var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 16, 2015 * Celebrate with NASA as Agency Commemorates Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th Anniversary *  NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is turning 25 this year. The observatory has transformed our understanding of our solar system and beyond, and helped us find our place among the stars.Image Credit: NASA  NASA is celebrat ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN SOUTHERN SIBERIA Many seasonal spring fires have escaped control in southern Siberia. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85707&src=nha *** Image from Apr 14, 2015 (Posted on Apr 15, 2015 4:32 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (0 updated events, 1 new images) -- * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazar ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 16, 2015 * NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury *  NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft traveled more than six and a half years before it was inserted into orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011. Image Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Carnegie Institution ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 16, 2015 * NASA Awards Radiation Challenge Winners, Launches Next Round to Seek Ideas for Protecting Humans on the Journey to Mars *  This illustration depicts our heliosphere, showing the approximate locations of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft. Galactic cosmic rays originate outside the heliosphere and stream in unifor ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 16, 2015 * NASA, USGS Begin Work on Landsat 9 to Continue Land Imaging Legacy *  NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have started work on Landsat 9, an upgraded rebuild of the Landsat 8 spacecraft launched in 2013, to extend the Landsat program’s decades-long observations of Earth’s land cover.Image Credit: NASA  NAS ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2172 Issue Time: 2015 Apr 16 1346 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2015 Apr 16 1330 UTC Station: GOES13 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscri ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Apr 16 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 106 Issued at 0030Z on 16 Apr 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2321 N12E16 093 0480 Ekc 14 20 Beta-Gamma 2322 N14W13 121 0010 Bxo 05 03 Beta 2323 S17 ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 15, 2015 * NASA Selects American Small Business and Research Institution Projects for Further Development * NASA has selected 149 research and technology proposals from American small businesses and research institutions that will enable NASA's future missions into the solar system and beyond while benefiting America's technology ...Continue Reading

Folks: There’s an archivist job open to U.S. citizens at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/400976800) .   Any questions should be addressed to the human resources folks listed at the end of the job announcement. Thanks a lot.             -Steve   Stephen Garber NASA History Program Office Room 5P25 NASA Headquarters Washington, DC 20546 202-358-0385 http://history.nasa.gov Forward this Message to ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 711 2015 Apr 15 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 43 continues under the command of Terry Virts, with FE-3 Anton Shkaplerov and FE-4 Samantha Cristoforetti joined by Gennadiy Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly after the TMA-16M (flight 42S) docking. Soyuz TMA-16M was launched on Mar ...Continue Reading