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Color illustration of a woman sprinkling ingredients on dough while a girl stands on a chair pouring ingredients into a mixing bowl. Title card reads, "A BIG Mooncake for Little Star."

Large rounded blue and white instrument with round opening at the front. Man faces it in foreground. Title card reads, "A flying telescope in a 747?!"

Painting of a densely populated city with waterways running between sections of the city. Caption: Throughout the '20s and '30s, Rivera painted murals

Textured mount-like landform. Caption: It was incredible how Earthlike Titan appeared.

Large plane taxiing on a runway. Caption: Propulsion is the power that moves something,

Astronaut in a space suit working on a machine. Caption: Training takes place in the neutral buoyancy lab.

Two cartoon characters wearing scuba gear in front of a large porthole. Spanish captions.

Cartoon character holding a hamburger while standing next to a refrigerator. Spanish captions.

Diagram of our solar system with Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus identified. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of two people standing close to a spaceship that as crashed and a third person a distance away. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a face against the backdrop of the surface of a barren planet. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a person in a spaceship with space visible through a window in the ship's wall. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a person sitting at a complex control board. Spanish captions.

Cartoon characters looking out a window into space. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a person talking to an alien. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a planet moving in front of the sun. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of an alien in elaborate clothes. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a person standing on the deck of a spaceship. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of two people and a large alien. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of three people in space suits. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of two people, one at the controls of a spaceship. Spanish captions.

Diagram of the Moon orbiting Earth. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of people and an alien in a watercraft, riding the crest of a large wave near land. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a rocky object approaching the atmosphere of a planet. Spanish captions.

A spiral galaxy with glowing lights throughout the arms of the spiral and a bright glowing light at the center. Spanish captions.

Person pointing towards a small creature. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a robot. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of three people standing in front of a computer screen. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a bright star with a glowing aura and yellow and orange licks of light emitting from the center. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a computer screen displaying a spaceship. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a person talking to an alien. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of two people in the deck of a spaceship and a third person handing them a helmet for a space suit. Spanish captions.

Person speaking in front of a background showing planets and space. Caption: And he detected a set of three planets around this star.

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: How can I watch the solar eclipse safely?

The event horizon of a black hole. Caption: The black hole has a radius, called the event horizon,

Horizontal view of a black hole. Caption: literally nothing can escape from it, not even light.

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: What makes solar eclipse glasses so special? Can I just wear sunglasses?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: What's happening on Aug. 21st, 2017? And what can people potentially see?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I get solar eclipse glasses?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I see the eclipse in totality?

A galaxy fades out. Caption: The original galaxy would be gone.

A huge mass of hot gas swirls into a star. Caption: that swirls onto the massive star.

Illustration of the earth revolving the sun. Caption: As the earth moved around the sun,

illustration of asteroids revolving the sun and other planets. Caption: Asteroids, though, move across the sky at different rates.

Illustration of a wave striking an atom. Caption: The shortest wavelength light are gamma rays,

Illustration of a woman talking to the Alien M51. Caption: You've got to move the earth back where it belongs.

The celestial image of a red starry surface. Caption: Where new stars are born,

Animation of two galaxies colliding. Caption: they smash together with tremendous force.

Image of Andromeda galaxy. Caption: is about 160,000 light years away.

An image of the outer space. Caption: it's eventually blocks out all visible light.

An Illustration depicts the three positions of the universe. The difference between the first two and the last two positions is labeled, + 2 units. The difference between the first and last positions is labeled, + 4 units. Caption: the more the expansion pushes them apart.

An electromagnetic spectrum with a bright star over the infrared range. Caption: Hotter objects glow in visible light.

An illustration depicts the spiral structure of a galaxy. Caption: Many galaxies have a spiral structure,

Sun and a red planet in outer space. Caption: we can tell what comprises the atmospheres.

Still image from: Asteroids

Still image from: Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors

Irregularly shaped gaseous shape with bright stars glowing around and behind it. Caption: with the potential to explore our universe

Out of focus image of a spherical object surrounded in glowing light. Caption: Then, as scientists explored the nucleus,

Person speaking with a crescent moon visible in the daytime sky behind them. Caption: Sometimes you can see the moon during the daytime.

