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Counting down toward liftoff! A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen on launch pad 1 of the Tanegashima Space Center, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission that will set a new standard for precipitation measurements from space, providing the next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. The GPM mission data will advance our understanding of the water and energy cycles and extend the use of precipitation data to directly benefit society. Launch is set for 1:37 p.m. EST today! Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) #nasa #gpm #nasarain #jaxa #japan #launch#rocket #launchpad #satellite; -
Today is our first Photo #NASASocial at @NASAGoddard. Be sure to check out all the great images from the #NASASocial here on @Instagram. Attendees today are getting a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA Goddard's world-class spacecraft integration and test facilities that ensure that hardware and other spacecraft and instruments successfully survive the rigors of launch and space. They are also hearing how engineers at Goddard and JAXA overcame the challenge of building, shipping and testing the GPM satellite instruments built in two different countries, and which successfully withstood two natural disasters. #instameet #nasa #space #gpm #nasasocial; -
Today, NASA is hosting an event for its photo-fanatic social media followers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. This NASA Social will bring 20 social media photo-gurus together to snap and share photos of where NASA's next great Earth science satellite was developed, built and tested. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission Core Observatory is the largest satellite ever built and tested at NASA Goddard. The launch of the GPM Core Observatory is proceeding at Tanegashima Space Center, Japan for a scheduled liftoff at 1:37 p.m. EST on Thurs., Feb. 27, 2014. This image from @kbasham1 shows one of the hyper wall talks experienced today by the attendees of the Photo #NASASocial. Follow along using hashtags #GPM and #NASASocial. #nasasocial #gpm #nasarain #goddard #nasagoddard; -
A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory is seen as it rolls out to launch pad 1 of the Tanegashima Space Center, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. The GPM Core Observatory is proceeding toward launch scheduled for 1:37 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Final checks have been made for the operational conditions of the H-IIA launch vehicle, satellites, launch facilities, tracking and control systems, and weather conditions. Once launched, the GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #nasa #gpm #nasarain #jaxa #japan #launch #rocket #launchpad #satellite; -
The closest supernova of its kind to be observed in the last few decades has sparked a global observing campaign involving legions of instruments on the ground and in space, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. Seen here is supernova explosion SN 2014J in the galaxy M82 from these two different spacecraft. As a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth, galaxy M82 is seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in the background of this composite image. Astronomers using a ground-based telescope discovered the explosion on January 21, 2014. On the left is Spitzer's view of the supernova on three separate dates: May 9, 2005; Feb. 7, 2014; and Feb. 12, 2014. The observations from February 7 reveal the presence of a bright spot -- the supernova -- not present in the prior observations. By Feb. 12, the supernova has started to dim somewhat from its peak brightness in the first week of February. The supernova is glowing very brightly in the infrared light that Spitzer sees. The telescope was able to observe the supernova before and after it reached its peak brightness. Such early observations with an infrared telescope have only been obtained for a few Type Ia supernovas in the past. On the right is the supernova seen by Hubble on Jan. 31, 2014 as the supernova approached its peak brightness. The Hubble image was taken in visible light with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3. Hubble credit: NASA, ESA, A. Goobar (Stockholm University), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Spitzer credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Carnegie Institution for Science #nasa #hubble #spitzer #universe #supernova #galaxy #m82 #explosion #space;
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NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth. This discovery marks a significant increase in the number of known small-sized planets more akin to Earth than previously identified exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. The artist concept depicts multiple-transiting planet systems, which are stars with more than one planet. The planets eclipse or transit their host star from the vantage point of the observer. This angle is called edge-on. Image Credit: NASA #kepler #planets #exoplanets #solarsystem #newworlds #newplanets #science #discovery; -
On Feb. 19, 2014 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over the Great Lakes and captured this striking false-colored image of the heavily frozen Great Lakes – one of the hardest freeze-ups in four decades. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), ice cover on North America’s Great Lakes peaked at 88.42% on Feb. 12-13 – a percentage not recorded since 1994. The ice extent has surpassed 80% just five times in four decades. The average maximum ice extent since 1973 is just over 50%. Unusually cold temperatures in the first two months of the year, especially in January, are responsible for the high ice coverage. Very cold air blowing over the surface of the water removes heat from the water at the surface. When the surface temperature drops to freezing, a thin layer of surface ice begins to form. Once ice formation begins, persistently cold temperatures, with or without wind, is the major factor in thickening ice. This false-color image uses a combination of shortwave infrared, near infrared and red (MODIS bands 7,2,1) to help distinguish ice from snow, water and clouds. Open, unfrozen water appears inky blue-black. Ice is pale blue, with thicker ice appearing brighter and thin, melting ice appearing a darker true-blue. Snow appears blue-green. Clouds are white to blue-green, with the colder or icy clouds appearing blue-green to blue. Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC #nasa #space #earth #modis #greatlakes #ice #snow #snowcover #irpix; -
