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A 1080p remake of our popular Cosmic Journeys episode. It's the ultimate buddy movie, with two astronauts hitting the road and landing on the moon. Earth. November 14, 1969. Three astronauts, with spacesuits, food, water, and a battery of scientific and communications equipment, prepared to fly to the moon. Thousands gathered at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, to witness the historic launch. It was raining that day, but that was no cause for delay. The ship that would carry them into space was designed to launch in any weather. But how would it respond to a powerful electrical storm now gathering above the launch pad? That was just the beginning of the incredible journey of Apollo 12. With three astronauts fastened into their seats, the countdown proceeded. Astronaut and Mission Commander Pete Conrad would say later: ..." onmouseout="mouseOutImage(this, '4', 'FFFFFF')" onmouseover="mousOverImage(this,'FBhIDjWaByg',1, '4','DD424E')" /> The Incredible...
Watch our videos commercial free on the SpaceRip app, available in the Apple and Google Play stores. From ESOcast, explore the state-of-the-art technology behind the Very Large telescope, which has provided astronomers with an unequalled view of the Universe. To obtain the sharpest images of the sky, the VLT has to cope with two major effects that distort the images of celestial objects. The first one is mirror deformations due to their large sizes. This problem is corrected using a computer-controlled support system — active optics — that ensures that the mirrors keep their desired shapes under all circumstances. The second effect is produced by Earth's atmosphere, which makes stars appear blurry, even with the largest telescopes. Adaptive optics is a real-time correction of the distortions produced by the atmosphere using computer-controlled mirrors that deform hundreds of times per second to counteract the atmospheric effects. As one demonstration of its power the VLT's sensitive infrared cameras, helped by adaptive optics, have been able to peer through the massive dust clouds that block our view to Milky Way's core. The images, taken over many years, have allowed astronomers to actually watch stars orbiting around the monstrous black hole that lies in the center of our galaxy. It was even possible to detect energetic flares from gas clouds falling into the black hole. How a Giant...
Watch our videos commercial free on the SpaceRip App, available on the Apple and Google Play stores. Dawn is a NASA spacecraft tasked with the exploration and study of the two largest members of the asteroid belt: Vesta and the dwarf planet, Ceres. The spacecraft was constructed with some European cooperation, with components contributed by partners in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The Dawn mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This video features images taken by Dawn as well as animated recreations of Vesta's most focal geological formations. Dawn may be the first spacecraft to orbit two separate extraterrestrial bodies, using ion drive to travel between its targets. Previous multi-target missions using conventional drives, such as the Voyager program, were restricted to flybys. Launched on September 27, 2007, Dawn reached Vesta on July 16, 2011, and will orbit and explore it until August 26, 2012. Thereafter, the spacecraft will head to Ceres, which it is scheduled to reach in February 2015. It will be the first spacecraft to visit either body. Dawn is NASA's first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion. Songs by Steven Reilly, Voyage of the...
Watch commercial free on the SpaceRip App, available on the Apple and Google Play stores. This is a full-HD update of our first ..." onmouseout="mouseOutImage(this, '4', 'FFFFFF')" onmouseover="mousOverImage(this,'JKct-VmeLOw',1, '4','DD424E')" /> Crashing into the...
This is an update, at full HD resolution, of our previous Cosmic Journeys episode. Watch all our videos on www.SpaceRip.com A whole new space race has begun. Over the next decade, the United States, Japan, India, China, Russia, and even private companies, are planning to send spacecraft to explore the moon. They will map the lunar surface, monitor the soil for moon quakes, study the flow of heat from the moon's core, and prospect for water deep within. What they are looking for goes beyond science. These missions are looking for resources that may oneday allow humans to settle permanently in space. The moon race is now heating up, in the wake of discoveries made by a mission known as LCross. What did scientists see in the debris of a rocket, they sent crashing into the moon? Crashing into the...
Watch this and other space videos at SpaceRip.com Until recently, the search for planets beyond our solar system was a matter of calculating the odds and laying out theories of solar system formation. Circumstantial evidence began to trickle in, a color shift in a stars light as a planet tugged on it, or a dipping in its light as a planet passed in front. When would our technology allow us to see through the bright light of stars to see these alien worlds directly? Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope began examining a star visible in the southern hemisphere, just 25 light years away. Called Fomalhaut, it's much hotter than our sun and 15 times as bright. In fact, it's one of the brightest stars in our night sky. What makes it so curious is the large ring of gas that surrounds it. The ring is slightly off center from the location of the sun. That suggests there's a gravitational presence, a planet, that's distorting its shape. With a coronagraph in place to block the star's light, Hubble zeroed in on the ring. Right there in the data, it turns out, was a bump, perhaps a planet. Hubble photographed this planet a second time, two years later when it had progressed in its orbit. Based on the change in position, astronomers calculated that it takes about 872 Earth-years to complete an orbit. Astronomers thought it to be a huge planet, many times larger than Jupiter. The reason they could see is that it may have a very large and reflective ring system. From the ring's <b>...</b> Tale of the...

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Crashing into the Moon

Watch commercial free on the SpaceRip App, available on the Apple and Google Play stores. This is a full-HD update of our first "Cosmic Journeys" episode. There was a time when only government agencies had the ability to blast rockets into space, or send missions to worlds beyond our own. These...

EARTH Masterpieces of Stone and Ice (in 1080p)

Watch this and other space videos at http://SpaceRip.com Revel in Earth as Art. Make sure you watch in glorious 1080p. Landsat missions were launched for scientific purposes, but they make up one of the most awe-inspiring collections of beautiful images of our home planet. For the last few...

Birth of the Moon

Watch this and other space videos at http://SpaceRip.com The latest episode of Cosmic Journeys, enjoy in full HD 1080p. Scientists have been reconstructing the history of the moon by scouring its surface, mapping its mountains and craters, and probing its interior. What are they learning about...

Tour of the Moon (our One and Only)

Watch this and other space videos at http://SpaceRip.com A beautiful 1080p tour of our moon. It's so clear and beautiful you'll want to go there yourself. This virtual tour is based on data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Enjoy this "new" Moon and its noteworthy destinations. Ancient...