A T V screen displays men walking on the moon. Caption: On the evening of July 31, 1969, the world is watching the T V.

Still image from: Comets

Still image from: Constellations

Nebulous green, pink, and orange background with glowing flecks. Title card reads, "Core Astronomy."

Three images of a textured surface. Caption: We see cracks and ridges, but few craters.

Still image from: Countdown to Apollo: Amiable Strangers

Still image from: Countdown to Apollo: Apollo Fact or Fiction

Still image from: Countdown to Apollo: Caught on Camera

Still image from: Countdown to Apollo: Decisions, Decisions

Still image from: Countdown to Apollo: Mercury 7

Still image from: Countdown to Apollo: Space Race Firsts

Still image from: Countdown to Apollo: The Apollo Players

Still image from: Countdown to Apollo: Was It Worth It?

A cylindrical space craft with equipment and antennas protruding from it in relief against a large grayish-brown planet with rings in the background. Caption: We'll shoot between Saturn and its rings.

A rectangular space craft with a large, flat round disc pointed towards the planet earth, visible in the background. Caption: We've launched hundreds into low Earth orbit for years.

A hexagonal space craft with three much larger wings equally spaced around the hexagonal base flying in space with the planet Jupiter in the distant background. Caption: Juno's going to Jupiter to learn about how it was formed.

A person crouching in front of a vertical panel. A device is adhered to the panel. Caption: Real Time. We have electrostatic grippers,

A roughly cube shaped space craft with a communications dish and two large rectangular solar panels flying through space. Caption: It wouldn't be possible without ion propulsion.

A cube shaped space craft on a tripod of legs and four rotor-like wings on top sitting on the surface of a barren planet. Caption: 5 Survive Mars Environment. "And it has to survive the harsh environment of Mars."

A roughly rectangular space craft with two solar wings approaches a much larger round spacecraft surrounded in petal-like protrusions. Caption: The one in space will be tens of meters.

A cylindrical space craft with two solar wings and two rods capped in spheres protruding from it in relief over the planet Earth and space. Caption: The Hubble Telescope is made of several different instruments.

Brightly glowing half-spheres joined so that they mirror each other against a gaseous background. Caption: make the core absorb energy instead of generating it.

Bright red planet with a mottled surface. Caption: Titan has a dense nitrogen atmosphere,

Rocket-like object. Time to go outside… Caption: (man) T-minus 10, 9, 8….

Gloved hand reaching into a container emitting a foggy, mist-like cloud. Caption: Look at all this moisture being frozen.

Person attaching different colored and shaped objects to a Styrofoam ball. Caption: Those gas jets are actually forming the coma of the comet,

Object striking dirt and throwing up debris. REPLAY. Caption: Not all meteorites come in perpendicularly.

People standing in front of a giant inflated black plastic pouch. Turn fan back to high speed. Caption: Once the door is cut, turn the fan on high.

Person holding a paper cup with rubber bands and binder clips wrapped around a tubular object. Caption: (Nate) There's lots of ways of getting the straw into the potato.

Illustration of the Earth. Caption: Noon is when the sun is highest in the sky.

Matter - icons representing solid, liquid, and gas. Caption: of a solid, a liquid, or a gas,

Diagram of the solar system with Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury identified. Caption: There's an invisible force between the Sun and the planets

Illustration of the Earth from space. A line travels from the north pole to the south pole. The Earth is tilted slightly off-axis to the right. Caption: called an "axis," which goes through earth

Person in lab coat, gloves, and mask moving a large metal machine that is place above other complex metal machinery. Caption: Also key is state-of-the-art optical and laser technology:

Rocky, flat, barren landscape with a large planet covered in bands of color on the horizon and a star in the distance. Caption: where life might be found in our own solar system

Space rocket launching as seen from below. Caption: I want to contribute to the first manned mission to Mars.

Aerial view of geometric objects on the surface of a planet. Caption: (narrator) If the demand for lunar minerals expands,

An illustration depicts the formation of the Moon approximately 4.5 billion years ago.

