That's how many people have submitted their names to this project. Goddard Space Flight Center welcomed Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown to its facility on May 12, 2008. 12.15.08 - October 31, 2008. The launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for Thursday, June 5. After a nationwide search for junior science researchers on GLAST mission, three people have been chosen for these prestigious post-doctoral positions. 12.04.08 - Managing Editor: Along with a redesigned user interface, these efforts have culminated in the launch of the new Earth Observatory (see screenshot below). satellites and 01.02.08 - 05.21.08 - 09.17.08 - 05.19.08 - 05.23.07 - meteors streaking overhead, Americas plans for opening the space frontier are featured in an interactive exhibit scheduled to tour Connecticut for three weeks beginning May 14. Australian Associated Press Pty Limited. Researchers hope to use the rare event to reveal secrets buried deep in Jupiter's massive atmosphere. The image has been processed with a resolution of 128 pixels/deg. 03.17.08 - 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. 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. Landsat Important to Coastal Studies. 02.08.08 - Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. 04.22.08 - Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. 04.14.08 - 9.17.08 - Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age. SOHO has discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all the other discoverers of comets throughout history put together. 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). 04.17.08 - The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch GLAST into space arrived at Hangar M at Cape Canaveral. NASA satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another. 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. 03.03.08 - This satellite map of snow cover shows that every state in the contiguous U.S., except for Florida, received snow in January 2011. NASA has selected SP Systems Inc. of Greenbelt, Md., to provide mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract. Flight Center. On December 19, 2008, Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia as a Category 2 storm. Tropical Cyclone Billy continued traveling along Western Australia's Kimberley Coast . A new study has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. The storm was expected to bring heavy rainfall and local flooding to parts of the Kimberley Coast. The Radio Science Subsystem uses this pass to measure Titan's gravity field, allowing scientists to explore the moon's interior. 05.29.08 - 03.20.08 - Ryan Sheridan, a student from Moscow, Idaho, will spend this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Features in the Gallery: Very Bright Stars, Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4, SkyView v3.5.6 Security updates and bug fixes. Melissa Rey from Chesterfield, Mo., was named "America's Top Young Scientist" at the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite. 01.11.08 - Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. A powerful stellar explosion detected by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object visible with the naked eye. 10.23.08 - 12.08.08 - The snow cover patterns also identify various topographic features, especially mountain ranges. Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, Web Curator: 05.01.08 - 03.13.08 - 01.28.08 - Privacy Policy and Important Notices. Robert Nemiroff The image has been processed with a resolution of 128 pixels/deg. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly was delivered to Goddard in preparation for SDO's scheduled launch in December 2008. Land 1 This undertaking leaves the team better positioned to tackle additional components and content for the site as they look forward to their 10th anniversary in April 2009. Never having acquired hurricane strength, the storm made landfall west of the Texas-Louisiana border, east of Galveston, Texas. One of the priorities of the GLAST Burst Monitor science team has been to validate burst location information provided by the telescope. + 'frazier@nas' + 'a.gov') The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. Atmosphere 06.02.08 - 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. nasa.gov. Phil Davis 04.14.08 - ASD at Image Facts The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 970 kilometers (684 miles) during the closest approach. 02.13.08 - 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. Edouard had not strengthened into a hurricane when MODIS acquired this image, and the storm was expected to lose strength as it moved inland. Severe Storms. 05.13.08 - NASA's Science Communication Support Office Annual Report 2017. Understanding Earth: What's Up with Precipitation? 10.15.08 - A winter camp for educators known as History of Winter 2008 will be hosted by a team from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4. as a participant of the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program. 05.29.08 - Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again on a Work Day? NASA's Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More. 12.19.08 - nasa.gov. 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. 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.. 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. 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. We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting a large mirror from Earth. 07.24.08 - Managing Editor: Researchers took advantage of NASA satellite images to show that the microscopic floating plants are teeming in regions of recent ice melt. E.g., look at the image in the gallery from 2008-11-29 19:02:44 This is a very peculiar looking field in the DSS. (603 miles), obtaining radar images of Titan's south polar region and a 05.07.08 - 07.23.08 - NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. Bands Used: 1,4,3 When it comes to firing telescopes and their instruments into the frigid cold of space, the more you test your hardware, the better. 12.15.08 - Authors & editors: NEO Surveyor Successfully Passes Key Milestone. 02.25.08 - The MODIS on NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the storm at noon Central Daylight Time (17:00 UTC). 06.11.08 - xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'">. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed the first round of environmental testing at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 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. 06.02.08 - Terra NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. 07.01.08 - 10.14.08 - 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. 12.09.08 - Image of the Day NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) received the final "Ready to Go!" Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. For some while we have been looking at how to put the data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP) into SkyView. 