Titan Flyby - July 31, 2008 . 12.15.08 - After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. 12.08.08 - 09.26.08 - Swift caught sight of a splintered comet fragment as it passed by the Ring Nebula. 01.09.08 - Northrop Grumman has created a Sunshield for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope that can withstand the harsh environment of space. 04.14.08 - NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Follow this link to skip to the main content, Next NASA Moon Mission Completes Major Milestone, New One-of-a-Kind Technology Will Fly on Two NASA Missions, NASA Goddard and University of Idaho Create Solutions for 2 NASA Missions, Explore the Entire Region of the Sun's Influence, Sun Often "Tears Out A Wall" In Earth's Solar Storm Shield, Mission Operations Readiness Review for NPOESS Preparatory Project Completed, New Satellite Data Reveal Impact of Olympic Pollution Controls, Space Has Never Been Closer: NASA Instruments Document Contraction of the Boundary between the Earths Ionosphere and Space, Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet, Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope Exhibit Travels to Pittsburgh, NASA Sets Target Shuttle Launch Date for Hubble Servicing Mission, NASA Selects NOAA GOES-R Series Spacecraft Contractor, NASA-USAID Earth Observation System Expands to Africa, Water Vapor Confirmed as Major Player in Climate Change, 'Firefly' CubeSat Mission to Study Link Between Lightning and Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes, The James Webb Telescope's Super-Tough Sunshield, Arctic Sea Ice Decline Shakes Up Ocean Ecosystems, Blind Engineer Finds Solution to Soyuz Re-entry Issue, NASA Invites Students to Become Rocket Scientists at the Sunday Experiment, NASA and Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC Sell Government Patent License, NOAA-N Prime Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg for Launch, NASA Goddard Exploration Sciences Building is Almost 70 Percent Complete, NASA Selects Goddard Program Analysis and Control Contractor, Halloween Storms of 2003 Still the Scariest, Goddard Women Recognized At International Forum, Goddard Challenges America's Best in Science, Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test, NASA Launches IBEX Mission to Outer Solar System, Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks and Chemistry for First Life, Two Black Holes Teach Astronomers a Lesson, IBEX Launches Research Platform, Makes Childhood Dream a Reality, James Webb Telescope Model Will Fly to Germany, Apollo Heat Shield Uncrated After 35 Years, Will Help with New Crew Vehicle, Top Winners Announced for Discovery 3M Challenge, Rising Arctic Storm Activity Sways Sea Ice, Climate, Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age, Discovery 3M Challenge to Conclude Oct. 6 at Goddard, NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere, Infrared Echoes Give NASA's Spitzer a Supernova Flashback, A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears, NASA Commemoration Includes Discovery Challenge at Goddard, NASA Data Show Arctic Saw Fastest August Sea Ice Retreat on Record, Scientists Detect Cosmic 'Dark Flow' Across Billions of Light Years, NASA Satellite Sees the Oldest-Ever Gamma-ray Burst from the Edge of the Visible Universe, NASA Selects Contractor for Landsat Mission Operations Element, Shake, Rattle and Roll: James Webb Telescope Components Pass Tests, Finding Fireflies next to a Lighthouse: Goddard's New Technology to Study Alien Worlds, NASA Study Illustrates How Global Peak Oil Could Impact Climate, NASA and Ocean Tomo Establish Groundbreaking Partnership to Commercialize NASA Technologies, Baltimore, DC Media Invited to Sneak Peek of NASA's "Launchfest" at Goddard Sept. 11, 10:00 AM, 2008 Hurricane Season Kicks Into High Gear. 12.30.08 - 07.11.08 - Ryan Sheridan, a student from Moscow, Idaho, will spend this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Image of the Day 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. George Takei, famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," visited Goddard on June 3, 2008, to deliver a lecture on diversity. 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. Event 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. 05.21.08 - 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. Caption by Michon Scott. Reliable power and potential lunar resources make the lunar poles attractive enough to attempt hairy landings on a crater rim. 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. Researchers hope to use the rare event to reveal secrets buried deep in Jupiter's massive atmosphere. 07.10.08 - Please credit all images and animations to NASA, unless otherwise noted. 02.15.08 - Atmosphere This is the fourth of four fly-bys where RADAR can probe the interior of Titan and confirm the existence of an ocean. The "Tiger Stripe" region on Saturn's moon Enceladus has been found to be even warmer than previous measurements indicated. After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. 12.19.08 - Besides strong winds, heavy rains, and a brief electrical outage, Edouard caused little damage. 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. . 05.19.08 - NASA's Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More. 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. 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. One of Saturn's rings soaks up material gushing from the fountains on the tiny ice-moon, Enceladus, according to new Cassini observations. This is a COMPTEL image, one of the lowest resolution surveys we have in Continue reading , This image from 2008-12-06 15:57:53 shows a very interesting feature that looks like a giant worm squirming amongst the stars. 