JPLraw Videos

Most picturesque image from WFPC2 (Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2). Astronauts extracting WFPC2 from Hubble in May 2009. WFPC2 construction. Animation of light path. Interview excerpts: Ed Weiler, Assoc. Admin., NASA's Science Mission Directorate; John Trauger, WFPC2 PI, JPL. Copies of this vider are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE will scan the whole sky in the infrared. Includes: WISE cleanroom footage; animation of WISE circling Earth; animation bird's eye view of asteroid belt; movie of asteroid moving across sky and interviews. Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

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B-roll: deployment of sensors in and around mouth of Mt. St. Helens volcano, July 2009. Eruption of 2004. Animation: NASA satellite Earth Observing-1 (E0-1). Intvu: Steve Chien, Principal Scientist for Autonomous Systems, JPL; Sharon Kedar, Geophysicist, JPL. Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

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Infrared imagery of Jupiter after an object impacted it on July 20, 2009. Interview excerpts: Glenn Orton, JPL Jupiter Research Scientist; Paul Chodas, JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Research Scientist. Artwork: Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments (1994). Animation of Shoemaker-Levy impacting Jupiter. Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 356-5392.

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Designed to fly just two years, NASA's QuikScat spacecraft is sailing into its 2nd decade of measuring ocean surface winds and improving our knowledge of Earth's weather and climate. QuikScat, short for Quick Scatterometer, launched June 19, 2999. Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

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Zoom from whole planet Saturn to close-up of plumes on Enceladus into the E ring. Animation: Cassini flying through plumes. B-roll: pouring salt. Interviews: Linda Spilker, Cassini Deputy Project Scientist, JPL; Sascha Kempf, Cassini Scientist, Max Planck, Institute for Nuclear Physics. Copies of this videa are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

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Clara Ma, winner of the new Mars rover naming contest visits JPL, meets the rover team, visits the Mars Yard, tours the clean room, and signs her name on the rover she named Curiosity. Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel.

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Mars Rover "Spirit" has been lodged in a sand trap at a site called "Troy" since April 23, 2009. Includes: Video of JPL engineers in MER test bed and meetings; images of where Spirit got stuck; interview with Rover Driver, Ashley Stroupe; images of Spirit's travels and MER animation. Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

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Video of ATHLETE dismounting from simulated landing platform. Animation: Two TRI-ATHLETE in possible operational applications. B-Roll: ATHLETE in lab. Interviews: Julie Townsend, JPL Robotics Engineer; Brian Wilcox, ATHLETE Principal Investigator, JPL. Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

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Animations: (1) Artist's concept of a collision between two bodies at least one as big as our moon. (2) Spitzer Space Telescope in space. Interview: Geoff Bryden, Astronomer, JPL. Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

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