The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS full spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. 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. 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 Radio Science Subsystem uses this pass to measure Titan's gravity field, allowing scientists to explore the moon's interior. Sherrica Newsome currently finds herself as Operations Manager for the 2008 NASA Academy at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Swift caught sight of a splintered comet fragment as it passed by the Ring Nebula. After a nationwide search for junior science researchers on GLAST mission, three people have been chosen for these prestigious post-doctoral positions. 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. 07.01.08 - NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interacts with Earth's magnetosphere. JPL is a federally funded research and development center managed for Scientists have used computer models to show how melt could contribute to the observed speed up of the ice sheet. 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. 12.19.08 - The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. Lt. 02.19.08 - 05.29.08 - 06.03.08 - 08.07.08 - Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 02.01.08 - The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries. Image Facts 02.21.08 - Hurricane, tropical storm and tropical depression rainfall caused many severe floods and numerous lost lives during the 2008 north Atlantic hurricane season. Privacy Policy and Important Notices ET. 12.23.08 - 05.20.07 - During RockOn!, university faculty and students will learn the basics of building experiments for flight on suborbital rockets. 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 LRO Media Day will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. Opaque clouds surround the storms eye, but farther away from the eye, the clouds assume translucent, wispy shapes, especially in the east. 01.16.08 - A service of: ASD at NASA . 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. 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. 01.22.08 - 08.14.08 - That's how many people have submitted their names to this project. NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) received the final "Ready to Go!" 12.04.08 - 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. . NASA scientists have determined that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earths second warmest year in a century. 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. This satellite map of snow cover shows that every state in the contiguous U.S., except for Florida, received snow in January 2011. GEMS will be the first mission designed just to measure the polarization of X-rays emitted near black holes, which will enable scientists to explore the exotic space around black holes in an unprecedented way. 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. After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. 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. rays. On December 19, 2008, Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia as a Category 2 storm. 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. We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting a large mirror from Earth. Features in the Gallery: Very Bright Stars, Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4, SkyView v3.5.6 Security updates and bug fixes. 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. Whats going on here? Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again on a Work Day? 07.02.08 - Managing Editor: Titan Flyby - July 31, 2008 . Liftoff of GLAST aboard a Delta II rocket is currently targeted for 11:45 a.m. EDT on May 16. Atmosphere 10.06.08 - 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. Click on a picture and discover the cosmos! Answering bold questions about life and climate on Earth and other planets is the goal behind a new Space Act Agreement signed between Goddard and Northrop Grumman. Tthe Exploration Sciences Building continues to be built at a feverish pace, nearing 70% complete. 05.27.08 - Powerful starquakes ripple around the sun in the wake of mighty solar flares. 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. 01.08.08 - As predicted, Edouard came ashore along the Gulf Coast early in the day on August 5, 2008, one day after this image was acquired. Date Acquired: 08/04/2008 Astronomers have found a neutron star that seems to share characteristics of both types of neutron stars. Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch GLAST into space arrived at Hangar M at Cape Canaveral. Design & Development: 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. 05.29.08 - The total estimated cost of the contract is $20,412,996 over the five-year period of performance. 10.29.08 - October 31, 2008. 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. The "Tiger Stripe" region on Saturn's moon Enceladus has been found to be even warmer than previous measurements indicated. The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, . SOHO has discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all the other discoverers of comets throughout history put together. 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. 04.02.01 - 07.24.08 - 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. as a participant of the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program. 08.18.08 - The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. By astronomical standards, Northern Hemisphere winter wont end until March 20. 06.02.08 - Specific rights apply. This uses knowledge of the GALEX survey to find the center of the Continue reading , Lots of people are using the Image gallery. Feb. 16, 2023 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. In earlier releases the exposed region seemed to be centered with the image square but . 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 blast arose from a star 12.8 billion light-years away. 08.26.08 - Last Updated: November 15, 2019 . Now available on iTunes, the NASA Goddard Shorts video podcast series keeps subscribers updated with cool science and engineering breakthroughs. Researchers have discovered that an explosion of magnetic energy powers sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the Northern Lights. NASA satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another. New data from the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful stellar explosions. 