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04.17.08 - NASA selected The Hammers Company, Greenbelt, Md., to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Mission Operations Element (MOE). 06.30.08 - A 2006 solar flare surprised scientists by behaving in unexpected ways. Resolutions: 06.26.08 - NASA researchers have identified feasible emission scenarios that could keep carbon dioxide below levels that some scientists have called dangerous for climate. 09.12.08 - 10.15.08 - 10.06.08 - Event NASA Web Severe Storms. An interactive exhibit showcasing NASA's Hubble and James Webb telescopes is on display in Pittsburgh. Liftoff of GLAST aboard a Delta II rocket is currently targeted for 11:45 a.m. EDT on May 16. To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years of science on the Red Planet. The Space Agency has uploaded spectacular space pics. Design & Development: The WMAP data are central to our current understanding of cosmology. 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. A new NASA study has found that storms are more intense during the work week than on the weekends. 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. 04.14.08 - 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. as a participant of the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program. 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. 02.05.08 - Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again on a Work Day? The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. Reliable power and potential lunar resources make the lunar poles attractive enough to attempt hairy landings on a crater rim. 02.20.08 - 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. 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. For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. 04.14.08 - The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. To get the best experience possible, please download a compatible browser. 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. 02.07.08 - (2008, December 28). 11.17.08 - What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into planetary system formation. NASA has selected ASRC Research and Technology Solutions, LLC, of Greenbelt, Md., to provide mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract. NASA has selected the University of Alaska for the management and operations of the EOS Data and Information System Synthetic Aperture Radar DACC. Besides strong winds, heavy rains, and a brief electrical outage, Edouard caused little damage. But for meteorologists, who sometimes divide the year up into seasons on the basis of similarity in weather and temperature, winter is already over. 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. South of the polar night boundary, dark gray means either no snow or no data, usually because of clouds. 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. 07.24.08 - The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, . Last Updated: November 15, 2019 . Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the coronal heating enigma. 01.24.08 - 09.23.08 - 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. 10.15.08 - Opaque clouds surround the storms eye, but farther away from the eye, the clouds assume translucent, wispy shapes, especially in the east. Hubble has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other. 04.01.08 - The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review. A winter camp for educators known as History of Winter 2008 will be hosted by a team from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. A documentary of the Young Scientist Challenge, held in October 2008 at Goddard, will be produced for the Discovery channel in early 2009. This 4-minute, time-lapse video is 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. Managing Editor: 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. 05.20.07 - 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. 05.30.08 - NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. 09.17.08 - 03.27.08 - Land 09.15.08 - The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a February 4, 2009 launch. For the first time in the 2008 hurricane season, there are four tropical cyclones active in the Atlantic Ocean basin on one day. Titan Flyby - July 31, 2008 . 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. Image of the Day After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. 10.27.08 - This is the fourth of four fly-bys where RADAR can probe the interior of Titan and confirm the existence of an ocean. 05.21.08 - Scientists believe that pollution is causing more rainfall midweek than on weekends. This satellite map of snow cover shows that every state in the contiguous U.S., except for Florida, received snow in January 2011. Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Denver was selected to build the satellites for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or GOES-R, Program. The bulletin also forecast a high probability of a tropical cyclone in the region from December 26-28, 2008. Researchers hope to use the rare event to reveal secrets buried deep in Jupiter's massive atmosphere. NASA selected two proposals from Goddard researchers to assist with measurements the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will make. NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is receiving finishing touches at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, near the beaches of eastern central Florida for its launch. After four years of observations, a European satellite named Integral may have solved one of our galaxy's greatest mysteries. 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. 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. 11.17.08 - along the horizon changing in a beautiful 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. Arcing through the sky in a stately reflection of Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. 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. 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. 07.01.08 - Swift caught sight of a splintered comet fragment as it passed by the Ring Nebula. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. Dr. Peter Hildebrand was recently named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. In earlier releases the exposed region seemed to be centered with the image square but . 