Oct. 06, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-244 NASA'S WMAP PROJECT COMPLETES SATELLITE OPERATIONS MISSION OBSERVED UNIVERSE'S OLDEST LIGHT WASHINGTON -- After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has concluded its observations of the cosmic microwave background, t ...Continue Reading

Oct. 5, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-249 WISE CAPTURES KEY IMAGE OF COMET MISSION'S DESTINATION WASHINGTON -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, caught a glimpse of the comet that the agency's EPOXI mission will visit in November. The WISE observation will help the EPOXI team put together a large-scale picture of the comet ...Continue Reading

Oct. 05, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-247 NASA'S LCROSS WINS 2010 POPULAR MECHANICS BREAKTHROUGH AWARD WASHINGTON -- NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission has won Popular Mechanics magazine's 2010 Breakthrough Award for innovation in science and technology. The sixth annual Breakthrough Awards recognize in ...Continue Reading

An out-of-plane maneuver is scheduled for MetOp-A between 5 October 2010 0700 UTC and 6 October 2010 1100 UTC. Please note that all MetOp-A instrument data from 1150 UTC on 5 October 2010 until 0710 on 6 October 2010 will be severely degraded with respect to geolocation. This is also expected to impact the timeliness and continuity of the near-real-time dissemination of both ASCAT and AVHRR datasets at throughout the orbit maneuver. Should you have any questions or wish to provide feedback on the ASCAT datasets, pl ...Continue Reading

An out-of-plane maneuver is scheduled for MetOp-A between 5 October 2010 0700 UTC and 6 October 2010 1100 UTC. Please note that all MetOp-A instrument data from 1150 UTC on 5 October 2010 until 0710 on 6 October 2010 will be severely degraded with respect to geolocation. This is also expected to impact the timeliness and continuity of the near-real-time dissemination of both ASCAT and AVHRR datasets at throughout the orbit maneuver. Should you have any questions or wish to provide feedback on the ASCAT datasets, pl ...Continue Reading

Oct. 05, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Janet L. Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-241 NASA, USAID EXPAND WEB-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM SERVIR PROGRAM BRINGS SATELLITE IMAGERY, DECISION-SUPPORT TOOLS TO HIMALAYAN REGION WASHINGTON -- NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have expanded their successful collaboration with international partners to ...Continue Reading

Oct. 4, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-246 NASA'S WISE MISSION WARMS UP BUT KEEPS CHUGGING ALONG WASHINGTON -- After completing its primary mission to map the infrared sky, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has reached the expected end of its onboard supply of frozen coolant. Although WISE has 'warmed up,' NASA has decided t ...Continue Reading

Oct. 4, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-245 NASA'S KEPLER MISSION WINS 2010 SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR AWARD WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission Science Operations Center software system was named winner of the 2010 NASA Software of the Year Award by the NASA Software Advisory Panel. Designed, developed and operated by the Kepler Science Operat ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST OVER EGYPT, LIBYA, AND THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA Dust hovered over Egypt, Libya, and the Mediterranean Sea at the beginning of October 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=46256&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 01, 2010 (Posted on Oct 03, 2010 3:59 PM) DUST PLUMES OFF LIBYA Dual-toned ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST OVER EGYPT, LIBYA, AND THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA Dust hovered over Egypt, Libya, and the Mediterranean Sea at the beginning of October 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=46256&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 01, 2010 (Posted on Oct 03, 2010 3:59 PM) DUST PLUMES OFF LIBYA Dual-toned ...Continue Reading