01.24.08 - The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite took this picture at 3:10 p.m. local time on December 25. 04.02.01 - 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. Bill Dunford 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. 12.02.08 - Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. 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. 01.02.08 - 12.15.08 - Scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. During RockOn!, university faculty and students will learn the basics of building experiments for flight on suborbital rockets. Powerful starquakes ripple around the sun in the wake of mighty solar flares. 07.01.08 - 05.07.07 - Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4. 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. Moore Boeck. Satellite: LRO Media Day will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. 06.05.08 - 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. 12.03.08 - Atmosphere NASA Official: Phillip Newman Moore Boeck. The total estimated cost of the contract is $20,412,996 over the five-year period of performance. 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. Thousands converged on Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. For the first time in the 2008 hurricane season, there are four tropical cyclones active in the Atlantic Ocean basin on one day. 08.04.08 - Specific rights apply. 07.01.08 - Goddard Symposium to focus on "Going to Work in Space.". Compared to the giant black holes in the centers of other galaxies, the Milky Way's black hole is strangely quiet. NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interacts with Earth's magnetosphere. Scientists have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiters upper atmosphere where its signature colorful striped clouds form. Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. 05.13.08 - NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. 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. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. NASA Goddard Invites Public To See "Launchfest"! Astronomers have found a neutron star that seems to share characteristics of both types of neutron stars. Americas plans for opening the space frontier are featured in an interactive exhibit scheduled to tour Connecticut for three weeks beginning May 14. Melissa Rey from Chesterfield, Mo., was named "America's Top Young Scientist" at the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. 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. The next full Moon will be Friday evening, Jan. 6, 2023, at 6:08 PM EST. 10.24.08 - 06.03.08 - 07.02.08 - 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. (2008, December 25). Tropical Cyclone Billy moved off the coast of Western Australia on December 25, 2008. 08.26.08 - 09.29.08 - 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's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. NASA's Science Communication Support Office Annual Report 2017. 07.23.08 - Land The Radio Science Subsystem uses this pass to measure Titan's gravity field, allowing scientists to explore the moon's interior. NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) launched successfully on June 11, 2008, at 12:05 p.m. 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. The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, . Along with a redesigned user interface, these efforts have culminated in the launch of the new Earth Observatory (see screenshot below). 09.22.08 - It's up to LRO to make those landings as safe as possible. October 31, 2008. 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. A million names will be blasted into space and "to the moon" on LRO. BUDDING astronomy fans can now see what the universe looked like the day they were born thanks to ground-breaking technology released by NASA. 1 The Hubble Space Telescope team completed switching the required hardware modules to their B-sides about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. 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. To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. meteors streaking overhead, 09.12.08 - High-Southern Latitudes in the Leading Hemisphere (Arrakis Planitia). 05.29.08 - Hundreds came to Goddard's Visitor Center to celebrate the anniversary of the first manned spaceflight and the first flight of the space shuttle. Atmosphere 05.16.07 - NASAs Solar Shield experiment explores how timely space weather forecasts can help power companies keep the power flowing to the many appliances and electronic gadgets we rely on every day. 07.01.08 - document.write( '' ) Terra Katherine Heinzen, a student from Fairfax, Va., will spend this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA selected two proposals from Goddard researchers to assist with measurements the agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will make. As predicted, Edouard came ashore along the Gulf Coast early in the day on August 5, 2008, one day after this image was acquired. (2008, December 28). NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. from all teams. 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. Dr. Peter Hildebrand was recently named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. emailE=('brandon.f.mac' + 'cherone@nas' + 'a.gov') Severe Storms. javascript is enabled. 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. Never having acquired hurricane strength, the storm made landfall west of the Texas-Louisiana border, east of Galveston, Texas. 04.14.08 - 01.18.08 - Consider one appropriate for 2009, the , and a brief electrical outage, Edouard caused little damage @ nas ' + 'cherone @ nas +. 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