CHUCK KOLB 07/05/2013

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Huge waves batter Chile coast (0:48)
Waves as high as seven metres pounded homes and businesses on Chile's coastline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Ew_APc4jQ
http://www.youtube.com/user/Euronews

White dwarf star throws light on possible variability of a constant of Nature
http://phys.org/news/2013-07-white-dwarf-star-variability-constant.html

Gravity-bending find leads to Kepler meeting Einstein
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-gravity-bending-kepler-einstein.html

Death Valley Claims A Heat Title Again
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81562


Excellent post by Hummingbird027
7-05-13 Hummingbird027's Updates on End-Time and Prophetic News (22:45)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAK01WHqtKM


And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare
his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
Isaiah 12:4 KJV



SPY in the SKY is watching You !!!

NASA’s Earth Science Satellite Fleet

When most people think about NASA, Earth is not the first thing that comes to mind. Ours agency conjures up thoughts of leaving Earth behind, so it is usually Apollo astronauts, the Moon, Mars, and Hubble views of stars and galaxies that people associate most strongly with NASA’s brand.

However, many astronauts have found the view back at Earth is as compelling as anything else they’ve seen. William Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut who took the influential Earthrise photograph on Christmas Eve 1968, put it well: “We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”

Nearly a half-century later, studying Earth from space is a critical part of NASA’s mission. There are currently sixteen Earth-observing satellites operating in orbit around our planet. The oldest, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was launched in 1997; the youngest, Landsat 8, was launched in February 2013. Together the fleet monitors a wide range of environmental phenomenon relevant to climate change, weather prediction, fire monitoring, and the health of vegetation.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden highlighted NASA’s Earth-observing satellites in a blog post published in June 2013. He looked ahead at how the fleet will look in the future.

    “Having looked back at Earth from outer space, I have seen just how fragile our home planet is—and I’m committed to doing everything I can to help protect it...Earth Science is a strong priority of the President’s fiscal year 2014 budget request for NASA. The budget supports seven new Earth Science missions on course to launch through 2020 after the launch of four new Earth science missions in 2014—the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM), Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), and the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) instrument to be launched to the International Space Station.

    These cover a wide spectrum of Earth observations and join NASA’s seventeen* Earth science missions in space observing our planet’s atmosphere and oceans, its climate, weather patterns, and much more. The data we collect helps us understand our planet as a dynamic, unified system.”

You can read more about our Earth-observing missions by visiting the website of NASA’s Earth Observing System or through the mission list on NASA.gov.

* Editor’s Note: Jason-1 was decommissioned on July 3, 2013; the number is now sixteen.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81559

Long-Running NASA/CNES Ocean Satellite Takes Final Bow
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/july/long-running-nasacnes-ocean-satellite-takes-final-bow/

Jason-3 Anticipated Launch: 2015
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/

[Jason-3]: Nasa instruments arrived in France to start integration process
http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/news-storage/news-detail.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1482&cHash=74e56e752c8ea831abaaed7f80c4ab6e

w vid NASA Earth Observing Fleet including Landsat 8

This animation shows the orbits of NASA's current (as of May 2013) fleet of Earth remote sensing observatories. The satellites include components of the A-Train (Terra, Aqua, Aura, CloudSat, CALIPSO), two satellites launched in 2011 (Aquarius, Suomi NPP), and nine others (ACRIMSAT, SORCE, GRACE, Jason 1 and 2, Landsat 7, Landsat 8, QuikSCAT, TRMM, and EO-1). These satellites measure tropical rainfall, solar irradiance, clouds, sea surface height, ocean salinity, and other aspects of the global environment. Together, they provide a picture of the Earth as a system.

This is an update of entry 3725. It was created for display on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) hyperwall, a 5 x 3 array of high-definition displays with a total pixel resolution of 6840 x 2304. The orbits are based on orbital elements with epochs in April of 2013. The animation spans twenty-nine hours, from 04:10 UT on April 14, 2013 to 09:24 UT on Aril 15, 2013.
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004070/index.html