04.01.08 - Hurricane, tropical storm and tropical depression rainfall caused many severe floods and numerous lost lives during the 2008 north Atlantic hurricane season. Slice of History - Happy 25th Anniversary, Cassini! 09.26.08 - A comprehensive Mission Operations Readiness (MOR) review of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) was successfully completed last month. Enceladus Global View with Plume (Artist's Rendering), Enceladus Organics on Grains of Ice (Illustration), NASAs Lunar Flashlight Team Assessing Spacecrafts Propulsion System. 06.03.08 - Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar . 02.15.08 - New studies show the wrenching gravity just outside the outer boundary of a black hole can produce yet another bizarre effect: light echoes. 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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The IBEX mission will provide Greg Frazier with just the example he needs to showcase his knowledge of what it takes to reach the stars. This uses knowledge of the GALEX survey to find the center of the Continue reading , Lots of people are using the Image gallery. 05.29.08 - 04.14.08 - 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. 05.07.07 - from all teams. This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 31, 2008. 02.01.08 - A service of: ASD at NASA . Snow and Ice. Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. APOD: 2008 December 31 - The Sky in Motion Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! 40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter. 11.07.08 - 01.16.08 - 06.24.08 - 07.25.08 - A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused". SnoMotes are the first prototype network of their kind envisioned to rove treacherous areas of the Arctic and Antarctic. Besides strong winds, heavy rains, and a brief electrical outage, Edouard caused little damage. 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. 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. 09.22.08 - 10.02.08 - (2008, December 25). 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. 09.08.08 - 03.04.08 - topographic profile of the dark, possibly liquid-filled area known as 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. Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. This 4-minute, time-lapse video is 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. Phil Davis Atmosphere Tropical Cyclone Billy moved off the coast of Western Australia on December 25, 2008. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why. 02.26.08 - After the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China, NASA data came to the aid of officials by tapping into a unique set of NASA data products describing the location of the exposed populations. 10.08.08 - Compared to earlier images, the storm appears more compact in this picture, and occurs almost entirely over the ocean. 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Thousands converged on Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 06.26.08 - 02.27.08 - The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. 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. 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. 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. The bulletin also forecast a high probability of a tropical cyclone in the region from December 26-28, 2008. 09.10.08 - 05.21.08 - 11.12.08 - 12.23.08 - & Michigan Tech. 07.02.08 - GSFC Earth Science film producer Maria Frostic explores the world of Iceland's puffin population in her upcoming PBS documentary. Arcing through the sky in a stately reflection of Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have identified the smallest known black hole in the universe. Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. Scientists are using a video of Earth and the Moon taken from 31 million miles away to develop techniques to study alien worlds. The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. 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. 06.13.08 - Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the coronal heating enigma. 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. GALEX now uses a special GalexExposure Image finder. One popular theme is to find images that look very peculiar. NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. High-Southern Latitudes in the Leading Hemisphere (Arrakis Planitia). The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. 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. SDO will discover how the sun builds up and explosively releases magnetic energy, which powers severe space weather. 07.28.08 - 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. If you know your browser is up to date, you should check to ensure that Juno Explores Jovian Moons During Extended Mission. A new NASA-led study shows that human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth's natural systems. document.write( '' ), Normalized Fluorescence Line Height (FLH), Instantaneous Photosynthetically Available Radiation, Daily Mean Photosynthetically Available Radiation, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC. emailE=('brandon.f.mac' + 'cherone@nas' + 'a.gov') The proposed new mission, called Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS), will use a new technique to accomplish what has been impossible until now. 06.09.08 - 08.18.08 - The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST)to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft. The tiny sensor, only the size of a quarter, acts like a smoke detector. NASAs Solar Shield experiment explores how timely space weather forecasts can help power companies keep the power flowing to the many appliances and electronic gadgets we rely on every day. 06.27.08 - Image of the Day In fact its actually a tiny hair that got on the photographic plate sometime in the process of taking, developing Continue reading , A new version of SkyView has been installed to accommodate the issues that off center GALEX GR4 images presented. crepuscular Moore Boeck. The predicted rain held off, encouraging approximately 13,000 people to visit the Center. 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. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT and remains unchanged through Aug. 7. Numerous wildfires continue to burn out of control throughout California. 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. 11.21.08 - Water 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. STEREO findings help scientists map the energized particles where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium. 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. U. APOD Editor to Speak in New York on Jan. 2, NASA Web On December 15, Hubble engineers restarted the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System (NCS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. 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