1999 SPACE SCIENCE VIDEOTAPES |
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| AUGUST 11, 1999 ECLIPSE PREVIEW | G99-065 | 8/4/99 | 00:19:22 | This package provides a sneak preview of the August 11, 1999, solar eclipse. The package contains animation showing the path of the eclipse through Europe, some eclipse viewing tips, and examples of how NASA uses artificial eclipses to enhance its understanding of the Sun's corona. Includes footage from the August 11, 1999, eclipse from Turkey. |
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| ITEM (1): THE GREAT ECLIPSE OF 1999 - The animation shows the path of the Moon's shadow on the Earth for the August 11th solar eclipse. Courtesy NASA
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| ITEM (2): THE ARUBA ECLIPSE OF 1998 - Footage of the last total solar eclipse as seen from the Caribbean island of Aruba. February 26, 1998. This footage was produced and distributed as part of a live of a live webcast by the San Francisco Exploratorium and NASA's Sun-Earth Connection. Courtesy Exploratorium / NASA
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| ITEM (3): ECLIPSE ON PARADE - Eclipse highlights. Courtesy of Dr. Jay Pasachoff, Williams College
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| ITEM (4): ECLIPSE VIEWING TIPS - Eclipse viewing tips with NASA Astronomer Dr. Fred Espanek. Never attempt to observe the partial phases of any eclipse with the naked eye. B-roll from viewing tips. Courtesy NASA
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| ITEM (5): MOON SHADOW - - The time-lapse sequence shows the shadow of the moon as it first touches the Earth in the Pacific Ocean, about 2,000 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands, then races across the Pacific, over northern South America and across the Caribbean Sea before exiting in the Atlantic about 600 miles west of Morocco.
The time-lapse image sequence is taken from the NOAA/National Weather Services' Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-10. The sequence was enhanced and rendered at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centers' Laboratory for Atmospheres. Courtesy NASA / NOAA
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| ITEM (6): THE LONGEST ECLIPSE - IMAGES FROM SOHO - - NASA uses artificial eclipses to continuously monitor the Sun's corona. Time-lapse sequences by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) instrument on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft (SOHO). Courtesy NASA / ESA |
| ITEM (7): THE ACTIVE SUN - Two sequences from SOHO's Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) illustrate the increase in solar activity from January 1996 (first sequence) to July, 1999 (second sequence). The sun is nearing the peak of its period 11-year solar cycle. Courtesy NASA / ESA |
| ITEM (8): THE SPEEDY SOLAR "WIND" [note this is both sections of animation] - The solar wind can travel at speeds up to two million miles per hour. As it flows past Earth, the solar wind changes the shape and structure of the Earth's magnetic field, which can damage satellites and disrupt communications and power systems. Courtesy NASA / ESA |
| ITEM (9): SOURCE OF THE SOLAR WIND - These combined images display UV light emitted by the solar corona over one full solar rotation (27 days) in August 1996. The inner images of the solar disk were taken by the EIT instrument aboard SOHO. The outer diffuse emission was observed by the UVCS instrument aboard SOHO, which creates an "artificial eclipse" in ultraviolet light to observe the dim extended solar corona. The dark regions at the north and south poles are called "coronal holes," and they are thought to be the primary source regions of the high-speed solar wind. Courtesy NASA/SAO
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| ITEM (10): EARTH GETS BLASTED - This computer visualization shows the impacts of a coronal mass ejection on the Earth's magnetosphere. This discovery of a way to provide early warning of approaching solar storms could prove useful to power companies, the communications industry and organizations that operate spacecraft. The data were collected by the NASA's Wind satellite. Courtesy NASA
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| ITEM (11): SOHO ANIMATION - Animation of the SOHO SpacecraftCourtesy NASA/ESA
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| ITEM (12): AN INTERACTIVE EVENT -B-Roll from the San Francisco Exploratorium's interactive webcast of the February, 1998 eclipse. The Exploratorium will bring this year's total eclipse to viewers around the world via a live interactive webcast made possible with support from NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. Courtesy Exploratorium / NASA
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| ITEM (13): SOLAR RESEARCHER B-ROLL -Images of scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's SOHO Operations Facility. Courtesy NASA
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| ITEM (14): INTERVIEW EXCERPT - CRAIG DEFOREST - Craig DeForest explains why scientists are interested in studying eclipses. Craig DeForest is a solar physicist working for Stanford University at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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| ITEM (15): 1999 ECLIPSE HIGHLIGHTS -Highlights of the lasteclipse of the millennium from Amasya, Turkey on August 11, 1999. Images courtesy of the San Francisco Exploratorium and NASA.
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