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Going Beyond the Lab Bench- Caelin Potts (LLS 2016).webm

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Going Beyond the Lab Bench- Caelin Potts (LLS 2016).webm

Laboratory Leadership Service fellow Caelin Potts shares about thriving in a dynamic learning environment and how LLS fellows link laboratory science with logistics planning for urgent public health needs. For more information about CDC’s LLS fellowship, visit www.cdc.gov/lls. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: https://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at https://www.cdc.gov/lls/videos/lls-potts.wmv

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Снимай науку.webm

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Снимай науку.webm

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CSIRO ScienceImage 3742 Pye Laboratory Wind Tunnel.jpg

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CSIRO ScienceImage 3742 Pye Laboratory Wind Tunnel.jpg

The special low-speed wind tunnel at CMAR's Pye laboratory allows scientists to undertake fundamental studies on how air interacts with the earth's surface. At this 'boundary layer', both smooth and turbulent flows are possible. The wind tunnel is driven by a powerful double-inlet centrifugal fan. Air is blown down the test section, enters the ambient space, and is then recycled. In detail, air flows from the fan through a coarse-flow straightener, a wide-angle diffuser with screens, a fine straightener, a settling chamber with screens, then a contraction, the working section, and finally the outlet diffuser. The working section is 1.8 m wide, 0.9 m high, and 16 m long. Several methods of air-speed control are available, providing high speeds for turbulent boundary-layer studies and very low speeds for experiments on flow over plants. The contraction ratio is 5.5:1, similar to that of a general purpose tunnel.

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Curiosity - The Next Mars Rover.jpg

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Curiosity - The Next Mars Rover.jpg

This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Curiosity is being tested in preparation for launch in the fall of 2011. In this picture, the rover examines a rock on Mars with a set of tools at the end of the rover's arm, which extends about 2 meters (7 feet). Two instruments on the arm can study rocks up close. Also, a drill can collect sample material from inside of rocks and a scoop can pick up samples of soil. The arm can sieve the samples and deliver fine powder to instruments inside the rover for thorough analysis. The mast, or rover's "head," rises to about 2.1 meters (6.9 feet) above ground level, about as tall as a basketball player. This mast supports two remote-sensing instruments: the Mast Camera, or "eyes," for stereo color viewing of surrounding terrain and material collected by the arm; and, the ChemCam instrument, which is a laser that vaporizes material from rocks up to about 9 meters (30 feet) away and determines what elements the rocks are made of.

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MSL HeatShield.jpg

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MSL HeatShield.jpg

The finished heat shield for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, with a diameter of 4.5 meters (14 feet, 9 inches), is the largest ever built for descending through the atmosphere of any planet. This image shows the heat shield and a spacecraft worker at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, which built and tested the heat shield. The heat shield and the spacecraft's backshell together form an encapsulating aeroshell that will protect the mission's rover, Curiosity, from the intense heat and friction that will be generated as the flight system descends through the Martian atmosphere. The aeroshell has a steering capability produced by ejecting ballast that offsets the center of mass prior to entry into the atmosphere. This offset creates lift as it interacts with the thin Martian atmosphere and allows roll control and autonomous steering through the use of thrusters.

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Msl capsule cruiseStage.jpg

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Msl capsule cruiseStage.jpg

The major components of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft—cruise stage atop the aeroshell, which has the descent stage and rover inside—were connected together in October 2008 for several weeks of system testing, including simulation of launch vibrations and deep-space environmental conditions. These components will be taken apart again, for further work on each of them, after the environmental testing. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is being assembled and tested for launch in 2011.

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MSL DescentStage.jpg

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MSL DescentStage.jpg

This image from early October 2008 shows personnel working on the descent stage of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The descent stage will provide rocket-powered deceleration for a phase of the arrival at Mars after the phases using the heat shield and parachute. When it nears the surface, the descent stage will lower the rover on a bridle the rest of the way to the ground. The larger three of the orange spheres in the descent stage are fuel tanks. The smaller two are tanks for pressurant gas used for pushing the fuel to the rocket engines.

