That Was The Week That Was, August 16-20, 2010. . . A Digest of Goddard People, Science, & Media, PLUS Historical Tidbits and Our Best Stuff in the Blogpodcastotwittersphere

ocean bloom

MONDAY AUGUST 16: MODIS Image of the Day posts beautific satellite snapshot of microscopic plant life in the oceans blooming off the coast of Newfoundland.

On the edge: The IBEX spacecraft reports from the electrifying edge of Earth’s magnetic bubble.

More awesomeness: NASA Blueshift’s Weekly Awesomeness Roundup revisits a recent Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovery, the Perseid meteor shower, and a visit to Goddard by the local Fox TV station.



home sweet home

TUESDAY AUGUST 17: On the Goddard Flickr gallery, the latest GOES-13 satellite full disk view of Earth.

Billions and billions: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Facebook page reports that the LOLA surface mapping instrument has shot more than a billion pulses of laser light at the moon’s surface.

Pulsar discovery: NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) sees the first fast X-ray pulsar to be eclipsed by its companion star.

More about RXTE: On NASA Blueshift, blogger Maggie Masetti takes a close look at two recent discoveries made using data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.

From Russia with science: NASA scientists trek (and blog) from Western Siberia on the Earth Observatory’s Notes From The Field.



WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18: NASA Blueshift ponders whether Hubble Space Telescope should go to a museum.

THURSDAY AUGUST 19: The Dawn spacecraft is now less than a year from arriving at asteroid Vesta. Read all about it on Science@NASA:

Honey, they shrunk the moon: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter finds evidence of a cooling, contracting lunar crust.



Grab that Miracle-Gro! Decline in global plant growth documented by NASA satellites.

Earth buzz: The What On Earth blog highlights steamy July temps, the lowdown on the shakedown in the Gulf, and our planet in its grayest and gloomiest glory


FRIDAY AUGUST 20: On this day 35 years ago, Viking 1 left for Mars.

What On Earth Is That? NASA Earth blogger Adam Voiland posts another mystery image waiting for you to identify. Looks like dried mud flats to me. . .

Get a GRIP: Visit NASA hurricane scientists inside the DC-8 as it flew into the remnants of Tropical Depression Five over southern Louisiana.

Viking 1 gazes out at the surafce of Mars. . .

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ OH AND DID I MENTION? All opinions and opinionlike objects in this blog are mine alone and NOT those of NASA or Goddard Space Flight Center. And while we’re at it, links to websites posted on this blog do not imply endorsement of those websites by NASA.

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