NASA video series covering fun, interesting, and unusual science and research topics from the International Space Station and NASA’s science missions.
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NASA ScienceCast 313: The Power of the Station's New Solar Arrays
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The new solar arrays on @Space_Station, iROSA, are providing power to the station with improved efficiency. ROSA technology will also help power Gateway, and the DART mission!By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 312: Doing Business in Space
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The ISS is a one-of-a-kind laboratory, as well as an incubator for new business, accelerating the development of a new space economy in low-Earth orbit.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 311: Observing Lightning from the International Space Station
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Colorful bursts of energy above thunderstorms called transient luminous events can be observed from the ISS. Instruments on the station are helping scientists study these particle outbursts.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 310: The Small Satellite That’s Paying Big Dividends
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The International Space Station is well known as an orbiting laboratory, but during the past decade the station has also served a very different role - that of being a business incubator. One of its star products is the CubeSat.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 309: A Growing Market at Gravity’s Edge
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The commercialization of low-Earth orbit is enabling a new market in space, while aiding NASA in its mission of exploration and discovery.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 308: Keeping an Eye on Earth
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Earth observing instruments on the space station along with photography from crew members serve to keep a multifunctional eye on our home planet.By NASA Science
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Scientists are using AMS-02 on the Space Station to study fundamental particles originating from sources up to billions of light years away. These particles may hold the key to understanding both the composition and history of our universe.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 306: Making Space for Technology Development
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The International Space Station provides the only microgravity environment in which we can test technologies critical to our deep-space exploration in the near and far-term future.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 305: Effects of the Solar Wind
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The continuously expanding solar wind begins in our Sun and doesn’t stop until after it reaches the edge of the heliosphere.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 304: Unlocking the Origins of the Universe
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AMS-02 is helping scientists investigate many fundamental physics questions from its place on the space station. Astronauts are conducting a series of spacewalks to perform repairs and extend the life of the observatory.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 303: Exploring the Presence of Water on the Moon
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The presence of water on the Moon opens up many exciting possibilities for future exploration and just as many questions about that water’s origins.By NASA Science
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Neptune will be at opposition in September, providing an opportunity to observe this planet that is invisible to the naked eye, but that scientists would love to see more clearly.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 301: Shedding Light on Black Holes
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"Black Holes" is one of the most highly searched terms about our universe. How much of what we think we know about black holes is actually true?By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 300: Cutting-edge Biomanufacturing Aboard the International Space Station
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Welcome to the world of 3D biomanufacturing, a cutting-edge practice on Earth that is being tested aboard the International Space Station.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 299: The Lasting Impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
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In July 1994, astronomers around the world watched as the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the planet Jupiter.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 298: Watch the History of our Solar System Fly By with MU69
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Scientists are unlocking clues about the earliest formation of our solar system from a Kuiper Belt Object known as 2014 MU69.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 297: Cementing Our Place in Space
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Experiments have taken place aboard the International Space Station to study cement based concrete in microgravity.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 296: Shining Laser Light on Earth’s Forests
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The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) on the space station beams laser light down to Earth to reveal the height and density of trees and vegetation.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 295: A Chip Off the Old Block
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Living 3D versions of human organs called Tissue Chips are being sent to the International Space Station to be studied in microgravity.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 294: On the Cusp of Understanding
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NASA is using sounding rockets to study the cusp, a point where the magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet dips inward and touches down to Earth.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 293: A Successful Mission Starts With Nutrition
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The relationship between a successful exploration mission and balanced nutrition is vital in the extreme vastness of outer space.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 292: The Space We Travel Through
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As NASA prepares to send astronauts and spacecraft long distances through space, scientists are keeping an eye on the weather. Space weather.By NASA Science
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2019 is an excellent year to look to the sky and enjoy the spectacular view of Earth’s nearest neighbor, the Moon.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 290: Big Questions About Small Worlds
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Small Worlds hold keys to questions about our solar system and the origin of life on Earth.By NASA Science
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NASA ScienceCast 289: Small Satellites yield Big Discoveries
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NASA uses CubeSats for new science missions and to test new electronics, sensors and software that might be included on larger missions.By NASA Science
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