Researchers hope to use the rare event to reveal secrets buried deep in Jupiter's massive atmosphere. 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. 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. 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. (603 miles), obtaining radar images of Titan's south polar region and a When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence performing on-orbit surgery on two ailing science instruments that reside inside the telescope. LRO Media Day will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. NASA has selected 10 offerors to provide the agency with access to a variety of airborne platforms to conduct airborne science research and range support. 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. NASA will hold a series of news media briefings Sept. 8 - 9 to preview the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. 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. 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. Severe Storms. 11.04.08 - Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. We could make huge telescopes on the moon relatively easily, and avoid the large expense of transporting a large mirror from Earth. 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. Ontario Lacus. 02.01.08 - 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. 05.07.08 - 06.18.08 - After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. 03.20.08 - 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. Opaque clouds surround the storms eye, but farther away from the eye, the clouds assume translucent, wispy shapes, especially in the east. Atmosphere A new NASA study confirms that the surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, fueling the loss of the island's ice at the surface and throughout the mass beneath. 06.13.08 - Tthe Exploration Sciences Building continues to be built at a feverish pace, nearing 70% complete. 05.07.08 - 10.01.08 - 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. Global snow cover maps are valuable for both practical and scientific tasks. Feb. 16, 2023 Students from all over the world will gather to participate in a creative problem-solving competition, at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., May 31 through June 3. NASA satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another. Inspired by a desire to make finding space physics information as easy as book lovers locate a text on Amazon.com, the heliophysics virtual observatories offer a wealth of resources to learn more about the sun, Earth and heliosphere. 05.30.08 - If you know your browser is up to date, you should check to ensure that Understanding Earth: What's Up with Precipitation? 04.14.08 - 07.24.08 - NASA Headquarters Images; Kennedy Space Center Images; Johnson Space Center Images; Goddard Space Flight Center Images; Marshall Space Flight Center Images 07.25.08 - Compared to the giant black holes in the centers of other galaxies, the Milky Way's black hole is strangely quiet. 05.07.07 - Please credit all images and animations to NASA, unless otherwise noted. 11.17.08 - Image Facts 07.01.08 - Image Credit: 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. NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interacts with Earth's magnetosphere. The "Tiger Stripe" region on Saturn's moon Enceladus has been found to be even warmer than previous measurements indicated. A new NASA-led study shows that human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth's natural systems. The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. George Takei, famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," visited Goddard on June 3, 2008, to deliver a lecture on diversity. 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. Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. NASA Official: Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. meteors streaking overhead, 01.10.08 - A service of: ASD at NASA . 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. Site last updated: December 21, 2022 . The solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years of science on the Red Planet. A service of: 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. 03.20.08 - The WMAP data are central to our current understanding of cosmology. NASA has selected SP Systems Inc. of Greenbelt, Md., to provide mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract. NASA has several presentations at the 212th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science. 11.13.08 - Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. Reliable power and potential lunar resources make the lunar poles attractive enough to attempt hairy landings on a crater rim. One of Saturn's rings soaks up material gushing from the fountains on the tiny ice-moon, Enceladus, according to new Cassini observations. Design & Development: These images were obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 21, 2008. crepuscular 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. Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. much of what you could see. The Science Poster Party Blowout started 2008 with a celebration of Goddards scientific discoveries and achievements. xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'">. 09.23.08 - The proposed new mission, called Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS), will use a new technique to accomplish what has been impossible until now. javascript is enabled. The launch of NASA's GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for Thursday, June 5. Specific rights apply. 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. & Michigan Tech. But the sequence also features NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) received the final "Ready to Go!" Bill Dunford 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. 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA Headquarters approves an instrument to study the extreme environments of the universe. This satellite map of snow cover shows that every state in the contiguous U.S., except for Florida, received snow in January 2011.