[Saturday, December 1, 2007] So what happens when you turn off the lights in Antarctica? John Priscu and his team of polar scientists plan to stay until April to find out.

[Sunday, December 2, 2007] From March 2007 to March 2008, the scientific community will be recognizing the International Polar Year. Scientists from around the world will examine the Arctic and Antarctic regions of Earth

[Monday, December 3, 2007] Weekly update from the NASA Earth Observatory website.

[Tuesday, December 4, 2007] The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) celebrated its twelfth launch anniversary on 2 December 2007. The satellite has witnessed the Sun change through almost a complete solar cycle - from quiet to stormy, and back again.

[Tuesday, December 4, 2007] Weekly update from the NASA Earth Observatory website.

[Wednesday, December 5, 2007] Observations about the early formation of Earth may answer an age-old question about why the planet's mantle is missing some of the matter that should be present, according to UBC geophysicist John Hernlund.

[Wednesday, December 5, 2007] A NASA project will use more than 40 high altitude balloons to return new scientific insights about the Van Allen Belts. The type of radiation in the belts can be hazardous to astronauts, orbiting satellites and aircraft flying polar routes.

[Wednesday, December 5, 2007] Earth's first life may have developed between the layers of a chunk of layered mica sitting like a multilayered sandwich in the primordial soup, according to a new hypothesis.

[Thursday, December 6, 2007] Images from NASA-funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites and communications on Earth.

[Friday, December 7, 2007] New results from the Hinode space mission should help explain some long-standing mysteries of the Sun, such as the huge temperature difference between its relatively cool surface and its white-hot atmosphere.

[Friday, December 7, 2007] This amendment announces new due dates for the NASA Energy and Water cycle Studies (NEWS) program described in Appendix A.9. It also establishes priorities in solicited research areas.

[Monday, December 10, 2007] Two researchers here spent months scouring through old expedition logs and reports and found that the effects of the current warming and melting of Greenland 's glaciers occurred in the decades following an abrupt warming in the 1920s.

[Monday, December 10, 2007] In a mission of unprecedented scale, scientists are about to cover West Antarctica with a network of sensors to monitor the interactions between the ice and the earth below -- 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

[Monday, December 10, 2007] NASA's AIM satellite has provided the first global-scale, full-season view of iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth's surface.

[Monday, December 10, 2007] Scientists have gathered more evidence that suggests flowing water on Mars -- by comparing images of the red planet to an otherworldly landscape on Earth.

[Tuesday, December 11, 2007] Earth is largely protected by its magnetic field, or magnetosphere, but new University of Washington research shows that some parts of the moon also are protected by the magnetosphere for seven days during the 28-day orbit around Earth.

[Tuesday, December 11, 2007] A mission that has changed the way we study Earth's gravitational forces has been recognized by a prestigious award for helping scientists better understand our home planet.

[Wednesday, December 12, 2007] Crude oil from the wrecked 146 000-ton tanker, Hebei Spirit, is seen polluting the sea off South Korea in this Envisat image.

[Wednesday, December 12, 2007] The role of Earth Observation satellites in combating climate change is being highlighted at the UN climate change conference where thousands of delegates from more than 180 countries are gathered to begin negotiations of an international emissions.

[Wednesday, December 12, 2007] Every September, after the summer rain backs off but before the mornings get too cold, a pack of RATS descends on the desert near Flagstaff, Ariz., to spend two weeks testing technologies that will play a vital role in the future of space exploration.

[Wednesday, December 12, 2007] New findings from CloudSat and other Earth observing satellites offer important insights into this year's record reduction of Arctic sea ice, global rainfall patterns and the effects of pollution on clouds.

[Friday, December 14, 2007] Weather broadcasts have long been a staple for people planning their day. With the help of NASA satellites, researchers are working to broaden daily forecasts to include predictions of air quality.

[Friday, December 14, 2007] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that the RADARSAT-2 satellite has been launched into its proper orbit.

[Friday, December 14, 2007] Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have widely divergent views on the Bush Administration's policies regarding climate change science.

[Sunday, December 16, 2007] "I'm not sure if 'suggest a story' is the right heading, but here goes anyway. I live on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, and found your site while trying to find recent pictures of our Island from space, on the net."

[Monday, December 17, 2007] Wellington, New Zealand is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station. New Zealand's capital of Wellington is located at the southwestern tip of North Island near the Cook Strait.

[Monday, December 17, 2007] It's not every day that a NASA scientist can wake up and think, "Hey, I did something for world peace." But on Monday, Dec. 10, many NASA Earth scientists did exactly that.

[Tuesday, December 18, 2007] The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest.

[Tuesday, December 18, 2007] Weekly update from the NASA Earth Observatory website.

[Tuesday, December 18, 2007] Weekly update from the NASA Earth Observatory website.

[Wednesday, December 19, 2007] Today Rep. Mark Udall, Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, introduced a bipartisan House resolution to celebrate 35 years of space-based observations of the Earth by Landsat spacecraft

[Thursday, December 20, 2007] NASA Analog Missions research addresses the need for integrated interdisciplinary field experiments as an integral part of preparation for planned human and robotic missions to the Moon and Mars.

[Thursday, December 20, 2007] As astronomers become more adept at searching for, and finding, planets orbiting other stars, it's natural to wonder if anybody is looking back.

[Friday, December 21, 2007] "We determined that the responsible NASA PMC for the GOES-R Program was effectively reviewing project issues and progress and that NASA's GOES-R Flight Project Office had procedures and processes ..."

[Saturday, December 22, 2007] NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) on or about January 31, 2008, for the procurement of the R series of spacecraft for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES).

[Tuesday, December 25, 2007] Weekly update from the NASA Earth Observatory website.

[Thursday, December 27, 2007] A team of biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a whole free living organism. This is an important milestone for the new field of systems biology.

[Thursday, December 27, 2007] The climatic event El Nino, literally the Baby Jesus, was given its name because it generally occurs at Christmas time along the Peruvian coasts.

[Sunday, December 30, 2007] NASA scientists and astronomers will take to the skies in the afternoon of Jan. 3 to observe nature's New Year's celebration: the Quadrantid meteor shower.

[Monday, December 31, 2007] This white-light image of the Moon was taken by the NASA EPOXI mission as part of the Earth-Moon Flyby calibration of the instruments. The image was taken by the High Resolution Instrument (HRI) visual imaging camera at 22:00 UT on 29 Dec 2007.

[Monday, December 31, 2007] The middle and bottom images show the IR data reconstructed as images of the Moon at 1.5um. These are very comparable to the VIS images (same resolution as MRI).

[Monday, December 31, 2007] Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 30/2100Z to 31/2100Z: Solar activity was low. A C8.3 flare occurred at 31/0111Z accompanied by Type II and Type IV radio sweeps (estimated shock speed 682 km/s).