Hubble Views Moon to Study Earth

Taking advantage of the total lunar eclipse of January 2019, astronomers, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have measured the amount of ozone in Earth’s atmosphere.

The method used serves as a proxy for how they will observe Earth-like planets around other stars in search for worlds similar to our own.

Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-uses-earth-as-a-proxy-for-identifying-oxygen-on-potentially-habitable-planets-around

Music: “Life Unplanned” by Paul Saunderson [PRS], Abbey Road Masters [PRS]; Universal Production Music

Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris (USRA): Lead Producer
Krystofer Kim (USRA): Lead Animator
Cassandra Morris: Voice over Talent

Visualizations:
NASA/GSFC: K. Kim — Moonbounce Animation
ESA, NASA and L. Calçada (ESO) — Artist’s concept of exoplanet orbiting Fomalhaut
ESA, Hubble, M. Kornmesser —Absorption Lines & Exoplanets
NASA/GSFC: Chris Smith — TOI 700 system transit Animation
ESA, Hubble, M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen — HD 189733b transiting its parent star (artist’s impression)
ESA, ESO/L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen (ESA/Hubble) — Exoplanet Transit Method

Videos & Images:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
European Space Agency
Space Telescope Science Institute
January 2019 Moon Image taken by Kevin Hartnett
Artbeats Stock Footage — Footage of leaf
Pond5 Stock Footage — Footage of weeping willow
footagefirm — Footage of sunrise and clouds

This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13680

See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN

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