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NASA Explains Holiday Lights from Space

December 17, 2014 by gisuser

Great stuff from NASA… remember Buddy in the Holiday movie trying to light up his house to be seen from space?? From NASA… It’s official — our holiday lights are so bright we can see them from space. Thanks to the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite, a joint mission between NASA and NOAA, scientists are presenting a new way of studying satellite data that can illustrate patterns in holiday lights, both during Christmas and the Holy Month of Ramadan. These new tools can provide new insights into how energy consumption behaviors vary across different cultural settings – Read More

NASA Challenges Developers With The Climate Resilience Data Challenge

December 12, 2014 by gisuser

Some cool stuff from NASA, an opportunity for developers who really want to help with a great cause! NASA in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is offering more than $35,000 in prizes to citizen scientists for ideas that make use of climate data to address vulnerabilities faced by the United States in coping with climate change.

A Year in the Life of Earth’s CO2

November 24, 2014 by gisuser

NASA Computer Model Provides a New Portrait of Carbon Dioxide – An exciting and amazing new dataviz from NASA – this new, ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. The Nature Run simulation was run on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation’s Discover supercomputer cluster at Goddard Space Flight Center. The simulation produced nearly four petabytes (million billion bytes) of data and required 75 days of dedicated computation to complete. Source: NASA

The Moment NASA astronauts Captured Earthrise – Dec. 24, 1968

December 30, 2013 by gisuser

The Moment NASA astronauts Captured Earthrise – Dec. 24, 1968 – the photo that almost never was! A look at the capturing of Earthrise by NASA, the iconic photograph of the Earth as you’ve never seen it before – amazing to think that this photograph almost never was captured as the astronauts scrambled to drop color film in the camera!

WOW… a true team effort too!

Hubble Telescope Celebrates 20 Years of Discovery

April 23, 2010 by gisuser

Happy Birthday Hubble… NASA’s best-recognized, longest-lived and most prolific space observatory was launched April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery during the STS-31 mission. Hubble discoveries revolutionized nearly all areas of current astronomical research from planetary science to cosmology. Hubble fans worldwide are being invited to take an interactive journey with Hubble by visiting http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Hubble20/. They can also visit http://www.hubblesite.org/ to share the ways the telescope has affected them. Follow the “Messages to Hubble” link to send an e-mail, post a Facebook message, or send a cell phone text message. Fan messages will be stored in the Hubble data archive along with the telescope’s science data. For those who use Twitter, you can follow @HubbleTelescope or post tweets using the Twitter hashtag #hst20

Celebrating Earth Day with Amazing Images – Earthrise

April 22, 2010 by gisuser

To celebrate Earth Day, let’s share an amazing image from one of my favorite sources of incredible imagery, NASA – enter the historic “Earthrise” photo captured on the Apollo 8 mission on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968.

About the photo… That evening, the astronauts–Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders–held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, “The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.” They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis. Source: NASA

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