Space Station Captures Views of U.S., Canada and Northern Lights
02.10.12

Recent imagery taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station from Jan. 29-Feb. 3 includes several flights over the clear nighttime United States and views of the aurora borealis as seen during nighttime flights over Canada and the Pacific Ocean. The video is compiled from hundreds of still images taken in sequence from the station. The imagery taken over the United States includes several cities that have been labeled followed by the same imagery without labels.
 
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(Source NASA) – Rare snowstorms in Rome and Tripoli and mounting death tolls from exposure were among the consequences of a severe cold snap in Europe in late January and early February 2012. Meteorologist Jeff Masters described it as Europe’s worst stretch of cold weather since February 1991.

This map above shows temperature anomalies for Europe and western Russia from January 25 to February 1, 2012, compared to temperatures for the same dates from 2001 to 2011. The anomalies are based on land surface temperatures observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Areas with above-average temperatures …

NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth’s Melting Land Ice
WASHINGTON — In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth’s melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.
Using satellite measurements from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the researchers measured ice loss in all of Earth’s land ice between 2003 and 2010, with particular emphasis on glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica.

The total global ice mass lost from Greenland, Antarctica and Earth’s glaciers and ice caps during …

NASA – Suomi NPP took an incredible new Blue Marble Earth picture featuring the United States at it’s center and they now have released this image of the Eastern Hemisphere. The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new ‘Blue Marble’ images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).

Compiled by NASA Goddard scientist Norman Kuring, this image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above …

NOAA is predicting a chance for a minor geomagnetic storm for 2/3/12.
People in northern latitudes should be watching for Auroral activity as a result.
 

See Posting for predicted weather below:
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 031 Issued at 2200Z on 31 Jan 2012
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 30/2100Z
to 31/2100Z: Solar activity was very low.
IB. Solar Activity Forecast: Solar activity is expected to be very
low to low for the next 3 days (01-03 February).
IIA. Geophysical Activity Summary 30/2100Z to 31/2100Z:
The geomagnetic field began the period at unsettled conditions from
30/21Z …

Two 17 year olds put this Lego man holding the Canadian Flag into the stratosphere. Toronto 17-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad put together this project and it is amazing to see the curve of the Earth and the dark of space in the video.

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There are several videos of Balloon launches into space but this one has gone Viral.

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Incredible pictures of Earth from new satellite
The newest Earth Observation Satellite,  NASA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) mission took this stunning image on January 4th, 2012. Suomi NPP is a low earth observation satellite which takes images in swathes each time it passes over earth. You can see hi-res images by clicking on image above or click here to see even higher res images with a stunning amount of detail.

This picture represents a composite of passes over the planet as the VIIRS instrument cannot see the entire globe at once. Suomi NPP represents a critical first step in building …

Global Warming is taking place, data undeniable
(Source NASA) – The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000.

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis that shows temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures …

M3.2 Class flare seen by several NASA satellites
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See article about new flare on 1/24/12 here
Update 1/21/12 – The CME has passed and NOAA has removed the warning for a CME Event.
The CME is Earth directed with impact predicted for Jan. 21, 2012. Increasing sun activity let loose a long duration M3.2 class flare and coronal mass ejection (CME) between 15:15 and 16:30 UT (or 10:15 eastern) 1/19/12.

This video taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a close-up of sunspot 1401 region as the flare erupts. The CME cloud lifting off is visible just past …

Ross Iceberg B15 ends 12 years after it broke off
When Terra Earth Observation Satellite was launched by NASA in December of 1999 the timing was perfect. In March of 2000, the largest iceberg ever seen broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf.. The iceberg , dubbed B-15, was a over 170 miles long and 25 miles wide, about the size of Connecticut. Terra managed to capture the creation one of the largest icebergs ever to be captured by any satellite. The stunning images of this were clear evidence that something was going on with the climate and could not be …