Slice of History - Happy 25th Anniversary, Cassini! 02.27.08 - On December 19, 2008, Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia as a Category 2 storm. Scientists around the world are excited about all the things that GLAST is going to uncover after it launches on June 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. 05.30.08 - Bill Dunford To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA scientists have uncrated heat shields used on the Apollo missions to aid development of the upcoming Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch GLAST into space arrived at Hangar M at Cape Canaveral. Social Media Lead: The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS full spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. Social Media Lead: 10.16.08 - GSFC Earth Science film producer Maria Frostic explores the world of Iceland's puffin population in her upcoming PBS documentary. NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science. 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. After a nationwide search for junior science researchers on GLAST mission, three people have been chosen for these prestigious post-doctoral positions. Goddard Scientists Receive Lindsay Award for Black Hole Research, NASA Presentations at AAS Meeting in St. Louis, NASA Scientists' Model Reveals How Superstorm Plasma Affects Near-Earth Space, Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue to Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphere, Goddard Selects 2008 Contractor Excellence Award Winners, NASA Inspires Students to Center the Earth With Eccentrics, Satellites Illuminate Pollution's Influence On Clouds, Winds in Jupiter's Little Red Spot Almost Twice as Fast as Strongest Hurricane, Swift Satellite Catches First Supernova in the Act of Exploding, NASA Researcher Awarded 2008 Arthur S. 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. 07.25.08 - The nation's largest estuary just happens to be in the backyard of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 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. Event NASA's Science Communication Support Office Annual Report 2017. You will be directed to the NASA Visible Earth webpage when you select Images by Mission below, or click on the images at right that are randomly generated to represent four out of all possible topics. 08.18.08 - Snow and Ice, Image of the Day document.write( '' + emailName + '' ), Normalized Fluorescence Line Height (FLH), Instantaneous Photosynthetically Available Radiation, Daily Mean Photosynthetically Available Radiation, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC. 10.06.08 - Juno Spacecraft Recovering Memory After 47th Flyby of Jupiter, NASA Explores a Winter Wonderland on Mars, NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science, NASAs Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface, 40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter, NASAs Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot, NASAs Juno Exploring Jovian Moons During Extended Mission. Melissa Rey from Chesterfield, Mo., was named "America's Top Young Scientist" at the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. 04.01.08 - Ryan Sheridan, a student from Moscow, Idaho, will spend this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. On December 15, Hubble engineers restarted the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System (NCS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Managing Editor: Inside the polar night boundary, MODIS cannot observe snow cover because there is not enough daylight. APOD: 2008 December 31 - The Sky in Motion Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Astronomers have discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a neutron star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream on Jupiter in March, 2007. A service of: 07.01.08 - Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. Swift caught sight of a splintered comet fragment as it passed by the Ring Nebula. 05.21.08 - 12.02.08 - 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. 07.17.08 - LRO Media Day will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey. 07.07.08 - much of what you could see. 12.19.08 - These images were obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 21, 2008. 12.04.08 - NASA data are showing that for a four-week period in August 2008, sea ice melted faster during that period than ever before. NASA's Science Communication Support Office Annual Report 2017. Terra Reliable power and potential lunar resources make the lunar poles attractive enough to attempt hairy landings on a crater rim. 11.17.08 - 05.29.08 - Landsat Important to Coastal Studies. Consider one appropriate for 2009, the Satellite: Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. 02.07.08 - 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. The Hubble Space Telescope team completed switching the required hardware modules to their B-sides about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. NASA has several presentations at the 212th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. 11.17.08 - 02.21.08 - Water Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. 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. 02.20.08 - document.write( '' + emailName + '' ) 01.22.08 - Opaque clouds surround the storms eye, but farther away from the eye, the clouds assume translucent, wispy shapes, especially in the east. The image has been processed with a resolution of 128 pixels/deg. A new look at a classic experiment reveals volcanoes may have played a crucial role in the rise of life on Earth. If you know your browser is up to date, you should check to ensure that 05.29.08 - 09.10.08 - But for meteorologists, who sometimes divide the year up into seasons on the basis of similarity in weather and temperature, winter is already over. stars. 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. 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Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. 