First Moments of a Solar Flare in Different Wavelengths of Light - On Feb. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:49 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which keeps a constant watch on the sun, captured images of the event. These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on Feb. 24 show the first moments of this X-class flare in different wavelengths of light -- seen as the bright spot that appears on the left limb of the sun. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, appearing as giant flashes of light in the SDO images. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. Image Credit: NASA/SDO #nasa #sun #solar #sdo #space #science #solarflare #gps #wavelengths; -
We’re getting ready to lift off Thursday! The launch pads at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island, Japan, are seen on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, a week ahead of the planned launch of an H-IIA rocket carrying the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory. GPM is an international mission led by NASA and JAXA to measure rain and snowfall over most of the globe multiple times a day. To get that worldwide view of precipitation, multiple satellites will be contributing observations for a global data set, all unified by the advanced measurements of GPM's Core Observatory, built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Launch of the GPM Core Observatory from Tanegashima Space Center is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 27, during a window beginning at 1:07 p.m. EST (3:07 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 28 Japan time). Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #gpm #nasa #space #earth #science #rain #snow #jaxa #japan #tanegashima; -
Japanese Astronaut Koichi Wakata tweeted this image of the moon setting on the blue Earth atmosphere on Friday. The Expedition 38 crew of the International Space Station wrapped up a workweek packed with science research and the completion of a U.S. cargo spacecraft’s first commercial resupply mission to the orbiting outpost. Image credit: NASA/JAXA #nasa #iss #jaxa #station #spacestation #exp38 #internationlspacestation #earth #moon #atmosphere;
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Spotting IRIS’ largest solar flare - On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, but scientists don't yet know the fine details of what sets them off. IRIS peers into a layer of the sun's lower atmosphere just above the surface, called the chromosphere, with unprecedented resolution. Image Credit: NASA/IRS #sun #solar #solarflare #science #space #nasa #iris #xray; -
Soon to soar above the Earth - The Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory is scheduled to launch on Feb. 27 (EST) from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space. This image is a visualization of the GPM Core Observatory satellite orbiting Earth. Credit: Britt Griswold #gpm #nasa #space #earth #climate #jaxa #science; -
Shocking Behavior of a Speedy Star - Roguish runaway stars can have a big impact on their surroundings as they plunge through the Milky Way galaxy. Their high-speed encounters shock the galaxy, creating arcs, as seen in this newly released image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. In this case, the speedster star is known as Kappa Cassiopeiae, or HD 2905 to astronomers. It is a massive, hot supergiant moving at around 2.5 million mph relative to its neighbors (1,100 kilometers per second). But what really makes the star stand out in this image is the surrounding, streaky red glow of material in its path. Such structures are called bow shocks, and they can often be seen in front of the fastest, most massive stars in the galaxy. Bow shocks form where the magnetic fields and wind of particles flowing off a star collide with the diffuse, and usually invisible, gas and dust that fill the space between stars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech #space #nasa #science #astronomy #spitzer #star #galaxy #gas; -
Getting ready to observe rain and snow! The Global Precipitation Measurement Core (GPM) Observatory is scheduled to launch on Feb. 27 from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). GPM is the first coordinated international satellite network to provide near real-time observations of rain and snow every three hours anywhere on the globe. On Feb. 11, the Core Observatory was moved into the spacecraft fairing assembly building and into the Encapsulation Hall. Final inspections and preparations were completed for the installation into the fairing, which began on Feb 13. The fairing is the part of the rocket that will contain the spacecraft at the top of the H-IIA rocket. Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency #nasa #space #jaxa #gpm #earth #earthnow #science #climate #Tanegashima #spacecraft #satellite; -
Happy anniversary Friendship 7! Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight, poses for a photo with the Mercury "Friendship 7" spacecraft during preflight activities. On Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. Launched from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., he completed a successful three-orbit mission around the earth, reaching a maximum altitude (apogee) of approximately 162 statute miles and an orbital velocity of approximately 17,500 miles per hour. Glenn's "Friendship 7" Mercury spacecraft landed approximately 800 miles southeast of KSC in the vicinity of Grand Turk Island. Mission duration from launch to impact was 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #kennedy #glenn #space #friendship7 #ksc #mercury #launch #space #anniversary;
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