Second Tropical Depression Of Atlantic Season Forms
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Tropical Depression 2 formed in the western Caribbean Sea during the early afternoon hours (Eastern Daylight Time) on June 17. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the storm as it consolidated enough to...
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WASHINGTON, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 120 students and educators will delve into the world of rocket science June 15-21 during Rocket Week at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Activities during the week will include a RockOn! workshop for 50 university and community college-level participants, and the Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers and Students (WRATS) for a high...
GREENBELT, Md., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected All Native, Inc. of Winnebago, Neb. for award of the Office of Human Capital Management Professional Services contract. The work will be performed at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., and at all NASA Goddard Space Flight Center facilities located in Greenbelt, Md., Wallops Island, Va., and New York City, N.Y. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) This is a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee,...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole eating gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor Galaxy nearly a decade ago. A new observation by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has found the black hole asleep. Details of NuSTAR’s findings were published in the Astrophysical Journal. "Our results imply that the black hole went dormant in the past 10 years," said Bret...
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) NASA will conduct its most complex airborne science campaign of the year from Houston's Ellington Field, which is operated by the...
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Black Brant XII suborbital rocket carrying the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) was successfully launched at 11:05 p.m. June 5 from NASA's launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) With CIBER, scientists are studying when the first stars and galaxies formed in the universe and how brightly they burned their nuclear fuel. Jamie...
NASA NASA’s Aqua satellite captured multiple plumes of smoke from agricultural fires and industrial pollution in China. The smoke and haze stretches from Inner Mongolia, located north of Beijing, south and west including the provinces of Hebei, Shedong, Henan, Shanxi, Hubai, Hunan, and Chongqing. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite has infrared capabilities that can detect heat from the various wildfires. This image was...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scheduled to launch June 26, NASA’s newest scientific satellite will provide the most detailed look ever at the sun’s lower atmosphere, called the interface region. The interface region is located between the sun’s visible surface and upper atmosphere. This is where most of the sun’s ultraviolet emissions, which impact the near-Earth space environment and Earth’s climate, are generated. NASA’s new Interface Region Imaging...
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The launch tonight of a Black Brant XII suborbital rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, has been postponed. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The mission was postponed due to insufficient time to cool the instruments on the payload down to the required temperatures before launch. The launch is now scheduled between 11 and 11:59 p.m., June 5. The launch window runs through...
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's next scientific satellite, which is scheduled for launch June 26, will provide the most detailed look ever at the sun's lower atmosphere or interface region. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission will observe how solar material moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through this largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere. The...
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will deliver the keynote address at the annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum Tuesday, June 4, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Auditorium and Science Center, located at 1301 East-West Highway in Silver Spring, Md. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Media representatives are invited to attend the forum, which will focus on the impact of space weather...
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Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center on December 2, 1993 at 4:27 AM EST and landed at Kennedy on December 13 at 12:25 AM EST. The shuttle orbited 163 times at an altitude of 321 nautical miles at an inclination of 28.45 degrees and travelled 4.4 million miles. The mission lasted 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, and 37 seconds. This was the first mission to repair and maintain the Hubble Space Telescope. It involved the second longest spacewalk to date at nearly 8 hours. The final...
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) -- The SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) project is being carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a cooperative effort between the two agencies in the framework of the Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP) comprising SOHO and CLUSTER, and the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program (ISTP), with Geotail (ISAS-Japan), Wind, and Polar. SOHO was launched on...
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