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Cassini scientists speculate there may be a layer of liquid water mixed with ammonia about 100 kilometers (62 miles) below the surface of Titan. A service of: 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. 07.02.08 - 09.22.08 - 10.06.08 - 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. 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 - 40-Year Study Finds Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures at Jupiter. Privacy Policy and Important Notices Internet technologies that enable computers to talk to each other may make it possible for satellites to communicate the same way. Satellite: 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. 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. LRO Media Day will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. GALEX now uses a special GalexExposure Image finder. The Atlantic Hurricane Season began early in 2007, and by mid-December it was still going. Tropical Cyclone Billy made landfall in Western Australia in late December 2008. 06.27.08 - 01.25.08 - 02.26.08 - 04.01.08 - October 31, 2008. Hubble has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other. Dr. Joan M. Centrella and Dr. John G. Baker are the 2008 recipients of the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science. iridescence, and beaming 03.17.08 - NASA Headquarters approves an instrument to study the extreme environments of the universe. 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. A documentary of the Young Scientist Challenge, held in October 2008 at Goddard, will be produced for the Discovery channel in early 2009. 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. 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. NASA selected The Hammers Company, Greenbelt, Md., to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Mission Operations Element (MOE). Severe Storms, NASA Goddard Space The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Scientists are using a video of Earth and the Moon taken from 31 million miles away to develop techniques to study alien worlds. These images were obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Dec. 21, 2008. Inside the polar night boundary, MODIS cannot observe snow cover because there is not enough daylight. Clouds serve a valuable role in Earth's climate, and thanks to A-Train, a closer look at them is possible. NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. That's how many people have submitted their names to this project. Moore Boeck. NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Juno Explores Jovian Moons During Extended Mission. (2008, December 28). 07.01.08 - STEREO findings help scientists map the energized particles where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium. Melissa Rey from Chesterfield, Mo., was named "America's Top Young Scientist" at the 2008 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Specific rights apply. 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Smoke billows from scattered wildfires in California, as captured by NASA's Aqua Satellite. NASA Goddard Invites Public To See "Launchfest"! The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The "Tiger Stripe" region on Saturn's moon Enceladus has been found to be even warmer than previous measurements indicated. A new NASA study has found that storms are more intense during the work week than on the weekends. 10.14.08 - But for meteorologists, who sometimes divide the year up into seasons on the basis of similarity in weather and temperature, winter is already over. Global snow cover maps are valuable for both practical and scientific tasks. The IBEX mission will provide Greg Frazier with just the example he needs to showcase his knowledge of what it takes to reach the stars. Flight Center. own rotation are . 06.04.08 - Scientists have discovered a wave pattern in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. Less than a week after launch, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 350 miles (565 kilometers) above Earth's surface. Severe Storms. 10.23.08 - The maps are based on observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite. 07.24.08 - Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar . The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for a February 4, 2009 launch. The snow cover patterns also identify various topographic features, especially mountain ranges. SnoMotes are the first prototype network of their kind envisioned to rove treacherous areas of the Arctic and Antarctic. 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. 10.01.08 - 10.08.08 - 09.02.08 - George Takei, famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," visited Goddard on June 3, 2008, to deliver a lecture on diversity. 12.16.08 - Caption by Rebecca Lindsey. 05.13.08 - Atmosphere 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. It's up to LRO to make those landings as safe as possible. 05.29.08 - 2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. NASA / 03.13.08 - An interactive exhibit showcasing NASA's Hubble and James Webb telescopes is on display in Pittsburgh. Explanation: 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. 07.11.08 - (MTU) & 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. 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. 07.23.08 - from all teams. New studies show the wrenching gravity just outside the outer boundary of a black hole can produce yet another bizarre effect: light echoes. 02.21.08 - Official NASA photographs from agency photographers chronicle what's making news across the agency, from launches and landings to important science announcements. Thanks to a fortuitous observation with NASAs Swift satellite, astronomers for the first time have caught a star in the act of exploding. In this image, the sprawling storm blocks the satellite's view of much of the Louisiana coast including the New Orleans region, while skies remain clear farther inland, particularly in Texas. 12.10.08 - 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. (2008, December 25). To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Peter Hildebrand was recently named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. A new look at a classic experiment reveals volcanoes may have played a crucial role in the rise of life on Earth. 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