2000 SPACE SCIENCE VIDEOTAPES |
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| LIVING WITH A STAR | G00-012 | 02/07/00 | 00:09:39 | Our Sun is a tremendously powerful, violent, and variable star like many we can see in the night sky. To better study solar variability and understand its effects on humanity, NASA is starting a multi-year program called "Living With a Star," a set of missions and enhancements to current programs which will provide new capability for understanding, and ultimately predicting "solar weather" and its effect on Earth. |
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| ITEM (1): SPACE WEATHER NETWORK -To better study solar variability and understand its effects on humanity, NASA is starting a program called "Living With a Star", a set of missions and enhancements to current programs which will eventually encompass a number of spacecraft and systems. "Living With a Star" also will pursue partnerships with other Federal agencies which are concerned with the effects of the Sun on the Earth. The goal is to provide an exciting new capability for understanding, and ultimately predicting, "solar weather" which affects Earth. |
| ITEM (2): TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES - "Living With a Star" will use our most creative and advanced technologies in the construction of this outer space network of sentinels and scientific spacecraft. This animation sequence shows show a satellite using large Solar sails, somewhat like those used in the days of sailing ships for propulsion. The sails on these new satellites will use the energy in sunlight, rather than traditional rocket propulsion, to get to their orbits.
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| ITEM (3): SOLAR SENTINALS - "Living With a Star" will introduce a new suite of spacecraft called Solar Sentinels. For the first time, scientists will be able to track solar storm regions over the entire solar surface as it rotates.
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| ITEM (4): EFFECTS OF SPACE WEATHER - As civilization becomes more technically advanced and expands into space both physically and economically, we are finding that Solar variability can affect civilian and military space systems, human space flight, electric power grids, GPS signals, high frequency radio communications, long range radar, microelectronics and terrestrial climate.
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| ITEM (5): OUR VIOLENT SUN - Our Sun is a tremendously powerful, violent, and variable star like many we can see in the night sky. These images were captured by the
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Courtesy: NASA/ESA
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| ITEM (6): SOLAR RESEARCHER B-ROLL - Solar Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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| ITEM (7): EARTH WEATHER NETWORKS - Just as satellites help us better understand changes in weather around our Earth, the "Living With a Star" constellation of satellites will help us better understand how our star can affect many of the advanced technologies we have become so dependent on for everything from economic livelihood to national defense.
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| ITEM (8): INTERVIEW EXCERPTS WITH DR. ART POLAND, ASTROPHYSICIST, NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, GREENBELT, MD
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