var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option July 31, 2014 * NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Reveals New Source of Gamma Rays *  These images show Fermi data centered on each of the four gamma-ray novae observed by the LAT. Colors indicate the number of detected gamma rays with energies greater than 100 million electron volts (blue indicates lowest, yellow highest).Image Credit ...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 July 31, 2014 * NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before * The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet. Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic str ...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 July 31, 2014 * NASA Hosts 3 p.m. EDT Teleconference with Mars 2020 Principal Investigators * NASA will host a teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT today with the principal investigators of the selected instruments that will fly aboard the agency’s Mars 2020 rover. The agency announced at its headquarters in Washington that its next roving M ...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 July 31, 2014 * Hubble Shows Farthest Lensing Galaxy Yields Clues to Early Universe *  The farthest cosmic lens yet found, a massive elliptical galaxy, is shown in the inset image at left. The galaxy existed 9.6 billion years ago and belongs to the galaxy cluster, IRC 0218. Image Credit: NASA and ESA  Astronomers using NASA' ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jul 31 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 212 Issued at 0030Z on 31 Jul 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2121 N08W39 322 0100 Cao 04 10 Beta 2123 S14W38 321 0010 Axx 03 02 Alpha 2125 S14E16 ...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 July 30, 2014 * NASA to Announce Mars 2020 Rover Instruments * NASA will announce on Thursday, July 31, the instruments that will be carried aboard the agency’s Mars 2020 mission, a roving laboratory based on the highly successful Curiosity rover. The announcement will air live at noon EDT on NASA Television and on the agency’s websi ...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 July 30, 2014 * NASA, Small Business Administrators and U.S. Sen. Cardin to Announce Results of 2013 Small Business Federal Procurement Scorecard * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will join Small Business Administrator (SBA) Maria Contreras-Sweet and U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, a member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Com ...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 July 30, 2014 * NASA Selects Instruments to Track Climate Impact on Vegetation *  Two new spaceborne Earth-observing instruments will help scientists better understand how global forests and ecosystems are affected by changes in climate and land use change. This image of the Amazon rainforest is from a 2010 global map of the heigh ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN SIBERIA The 2014 fire season in Siberia. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=84091&src=nha *** Image from Jul 18, 2014 (Posted on Jul 29, 2014 2:39 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nas ...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 July 30, 2014 * NASA Holds Space Tech Mission Directorate Update Media Call Aug. 5 * NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Aug. 5, to discuss the activities of the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate and how technology drives exploration. NASA Associate Administrator for Space Technology Michael Gaz ...Continue Reading