Understanding Earth: Our Ocean. 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.gov. 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. 03.17.08 - 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. Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age. 02.20.08 - Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. 07.01.08 - Snow and Ice, Winter Snow Cover in the Northern Hemisphere, NASA Goddard Space 05.30.08 - SkyView GALEX GR4: Off center images fixed. 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 proposed new mission, called Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS), will use a new technique to accomplish what has been impossible until now. 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). Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the coronal heating enigma. Scientists are using a video of Earth and the Moon taken from 31 million miles away to develop techniques to study alien worlds. Phil Davis The Delta II 7920-H rocket that will launch GLAST is in the process of being assembled on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. 04.08.08 - To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Hubble has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other. 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. 01.09.08 - much of what you could see. 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. 03.03.08 - Resolutions: 06.04.08 - On December 19, 2008, Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia as a Category 2 storm. 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. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite took this picture at 3:10 p.m. local time on December 25. This 4-minute, time-lapse video is 07.24.08 - NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Land Managing Editor: 40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter. 05.07.07 - A new study has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. 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. 07.28.08 - 01.08.08 - 09.08.08 - 04.01.08 - 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. 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. Goddard and the Howard B. Owens Science Center will celebrate a first year partnership created to inspire and educate students in the study of Earth science. 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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. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft bus was lowered onto the propulsion module, and it attached on the first try. Powerful starquakes ripple around the sun in the wake of mighty solar flares. 03.13.08 - (603 miles), obtaining radar images of Titan's south polar region and a 04.07.08 - Image of the Day 02.07.08 - JPL is a federally funded research and development center managed for The Atlantic Hurricane Season began early in 2007, and by mid-December it was still going. The maps are based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite. Managing Editor: Astronomers have discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a neutron star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. 02.26.08 - 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. 09.08.08 - 12.19.08 - Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have identified the smallest known black hole in the universe. The predicted rain held off, encouraging approximately 13,000 people to visit the Center. 09.29.08 - Image Credit: 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. 01.28.08 - A documentary of the Young Scientist Challenge, held in October 2008 at Goddard, will be produced for the Discovery channel in early 2009. According to a report from the U.S. National Hurricane Center, elevated oil rigs south of the Louisiana coast reported sustained winds of 72 to 89 kilometers (45 to 55 miles) per hour, well below the wind-speed threshold for a Category 1 hurricane. Global snow cover maps are valuable for both practical and scientific tasks. 01.10.08 - The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. Cool, wet conditions in the Northwest, frigid weather on the Plains, and record dry conditions in the Southeast are all signs that La Nia is in full swing. Whats going on here? 09.04.08 - 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. SnoMotes are the first prototype network of their kind envisioned to rove treacherous areas of the Arctic and Antarctic. topographic profile of the dark, possibly liquid-filled area known as NASA Official: Dr. Joan M. Centrella and Dr. John G. Baker are the 2008 recipients of the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science. August 31, 2008. 05.13.08 - NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT and remains unchanged through Aug. 7. Severe Storms. NASAs Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, designed to image global interactions at the outer reaches of the solar system, today began its move to Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California. The snow cover patterns also identify various topographic features, especially mountain ranges. The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's GLAST)to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft. 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. 12.09.08 - 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. This satellite map of snow cover shows that every state in the contiguous U.S., except for Florida, received snow in January 2011. 1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B) The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review. 01.16.08 - High-Southern Latitudes in the Leading Hemisphere (Arrakis Planitia). Flight Center. NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. 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