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Site last updated: December 21, 2022 . The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. 12.15.08 - 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. javascript is enabled. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 970 kilometers (684 miles) during the closest approach. 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. 02.19.08 - Image of the Day 09.22.08 - 10.14.08 - NASA and Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC today announced the first ever sale of a government patent license through a public auction of intellectual property. 11.13.08 - 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). Design & Development: Lt. Snow and Ice, Winter Snow Cover in the Northern Hemisphere, NASA Goddard Space The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will be used to launch GLAST into space arrived at Hangar M at Cape Canaveral. emailE=('shannell.c.' Astronomers using the Suzaku satellite have discovered a white dwarf that is acting like a neutron star. 02.13.08 - 05.29.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. 07.01.08 - On December 19, 2008, Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia as a Category 2 storm. What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into planetary system formation. 01.29.08 - 10.16.08 - NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched successfully on June 11, 2008, at 12:05 p.m. Land 01.18.08 - Advance warning of radiation storms could give astronauts time to take cover and allow satellite operators to take protective measures. Observations of two different systems -- each containing stellar-mass black holes -- are showing astronomers how much they have yet to learn. NASA by Caltech. (603 miles), obtaining radar images of Titan's south polar region and a Steve Platnick, EOS Senior Project Scientist Acting. 10.08.08 - 02.15.08 - The maps are based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite. 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. Explanation: 11.17.08 - 11.21.08 - High-Southern Latitudes in the Leading Hemisphere (Arrakis Planitia). from all teams. 05.29.08 - Researchers hope to use the rare event to reveal secrets buried deep in Jupiter's massive atmosphere. The Science Poster Party Blowout started 2008 with a celebration of Goddards scientific discoveries and achievements. Boosted to almost the speed of light, "killer electrons" can knock out computers, pierce spacesuits and damage the tissues of astronauts. Flight Center. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT and remains unchanged through Aug. 7. 01.24.08 - 10.02.08 - Dr. Peter Hildebrand was recently named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. JPL is a federally funded research and development center managed for 07.17.08 - NASA selected two proposals from Goddard researchers to assist with measurements the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will make. The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review. 04.07.08 - 02.08.08 - Two Goddard employees have been recognized by the National Women of Color (WOC) Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as 2008 WOC All-Stars and Rising Stars of Technology. 02.21.08 - Bill Dunford The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 970 kilometers (684 miles) during the closest approach. NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Space Agency has uploaded spectacular space pics every day for more than 25 years via the use of their Hubble telescope. featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 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. 01.16.08 - NASA Web 12.19.08 - 12.03.08 - Phil Davis 12.08.08 - Reliable power and potential lunar resources make the lunar poles attractive enough to attempt hairy landings on a crater rim. Severe Storms. xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'">. Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4. The predicted rain held off, encouraging approximately 13,000 people to visit the Center. 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. Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again on a Work Day? NASA has selected Sevatec Inc. in Arlington, Va. for professional and administrative support services for the Office of Human Capital Management at Goddard. The animation shows monthly snow cover from February 2000 through February 2009. The Hubble Space Telescope team completed switching the required hardware modules to their B-sides about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. High-Southern Latitudes in the Leading Hemisphere (Arrakis Planitia). Phil Davis Image Credit: 09.29.08 - Im pleased to report that the Earth Observatory team has completed an extensive redesign of their siteearthobservatory.nasa.gov. 10.15.08 - Social Media Lead: 02.19.08 - Besides strong winds, heavy rains, and a brief electrical outage, Edouard caused little damage. A winter camp for educators known as History of Winter 2008 will be hosted by a team from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. 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. A powerful stellar explosion detected by NASA's Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object visible with the naked eye. 06.13.08 - Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. 07.24.08 - The snow cover patterns also identify various topographic features, especially mountain ranges. Now available on iTunes, the NASA Goddard Shorts video podcast series keeps subscribers updated with cool science and engineering breakthroughs. 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. 07.25.08 - Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. 12.23.08 - 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. . Smoke billows from scattered wildfires in California, as captured by NASA's Aqua Satellite. Terra SkyView GALEX GR4: Off center images fixed. This is the fourth of four fly-bys where RADAR can probe the interior of Titan and confirm the existence of an ocean. 09.12.08 - 03.27.08 - Cassini Eyes the Tiger Stripes 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. Along with a redesigned user interface, these efforts have culminated in the launch of the new Earth Observatory (see screenshot below). 05.23.07 - 05.07.08 - The National Academy of Sciences will award the 2008 Arctowski Medal to Dr. Leonard Burlaga, an Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 10.29.08 - 10.27.08 - GSFC Slice of History - Happy 25th Anniversary, Cassini! The model of the James Webb Space Telescope has been making a lot of "orbits" around the world, and is now slated to "land" at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. 05.21.07 - 02.08.08 - The storm was expected to bring heavy rainfall and local flooding to parts of the Kimberley Coast. 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. NASA maps and animation by Kevin Ward, based on data from the NASA Earth Observations (NEO) project. A service of: ASD at NASA . NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. 