Glowing star shining light on a planet. Caption: That tells you there may be a planet around that star.

Graphic of peaks and valleys below the surface of the water. Caption: And satellites unveil the seafloor,

Space station as seen from space. Caption: Section by section, it grew.

Close view of the moon partially illuminated. Caption: the moon experiences great temperature fluctuations

An illustration of Voyager 2 revolving Neptune.

Gentle waterfall. Spanish captions.

Closeup of the surface of the sun showing disturbances caused by solar wind. Caption: It's brought to earth by solar wind from the sun.

Illustration of four African American mathematicians in the NASA lab. Caption: Their job was to do math.

Still image from: Hidden Figures: Timeline

A space observatory. Caption: The telescopes made images of the region.

An illustration of solar system.

Illustration of the Earth its orbit. Object moving toward the orbit ahead of the current position of the earth with multiple possible trajectories. Refine the path. Caption: helps refine the projected path,

Rocket with multiple engines. Caption: the telescope was carried into space on April 24, 1990.

Still image from: I Want to See the Galaxy

Person holding a magnet above a pile of metal shavings. Some of the metal shavings are adhering to the magnet. Caption: that exert a force on metal objects when they're nearby.

Person placing a magnet to one side of the path directly in front of a ramp. A dotted line projects the path of an object that will move from the ramp and curve toward the magnet. Caption: Let's place the magnet somewhere to alter the marble's course.

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: 4 Ways the Universe Might End (All of Them Bad)

A view of Moon in the dark sky. Caption: Maria, Latin for seas, and Sea of Tranquility, Mare Tranquillitatis.

Orange glare flares out from bright central object and is surrounded by flecks of colored light in outer space.

A battery gauge has 14 blocks, where 7 blocks are full. The grades of the battery gauge reads, from top to bottom, as follows. Gamma rays, X rays, U V, visible rays, and infrared. An arrow points from visible light to infrared.

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Are There 7 Days in a Week?

A star filled night sky. Caption: P B S.

An astronaut Don Pettit talks to host Joe Hanson. A rocket is seen in the background.

Still image from: JPL and the Space Age: Destination Moon

Still image from: JPL and the Space Age: Explorer 1

Still image from: JPL and the Space Age: Landing on Mars

Still image from: JPL and the Space Age: The American Rocketeer

Illustration of three people talking. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a child in a car seat riding in the backseat of a car looking out the window. Caption: I love looking out the window when I'm riding in the car.

Person floating in a chamber with switches, buttons, and lights on the walls. Caption: One of the fun things about flying in space

Illustration of a split screen showing a robot with wheels on the surface of a red planet and people at a computer. Caption: engineers send computer commands overnight,

Illustration of the Sun, Earth, and Mars. Caption: the planets are in perfect positions to get to Mars

How do you land on Mars? Caption: Very carefully.

Diagram of the atmosphere above a planet's surface. A ship passes through the atmosphere at 13,000 mph and deposits a rover at 0 mph. Caption: we have to slow down from 13,000 miles an hour to zero.

Illustration of people in ancient Egyptian dress pointing over pyramids into the night sky. Caption: Even the ancient Egyptians called Mars "The Red One."

Illustration concentric circles with the Sun in the center and then Earth and Mars. Caption: In orbit, Mars is about 50 million miles farther away

Illustration concentric circles with the Sun in the center and then Earth and Mars. Caption: Earth and Mars wind up on opposite sides of the sun.

Illustration of a robot with wheels on the surface of a reddish-brown planet. Caption: If Curiosity finds organics, it wouldn't prove life existed,

A photo of the Mars surface shows ridges with steep slopes on both sides.

Central point of light surrounded by nebulous cloud-like structures and glowing light. Caption: The intense light of a supernova travels outward,

An illustration of magnetic field surrounding a planet.

Small spherical object in relief against a red glowing background. Caption: It's the closest planet to our sun,

Still image from: Meteors

Still image from: Moon Phases

The surface of the moon in relief against the black background of space. Caption: volcanic activity also ceased as the moon's interior cooled.

