Phil Davis Servicing Mission 4 to the Hubble Space Telescope is currently on track for a mid-May 2009 launch based on a successful Pre-Environmental Readiness Review (PERR) held December 16 at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center for the flight spare Science Instrument Command and Data Handling (SI/C&DH). 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. 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. NASA's Science Communication Support Office Annual Report 2017. NASA has several presentations at the 212th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Ontario Lacus. South of the polar night boundary, dark gray means either no snow or no data, usually because of clouds. Cassini scientists speculate there may be a layer of liquid water mixed with ammonia about 100 kilometers (62 miles) below the surface of Titan. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft bus was lowered onto the propulsion module, and it attached on the first try. NASA by Caltech. Thousands converged on Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 06.13.08 - 07.01.08 - Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Denver was selected to build the satellites for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or GOES-R, Program. Researchers hope to use the rare event to reveal secrets buried deep in Jupiter's massive atmosphere. The tennis court-sized sunshield built by Northrop Grumman for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has completed its preliminary design review. This satellite map of snow cover shows that every state in the contiguous U.S., except for Florida, received snow in January 2011. 01.10.08 - Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is By astronomical standards, Northern Hemisphere winter wont end until March 20. 07.15.08 - GSFC Earth Science film producer Maria Frostic explores the world of Iceland's puffin population in her upcoming PBS documentary. 07.25.08 - 07.17.08 - 08.14.08 - 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. Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream on Jupiter in March, 2007. document.write( '' ) 01.08.08 - 10.08.08 - Never having acquired hurricane strength, the storm made landfall west of the Texas-Louisiana border, east of Galveston, Texas. New data from the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful stellar explosions. Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) During the night of Oct. 15, Space Telescope Operations Control Center engineers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center turned on and checked out Side B of Hubbles Science Instrument Control and Data Handling (SI C&DH) system. NASA researchers have identified feasible emission scenarios that could keep carbon dioxide below levels that some scientists have called dangerous for climate. But for meteorologists, who sometimes divide the year up into seasons on the basis of similarity in weather and temperature, winter is already over. 11.07.08 - Shadow of a Opportunity (August 3, 2004; February 4, 2007; June 29, 2008; May 8, 2011; . Boosted to almost the speed of light, "killer electrons" can knock out computers, pierce spacesuits and damage the tissues of astronauts. 02.21.08 - 09.12.08 - Phil Davis Tthe Exploration Sciences Building continues to be built at a feverish pace, nearing 70% complete. Landsat Important to Coastal Studies. 10.29.08 - NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. 04.22.08 - Atmosphere 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. The proposed new mission, called Gravity and Extreme Magnetism (GEMS), will use a new technique to accomplish what has been impossible until now. Bill Dunford emailE=('brandon.f.mac' + 'cherone@nas' + 'a.gov') 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. 10.27.08 - Goddard Scientists Receive Lindsay Award for Black Hole Research, NASA Presentations at AAS Meeting in St. Louis, NASA Scientists' Model Reveals How Superstorm Plasma Affects Near-Earth Space, Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue to Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphere, Goddard Selects 2008 Contractor Excellence Award Winners, NASA Inspires Students to Center the Earth With Eccentrics, Satellites Illuminate Pollution's Influence On Clouds, Winds in Jupiter's Little Red Spot Almost Twice as Fast as Strongest Hurricane, Swift Satellite Catches First Supernova in the Act of Exploding, NASA Researcher Awarded 2008 Arthur S. Flemming Award, The Mouse That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare, Earth Impacts Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change, NASA Study Links Earth Impacts to Human-Caused Climate Change, Md. One of the priorities of the GLAST Burst Monitor science team has been to validate burst location information provided by the telescope. 