05.29.08 - NASA has selected 10 offerors to provide the agency with access to a variety of airborne platforms to conduct airborne science research and range support. The Space Agency has uploaded spectacular space pics. NASA has selected Lorraine Hansberry Academy of the Bronx, New York City, New York, to fly a student-designed experiment aboard the agencys reduced gravity aircraft, the Weightless Wonder.. Snow and Ice, Image of the Day NASAs Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible light image of the colorful dancing lights of the aurora. 12.19.08 - 09.12.08 - On December 28, 2008, the storm was downgraded to an ex-tropical cyclone and was anticipated to pose no further threat to the coastal communities of Western Australia. Image Facts The sun has powered almost everything on Earth since life began, including its climate. NASA announced Thursday that space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope is targeted to launch May 12, 2009. Contributor: Laura E.P. 12.16.08 - 12.23.08 - Servicing Mission 4 to the Hubble Space Telescope is currently on track for a mid-May 2009 launch based on a successful Pre-Environmental Readiness Review (PERR) held December 16 at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center for the flight spare Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SI/C&DH). 10.15.08 - NASA selected two proposals from Goddard researchers to assist with measurements the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will make. The storm was expected to bring heavy rainfall and local flooding to parts of the Kimberley Coast. 05.21.08 - After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. Terra 03.17.08 - STEREO findings help scientists map the energized particles where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium. GEMS will be the first mission designed just to measure the polarization of X-rays emitted near black holes, which will enable scientists to explore the exotic space around black holes in an unprecedented way. U. APOD Editor to Speak in New York on Jan. 2, NASA Web 01.10.08 - 05.13.08 - 04.23.08 - 05.07.08 - Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest leaks, according to researchers sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation. 05.29.08 - (2008, December 28). Sherrica Newsome currently finds herself as Operations Manager for the 2008 NASA Academy at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 04.28.08 - IBEX will build an image of the outer boundary of the solar system from impacts on the spacecraft by high-speed particles called energetic neutral atoms. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after launch. Cool, wet conditions in the Northwest, frigid weather on the Plains, and record dry conditions in the Southeast are all signs that La Nia is in full swing. When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence performing on-orbit surgery on two ailing science instruments that reside inside the telescope. 07.02.08 - 05.01.08 - That's how many people have submitted their names to this project. Authors & editors: 07.15.08 - Managing Editor: Understanding Earth: Our Ocean. 10.14.08 - A service of: ASD at NASA . 01.16.08 - What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into planetary system formation. Compared to earlier images, the storm appears more compact in this picture, and occurs almost entirely over the ocean. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite took this picture at 3:10 p.m. local time on December 25. 07.01.08 - 06.09.08 - meteors streaking overhead, This satellite map of snow cover shows that every state in the contiguous U.S., except for Florida, received snow in January 2011. NASA scientists say a new solar cycle is beginning, and this could have important repercussions for space-based technology, such as GPS and weather satellites. SDO will discover how the sun builds up and explosively releases magnetic energy, which powers severe space weather. 04.14.08 - Explanation: Astronomers have discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a neutron star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. Goddard Symposium to focus on "Going to Work in Space.". 09.30.08 - 09.29.08 - NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 - 9 to preview the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. 12.02.08 - Images by Mission. Robert Nemiroff Bill Dunford 07.01.08 - Swift caught sight of a splintered comet fragment as it passed by the Ring Nebula. 12.19.08 - 09.08.08 - If you know your browser is up to date, you should check to ensure that The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why. 02.07.08 - With winds of about 384 miles per hour, some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet, Jupiter's Little Red Spot could blow away any hurricane on Earth. 01.22.08 - A new nano satellite mission, called 'Firefly,' sponsored by the National Science Foundation and led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will explore the relationship between lightning and these sudden bursts, called Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes. 01.02.08 - A documentary of the Young Scientist Challenge, held in October 2008 at Goddard, will be produced for the Discovery channel in early 2009. Phil Davis A team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designs and builds the special tools and aids astronauts need when they service the Hubble Space Telescope. Thousands converged on Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The public is invited to come and see the expertise, technology and challenges associated with space exploration when NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center holds its Launchfest open house Sept. 13, 2008. The MODIS on NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the storm at noon Central Daylight Time (17:00 UTC). The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, . Still need to come up with a good new year's resolution? After canceling a tropical cyclone warning from Pardoo to Port Headland, the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology issued a cyclone warning for Western Australia coastal communities near Pilbara on December 25, 2008. NASA / George Takei, famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," visited Goddard on June 3, 2008, to deliver a lecture on diversity. Students from all over the world will gather to participate in a creative problem-solving competition, at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., May 31 through June 3. 03.20.08 - Observations of two different systems -- each containing stellar-mass black holes -- are showing astronomers how much they have yet to learn. NASA's Science Communication Support Office Annual Report 2017. Besides strong winds, heavy rains, and a brief electrical outage, Edouard caused little damage. 