12.19.08 - Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream on Jupiter in March, 2007. Excitement Builds as GLAST Readies Its Gamma-ray Vision! 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Sun and 10.14.08 - Compared to the giant black holes in the centers of other galaxies, the Milky Way's black hole is strangely quiet. 02.29.08 - NASA, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and their partners are in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch SERVIR-Africa, a program that helps scientists, government leaders and local communities address concerns related to natural disasters, disease outbreaks, biodiversity and climate change. 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 proposed new mission, called Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS), will use a new technique to accomplish what has been impossible until now. The image has been processed with a resolution of 128 pixels/deg. Goddard Space Flight Center welcomed Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown to its facility on May 12, 2008. NASA researchers have created an advanced data compression algorithm that will increase science data return for NASA missions. Managing Editor: Because snow is very bright, it increases the amount of sunlight a ground surface reflects back to space, which is a key part of the Earths energy budget and climate. The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. 05.07.07 - The Moon will appear full from Thursday evening through Sunday morning. By the afternoon of August 4, 2008, Tropical Storm Edouard was headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast. NASA Headquarters Images; Kennedy Space Center Images; Johnson Space Center Images; Goddard Space Flight Center Images; Marshall Space Flight Center Images When it comes to firing telescopes and their instruments into the frigid cold of space, the more you test your hardware, the better. 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. 07.01.08 - Please credit all images and animations to NASA, unless otherwise noted. The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. 09.10.08 - 06.05.08 - Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. as a participant of the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program. But for meteorologists, who sometimes divide the year up into seasons on the basis of similarity in weather and temperature, winter is already over. composed from a series of 7,000 images highlighting 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 . 04.03.08 - 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. A new look at a classic experiment reveals volcanoes may have played a crucial role in the rise of life on Earth. This artist concept shows a mirror-smooth lake on the surface of the smoggy moon Titan. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. 12.16.08 - International Year of Astronomy; 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. 06.27.08 - 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. Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. 12.09.08 - 12.16.08 - 03.17.08 - 10.16.08 - Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age. 01.08.08 - Juno Spacecraft Recovering Memory After 47th Flyby of Jupiter, NASA Explores a Winter Wonderland on Mars, NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science, NASAs Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface, 40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter, NASAs Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot, NASAs Juno Exploring Jovian Moons During Extended Mission. 11.07.08 - Dec . A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused". Image of the Day 06.26.08 - document.write( '' + emailName + '' ) mars.nasa.gov. stars. Managing Editor: 03.31.08 - 06.02.08 - Edouard had not strengthened into a hurricane when MODIS acquired this image, and the storm was expected to lose strength as it moved inland. To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 06.03.08 - The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, . 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. However WMAP images are generally stored in Continue reading , This image from 2008-12-10 09:39:28 is pretty interesting It looks like we are seeing some very special object with rings around it. The final day of competition for The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist concludes the evening of Oct. 6, 2008. the 5-year anniversary of some the most powerful solar storms ever recorded. & Michigan Tech. Snow and Ice, Image of the Day That's how many people have submitted their names to this project. On December 15, Hubble engineers restarted the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System (NCS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. 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. 01.07.08 - this past Saturday to celebrate LaunchFest. 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. Clouds serve a valuable role in Earth's climate, and thanks to A-Train, a closer look at them is possible. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. 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. A million names will be blasted into space and "to the moon" on LRO. Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest leaks, according to researchers sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation. 05.13.08 - 09.04.08 - Acquired December 16, 2009, this true-color image shows Tropical Cyclone Laurence spanning hundreds of kilometers over the Indian Ocean, just off the Australian coast. Juno Explores Jovian Moons During Extended Mission. . 07.31.08 - This uses knowledge of the GALEX survey to find the center of the Continue reading , Lots of people are using the Image gallery. Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, Web Curator: 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. The original target, comet Boethin, is lost in space. NASA Headquarters approves an instrument to study the extreme environments of the universe. A documentary of the Young Scientist Challenge, held in October 2008 at Goddard, will be produced for the Discovery channel in early 2009. 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 - 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 satellites finds vast quantities of industrial aerosols and smoke from East Asia and Russia travel from one side of the globe to another. This 4-minute, time-lapse video is Hundreds came to Goddard's Visitor Center to celebrate the anniversary of the first manned spaceflight and the first flight of the space shuttle. 09.17.08 - 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.. GALEX now uses a special GalexExposure Image finder. Ontario Lacus. After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. 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