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Exploring Volcanoes with NASA’s GEODES Team | Goddard Space Flight Center

Exploring Volcanoes with NASA’s GEODES Team | Goddard Space Flight Center

 

Close your eyes. Listen. Imagine lava seeping from the Earth, flowing and melting rock in its path. This is what inspired Ben Cosgrove’s new instrumental, “Volcano.” As an Artist-in-Residence, Cosgrove accompanied NASA’s Geophysical Exploration of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Solar System (GEODES) team to Lava Beds National Monument, where he participated in planetary science research to develop methods and tools to explore the surface of the Moon.

GEODES is a team within the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute. They investigate the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and the moons of Mars with geophysics methods to enable the exploration of their surfaces. They test geophysics methods, including seismic and ground penetrating radar surveying, on Earth to study and refine how these methods can best be used on the lunar surface. In addition, based on field research and remote sensing data, they develop numerical and statistical models to characterize the surfaces of our defined planetary targets.

In this video, you will see members of the GEODES team operating instruments including ground-penetrating radar, seismometers, magnetometers, drones, and gravitometers in lunar-like landscapes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona. When combined, these instruments provide an overall picture of the surface structure and what is below. So sit back and let us transport you—from lava beds on the surface of the Earth and the Moon, to the volcanic depths of the solar system, and beyond.

Learn more about GEODES:

https://www.geodes.umd.edu

Lava Beds National Monument

https://www.nps.gov/labe/index.htm


Video Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland

David Obajemu (University of Maryland): Producer, Editor, Videographer

Molly Wasser (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Videographer, Support

Nick Schmerr (University of Maryland): Scientist

Jacob Richardson (USRA): Scientist

Dan Gallagher (ROAR/Abacus Technology): Technical Support

Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 16, 2024


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