03.04.08 - The Hubble team today received approval from officials at NASA Headquarters to reconfigure a failed data handling unit on Hubble to begin operations on a redundant side of the unit. They can be combined with information on snow depth to help predict flood risk and water availability in regions such as Afghanistan, where the winter snow pack is the primary source of water in the summer. 10.29.08 - 10.24.08 - Still need to come up with a good new year's resolution? (603 miles), obtaining radar images of Titan's south polar region and a 40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter. 06.02.08 - Advance warning of radiation storms could give astronauts time to take cover and allow satellite operators to take protective measures. For the first time in the 2008 hurricane season, there are four tropical cyclones active in the Atlantic Ocean basin on one day. 9.17.08 - Understanding Earth: What's Up with Precipitation? 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. NASA by Caltech. 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. Robert Nemiroff The Delta II 7920-H rocket that will launch GLAST is in the process of being assembled on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. 04.08.08 - 09.12.08 - 05.23.07 - The Science Poster Party Blowout started 2008 with a celebration of Goddards scientific discoveries and achievements. 01.30.08 - ASD at News representatives are invited to attend a media day event on July 1 to learn about NASA's ambitious mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. In this image, the sprawling storm blocks the satellites view of much of the Louisiana coast including the New Orleans region, while skies remain clear farther inland, particularly in Texas. Did you know the weeks surrounding this All Hallows Eve mark a haunting milestone? Ontario Lacus. February 1, 2000 - February 28, 2009QuickTime, Google Earth - December 1, 2008 - February 28, 2009KML. This 4-minute, time-lapse video is August 31, 2008. 03.20.08 - Bill Dunford SkyView GALEX GR4: Off center images fixed. emailE=('shannell.c.' 11.07.08 - NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA selected The Hammers Company, Greenbelt, Md., to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Mission Operations Element (MOE). NASAs Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, designed to image global interactions at the outer reaches of the solar system, today began its move to Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California. 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. 12.08.08 - 10.06.08 - meteors streaking overhead, Feb. 16, 2023 Titan Flyby - July 31, 2008 . 10.01.08 - as a participant of the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program. In recognition of the 10th anniversary of the first scientific results from the TRMM satellite, media are invited to a media roundtable on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 11 a.m. EST. . 03.28.08 - Compared to earlier images, the storm appears more compact in this picture, and occurs almost entirely over the ocean. 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. 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. After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. 02.26.08 - 1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B) Bill Dunford 11.21.08 - 04.15.08 - Goddard Space Flight Center welcomed Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown to its facility on May 12, 2008. A new NASA study has found that storms are more intense during the work week than on the weekends. 05.30.08 - 04.14.08 - Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. 02.15.08 - 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. View videos produced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as part of Earth Science Week 2008. 07.15.08 - The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review. & Michigan Tech. Discover the cosmos! from all teams. 10.02.08 - 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. Edouard had not strengthened into a hurricane when MODIS acquired this image, and the storm was expected to lose strength as it moved inland. 09.26.08 - Image Credit: A new analysis of environmental conditions over the Atlantic Ocean shows that hot, dry air associated with dust outbreaks from the Sahara desert likely contributed to the quieter-than-expected 2007 hurricane season. 06.03.08 - Hubble has found them to be brilliant blue clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup 200 million years ago. The predicted rain held off, encouraging approximately 13,000 people to visit the Center. Juno Explores Jovian Moons During Extended Mission. 12.15.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. New studies show the wrenching gravity just outside the outer boundary of a black hole can produce yet another bizarre effect: light echoes. 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. 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). The Aquarius Radiometer, recently delivered by Goddard to JPL, will help scientists study ocean salinity and its relation to climate. 03.31.08 - 02.21.08 - Compared to earlier images, the storm appears more compact in this picture, and occurs almost entirely over the ocean. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. This site is maintained by the Planetary Science Communications team at, The Next Full Moon is the Wolf or Ice Moon, NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science, 40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter, Juno Explores Jovian Moons During Extended Mission, NASA's Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More, NEO Surveyor Successfully Passes Key Milestone. 01.10.08 - The final day of competition for The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist concludes the evening of Oct. 6, 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. A new study has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. NASA has selected Sevatec Inc. in Arlington, Va. for professional and administrative support services for the Office of Human Capital Management at Goddard. 