03.27.08 - composed from a series of 7,000 images highlighting Hundreds came to Goddard's Visitor Center to celebrate the anniversary of the first manned spaceflight and the first flight of the space shuttle. 12.03.08 - The original target, comet Boethin, is lost in space. NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. Official NASA photographs from agency photographers chronicle what's making news across the agency, from launches and landings to important science announcements. 12.15.08 - Land Reliable power and potential lunar resources make the lunar poles attractive enough to attempt hairy landings on a crater rim. This 4-minute, time-lapse video is 03.04.08 - Goddard has awarded its highest honor for quality and technical performance to three companies that have contributed significantly to the center's mission. Scientists believe that pollution is causing more rainfall midweek than on weekends. 01.10.08 - Water 01.25.08 - 09.08.08 - Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4. (MTU) & International Year of Astronomy; Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. This graphic shows the trajectory for the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon Enceladus on Oct. 31, 2008. 12.16.08 - 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. 12.19.08 - BUDDING astronomy fans can now see what the universe looked like the day they were born thanks to ground-breaking technology released by NASA. & Jerry Bonnell NASA Technical Rep.: Phil Newman. 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. NEO Surveyor Successfully Passes Key Milestone. 11.12.08 - GSFC Managing Editor: The National Academy of Sciences will award the 2008 Arctowski Medal to Dr. Leonard Burlaga, an Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The predicted rain held off, encouraging approximately 13,000 people to visit the Center. A winter camp for educators known as History of Winter 2008 will be hosted by a team from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. 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. After four years of observations, a European satellite named Integral may have solved one of our galaxy's greatest mysteries. Continue reading , 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. It's up to LRO to make those landings as safe as possible. Edouard had not strengthened into a hurricane when MODIS acquired this image, and the storm was expected to lose strength as it moved inland. Scientists are using a video of Earth and the Moon taken from 31 million miles away to develop techniques to study alien worlds. A new study has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. 02.08.08 - Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the coronal heating enigma. Tropical Cyclone Billy continued traveling along Western Australia's Kimberley Coast . If you know your browser is up to date, you should check to ensure that Image of the Day 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. The APOD website on 31 December 2016, displaying that day's astronomy picture of Trifid Nebula in infrared. NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched successfully on June 11, 2008, at 12:05 p.m. 03.20.08 - 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. George Takei, famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," visited Goddard on June 3, 2008, to deliver a lecture on diversity. 04.28.08 - NASA Headquarters Images; Kennedy Space Center Images; Johnson Space Center Images; Goddard Space Flight Center Images; Marshall Space Flight Center Images Severe Storms. 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. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite took this picture at 3:10 p.m. local time on December 25. 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: ASD at The launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for no earlier than June 11. 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. 06.30.08 - Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. much of what you could see. 12.08.08 - The Space Agency has uploaded spectacular space pics. Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. javascript is enabled. 04.14.08 - Caption by Rebecca Lindsey. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. 05.07.07 - iridescence, and beaming document.write( '' ), Normalized Fluorescence Line Height (FLH), Instantaneous Photosynthetically Available Radiation, Daily Mean Photosynthetically Available Radiation, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC. Posted on December 1, 2008 by Tess Jaffe. xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'">. 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. 09.02.08 - Snow and Ice, Image of the Day NASA Official: document.write( '' ) Atmosphere 02.05.08 - Melissa Rey from Chesterfield, Mo., was named "America's Top Young Scientist" at the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The Atlantic Hurricane Season began early in 2007, and by mid-December it was still going. emailE=('brandon.f.mac' + 'cherone@nas' + 'a.gov') The snow cover patterns also identify various topographic features, especially mountain ranges. By the afternoon of August 4, 2008, Tropical Storm Edouard was headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast. To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. 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. SnoMotes are the first prototype network of their kind envisioned to rove treacherous areas of the Arctic and Antarctic. One of Saturn's rings soaks up material gushing from the fountains on the tiny ice-moon, Enceladus, according to new Cassini observations. 10.29.08 - 05.13.08 - Boosted to almost the speed of light, "killer electrons" can knock out computers, pierce spacesuits and damage the tissues of astronauts. NASA has selected the University of Alaska for the management and operations of the EOS Data and Information System Synthetic Aperture Radar DACC. 01.10.08 - 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. 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. The MODIS on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the storm at noon Central Daylight Time (17:00 UTC). 02.15.08 - Resolutions: 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. 11.13.08 - 09.04.08 - The final day of competition for The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist concludes the evening of Oct. 6, 2008. 01.10.08 - 09.22.08 - 01.10.08 - Landsat Important to Coastal Studies. Moore Boeck. Scientists have discovered a wave pattern in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. 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