NASA Explorers: The Launch
It’s not rockets and satellites that make NASA soar. It’s people. Go inside the space agency and follow the pioneers, risk-takers and experts at the frontline of exploration. This season, […]
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NASA Explorers: The Launch
NASA Explorers: Challenges of Bennu
When it comes to space exploration, expect the unexpected. As OSIRIS-REx approached asteroid Bennu, scientists were surprised to find a loosely packed rubble pile. This episode, NASA Explorers get a […]
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NASA Explorers: Challenges of Bennu
NASA Explorers: TAG
It was Touch-and-Go there for a few seconds…literally! OSIRIS-REx had only 6 seconds to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu – in a maneuver called TAG – while the NASA […]
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NASA Explorers: TAG
NASA Explorers: Preparing for the Asteroid
The lifetime of space missions can be measured in decades, not years. From designing, building, launching, sampling and finally returning home, follow the NASA Explorers of OSIRIS-REx as they enter […]
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NASA Explorers: Preparing for the Asteroid
NASA Explorers: Sample Return
How does it feel to watch your life’s work parachute through the atmosphere? Relive the joy and terror of the OSIRIS-REx sample return with NASA Explorers… but retrieving the sample […]
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NASA Explorers: Sample Return
NASA Explorers: We Are the Artemis Generation
These are our explorers. They’re the people who will get us to the Moon, collect Moon rocks, deliver them to Earth safely, and ensure that we can study them for […]
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NASA Explorers: We Are the Artemis Generation
NASA Explorers: Moon Rocks
Meet NASA’s rock detectives. Using tiny samples of lunar rock brought back by Apollo astronauts, these NASA Explorers are looking into the origins of our Moon, our planet, and ourselves. […]
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NASA Explorers: Moon Rocks
NASA Explorers: Space School
Before Jessica Watkins was an astronaut, she was a geologist. Now working on the International Space Station, Jessica and her fellow astronauts are preparing to explore the Moon and beyond. […]
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NASA Explorers: Space School
NASA Explorers: The South Pole
When Artemis astronauts land on the Moon, they’ll travel to sites never before visited by humans. Namely, they’ll explore the South Pole region, home to the Moon’s largest crater, areas […]
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NASA Explorers: The South Pole
NASA Explorers: Orbiting Laboratory
Things behave a bit differently aboard the International Space Station, thanks to microgravity. Sure, floating looks like fun, but it could also unlock new scientific discoveries. Microgravity makes the station […]
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NASA Explorers: Orbiting Laboratory
NASA Explorers: The Scientists
Putting your life’s work on top of a rocket may seem like a daunting task, but that’s exactly what scientists have been doing for decades as they launch their research […]
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NASA Explorers: The Scientists
NASA Explorers: Training the Astronauts
Astronauts train all over the world, including at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Here, they learn not just how to live in space, but also how to conduct […]
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NASA Explorers: Training the Astronauts
NASA Explorers: Before the Rocket
Our team of scientists is just days away from their research being loaded onto a SpaceX rocket that will carry their experiment to the International Space Station. This week on […]
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NASA Explorers: Before the Rocket
NASA Explorers: Journey to Space
The day has finally arrived. After years of work, our team of scientists is at the Kennedy Space Center in the hopes of seeing their research liftoff to the International […]
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NASA Explorers: Journey to Space
NASA Explorers: On Station
Now that our researchers’ experiment is on the International Space Station, it’s time to test how their samples behave in microgravity. This week on NASA Explorers, the astronauts conduct science […]
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NASA Explorers: On Station
NASA Explorers: Back to Gravity
With the experiment’s journey complete, Elaine Horn-Ranney Ph.D. and Parastoo Khoshaklagh Ph.D. now join the thousands of scientists who’ve performed research aboard the International Space Station, making the most of […]
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NASA Explorers: Back to Gravity
NASA Explorers: Seeing Through Smoke
To understand fires on Earth, you need a broad view — spanning from the poles to the equator and looking from high above the planet to down deep under the […]
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NASA Explorers: Seeing Through Smoke
NASA Explorers: Follow that Plume!
Chasing smoke is a round-the-clock business. Wildfire smoke can travel long distances and over several days, so NASA Explorers with the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air […]
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NASA Explorers: Follow that Plume!
NASA Explorers: The Carbon Problem
In the Arctic, fires are a natural part of the ecosystem. But as the climate changes, fires are burning longer and hotter, releasing long-buried carbon from the soil. NASA Explorers […]
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NASA Explorers: The Carbon Problem
NASA Explorers: Chasing Clouds
“Earth science is a subject far too big for one country, one agency, to tackle all by itself.” So NASA Explorers team up with researchers from around the country and […]
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NASA Explorers: Chasing Clouds
NASA Explorers: The New Normal
As the planet warms, fire seasons burn year-round and more areas are becoming flammable. NASA Explorers are studying how fires are changing with the climate and tracking how landscapes change […]
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NASA Explorers: The New Normal
NASA Explorers: A Year in Fire
We live in a “new normal.” Large fires burn in the Arctic, sending carbon around the globe. Fire seasons in the American West burn longer and hotter. To put it […]
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NASA Explorers: A Year in Fire
NASA Explorers: The Big Thaw
NASA Explorers is a new digital series that takes you inside the space agency and follows the pioneers, risk-takers and experts at the front line of exploration. Season 1, “Cryosphere,” […]
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NASA Explorers: The Big Thaw
NASA Explorers: The Snow Below
Snow is one part of the cryosphere that many of us have actually encountered, but it also plays a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate. Through decades of remote sensing, […]
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NASA Explorers: The Snow Below
NASA Explorers: Ice Odyssey
To know the evolution of sea ice and how we observe it from space is to know Dr. Claire Parkinson. Meet the scientist who continues to have a profound effect […]
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NASA Explorers: Ice Odyssey
NASA Explorers: Glacial Pace
NASA Explorers study Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets more than almost any other part of the cryosphere. As they melt and change, glaciers and ice sheets dramatically affect sea level […]
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NASA Explorers: Glacial Pace
NASA Explorers: Frozen Worlds
You have to start somewhere when looking for life away from Earth. Many NASA Explorers look for places with water ice, including distant moons like Enceladus and Europa. This week, […]
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NASA Explorers: Frozen Worlds
NASA Explorers: High Mountain Glaciers
They’re rivers of ice, slowly flowing down the sides of mountains, and they currently have an outsized role in sea level rise. NASA Explorers is taking us high into the […]
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NASA Explorers: High Mountain Glaciers
NASA Explorers: Permafrost
NASA Explorers head back in time…by going underground. In the Arctic, a frozen layer of soil – permafrost – trapped dead plants and animals for thousands of years. As the […]
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NASA Explorers: Permafrost
NASA Explorers: The Launch
It’s 5 a.m. on a normal September day and NASA Explorers have gathered in a California field to watch a rocket launch light up the pre-dawn sky. On board the […]
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NASA Explorers: The Launch
NASA Explorers: Final Approach
In the pre-dawn hours of a late October day, a satellite and an airplane joined forces over the frigid Weddell Sea, taking simultaneous measurements of drifting sea ice. It was […]
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NASA Explorers: Final Approach
NASA Explorers: Flying Alaskan Glaciers
Flying low over some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet, a cadre of scientists and pilots have been measuring changes in Alaskan glaciers as part of NASA’s Operation […]
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NASA Explorers: Flying Alaskan Glaciers
NASA Explorers: Cryo Kids
NASA Explorers come in all ages! In this bonus episode, we headed back to Alaska to check in with some of our tiniest Explorers. They’re following in the scientists’ footsteps, […]
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