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. Lt. Atmosphere Scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. SDO will discover how the sun builds up and explosively releases magnetic energy, which powers severe space weather. Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have identified the smallest known black hole in the universe. 07.17.08 - Researchers have discovered that an explosion of magnetic energy powers sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the Northern Lights. The MODIS on NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the storm at noon Central Daylight Time (17:00 UTC). Phil Davis Social Media Lead: 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.. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries. Managing Editor: December 16, 2008 - Snow in the Southeastern United States. 04.03.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. 07.01.08 - 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. It can sense chemicals and gases that may be harmful to astronauts. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. Clouds serve a valuable role in Earth's climate, and thanks to A-Train, a closer look at them is possible. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. Scientists from NASA and organizations around the world will convene physically and electronically in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost U.S. city, during the first week of Arctic sunrise at Barrow January 23 29. Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earths upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes. 01.08.08 - 07.01.08 - 06.05.08 - When it comes to firing telescopes and their instruments into the frigid cold of space, the more you test your hardware, the better. High-Southern Latitudes in the Leading Hemisphere (Arrakis Planitia). 02.08.08 - 12.09.08 - Sherrica Newsome currently finds herself as Operations Manager for the 2008 NASA Academy at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Shadow of a Opportunity (August 3, 2004; February 4, 2007; June 29, 2008; May 8, 2011; . NASA selected two proposals from Goddard researchers to assist with measurements the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will make. & Jerry Bonnell NASA Technical Rep.: Phil Newman. Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope say that hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments. Features in the Gallery: Very Bright Stars, Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4, SkyView v3.5.6 Security updates and bug fixes. Boosted to almost the speed of light, "killer electrons" can knock out computers, pierce spacesuits and damage the tissues of astronauts. (2008, December 25). Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age. Enceladus Global View with Plume (Artist's Rendering), Enceladus Organics on Grains of Ice (Illustration), NASAs Lunar Flashlight Team Assessing Spacecrafts Propulsion System. 05.07.08 - The Radio Science Subsystem uses this pass to measure Titan's gravity field, allowing scientists to explore the moon's interior. 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. Scientists are using a video of Earth and the Moon taken from 31 million miles away to develop techniques to study alien worlds. Severe Storms. 06.10.08 - 05.29.08 - 08.14.08 - The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 970 kilometers (684 miles) during the closest approach. Images by Mission. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 02.08.08 - A rare snowfall blanketed parts of the southeastern US on December 11, 2008 - this image was captured by the MODIS on the Terra satellite the next day. 11.04.08 - This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 31, 2008. These images were obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 21, 2008. 01.02.08 - 04.17.08 - 09.15.08 - The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST)to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft. just look up -- experience, learn, and enjoy the changing sky. Official NASA photographs from agency photographers chronicle what's making news across the agency, from launches and landings to important science announcements. 02.21.08 - 02.08.08 - 04.30.08 - By the afternoon of August 4, 2008, Tropical Storm Edouard was headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast. The maps are based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite. along the horizon changing in a beautiful NASA's Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. . Design & Development: This graphic depicts a cross-section of the Saturnian moon Titan. Tropical Cyclone Billy continued traveling along Western Australia's Kimberley Coast . 10.14.08 - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Thursday announced that Rob Strain will be the next center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. An interactive exhibit showcasing NASA's Hubble and James Webb telescopes is on display in Pittsburgh. 03.17.08 - 03.27.08 - Ten middle school student finalists from across the country will vie for the title of "America's Top Young Scientist" at Goddard in early October. Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar . 10.07.08 - emailE=('brandon.f.mac' + 'cherone@nas' + 'a.gov') Specific rights apply. 10.14.08 - Whats going on here? Managing Editor: (2008, December 28). 06.12.08 - Along with a redesigned user interface, these efforts have culminated in the launch of the new Earth Observatory (see screenshot below). 10.08.08 - Researchers took advantage of NASA satellite images to show that the microscopic floating plants are teeming in regions of recent ice melt. 12.15.08 - 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. 01.10.08 - GSFC xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'">. Severe Storms. 07.17.08 - Source: Lance Nixon, South Dakota State University NASA is paying researchers on the cool prairies of South Dakota to help track biodiversity in the steamy.