10.15.08 - Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. 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. One popular theme is to find images that look very peculiar. A 2006 solar flare surprised scientists by behaving in unexpected ways. 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. 12.15.08 - Steve Platnick, EOS Senior Project Scientist Acting. Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. 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. 05.30.08 - 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. Site last updated: December 21, 2022 . 10.29.08 - Image of the Day 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. 09.15.08 - NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. 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. The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST)to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft. Others were less distinct, such as the U.S. Sierra Nevadas, the Pyrnes of France and Spain, and the Caucasus of Eastern Europe, but by the end of winter, their peaks were crisply defined in white. 10.23.08 - 07.17.08 - Clouds serve a valuable role in Earth's climate, and thanks to A-Train, a closer look at them is possible. 09.02.08 - 03.13.08 - Astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the littlest of stars "twinkled" with gamma rays, X-rays, and light -- and then vanished. 11.17.08 - Design & Development: 11.13.08 - 09.30.08 - With NASA, Washington and Baltimore Area Reporters Invited to Hubble Media Day, NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations in Disaster Aftermath, For Hurricanes, Storms, Raindrop Size Makes All the Difference, NASA Targets GLAST Launch for no Earlier than June 11, Star Trek's George Takei Beams Down to Goddard, NASA Scientists Pioneer Method for Making Giant Lunar Telescopes, NASA Awards Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Contract, Fairfax Student Accepted for NASA Goddard Engineering Internship, Idaho Student Accepted for NASA Goddard Engineering Internship. 09.26.08 - Discover the cosmos! A winter camp for educators known as History of Winter 2008 will be hosted by a team from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. 02.21.08 - 07.02.08 - Atmosphere 01.24.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. This uses knowledge of the GALEX survey to find the center of the Continue reading , Lots of people are using the Image gallery. The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch GLAST into space arrived at Hangar M at Cape Canaveral. Two Goddard employees have been recognized by the National Women of Color (WOC) Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as 2008 WOC All-Stars and Rising Stars of Technology. 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. 06.03.08 - To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. A new study has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. Scientists using NASAs RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision and found that it is not a perfect sphere. 12.16.08 - 11.07.08 - 01.02.08 - 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. 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. Image of the Day 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. Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Astronomers have discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a neutron star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. On December 15, Hubble engineers restarted the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System (NCS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. . Very light blue shows places where at least a trace of snow was observed, while white shows where the ground was 100 percent snow covered. This 4-minute, time-lapse video is A million names will be blasted into space and "to the moon" on LRO. 06.10.08 - 06.26.08 - document.write( '' + emailName + '' ) GALEX now uses a special GalexExposure Image finder. 02.07.08 - These images were obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 21, 2008. BUDDING astronomy fans can now see what the universe looked like the day they were born thanks to ground-breaking technology released by NASA. 11.07.08 - 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. crepuscular 07.15.08 - 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. along the horizon changing in a beautiful xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'">. 03.28.08 - Social Media Lead: & Michigan Tech. NASA Goddard Invites Public To See "Launchfest"! U. APOD Editor to Speak in New York on Jan. 2, NASA Web 09.08.08 - We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting a large mirror from Earth. Understanding Earth: What's Up with Precipitation? Bill Dunford Understanding Earth: Our Ocean. NASA has selected SP Systems Inc. of Greenbelt, Md., to provide mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract. 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. The blast arose from a star 12.8 billion light-years away. NASA satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another. Features in the Gallery: Very Bright Stars, Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4, SkyView v3.5.6 Security updates and bug fixes. When it comes to firing telescopes and their instruments into the frigid cold of space, the more you test your hardware, the better. 06.04.08 - 05.29.08 - Goddard Space Flight Center welcomed Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown to its facility on May 12, 2008. nasa.gov. Advance warning of radiation storms could give astronauts time to take cover and allow satellite operators to take protective measures. Making a proper distinction by looking at both raindrop size and abundance may be a key to assisting weather forecasters in estimating rainfall intensity to reduce the surprise factor of flash flooding. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. 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. December 16, 2008 - Snow in the Southeastern United States. 08.07.08 - 12.10.08 - 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. It can sense chemicals and gases that may be harmful to astronauts. 07.02.08 - 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!" Severe Storms. NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. 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. 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Liftoff of GLAST aboard a Delta II rocket is currently targeted for 11:45 a.m. EDT on May 16. The Space Agency has uploaded spectacular space pics every day for more than 25 years via the use of their Hubble telescope. Still need to come up with a good new year's resolution? Along with a redesigned user interface, these efforts have culminated in the launch of the new Earth Observatory (see screenshot below). 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. satellites and Powerful starquakes ripple around the sun in the wake of mighty solar flares. 02.08.08 - 05.20.07 - composed from a series of 7,000 images highlighting The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft bus was lowered onto the propulsion module, and it attached on the first try. 06.02.08 - The solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years of science on the Red Planet. Atmosphere Scientists have discovered a wave pattern in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. NASA researchers have created an advanced data compression algorithm that will increase science data return for NASA missions. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. The nation's largest estuary just happens to be in the backyard of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 06.05.08 - The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. A powerful stellar explosion detected by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object visible with the naked eye. from all teams. Numerous wildfires continue to burn out of control throughout California. nasa.gov. Researchers hope to use the rare event to reveal secrets buried deep in Jupiter's massive atmosphere. nasa.gov. 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