11.17.08 - Because snow insulates the ground, it reduces the flow of heat and water vapor from the ground to the atmosphere, which influences weather and climate. 10.14.08 - Shadow of a Opportunity (August 3, 2004; February 4, 2007; June 29, 2008; May 8, 2011; . These maps show the average percent snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere for December 2008 (top) and February 2009 (bottom), the first and last months of meteorological winter. Astronomers using the Suzaku satellite have discovered a white dwarf that is acting like a neutron star. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed the first round of environmental testing at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 11.21.08 - NASA, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and their partners are in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch SERVIR-Africa, a program that helps scientists, government leaders and local communities address concerns related to natural disasters, disease outbreaks, biodiversity and climate change. Cassini scientists speculate there may be a layer of liquid water mixed with ammonia about 100 kilometers (62 miles) below the surface of Titan. Powerful starquakes ripple around the sun in the wake of mighty solar flares. BUDDING astronomy fans can now see what the universe looked like the day they were born thanks to ground-breaking technology released by NASA. When summer storms arrive, it's not only beach-goers who are affected; the rains can also have an impact on living creatures far below the ocean surface. Scientists are using a video of Earth and the Moon taken from 31 million miles away to develop techniques to study alien worlds. For the first time in the 2008 hurricane season, there are four tropical cyclones active in the Atlantic Ocean basin on one day. NASA Goddard Invites Public To See "Launchfest"! document.write( '' ) APOD: 2008 December 31 - The Sky in Motion Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Dr. Peter Hildebrand was recently named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. 02.05.08 - 09.02.08 - 07.01.08 - The APOD website on 31 December 2016, displaying that day's astronomy picture of Trifid Nebula in infrared. Image of the Day emailE=('shannell.c.' Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the coronal heating enigma. 02.08.08 - Bill Dunford Edouard had not strengthened into a hurricane when MODIS acquired this image, and the storm was expected to lose strength as it moved inland. The WMAP data are central to our current understanding of cosmology. This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 31, 2008. 06.24.08 - High-Southern Latitudes in the Leading Hemisphere (Arrakis Planitia). 10.27.08 - 05.29.08 - GSFC 06.02.08 - The snow cover maps reveal some of the winters significant snow events in the United States, including a rare snow fall in the Deep South that occurred in mid-December. Cassini streaked past Titan on Dec. 21 at an altitude of 971 kilometers 11.21.08 - 12.10.08 - 10.08.08 - 02.13.08 - GSFC Earth Science film producer Maria Frostic explores the world of Iceland's puffin population in her upcoming PBS documentary. The solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years of science on the Red Planet. NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science. This is a COMPTEL image, one of the lowest resolution surveys we have in Continue reading , This image from 2008-12-06 15:57:53 shows a very interesting feature that looks like a giant worm squirming amongst the stars. One popular theme is to find images that look very peculiar. 06.12.08 - Titan Flyby - July 31, 2008 . However WMAP images are generally stored in Continue reading , This image from 2008-12-10 09:39:28 is pretty interesting It looks like we are seeing some very special object with rings around it. 10.23.08 - This is the fourth of four fly-bys where RADAR can probe the interior of Titan and confirm the existence of an ocean. New microprocessors for the telescope are about the size of a half-dollar and can do the same job as a 20-pound electronics box. 10.06.08 - Sun and International Year of Astronomy; + 'frazier@nas' + 'a.gov') 04.17.08 - This pair of maps shows average percent snow cover in December 2008 and February 2009, the first and last months of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere. August 31, 2008. Dec . Scientists using NASAs RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision and found that it is not a perfect sphere. The Atlantic Hurricane Season began early in 2007, and by mid-December it was still going. Social Media Lead: Answering bold questions about life and climate on Earth and other planets is the goal behind a new Space Act Agreement signed between Goddard and Northrop Grumman. Water 03.04.08 - In earlier releases the exposed region seemed to be centered with the image square but . Bands Used: 1,4,3 Atmosphere In December, some of the Northern Hemispheres high mountain ranges already stood out from the surrounding terrain, including the Himalaya in Asia and the Atlas Mountains in northern Africa. New studies show the wrenching gravity just outside the outer boundary of a black hole can produce yet another bizarre effect: light echoes. Americas plans for opening the space frontier are featured in an interactive exhibit scheduled to tour Connecticut for three weeks beginning May 14. Land Researchers have identified the common thread that determines how aerosols from human activity, like the particles released from forest fires, influence cloud cover and affect climate. Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream on Jupiter in March, 2007. NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. 05.23.07 - New data from the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful stellar explosions. 11.07.08 - 06.10.08 - The brown winter landscape is broken by patches of white snow still lingering on the ground on the Mississippi/Louisiana border, and a . 08.26.08 - Scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have joined teams studying optics technologies for three possible new NASA missions to search for alien worlds (exoplanets). 