Goddard Glossary: Conjunction -- Video Description

Narration:

Transcript:

0:00 A woman with dark brown hair and a NASA shirt in front of a background of a starry sky. The word conjunction is spelled out syllabically above her.

0:01 Pan across multiple pictures of the night sky, with two bright dots near each other in them.

0:09 One image of two bright dots in the sky pans over to show the bright crescent Moon.

0:10 Animation of the Sun with the orbital path of two planets circling it in concentric hoops.

0:12 Back to the woman talking.

0:15 Animation of Earth swinging around the Sun, quickly replaced by Mars also orbiting the Sun.

0:18 Stacked videos of the InSight Mars Lander and the Curiosity Mars Rover.

0:23 The the woman talking.

0:24 Picture of the dusk sky, with three bright dots labeled Venus, Mars, and Saturn.

0:26 Animation of the night sky, with Venus, Mars and Saturn labeled to roughly correspond with the previous picture.

0:27 Wipe to the same animation later in the month. Mars and Saturn have changed places.

0:29 Back to the woman talking.

0:31 Animation of the Cassini spacecraft as it passes in front of the camera and then sails toward Saturn.

0:37 Animation of Earth, the Sun, and Saturn in a line.

0:40 The woman talking.

0:43 More pictures of the night sky with two bright dots close to each other.

0:47 Animation of the orbits of the planets in the solar system.

0:51 Back to the woman talking.