Solar System: 10 Things To Know

Solar System: 10 Things to Know

Movie Night

Summer break is just around the corner. Hang a sheet from the clothesline in the backyard and fire up the projector for a NASA movie night.

1. Mars in a Minute

Back in the day, movies started with a cartoon. Learn the secrets of the Red Planet in these animated 60 second chunks.

2. Crash of the Titans

Watch two galaxies collide billions of years from now in this high-definition visualization.

3. Tour the Moon in 4K

Wait for the dark of the waning Moon next weekend to take in this 4K tour of our constant celestial companion.

4. Seven Years of the Sun

Watch graceful dances in the Sun’s atmosphere in this series of videos created by our 24/7 Sun-sentinel, the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO).

5. Light ‘Em Up

Crank up the volume and learn about NASA science for this short video about some of our science missions, featuring a track by Fall Out Boy.

6. Bennu’s Journey

Follow an asteroid from its humble origins to its upcoming encounter with our spacecraft in this stunning visualization.

7. Lunar Landing Practice

Join Apollo mission pilots as they fly—and even crash—during daring practice runs for landing on the Moon.

8. Earthrise

Join the crew of Apollo 8 as they become the first human beings to see the Earth rise over the surface of the Moon.

9. Musical Descent to Titan

Watch a musical, whimsical recreation of the 2005 Huygens probe descent to Titan, Saturn’s giant moon.

10. More Movies

Our Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio provides a steady stream of fresh videos for your summer viewing pleasure. Come back often and enjoy.

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People who still think animation is just for kids, let me remind you about:

The Lion King: A beautiful and epic drama about the importance of accepting responsibility for one’s actions, particularly how it applies to those in positions of power.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Features dark themes such as racial genocide, sexuality, and religious extremism; but also has a lot of heart and some very poignant points about the role of faith in the modern world.

Zootopia: An allegory for injustice of just about any kind, which uses humans’ perceptions of animals to prove a point about how we perceive people.

Inside Out: A coming-of-age tale that focuses on the importance of emotional stability and empathy.

Coco: A beautifully written celebration of Latin American culture that highlights the importance of family, music, and our relationship with the dead.

The Prince of Egypt: An adaptation of one of the most famous religious stories of all time that keeps the spirit of the original story intact but still feels fresh and new.

Megamind: A comedy that subverts many superhero tropes and uses them to prove a point about the often black-and-white perception of morality.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: A fresh take on the mythos of one of the world’s most famous superheroes that has a unique art style and blends comedy and drama brilliantly.

The Iron Giant: A criticism of blind patriotism and an exploration of free will, supposedly pitched with the question, “What if a gun had a soul?”

The How to Train your Dragon trilogy: An analysis of mankind’s relationship with animals and how we treat them as “others,” which often leads to misconceptions about nonhuman intelligence.

Finding Nemo: A cautionary tale for parents about how much they should allow their children to be independent.

The Lego Movie: A funny and heartwarming tale of family bonding that encourages people to think creatively and discourages blind uniformity and authoritarian rule.

The Incredibles movies: Analyze how society conditions us to follow a cause and how we often forget that those of high social status are still human.

Shrek: A satirical criticism of beauty standards and the oversaturation of certain unrealistic tropes in media.

Big Hero 6: Shows healthy ways to cope with depression and post-traumatic stress and teaches us that mental health should not be disregarded.

The Croods: An assessment of fear of the unknown and why it shouldn’t necessarily keep us from living life to the fullest.

Frozen: A fairytale about coping with the anxiety that is produced by the pressure society puts on certain individuals.

The Kung Fu Panda movies: Focus a lot on the philosophical side of martial arts and how self-confidence is conducive to success.

Moana: Explores how culture and society shape our identities and how those identities can become misguided while at the same time celebrating the often overlooked culture of the Pacific Islands.

Kubo and the Two Strings: An artistic marvel about how nothing lasts forever, but nor does change mean the end.

Up: Highlights the dangers of being blinded by nostalgia and how to properly honor one’s legacy.

Tarzan: A drama about man’s relationship with nature and how much one is influenced by their environment.

The Secret of NIMH: A philosophical exploration of our desire for knowledge and how ethics must be brought into consideration as we seek to better ourselves.

The Toy Story movies: Explore themes of inadequacy, mortality, parenthood, and one’s purpose in life from the perspective of children’s playthings.

Lilo & Stitch: A clever family drama that focuses on a non-conventional family and doesn’t hold back with the hardships of raising children.

Ratatouille: A metaphor for the struggles that creative minds face and how society often rejects works of art for superficial reasons. Like, for example, that it’s animated, so that probably means it’s just for kids.

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Love that for him

The situation with Mason Greenwood is disgusting and people focusing on the fact that 'his career is ruined' seriously need to check their priorities and values.

The photos I've seen are hearbreaking and I could not bring myself to listen to the voice recording.

I hope Harriet is safe now and I hope she gets the justice she deserves!

For far too long all celebrities especially football players have been able to get away with everything (racism, sexism, homophobia, domestic violence- you name it) because people excuse them with 'I only care about what he does on the pitch'

I am a football fan, hell I even 'liked' Mason til now but now I want him pay for what he has done.

It is way past the time to hold them accountable.

Neymar has been my favourite player since the moment I saw him on the pitch years ago. I cried so hard when he left Barcelona.

This video hurts me both as a fan of his and someone in the mental health field (I am studying psychology).

I love and stand for everything @holdmyhopeinyourhands has written on here.

I hope he is dealing with this in a healthy manner, and I hope internet bullies and real life bullies realize their words hurt and they meaning.

Do better.

Be better.

I've rewatched this video so many times. So so many times and it breaks my heart each and every single time. The abuse, the bullying, the witch-hunt, it all reflects starkly in his eyes and it's sickening. To see someone who used to be so full of life laughing dejectedly (his voice breaking) as he says how tired he is and how he no longer has the mental strength to deal with the sport he loves anymore is just so freaking awful I don't even know how to put it into words.

Could you image being cut down, humiliated, slandered and verbally abused so much so that you can't even do what you love anymore?

People forgot a long time ago that Neymar was human. Hypocrites who preach about mental health and awareness forgot a long time ago that their attacks were landing and their words wounding.

I'm furious. I'm angry. I'm disappointed and so very worried about him. But more than anything I'm just sad. No one deserves this. No one deserves the amount of abuse he's dealt with. For years. For so many years and I always admired him for that strength. The resilience to carry on despite of it. The ability to pick himself back up no matter how much the media and the football community tried to kick him down.... but I guess eventually a time comes when even the must resilient breaks down. And this is the aftermath of that. This is the result of years of torment.

And I want everyone that played a part in it to know. Every single person that preached about mental health in one breath and abused the hell out of Neymar in their next, this is your doing. This is on you, remember that.

And I hope he seeks help and doesn't let this fester. Actually, I hope he's already going through therapy and dealing with all this in a healthy manner. I hope that his family, his friends and his teammates are there for him because he'll need them. And finally, I hope he does what's best for him. I loved and still love watching him play. It's beautiful and captivating and brilliant and I have loved every second of it. But if he has to hang up the boots even with psg for his own mental wellbeing than I wish him well and give him my thanks.

Thank you for making me fall in love with football again Ney and please take care of yourself. All the love in the world from your fans to you.

9-1-1 ▸ 4.04 9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?

“JJ, you can’t tell anybody.”

Someone hold me

Wishing him the best retirement

Happy 2021.

Hope this one is better for all of us.

Goodbye 2020

#pascalcampion