06.11.08 - The solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years of science on the Red Planet. The nation's largest estuary just happens to be in the backyard of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA approves development of NEO Surveyor for a launch no later than June 2028. GLAST Mission Operations at NASA Goddard Powered Up, California Wildfires Continue to Burn Out of Control, Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On, NASA Goddard Has More Than a Dozen Exciting Missions in Next Year, Proposed NASA Mission Could Explore Twisted Space Around Black Holes, NASA Goddard Mission Approved to Probe Matter in Extreme Environments, University Faculty and Students to "Rock On!" Bill Dunford Clouds serve a valuable role in Earth's climate, and thanks to A-Train, a closer look at them is possible. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space. Opaque clouds surround the storms eye, but farther away from the eye, the clouds assume translucent, wispy shapes, especially in the east. Scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. 12.08.08 - 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. 11.13.08 - Privacy Policy and Important Notices Steve Platnick, EOS Senior Project Scientist Acting. 10.27.08 - 07.01.08 - Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have identified the smallest known black hole in the universe. 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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. October 31, 2008. Sun and 09.23.08 - 05.21.08 - Dec. 21, 2008. 06.09.08 - 12.04.08 - NASA researchers have created an advanced data compression algorithm that will increase science data return for NASA missions. NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century directly accelerated the rate of arctic sea ice drift which is a harbinger of climate change. 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. 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. Owens Science Center Celebrate Partnership That Inspires Prince George's Students, Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes on Cue, Broken Heart Image the Last for NASAs Long-Lived Polar Mission, NASA Satellites Aid in Chesapeake Bay Recovery, Powerful Antenna Attached to NASA's GLAST Satellite, Researchers Warm Up to Melt's Role in Greenland Ice Loss, Milky Ways Giant Black Hole Awoke Centuries Ago, World Space Party Draws Hundreds to NASA Goddard, Delta II Rocket Coming Together for NASA's GLAST Satellite Launch, NASA Officials Say No Chemicals Released During Incident at Goddard, NASA Selects Three Research Fellows for GLAST Mission, Goddard Scientists to Hunt for Treasure on the Moon, NASA Awards University of Alaska Data Center Contract, Warm 'Tiger Stripes' on Geyser Moon Raise Hopes for Life, NASA Detects Explosion Halfway Across Universe, Webb Telescope Sunshield Design Review Complete, NASA Satellite Measures Pollution From East Asia to North America, Goddard Delivers Aquarius Radiometer to JPL, New Hubble Parts Endure Environmental Tests, GLAST Spacecraft Arrives in Florida to Prepare for Launch, NASA Awards Professional/Administration Support Services Contract, SDO Mission to Improve Predictions of Violent Space Weather, 2008 Goddard Symposium Focus, Space Exploration and Commercialization, SOHO to Give Early Warning of Radiation Storms, NASA's Swift Satellite Catches a Galaxy Ablaze With Starbirth, NASA and Northrup Grumman Partner to 'Measure the Immeasurable' in Climate Change and Planetary Science, Powerful Explosions Suggest Neutron Star Missing Link, Greenland's Rising Air Temperatures Drive Ice Loss at Surface and Beyond, Miniaturized 'SIDECAR' Drives Webb Telescope's Signal, NASA Team Works Toward Internet-Equipped Satellites, Tiny MidSTAR-1 Sensor Acts as Chemical Detector, GLAST's Delta II Rocket's First Stage Arrives in Cape Canaveral, NASA Hosts Educator Winter Camp in Lake Placid, New York, NASA Selects Bronx School to Fly Aboard 'Weightless Wonder', NASA's Deep Impact Begins Hunt for Alien Worlds, NASA Awards Aircraft Catalog Blanket Purchase Agreement, Hildebrand Named American Meteorological Society Fellow, 2007 Hurricane Season Starts Early, Ends Late, NASA Calls for Suggestions to Rename Future Telescope Mission, NASA Data Link Pollution to Rainy Summer Days in the Southeast, NASA Scientist to Present at Polar Gateways Arctic Circle Sunrise 2008 Conference, El Nio at Source of More Intense Wintertime Storms, Goddard Kicks Off 2008 with a 'Poster Party', 2007 Was Tied as Earth's Second-Warmest Year, NASA Media Event Highlights Rainfall Satellite's Decade of Success, NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle, La Nia: 'Little Girl' Makes Big Impression, NASA Scientists Predict Black Hole Light Echo Show, Vast Cloud of Antimatter Traced to Binary Stars, Hubble Finds That "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars, NASA and Gemini Probe Mysterious Distant Explosion, NASA Sends Deep Impact Spacecraft on Mission to Comet Hartley 2, Third Instrument for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Arrives at Goddard. 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