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Exploring our Solar System and unlocking the secrets of the Universe
Go to topicProtecting life and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit
Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
Go to topicMaking space accessible and developing the technologies for the future
Go to topicVarious graphic animation sequences of recent Hubble Space Telescope results, including galaxies, supernovas, comets and planets.
00:00:40 A summertime view of Mars
00:01:50 Exaggerated Topography Movie: Mars
00:03:03 Seasonal changes in the Martian North Polar Ice Cap
00:03:42 Credits Slate ""HST/ Mars Science Team""
00:03:54 Springtime Dust Storm at Martian North Pole (slate)
00:04:07 Hubble observations of Mars
Mars Rotation Movie (Feb 25, 1995)
New Mars Image (Sep 18, 1996)
New Mars Image (Oct 15, 1996)
00:05:08 Saturn Storm - Wide/Field Planetary Camera
00:05:54 Jupiter Rotation
00:06:55 Neptune in Primary Colours
00:07:48 Comet Shoemaker - Levy-9 animation
00:08:30 The violent effects of shoemaker-Levy-9's impact on Jupiter
00:09:33 Hubble IOmage of Comet shoemaker-Levy 9 ""String of Pearls""
00:10:23 Comet Hale-Bop Nucleus Animation
00:11:27 Beta Pictoris Disk
00:12:00 Beta Pictoris Warp
00:12:58 Proof of a Monster Black Hole in Galaxy M84
00:13:43 Dust Disk around possible Black Hole in Galaxy NGC 4261
00:13:40 Tiling the Orian Mosaic
00:17:53 Hubble Deep Field Survey
00:18:16 Hubble Deep field zoom sequence
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