Street view of the entrance of the Adler Planetarium, a domed building made of darker stone with a wide staircase leading up to it. It is surrounded by a building of a triangular shape made of glass.

Large gray World War 2 aircraft carrier sits at dock on a sunny day with calm waters. Multiple airplanes are visible on its deck.

Still image from: Nature Knows Best: NASA Studies Nature

Part of a space craft as seen from space. Caption: But are the risks to the astronauts acceptable?

Earth spinning on its orbit, the equator of earth is tilted downward and eastward.

A photo depicts the earth spinning in its orbit, where the equator and tropic of cancer are highlighted. Caption: June

Earth spinning on its orbit, the tilt of earth's central axis along the vertical axis is highlighted.

Planet Earth with nebulous green and blue light coming towards it. Caption: except that they travel at different speeds

A planet with different colored bands on the surface and rings outside the atmosphere. Caption: The atmosphere is mainly made up of hydrogen and helium,

Two scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider.

Planet Mars. Caption: negative 63 degrees Celsius and negative 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Source, NASA.

An illustration depicts some planets and their orbits, revolving around a sun. Caption: N A S A.

Two black holes in the center of a galaxy. Caption: L I G O slash S X S slash R Hurt and T Pyle.

A black hole in the center of a galaxy. Caption: Black hole.

A giant concrete tunnel runs through a desert. Caption: Laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory.

A telescope built on the top of a mountain. Caption: Large synoptic survey telescope. Science office slash L S S T project slash N S F slash A U R A.

An illustration of Moon and Earth.

Diagram of our solar system. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Planets of Our Solar System

Irregular orange and yellow shapes in greenish clouds. Caption: should focus on physics, math, and computer science.

The planets of our solar system in a line. Caption: We'll begin with Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun.

The sun with a chaotic surface and a glowing ring. The glowing ring is labelled as the corona. Caption: extremely hot outermost layer of the Sun.

Cardboard pieces cut and attached together to resemble robotic arms attempting to pick up rocks. Caption: Let's see if these robotic arms can pick up some space rocks.

Astronaut in a space suit with the face plate open. Caption: And in 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

Robot with logos for NASA and GM. Caption: that we developed to assist astronauts in space

An illustration of Saturn. Caption: Internal heat is visible in infrared view.

An image of Saturn's largest ring. An highlighted portion of the ring is shows a cluster of objects.

A cluster of telescopes pointed to the sky. Caption: at 16,500 feet in the deserts of Atacama in Chile.

Concentric circles of light around a center of blackness. Caption: We can see the material around the black hole.

Computer screen displaying two uneven strands of light. Caption: that thrives where life would seem impossible.

Circular tunnel with pipe conduit along the walls and a large, central tube. Caption: (narrator) At CERN, the Higgs is only the beginning.

White glowing orb against a black grid. Caption: Weakly Interacting Massive Particle

Points of light spaced evenly across a surface. A rod with spheres extends down the center. Caption: It's a cubic kilometer full of sensors known as IceCube,

Glowing orb of a star surrounded by green, nebulous light. Stereo COR1 B. Caption: will suddenly be ejected into interplanetary space.

Glowing orb of the sun emitting a pulse of light. Caption: and washes out across the solar system.

Small point of light at the center of an expanding cloud of red, magenta, and gray light. Caption: It's called a supernova.

An electromagnetic spectrum is superimposed on the image of a galaxy. The visible spectrum is highlighted. Caption: A radio wave is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum,

Two people standing next to a large telescope with MEADE on the side. One person looks in the eye piece. Caption: they look way out to the Kuiper Belt,

Asteroids floating through the galaxy. Caption: Asteroids range in size from pebbles to 600 miles across,

Asteroids floating through the galaxy. Spanish captions

The center of a black hole. Caption: If light cannot escape a black hole, nothing can.

Black hole in front of an eclipse. Spanish captions.

Comet shooting through space. Caption: forming a long dust tail behind it.

A comet in space. Spanish captions.

Constellations in the night sky. Caption: It's like a game of connect the dots.

A constellation. Spanish captions.

View of Earth from space. Caption: The other half of the Earth faces away from the sun,

Golden sunset behind hills and water. Spanish captions.

