Notícias NASA

Viedma Glacier, Argentina

The icefields of Patagonia, located at the southern end of South America, are the largest masses of ice in the temperate Southern Hemisphere (approximately 55,000 square kilometers).

North Cascades National Park

Over 300 glaciers, about one-third of the glaciers in the Lower 48 states, lie within the park boundaries.

Marcial Fire, New Mexico

Just to the south of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge along the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico, a large fire was billowing out a thick plume on May 4, 2006. According to a local news report, the…

Great Sand Dunes National Park

The tallest sand dunes in the United States sit in southern Colorado. Each year, some 300,000 people visit these dunes, which cover roughly 70 square kilometers (30 square miles). The tallest dunes rise to a height of about 230 meters…

Cassini Significant Events — 04/26/06 – 05/03/06

Cassini Significant Events — 04/26/06 – 05/03/06 May 5, 2006 (Source: Cassini Project) The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, May 3, from theGoldstone tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent stateof health and is operating normally.…

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Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures of Jupiter’s “Red Spot Jr.”

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new red spot on the giant planet,…

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Mount Merapi, Indonesia

Frequent earthquakes and plumes of sulfur-laden gas indicated that Mt. Merapi was gearing up for an eruption in late April 2006. The volcano is one of Indonesia’s most active and dangerous volcanoes. The slopes of the volcano are densely populated,…

Fires Along the Border of Mongolia and Russia

Large fires were burning at the border of Russia and Mongolia on May 1, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the region. The actively burning portions of the fires are outlined in…

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Floods in Myanmar (Burma)

With winds near 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour), powerful Cyclone Mala swept ashore over Myanmar (Burma) late on April 28, 2006. The storm inundated the Southeast Asian country with heavy rain and left widespread flooding in its…

Oshigambo River and Etosha Pan, Namibia

Etosha Pan in northern Namibia is a large, dry lakebed in the Kalahari Desert. The 120-kilometer-long (75-mile-long) lake and its surroundings are protected as one of Namibia’s largest wildlife parks. About 16,000 years ago, when ice sheets were melting across…

Noril’sk, Northeast Siberia

Blue-white plumes of smoke (just left of image center) drift southeastward from smokestacks in Noril’sk. The deep and pale pinks downwind of the city, as well as the deep purple in the hillsides immediately outside Noril’sk, are moderately to severely…

CloudSat/CALIPSO Launch Successfully

In the wee hours of the morning on April 28, 2006, a bright pulse of light pierced the foggy darkness at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A Boeing Delta II rocket carrying NASA’s two new Earth-observation satellites blasted off…