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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). 06.02.08 - 01.02.08 - Numerous wildfires continue to burn out of control throughout California. 1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B) much of what you could see. this past Saturday to celebrate LaunchFest. One of Saturn's rings soaks up material gushing from the fountains on the tiny ice-moon, Enceladus, according to new Cassini observations. 07.02.08 - 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. 03.13.08 - 12.04.08 - 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. Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. 05.07.08 - stars. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. 05.29.08 - 12.30.08 - George Takei, famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," visited Goddard on June 3, 2008, to deliver a lecture on diversity. 07.28.08 - NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Katherine Heinzen, a student from Fairfax, Va., will spend this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 09.02.08 - Slice of History - Happy 25th Anniversary, Cassini! 08.18.08 - Satellite: Astronomers have discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a neutron star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. 01.10.08 - 06.24.08 - 02.08.08 - nasa.gov. 02.21.08 - javascript is enabled. SDO will discover how the sun builds up and explosively releases magnetic energy, which powers severe space weather. The Aquarius Radiometer, recently delivered by Goddard to JPL, will help scientists study ocean salinity and its relation to climate. Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. Researchers now believe that some of the most intense winter storm activity over parts of the United States may have origins in far-flung parts of the Pacific Ocean. 07.17.08 - Phil Davis 11.04.08 - 08.14.08 - The Hubble Space Telescope team completed switching the required hardware modules to their B-sides about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. 06.12.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. 10.01.08 - 09.08.08 - 06.02.08 - 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. Landsat Important to Coastal Studies. 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. The image has been processed with a resolution of 128 pixels/deg. But the sequence also features NASA Goddard officials have announced that an incident earlier this evening in a building at Goddard did not involve a chemical spill or release of any hazardous material. Phil Davis New studies show the wrenching gravity just outside the outer boundary of a black hole can produce yet another bizarre effect: light echoes. Now available on iTunes, the NASA Goddard Shorts video podcast series keeps subscribers updated with cool science and engineering breakthroughs. NASA and Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC announced the beginning of a new partnership to commercialize over 40 NASA-funded technologies to the private sector for commercial application. Along with a redesigned user interface, these efforts have culminated in the launch of the new Earth Observatory (see screenshot below). Privacy Policy and Important Notices A 2006 solar flare surprised scientists by behaving in unexpected ways. Goddard has awarded its highest honor for quality and technical performance to three companies that have contributed significantly to the center's mission. (2008, December 25). Social Media Lead: Please credit all images and animations to NASA, unless otherwise noted. Caption by Michon Scott. Phil Davis Dr. Peter Hildebrand was recently named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. 05.01.08 - The Atlantic Hurricane Season began early in 2007, and by mid-December it was still going. Severe Storms. 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. 07.31.08 - The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. 11.7.08 - View videos produced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as part of Earth Science Week 2008. Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology. 10.27.08 - . 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. 04.02.01 - Astronomers using the Suzaku satellite have discovered a white dwarf that is acting like a neutron star. Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, Web Curator: 01.10.08 - Governor Visits Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's GLAST Gets Shades, Blankets for the Beach, Visionary 'NASA Exploration Experience' Exhibit to Tour Connecticut May 14 - June 4, NASA Goddard and Howard B. Owens Science Center Celebrate Partnership That Inspires Prince George's Students, Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes on Cue, Broken Heart Image the Last for NASAs Long-Lived Polar Mission, NASA Satellites Aid in Chesapeake Bay Recovery, Powerful Antenna Attached to NASA's GLAST Satellite, Researchers Warm Up to Melt's Role in Greenland Ice Loss, Milky Ways Giant Black Hole Awoke Centuries Ago, World Space Party Draws Hundreds to NASA Goddard, Delta II Rocket Coming Together for NASA's GLAST Satellite Launch, NASA Officials Say No Chemicals Released During Incident at Goddard, NASA Selects Three Research Fellows for GLAST Mission, Goddard Scientists to Hunt for Treasure on the Moon, NASA Awards University of Alaska Data Center Contract, Warm 'Tiger Stripes' on Geyser Moon Raise Hopes for Life, NASA Detects Explosion Halfway Across Universe, Webb Telescope Sunshield Design Review Complete, NASA Satellite Measures Pollution From East Asia to North America, Goddard Delivers Aquarius Radiometer to JPL, New Hubble Parts Endure Environmental Tests, GLAST Spacecraft Arrives in Florida to Prepare for Launch, NASA Awards Professional/Administration Support Services Contract, SDO Mission to Improve Predictions of Violent Space Weather, 2008 Goddard Symposium Focus, Space Exploration and Commercialization, SOHO to Give Early Warning of Radiation Storms, NASA's Swift Satellite Catches a Galaxy Ablaze With Starbirth, NASA and Northrup Grumman Partner to 'Measure the Immeasurable' in Climate Change and Planetary Science, Powerful Explosions Suggest Neutron Star Missing Link, Greenland's Rising Air Temperatures Drive Ice Loss at Surface and Beyond, Miniaturized 'SIDECAR' Drives Webb Telescope's Signal, NASA Team Works Toward Internet-Equipped Satellites, Tiny MidSTAR-1 Sensor Acts as Chemical Detector, GLAST's Delta II Rocket's First Stage Arrives in Cape Canaveral, NASA Hosts Educator Winter Camp in Lake Placid, New York, NASA Selects Bronx School to Fly Aboard 'Weightless Wonder', NASA's Deep Impact Begins Hunt for Alien Worlds, NASA Awards Aircraft Catalog Blanket Purchase Agreement, Hildebrand Named American Meteorological Society