at Work. | ||||
| ITEM (29): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - GSFC Campus Shots, 1970's. | ||||
| ITEM (30): GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER - GSFC Personnel, 1980's. | ||||