12.04.08 - . The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST)to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft. 05.20.07 - Ontario Lacus. Design & Development: Consider one appropriate for 2009, the Flight Center. Atmosphere After 10 years of fine-tuning a technique to efficiently manufacture super-thin, curved mirrors needed to focus X-ray photons, Goddard astrophysicist Will Zhang and his team have won a position on the NuSTAR mission to provide the telescopes more than 3,000 individual mirror segments. By the afternoon of August 4, 2008, Tropical Storm Edouard was headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast. Specific rights apply. NASA satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another. Goddard and the Howard B. Owens Science Center will celebrate a first year partnership created to inspire and educate students in the study of Earth science. Compared to the giant black holes in the centers of other galaxies, the Milky Way's black hole is strangely quiet. 09.26.08 - Cassini Eyes the Tiger Stripes On Oct. 31, 2008, during the second close flyby of Enceladus of the month, the cameras and other optical remote sensing instruments will be front and center, imaging the fractures that slash across the moon's south polar region like stripes on a tiger. Researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate change. On Sunday, November 16, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center invites elementary school students to a free afternoon of eye-opening, hands-on activities that will help you experience what its like to be a NASA engineer. The MODIS on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the storm at noon Central Daylight Time (17:00 UTC). To get the best experience possible, please download a compatible browser. GLAST Mission Operations at NASA Goddard Powered Up, California Wildfires Continue to Burn Out of Control, Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On, NASA Goddard Has More Than a Dozen Exciting Missions in Next Year, Proposed NASA Mission Could Explore Twisted Space Around Black Holes, NASA Goddard Mission Approved to Probe Matter in Extreme Environments, University Faculty and Students to "Rock On!" Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. 04.03.08 - NASA by Caltech. 11.13.08 - Less than a week after launch, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 350 miles (565 kilometers) above Earth's surface. The first of 18 mirror segments that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope arrived at the Marshall Space Flight Center to prepare it to meet the extreme temperatures it will encounter in space. 02.19.08 - 08.14.08 - Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. 02.29.08 - GALEX now uses a special GalexExposure Image finder. Snow and Ice, Winter Snow Cover in the Northern Hemisphere, NASA Goddard Space On December 19, 2008, Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia as a Category 2 storm. Tropical Cyclone Billy moved off the coast of Western Australia on December 25, 2008. These missions include a final repair trip to upgrade the famous Hubble Space Telescope and spacecraft to study powerful gamma-rays, the moon, the Sun, and Earth's weather and pollution. 01.16.08 - Inspired by a desire to make finding space physics information as easy as book lovers locate a text on Amazon.com, the heliophysics virtual observatories offer a wealth of resources to learn more about the sun, Earth and heliosphere. Understanding Earth: What's Up with Precipitation? The Hubble Space Telescope team completed switching the required hardware modules to their B-sides about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. Northrop Grumman has created a Sunshield for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope that can withstand the harsh environment of space. Flight Center. 05.19.08 - The full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope resumes its world tour with a stop in Montreal, July 13 through July 20, 2008. 10.19.08 - Christa Peters-Lidard of NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has been awarded the 2007 Arthur S. Flemming Award in the category of Applied Science, Engineering and Mathematics. crepuscular NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien planets as it enters its extended mission, called EPOXI. Lt. The maps are based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite. composed from a series of 7,000 images highlighting 02.25.08 - One of the priorities of the GLAST Burst Monitor science team has been to validate burst location information provided by the telescope. ET. 05.21.08 - NASA has selected Sevatec Inc. in Arlington, Va. for professional and administrative support services for the Office of Human Capital Management at Goddard. NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched successfully on June 11, 2008, at 12:05 p.m. NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. NASA's Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More. NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century directly accelerated the rate of arctic sea ice drift which is a harbinger of climate change. 06.26.08 - 03.07.08 - Never having acquired hurricane strength, the storm made landfall west of the Texas-Louisiana border, east of Galveston, Texas. 12.19.08 - NASA Web At a teleconference on Aug. 26, 2008, NASA announced it was giving a new name to the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, launched June 11, 2008. Event The final day of competition for The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist concludes the evening of Oct. 6, 2008. 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Flemming Award, The Mouse That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare, Earth Impacts Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change, NASA Study Links Earth Impacts to Human-Caused Climate Change, Md. topographic profile of the dark, possibly liquid-filled area known as NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. A million names will be blasted into space and "to the moon" on LRO. Reliable power and potential lunar resources make the lunar poles attractive enough to attempt hairy landings on a crater rim. For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. 12.15.08 - 06.02.08 - NASA has selected the University of Alaska for the management and operations of the EOS Data and Information System Synthetic Aperture Radar DACC. 07.24.08 - Managing Editor: NASA data are showing that for a four-week period in August 2008, sea ice melted faster during that period than ever before. Astronomers have found a neutron star that seems to share characteristics of both types of neutron stars. 07.17.08 - 06.05.08 - 05.16.07 - 10.01.08 - The blast arose from a star 12.8 billion light-years away. Specific rights apply. 11.7.08 - NASA has selected the University of Colorado at Boulder for the management and operations of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center. This uses knowledge of the GALEX survey to find the center of the Continue reading , Lots of people are using the Image gallery. 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