Fellow, 2007 Hurricane Season Starts Early, Ends Late, NASA Calls for Suggestions to Rename Future Telescope Mission, NASA Data Link Pollution to Rainy Summer Days in the Southeast, NASA Scientist to Present at Polar Gateways Arctic Circle Sunrise 2008 Conference, El Nio at Source of More Intense Wintertime Storms, Goddard Kicks Off 2008 with a 'Poster Party', 2007 Was Tied as Earth's Second-Warmest Year, NASA Media Event Highlights Rainfall Satellite's Decade of Success, NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle, La Nia: 'Little Girl' Makes Big Impression, NASA Scientists Predict Black Hole Light Echo Show, Vast Cloud of Antimatter Traced to Binary Stars, Hubble Finds That "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars, NASA and Gemini Probe Mysterious Distant Explosion, NASA Sends Deep Impact Spacecraft on Mission to Comet Hartley 2, Third Instrument for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Arrives at Goddard. Did you know the weeks surrounding this All Hallows Eve mark a haunting milestone? The original target, comet Boethin, is lost in space. According to a report from the U.S. National Hurricane Center, elevated oil rigs south of the Louisiana coast reported sustained winds of 72 to 89 kilometers (45 to 55 miles) per hour, well below the wind-speed threshold for a Category 1 hurricane. International Year of Astronomy; Robert Nemiroff 01.08.08 - NASA Goddard Invites Public To See "Launchfest"! 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. Explanation: 04.14.08 - 07.01.08 - 09.10.08 - Hubble has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other. A winter camp for educators known as History of Winter 2008 will be hosted by a team from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. 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. 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. The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST)to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft. 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. 06.09.08 - The tiny sensor, only the size of a quarter, acts like a smoke detector. Over the course of the past year, the team was hard at work implementing a new underlying core that included development of an improved information architecture, as well as administration and content management tools. After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream on Jupiter in March, 2007. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. 12.08.08 - The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT and remains unchanged through Aug. 7. nasa.gov. After a nationwide search for junior science researchers on GLAST mission, three people have been chosen for these prestigious post-doctoral positions. 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 01.29.08 - One of the priorities of the GLAST Burst Monitor science team has been to validate burst location information provided by the telescope. SkyView GALEX GR4: Off center images fixed. Social Media Lead: NASA announced the public will have a chance to suggest a new name for the cutting edge Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope observatory before it launches in mid-2008. 12.19.08 - 06.13.08 - Understanding Earth: Our Ocean. Acquired December 16, 2009, this true-color image shows Tropical Cyclone Laurence spanning hundreds of kilometers over the Indian Ocean, just off the Australian coast. This 4-minute, time-lapse video is It can sense chemicals and gases that may be harmful to astronauts. 04.14.08 - Smoke billows from scattered wildfires in California, as captured by NASA's Aqua Satellite. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey. Consider one appropriate for 2009, the NASA Official: The launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for no earlier than June 11. 05.13.08 - The proposed new mission, called Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS), will use a new technique to accomplish what has been impossible until now. Thousands converged on Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 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. Image Facts 01.22.08 - A blind engineer at Goddard had the vision for a solution to a problem that ultimately required a trip to Europe to help with a Soyuz capsule re-entry. 12.15.08 - 06.11.08 - 11.17.08 - The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space. The Space Agency has uploaded spectacular space pics. 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. 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. 10.06.08 - Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. 02.27.08 - 06.03.08 - The underlying GALEX observations used in SkyView are 38403840 pixel images where only a circle with a radius of about 2900 pixels is actually exposed. 10.27.08 - 09.29.08 - 03.07.08 - During the night of Oct. 15, Space Telescope Operations Control Center engineers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center turned on and checked out Side B of Hubbles Science Instrument Control and Data Handling (SI C&DH) system. iridescence, and beaming Land As predicted, Edouard came ashore along the Gulf Coast early in the day on August 5, 2008, one day after this image was acquired. 9.17.08 - Rocchio When you think of Landsat, images of the Earth's land surface rightly come to mind because that is the type of. The sun has powered almost everything on Earth since life began, including its climate. JPL is a federally funded research and development center managed for Land 05.29.08 - Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar . 05.20.07 - Resolutions: NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interacts with Earth's magnetosphere. During RockOn!, university faculty and students will learn the basics of building experiments for flight on suborbital rockets. 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). 04.21.08 - Bands Used: 1,4,3 02.19.08 - 09.08.08 - 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. 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. 04.23.08 - Project Science Office Communications Staff, Using Remote Sensing for Improved Decision Making for Food Security, Hanging Out in the Arctic: An Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere and Air Pollution, Part II, Citizen Science as a Tool to Engage the Public in Earth System Science: The Citizens and Remote Sensing Observational Network (CARSON) Guide, Arctic Sea Ice Down to Second-Lowest Extent; Likely Record-Low Volume, HIRDLS UK-US Science Team Meeting Summary, Smog Blog for Central America and Caribbean Debuts, NASA Maps Shed Light on Carbon Dioxides Global Nature, NASA Science Mission DirectorateScience Education Update. 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