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Why are the Rocky Mountains so far inland? How do we preserve the changing Amazon rain forest? When will the sun fling parts of itself towards Earth?

NASA is tackling questions like these inside supercomputers. Here, billions of calculations per second recreate the universe mathematically.

Supercomputers can process observations into a motion picture. Or, they can solve equations that describe realities seen and unseen.

To understand and predict nature through computation, NASA started the Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) Project. It is a unit of the agency's High Performance Computing and Communications Program.

This video magazine follows three ESS research teams on their journeys to discovery.

Additional Information:

Science Team II Grand Challenge Investigators

TERRA Home Page

Advanced Computing Technology Applications for SAR Interferometry and Imaging Science

Solar Activity & Heliospheric Dynamics

Point of Contact

Jarrett Cohen
Goddard Space Flight Center
301-286-2744

jarrett.cohen@gsfc.nasa.gov