01.09.08 - 07.01.08 - Last Month: December 2008: Next Month: Sun: Mon: Tue: Wed: Thu: Fri: Sat Last Month | Calendar | Next Month > Index | Search | Send Mail to APOD | Today's . The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries. The maps are based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite. 09.30.08 - 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. Phil Davis Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream on Jupiter in March, 2007. 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. 11.07.08 - 01.10.08 - 07.02.08 - satellites and The MODIS on NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the storm at noon Central Daylight Time (17:00 UTC). 01.10.08 - NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. much of what you could see. Compared to the giant black holes in the centers of other galaxies, the Milky Way's black hole is strangely quiet. Cassini scientists speculate there may be a layer of liquid water mixed with ammonia about 100 kilometers (62 miles) below the surface of Titan. A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused". 03.17.08 - 01.10.08 - 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. 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Enceladus Global View with Plume (Artist's Rendering), Enceladus Organics on Grains of Ice (Illustration), NASAs Lunar Flashlight Team Assessing Spacecrafts Propulsion System. The Hubble Space Telescope team completed switching the required hardware modules to their B-sides about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. The proposed new mission, called Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS), will use a new technique to accomplish what has been impossible until now. Moon, Atmosphere 11.04.08 - 10.19.08 - By the afternoon of August 4, 2008, Tropical Storm Edouard was headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast. Phil Davis Please credit all images and animations to NASA, unless otherwise noted. Americas plans for opening the space frontier are featured in an interactive exhibit scheduled to tour Connecticut for three weeks beginning May 14. 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. The "Tiger Stripe" region on Saturn's moon Enceladus has been found to be even warmer than previous measurements indicated. Researchers took advantage of NASA satellite images to show that the microscopic floating plants are teeming in regions of recent ice melt. 12.30.08 - The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST)to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft. NASA's Science Communication Support Office Annual Report 2017. The Science Poster Party Blowout started 2008 with a celebration of Goddards scientific discoveries and achievements. Specific rights apply. 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. The National Academy of Sciences will award the 2008 Arctowski Medal to Dr. Leonard Burlaga, an Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In this image, the sprawling storm blocks the satellite's view of much of the Louisiana coast including the New Orleans region, while skies remain clear farther inland, particularly in Texas. Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) 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. NASA has selected Sevatec Inc. in Arlington, Va. for professional and administrative support services for the Office of Human Capital Management at Goddard. 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 - 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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Severe Storms, NASA Goddard Space 02.27.08 - NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) received the final "Ready to Go!" Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. Scientists are using a video of Earth and the Moon taken from 31 million miles away to develop techniques to study alien worlds. 01.08.08 - 10.08.08 - The original target, comet Boethin, is lost in space. February 1, 2000 - February 28, 2009QuickTime, Google Earth - December 1, 2008 - February 28, 2009KML. 12.16.08 - Goddard Symposium to focus on "Going to Work in Space.". BUDDING astronomy fans can now see what the universe looked like the day they were born thanks to ground-breaking technology released by NASA. topographic profile of the dark, possibly liquid-filled area known as Posted on December 1, 2008 by Tess Jaffe. The bulletin warned of wind gusts up to 100 kilometers (60 miles) per hour, should the storm take a route more toward the southwest. Understanding Earth: Our Ocean. nasa.gov. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., will open its doors to the public September 13 to learn about the more than 12 missions Goddard is launching in a year. Dec . The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly was delivered to Goddard in preparation for SDO's scheduled launch in December 2008. After a nationwide search for junior science researchers on GLAST mission, three people have been chosen for these prestigious post-doctoral positions. Water 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. 04.23.08 - Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The predicted rain held off, encouraging approximately 13,000 people to visit the Center. Privacy Policy and Important Notices 12.04.08 - Tthe Exploration Sciences Building continues to be built at a feverish pace, nearing 70% complete. 11.12.08 - NASA scientists have uncrated heat shields used on the Apollo missions to aid development of the upcoming Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. Images by Mission. 12.23.08 - 02.08.08 - The sun has powered almost everything on Earth since life began, including its climate. Observations of two different systems -- each containing stellar-mass black holes -- are showing astronomers how much they have yet to learn. LRO Media Day will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. 05.19.08 - Smoke billows from scattered wildfires in California, as captured by NASA's Aqua Satellite. 10.29.08 - 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. 01.22.08 - 05.21.08 - The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. 06.12.08 - 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. 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