Close up image of the sun with the Earth in the background. Caption: Earth orbits, or travels around, the sun

Earth in space with the moon behind it. Spanish captions.

The nine planets orbiting around the sun. Caption: The shape of a planet's orbit is an ellipse.

The Earth with arrows circling it. Spanish captions.

Calendar image of September 20th. Caption: The autumn equinox usually happens around September 20.

Diagram of Earth with angles. Spanish captions.

Swirling red galaxy. Caption: Galaxies are divided in three basic types

Stars shining in the galaxy. Spanish captions.

Diagram of the nine planets with the sun in the background. Caption: Distance is a very important aspect of gravitational force.

The moon orbiting around Earth. Spanish captions.

A sliding scale weighing something. Caption: The force of gravity gives every object weight.

Earth in space. Spanish captions.

Diagram of the moon orbiting Earth. Caption: As the new moon begins its orbit,

Earth in space with the moon behind it. Spanish captions.

Earth directly in front of the sun. Caption: This creates a lunar eclipse.

A waning moon. Spanish captions.

Comet shooting through space. Caption: First, meteoroids come from comets and asteroids.

A comet above Earth. Spanish captions.

Moon behind a hazy sky. Caption: The moon looks bright because it reflects light from the sun.

Earth and Moon in space. Spanish captions.

The nine planets lined up behind the sun. Caption: Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun.

The nine planets in line behind the sun. Spanish captions.

View of Earth from the Sun. Caption: While the earth is revolving around the sun,

Earth in space with moon in the distance. Spanish captions.

Earth in space with the sun in the distance. Caption: of the earth around its axis.

Earth in space. Spanish captions.

The moon directly in front of the sun. Caption: Seeing a solar eclipse can be an unforgettable experience.

Plants growing through the dirt. Caption: All plants use the sun's energy to make their own food.

Yellow sun setting over a desert. Spanish captions.

Asteroids moving through space. Caption: It has a large number of irregularly-shaped asteroids.

Nine planets orbiting around the sun. Spanish captions.

Diagram of Earth orbiting the sun. Caption: is called the summer solstice.

Diagram of Earth orbiting the sun. Spanish captions.

A swirling galaxy. Caption: which is a part of your universe.

Nine planets orbiting around the sun. Spanish captions.

Two people sitting on a couch and talking. Caption: A black hole is a region of space and time

Spatial view of a crater on the moon. Caption: then we head straight down to the bottom of a crater,

Four observatory telescopes pointed towards a starry sky. Caption: We have one record of the universe streaming by us.

Four people in a yard holding balloons. One is on a ladder. Caption: Five, four, three, two, one.

A diagram illustrates a solar eclipse. The Moon between the Sun and the Earth.

A diagram illustrates a solar eclipse. An object has its actual position behind the Sun. The line of sight of this object from the Earth is a curved line. But, the object it is observed at a different position from the Earth. This line of observation is a straight line. The angle between the two lines is labeled, proof.

An illustration depicts migration from Earth to Mars.

An illustration of a space colony.

An illustration of two astronauts in a foreign planet surface.

Earth as seen from space. Caption: (narrator) Terraforming is making an alien world more like Earth.

Two people, one of them singing. Caption: A hundred thousand miles an hour

Five people dancing and singing. Caption: It's a marvelous night for a moon dance

Group of young people singing and dancing. Caption: We are the place to be in the galaxy

Young girl sitting in her bed singing. Caption: S-P-A-C-E

Four people, one man tossing an apple into the air. Caption: Gravity rules our planet

Rocket launching. Caption: There will be private citizens paying for their own trips

Planets orbiting around the sun. Their elliptic are visible and there is a connection indicated between the two planets shown. Caption: Kepler explained those retrograde loops.

Dense points of light on a black background. Caption: The oldest could be 11 to 13 billion years old,

Internal view of a telescope. Caption: It collects light like the lens of an eye.

Nebulous clouds and points of light with a black hole at the center. Caption: We can't see a black hole, but it bends passing light.

