Source: NASA IT Summit
NASA is gearing up for a conference in San Francisco that aims to improve the quality of Information Technology (IT) at the agency, while drawing on the expertise and innovative spirit of California's Silicon Valley. (read more)
Source: ESA
SMOS satellite data, shows soil moisture in the Horn of Africa from April to mid-July 2011.
Image credits: CESBIO/ESA
Drought in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti is pushing tens of thousands of people from their homes as millions face food insecurity in a crisis visible from space. ESA’s SMOS satellite shows that the region’s soil is too dry to grow crops.(read more)
Source: ESA/Hubble Photo Release heic1112
Wide field image of the Andromeda galaxy.
Image credits: ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble).
The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They show stars and structure in the galaxy’s disc, the halo of stars that surrounds it, and a stream of stars left by a companion galaxy as it was torn apart and pulled in by the galaxy’s gravitational forces.(read more)
