Pioneering Lidar Technology: Goddard's Legacy Unveiled Promo

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Video Description
0:00 Jim Garvin in front of a bright background.
0:03 Animation that looks like spacecraft blueprints, with a yellow line snaking through.
0:06 Archival footage of Noel Hinners at a lectern.
0:09 Pan across posed group photos.
0:12 Garvin again.
0:14 Jim Abshire on a video call.
0:16 Document that says MOLA Mars Observer Laser Altimeter.
0:17 Bryan Blair on a video call.
0:18 Vintage animation of a spacecraft flying above a planet, bouncing a red light off its surface.
0:20 Jan McGarry on a video call.
0:21 Zoom into an older picture of two people on a research aircraft.
0:22 Gold spacecraft with white components inside a clean room, with two people in clean room suits.
0:26 David E. Smith on a video call.
0:28 Rocket launching.
0:32 A man in a suit talking.
0:34 Montage of newspaper headlines referencing problems with Mars Observer.
0:36 Abshire again.
0:36 Several people looking at something.
0:40 Xiaoli Sun talking on a video call.
0:41 People looking at a computer.
0:42 People clapping.
0:43 Garvin in the room talking.
0:45 The blueprint animation.
0:47 Smith again.
0:49 A dark room lit by a green laser beam.
0:51 John Cavanaugh talking.
0:52 Data viz of the Moon, with green & red lines running longitudinally.
0:53 Tom Neumann in front of a TV screen.
0:54 A silver spacecraft with a big cylinder cut out, surrounded by people in clean room suits.
0:56 McGarry again.
0:57 McGarry on a computer.
1:00 The blueprint animation.
1:02 Garvin again.
1:03 Globe data viz over South America. Green lines crisscross the land.
1:05 Newer globe data viz, over the North Pole. Light blue, white, & purple circles cover the ocean.
1:06 Viz of another planet, with bright colors mapped to indicate different elevations.
1:07 Clips of people talking.
1:13 Montage of people cut out against a blueprint background. Bright beams of light bounce from the center over a stylized globe. In boxy yellow font: “Leaders in Lidar.”