Diagram of two planets, one wearing a scarf, one obscured by gas vapors. Caption: Most of these are ice giants or gas giants

An illustration of an elliptical orbit in space, with two foci. Lines are drawn from the foci to an object at the perigee. Caption: woman, an ellipse is a plane figure.

Illustration of a child playing on a city street, imagining that he is flying the rocket in his hand. Caption: His imagination took him out of his neighborhood.

Nebulous clouds of brightly colored gas with points of light visible through the gas. Caption: They are giant gas clouds of hydrogen and dust

Spiral shaped galaxy in space. Caption: Astronomy is the study of objects in space,

Flat surface with arching lines of light emanating from localized points. Caption: They originate and terminate at the local magnetic poles,

Large sphere of glowing light dwarfs object labelled as Earth's orbit around sun. Caption: larger than Earth's orbit around the Sun,

Sunset over the ocean. Spanish captions.

Still image from: The Apollo Chronicles: Failure and Fire

Still image from: The Apollo Chronicles: Hailed as Heroes

Still image from: The Apollo Chronicles: Into the Unkown

Still image from: The Apollo Chronicles: Perilous Steps

A tock is placed on a table. In a close up, Emily Graslie halds the rock in her hand. Caption: I'm gonna go with, this is not a meterorite.

An illustration of a giant cloud of gas.

Solar eclipse. Caption: Birds roost, flowers close, and, like heralds, dogs bark.

Black and white photograph of a spherical object against a black sky. Caption: Mercury is scorched and irradiated

Glowing ball of the sun with heat visibly radiating off it. Caption: An inferno spewing energy, heat, and light.

Ms. Frizzle and Liz at the controls of a spaceship. Caption: And how are all my astronauts doing?

Student from the magic school bus standing in front of a model of the Earth and moon with a miniature school bus traveling between them. Caption: We need to go this way!

Ms. Frizzle in a space suit in front of a control panel on a spaceship. Her arms are raised. Caption: They're called supernovas.

Aerial view of a large depression in the earth. Caption: In the heart of the Outback, these are the Henbury craters.

Circular cloud with a bright center against space. Caption: To understand comets, we return to the earliest solar system,

Large blue planet with a darker blue spot. Caption: Neptune is so remote,

Brown, tan, and beige banded planet with rings. A smaller spherical object is next to it. Caption: In a class of its own is Titan, Saturn's single big moon.

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Camping in Myakka River State Park and Shark Encounters

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Camping in Myakka River State Park and Shark Encounters (Spanish)

An illustration of a galaxy.

Blurry image of glowing orange dots. Caption: Five million tons of hydrogen fuse into helium every second.

Still image from: The Sun Is Kind of a Big Deal

A brightly colored galaxy. Caption: In the middle of this huge whirlpool,

Six planets orbiting around the sun. Caption: (narrator) It is gravity that holds our solar system together.

Illustration of Jupiter's radiation. Caption: Its electromagnetic radiation is intense.

Image of the sun from above Earth. Caption: And the clock is ticking toward magnetic apocalypse.

Illustration of Mars in space. Caption: (narrator) How could life have first formed on Mars?

Earth and Mars passing each other in space. Caption: Mars and the Earth had been passing each other

Meteor on fire traveling downwards. Caption: Venus has been hit hard with meteors…

View of Saturn in space. Caption: "Saturn: Lord of the Rings."

Bubbling hot plasma. Caption: superheated into a plasma that burns at millions of degrees.

Two red orange planets in space. Caption: coalesced to shape our moon.

Close up view of Neptune in space. Caption: What happened to Neptune's great dark spot?

Galaxy filled with swirling stars. Caption: is that it both was and wasn't there.

A child wearing a harness next to a woman. Caption: here at the Kennedy Space Center.

Small patch of dirt showing through haze. Caption: TITAN'S DENSE HAZE BEGAN TO CLEAR ABOUT 45 MILES (70 KILOMETERS) ABOVE THE SURFACE

A photo of the surface of the Moon.

Illustration image of a satellite. Caption: Juno is an unmanned deep-space mission

Closeup of a skeleton of a Dilophosaurus on display at an exhibit, showing the characteristic fin on the top of its head. Caption. And some of its former very large nonhuman inhabitants.

