Tag: DSCOVR
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DSCOVR resumes operations after eight-month outage
Artist’s concept of the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NOAA The Deep Space Climate Observatory has resumed regular observations after NOAA and NASA engineers uplinked a software patch to the spacecraft a million miles from Earth, restoring data on space weather and a daily series views of the sunlit side of our home planet. The…
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NASA officials expect fewer Earth science missions in coming years
This plankton bloom in the Barents Sea is a colorful example of the microscopic ocean life that the PACE satellite is designed to observe globally. PACE is one of four Earth science missions identified for cancellation in the White House’s budget blueprint.Credits: NASA’s Earth Observatory Expect fewer missions to study planet Earth in NASA’s future,…
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Trump budget blueprint focuses on deep space exploration, commercial partnerships
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission grabbing a piece of an asteroid, a project due for cancellation under President Trump’s budget proposal. Credit: NASA The Trump administration is proposing $19.1 billion for NASA in its fiscal 2018 budget blueprint, a 0.8 percent decrease from 2017 funding levels,…
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NASA shows off greatest hits from DSCOVR satellite’s year of watching Earth
The DSCOVR satellite keeps tabs on Earth from a million miles away. (Credit: NASA GSFC) It’s been a year since NASA unveiled the first image of Earth’s sunlit side captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, and to celebrate the occasion, you can see an entire year’s worth of DSCOVR’s view in less than three minutes. The…
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New and improved space weather observatory goes live next month
Artist’s concept of the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NOAA NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory, a $340 million mission that spent more than a decade grounded in a Maryland warehouse, will begin warning forecasters of dangerous solar storms next month, giving notice of events that could disrupt air travel, radio communications, electrical grids and satellite…
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Hurricane Patricia looks scary from space: Satellites track storm as it menaces Mexico
An infrared image from the Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument shows the well-defined eye of Hurricane Patricia as of 9:20 GMT Friday. (Credit: NASA / NOAA / CIMSS) Even the International Space Station’s commander is worried about Hurricane Patricia, the strongest storm ever tracked by the National Hurricane Center. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is…
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NASA to post new ‘blue marble’ pictures every day
Your daily dose of planet Earth is now just a click away, thanks to a new NASA website hosting photos looking back at the world from a small satellite stationed almost a million miles away, realizing a dream of former Vice President Al Gore nearly two decades ago. The Earth views are not the primary purpose…
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See Earth every day from a million miles away, thanks to NASA’s EPIC website
Typhoons roll across the Pacific in an image captured Oct. 17 by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR. (Credit: NASA) Today NASA paid off on its promise to launch a website featuring daily images from the Deep Space Climate Observatory – and it’s spectacular. The refrigerator-sized spacecraft – which has been known as DSCOVR, Triana and…
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Watch the moon transit the Earth
Spectacular views from a NOAA space weather observatory show the sunlit far side of the moon crossing the face of the Earth from a distant vantage point a million miles away. The first glimpse of the moon’s transit of Earth from the Deep Space Climate Observatory was released Wednesday by NASA, which runs the Earth-watching…
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Moon photobombs Earth in amazing video from DSCOVR satellite
The moon passes across Earth’s disk in a July 16 image captured by the DSCOVR satellite from its observation point, a million miles out in space. The Americas and the Pacific Ocean are visible beneath Earth’s cloud cover. Because the moon was moving while DSCOVR acquired the data for this three-filter image, there appears to…