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Topic: orbit
Moon 101, a quick primer on our 4.51 billion-year-old natural satellite
The fifth largest natural satellite in our solar system, our crater-filled moon can feel both familiar and mysterious. It orbits Earth at an average distance of 30 Earths—that's around 384,400 km (238,855 miles)—and r...
Tour the Moon in 4K
Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we...
Shadows On Other Worlds
Explore the wonder of light from our star, the Sun, and how Shadows On Other Worlds, like on Venus or a faraway planet orbiting the red star Glise 581, would behave a little differently than they do here on Earth. Thi...
Falcon Heavy & Starman, a montage of SpaceX’s historic test flight
On February 6, 2018, SpaceX successfully launched a heavy-lift rocket called Falcon Heavy, making it "the world's most powerful booster since NASA's Saturn V." For dummy payload, a Tesla Roadster belonging to SpaceX f...
NASA simulates how dust, smoke, and sea salt have traveled the planet
Watch as sea salt, dust, and smoke—aerosol particles traveling on the winds—have moved across our planet in 2017. This animated simulation, "based on both satellite observations and computer models that use physical e...
Postcards from Saturn: The incredible images that Cassini sent home
For over a decade, Cassini has orbited around Saturn 294 times, collected more than 600 GB of data, visited over a dozen moons and discovered at least seven new ones. It has sent over 400,000 images back home. Skun...
How to watch a total or partial solar eclipse
On Monday, August 21st, 2017, sky gazers can witness a total or partial solar eclipse—weather-permitting and depending on their location on the planet—as it traverses North America. There's been a lot of excitement in...
Mars in a Minute: How Long is a Year on Mars?
One year for any planet is measured by how long it takes to orbit once around the sun. Since Mars is farther away from the sun than Earth, it takes almost twice as long: Earth orbits in 365 days. Mars orbits in 687 Ea...
Full 360° view of our moon from NASA’s LROC Wide Angle Camera
From the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), providing a very wide field-of-view, view Earth's moon from all sides. It was created from 110,000 high-resolution WAC images that were digit...
A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars
Fly by the moon Phobos towards Mars, and then fly across the Red Planet's surface thanks to NASA’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) imagery and three months of digital imaging work by Finnish filmma...
Fly though the International Space Station in Ultra HD 4K
Take a serene 18 minute tour of ISS in 4K, a rare point-of-view that you'd experience as an astronaut floating through International Space Station's passageways. The video begins and ends within its renowned Cupola ob...
Earthrise from the moon, captured by JAXA Kaguya Spacecraft
Between 2007 and 2009, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) captured more than 600 incredible photos and videos of the moon with an orbiting Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) mission spacecraft,...
To Mars and Back In 150 Seconds
How does sending humans to Mars work? How long does it take to go there and come back? How do they set up shelter on the Red Planet? What about space radiation? TIME's Jeffrey Kluger gives us an animated primer: To Ma...
Behind-the-scenes with Terra Bella’s satellites
What might we learn if we could observe the patterns in humanity's mass activities -- mining, clear cutting, ships moving through ports, erupting volcanoes, ground conflicts, etc -- over time? What if we could do that...
NASA’s SDO captures the Mercury Transit in time lapse
From 7:12am to 2:42pm ET on May 9, 2016, Mercury passed between Earth and the Sun, a rare occurrence called a transit. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured incredible footage of the closest planet to the s...
Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
Follow four astronauts on a six month journey from Earth to Mars, and see how Newton’s Three Laws of Motion -- 'Newton' referring to English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton -- can help us understand and p...
Astronaut Leland Melvin on Returning Home From Life In Space
What's it like to come back home to our Blue Marble after you've been floating around in orbit? NASA astronaut, engineer, and former football player Leland Melvin explains his return-to-Earth readjustment experience i...
Evidence of a Ninth Planet
Thanks to mathematical modeling and computer simulations by CalTech researchers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, we now have strong evidence that there's a large planet -- about 10x Earth's size -- orbiting in an ex...
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