By Paul Scott Anderson, on October 24th, 2015 
When NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Patricia on October 23 at 5:20 a.m. EDT the VIIRS instrument that flies aboard Suomi NPP looked at the storm in infrared light. Cloud top temperatures of thunderstorms around the eyewall were between 180K (-135.7F/ -93.1C) and 190 Kelvin (-117.7F/ -83.1C).Image Credit: UW/CIMSS/William Straka III
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 9th, 2015 The newest image of Pluto and its largest moon Charon in color, taken on July 8, 2015, by New Horizons. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
New images of Pluto and its largest moon Charon have again been released today, showing these two worlds in ever greater detail. Also, with the New Horizons spacecraft now in […]
By Press Release, on October 30th, 2013 This view of Earth comes from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard the Terra satellite.Photo Credit: NASA
One-hundred people from 22 U.S. states and some foreign countries will attend a two-day NASA Social on Nov. 4 and 5 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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By Press Release, on April 10th, 2013 Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech
WASHINGTON — NASA’s official Twitter feed, @NASA, has won its second consecutive Shorty Award for the best government use of social media.
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By Jason Rhian, on March 27th, 2013 [youtube_video]http://youtu.be/4wPMGH1diLc[/youtube_video]
Video courtesy of AmericaSpace
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — Covering the space program is an amazing experience. There is a tremendous amount of effort that has to go on behind the scenes to bring the sheer power, the thrill, and the spectacle of launch to the public. Do not think for […]
By Jason Rhian, on March 22nd, 2013 Image Credit: NASA
A re-post of a NASA memo that appeared on NASA Watch, SpaceRef, and later Universe Today suggested NASA will not be creating new versions of the highly-popular social media events known as “Socials.” This created a bit of an uproar from fans of these events. The belief that “Sequestration will […]
By Jason Rhian, on March 18th, 2013 United Launch Alliance hosted the first half of its two-day “Tweetup” today. The second half will take place tomorrow during launch activities for the Atlas V 401 rocket carrying the SBIRS GEO-2 spacecraft. Photo Credit: Jeffrey J. Soulliere
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — United Launch Alliance (ULA) conducted its first “Tweetup” today at Cape […]
By Jason Rhian, on March 15th, 2013 United Launch Alliance will host its first “Tweetup” during the March 19 launch of the Atlas V 401 rocket with the SBIRS 2 (GEO-2) satellite. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — United Launch Alliance is getting ready to follow in the footsteps of NASA, in that the Colorado-based company […]
By Jason Rhian, on March 14th, 2013 The NASA team behind the Mars Science Laboratory rover has received an award acknowledging its social media efforts and will receive another award for their accomplishments on sending the one-ton rover to the surface of Mars. Photo Credit: Jeff Seibert / Wired4Space
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover “Curiosity” has received nods for social […]
By Jason Rhian, on February 14th, 2013 NASA has announced a planned March 1, 2013, launch date for the next mission under the space agency’s Commercial Resupply Services contract. The mission will be carried out by a Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. Photo Credit: NASA
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