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MSL parachute.jpg

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MSL parachute.jpg

The team developing the landing system for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory tested the deployment of an early parachute design in mid-October 2007 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. In this image, two engineers are dwarfed by the parachute, which holds more air than a 280-square-meter (3,000-square-foot) house and is designed to survive loads in excess of 36,000 kilograms (80,000 pounds). The parachute, built by Pioneer Aerospace, South Windsor, Connecticut, has 80 suspension lines, measures more than 50 meters (165 feet) in length, and opens to a diameter of nearly 17 meters (55 feet). It is the largest disk-gap-band parachute ever built and is shown here inflated in the test section with only about 3.8 meters (12.5 feet) of clearance to both the floor and ceiling. The wind tunnel, which is 24 meters (80 feet) tall and 37 meters (120 feet) wide and big enough to house a Boeing 737, is part of the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex, operated by the U.S. Air Force, Arnold Engineering Development Center.

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MSL-Crusie stage.jpg

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MSL-Crusie stage.jpg

This portion of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, called the cruise stage, will do its work during the flight between Earth and Mars after launch in the fall of 2011.

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Dart impact replay.webm

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Dart impact replay.webm

The final five-and-a-half minutes of images leading up to the DART spacecraft's intentional collision with asteroid Dimorphos. The DART spacecraft streamed these images from its DRACO camera back to Earth in real time as it approached the asteroid. This replay movie is 10 times faster than reality, except for the last six images, which are shown at the same rate that the spacecraft returned them. Both Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos are visible at the start of the movie. At the end, Dimorphos fills the field of view. The final image in the movie shows a patch of Dimorphos that is 51 feet 16 meters) across. DART's impact occurred during transmission of the final image to Earth, resulting in a partial picture at the end of this movie. Didymos is roughly 2,500 feet (780 meters) in diameter; Dimorphos is about 525 feet (160 meters) in length.

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NASA-WeeklyArcticSeaIceAge-1984-2019.webm

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NASA-WeeklyArcticSeaIceAge-1984-2019.webm

NASA video "Weekly Arctic Sea Ice Age with Graph of Ice Age By Area: 1984 - 2019" Public domain video (2:05) NASA Scientific Visualization Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFfcPC_4JE https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4750&button=recent This visualization shows the age of the Arctic sea ice between 1984 and 2019. Younger sea ice, or first-year ice, is shown in a dark shade of blue while the ice that is four years old or older is shown as white. The animation shows the seasonal variability of the ice, growing in the Arctic winter and melting in the summer. In addition, this also shows the changes from year to year. One significant change in the Arctic region in recent years has been the rapid decline in perennial sea ice. Perennial sea ice, also known as multi-year ice, is the portion of the sea ice that survives the summer melt season. Perennial ice may have a life-span of nine years or more and represents the thickest component of the sea ice; perennial ice can grow up to four meters thick. By contrast, first year ice that grows during a single winter is generally at most two meters thick. Note that data for the sea ice age is not available along the coastlines. The region where data is not available is shown in a dark lavender color. Another version of this visualization includes a graph that quantifies the area covered by sea ice 4 or more years old in millions of square kilometers. See https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4750 . Visualizers: Cindy Starr (lead), Horace Mitchell For more information or to download this public domain video, go to https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4750#27895

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1880- Global surface temperature - heat map animation - NASA SVS.webm

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1880- Global surface temperature - heat map animation - NASA SVS.webm

Global surface temperature heat map animation for 1880—___. Produced by NASA 's Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) from data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies . Direct links to source are provided in "Source" box below. Version 7 (data through 2024) Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2024 Scientific consulting by: Gavin A. Schmidt Visualizations by: Mark SubbaRao Version 6 (data through 2023) Original source page, titled "Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2023" Visualizations by Mark SubbaRao, includes the descriptions: This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in white. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. The maps are averages over a running 24 month window. The final frame represents global temperature anomalies in 2023. Scale in degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit. Version 5 (data through 2022) Original source page, titled "Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2022" Visualizations by Lori Perkins, includes the descriptions: This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in white. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. The final frame represents the 5 year global temperature anomalies from 2018-2022. Scale in degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit. Version 4 (data through 2021) Original source page, titled "Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2021" Visualizations by Lori Perkins, includes the descriptions: This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in

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