NASA/USAID SERVIR – A Partnership Connecting Space to Village “NASA and USAID have accomplished a lot together. Launch of this important new hub in the SERVIR network, which includes SERVIR-Himalaya, SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa and the Applied Sciences Team projects in Mesoamerica, is certainly tangible proof that what we’re doing is working. We get a lot of questions about our Earth observation work at NASA. In fact, a lot of […]

DSCOVR Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth (Video) “A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. The images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), […]

NASA Prepares to Launch Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 The spacecraft will sample the global geographic distribution of the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide and allow scientists to study their changes over time more completely than can be done with any existing data. Since 2009, Earth scientists have been preparing for OCO-2 by taking advantage of observations from the Japanese GOSAT satellite. OCO-2 replaces a nearly identical NASA spacecraft lost because […]

Earth Before Earth Day “Long before man journeyed to the moon and looked back at the tiny, fragile planet that houses humanity, remote orbiters were sending back pictures of home. Sent to scope out potential landing sites on the Moon, the series of five Lunar Orbiters also sent back the earliest views of Earth from another celestial body. This image, taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1, is among the […]

Hi @NASA here's my #GlobalSelfie from London, Ont. @CBCNews #EarthDay #pug #actor @CBC @cbchh pic.twitter.com/k95Gk4Ltoo — Igor Pug Dog (@IgorPugDog) April 22, 2014 Keith’s note: @NASASocial is retweeting lots of selfies today (this is one of the ones they decided to retweet). Instead of trying to raise issues relevant to Earth Day, NASA is turning the #Globalselfie thing into posting selfies of people and their pets. They could have easily […]

Juno Prepares For Earth Flyby on Wednesday “The flyby will function as a gravity assist for Juno, with Earth’s gravity accelerating the solar-powered spacecraft’s velocity by 16,330 miles per hour. NASA launched Juno to an area just past Mars, then two main engine burns executed a year ago maneuvered it back around toward Earth. The purpose of using a gravity assist to get Juno on its way to Jupiter is […]

First Image From Europe’s MSG-3 Weather Satellite “Today, the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument on MSG-3 captured its first image of the Earth. This demonstrates that Europe’s latest geostationary weather satellite, launched on 5 July, is performing well and is on its way to taking over operational service after six months of commissioning.”

Brattle Group Economists Estimate Value of NASA’s Global Solar And Meteorological Data Services To Be Up To $790 M “A report prepared for the NASA Applied Science Program and authored by economists at The Brattle Group finds that the use of NASA’s solar and meteorological data services has greatly contributed to the U.S. and international goals of achieving greater energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources. The study, which […]

NASA Budget Would Be More of the Same … on the Surface, National Journal “Unfortunately, the Committee has lost confidence in NOAA’s ability to control procurement costs or articulate reliable funding profiles. Therefore, we have taken the unprecedented step of transferring responsibility for building our Nation’s operational weather satellites from NOAA to NASA,” [Mikulski] said.” U.S. could lose aging eyes in the sky, CNN “Of 23 such satellites now aloft […]

Former NASA scientists, astronauts admonish agency on climate change position, Science and Public Policy Institute “49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden last week admonishing the agency for it’s role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change while neglecting empirical evidence that calls the theory into question. The group, which includes seven Apollo […]