Complex of buildings and roads. Caption: (narrator) Stretching 72 miles down Florida's east coast,

Illustration of an alien standing in a beam of light. Caption: of alleged alien abductees.

Old photograph of a space shuttle launching. Caption: It also fueled new interest in alien life.

Illustration of Earth with a spaceship in front of it. Caption: (narrator) If alien starships really are shooting across the cosmos,

A view of the earth from space. One vertical half of the earth is in darkness. Caption: The whole planet is made of bits of exploding stars.

White background with faint gray grid lines with a physics equation breaking down P, E sub G or Pressure times Gravitational Potential Energy.

Pointy hill with traces of snow appears in front of a lake and other snowy hills in the distance. Green Northern Lights are visible in night sky over the distant hills.

White background with gray grid lines with a molecule diagram on it. Text underneath the diagram reads, "Amino acid."

Computer graphic of a sphere superimposed with an infrared heat signature on a black background. Most of the globe is bright green with the middle in dark blue and purple and small red spot with yellow shooting out toward the bottom center.

Detailed photograph of the moon. Caption: In 1959 the Survey compiled a photogeologic map of the moon

A diagram comapres the color data from the planet Earth. Red and Blue lights are shown as reflected lights.

Slit screen of a person in a virtual reality suit and the computer representation of her body. Caption: It actually recognizes my skeleton based on these different markers.

An illustration of a planet.

Illustration of a solar system with planets on similar orbits except for one that is travelling on a skewed, debris filled elliptic. Caption: A dwarf planet could have a bumpy ride as it travels.

A satellite image of a planet surface. One of the four craters is labeled, Kandinsky.

Illustration of the Earth in space. Caption: As Earth orbits the Sun, it spins on its axis.

Illustration of the planets in our solar system. Caption: Mars is more like Earth than any other planet.

Illustration of the Sun and planets in our solar system. Caption: The Sun is the closest star to planet Earth.

Man teaching at a table. Caption: The Sun and Jupiter have a lot in common.

Satellite orbiting around Jupiter. Caption: And that will help us figure out what's inside.

Planet Jupiter being shown next to Earth. Caption: Jupiter is bigger than all of the other planets combined.

Diagram showing the different orbits of planets. Caption: And today, it’s falling back toward the Earth,

Satellite in close proximity to Jupiter. Caption: to steer Juno precisely on course.

Satellite orbiting around a planet. Caption: The Juno spacecraft is powered by light from the sun.

Picture of Jupiter with muscular arms. Caption: Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field--

A ball between two bands. Caption: As the bands move, the Great Red Ball stays still.

Still image from: Wild Explorers: Leap Year Mystery!

Still image from: Wild Explorers: Space Daydreams

Woman wearing dark sunglasses. Caption: Never be afraid to pursue your dreams,

Woman speaking. Caption: My name is CJ Bixby, I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm Donna Lawson, the legislative affairs officer

Woman sitting in a chair. Caption: and I work at Johnson Space Center.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'd love to see red footprints on Mars.

Woman speaking. Caption: I told my folks, "I'm going to be an engineer.

Woman speaking. Caption: I grew up on the Space Coast watching Space Shuttle launches

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: My first day at NASA was quite interesting

Woman speaking. Caption: I am Loria West, I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm proud to be part of the NASA team, the Orion team.

Woman speaking. Caption: and I work for the Launch Services Program.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm in the Game Changing Development Program Office

Woman speaking. Caption: and from then on, I wanted to work for NASA.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: My name is Misty Davies,

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm an attorney at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Woman speaking. Caption: I'm Tarrie Hood, I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: My name is Toni Mumford, I work at NASA, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: I work at NASA headquarters, and this is my story.

Woman speaking. Caption: The first thing that came to mind was, "I'll work at NASA."

Person against a backdrop of the moon, earth, and an American flag. Caption: (female narrator) Alan Shephard, the first American in space,

Person in a space suit with the helmet removed, the moon in the background. Caption: Neil Alden Armstrong commanded a mission to the moon

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