[Monday, May 1, 2006] European students will be given the chance to come up with a new name for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative (GMES), Europe's joint effort to make Earth Observation information available to the widest set of users.

[Monday, May 1, 2006] On 19-20 April 2006, the GMES Conference in Graz, Austria, addressed the question of how a market for GMES services can be created. The role of European regions and public entities, crucial users of GMES services, was highlighted.

[Thursday, May 4, 2006] NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft arrived today at Astrotech, a payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center to begin preparations and final testing for launch.

[Thursday, May 4, 2006] Scientists have discovered that meteorites can carry primitive, organic particles that originated billions of years ago either in interstellar space, or in the outer reaches of the solar system as it was beginning to coalesce from gas and dust.

[Tuesday, May 9, 2006] In isolated environments, astronauts, flight crews, offshore workers and military forces must maintain vigilance and work together to ensure a safe and successful mission.

[Tuesday, May 9, 2006] NASA and university researchers have found that thunderstorms over Tibet provide a main pathway for water vapor and chemicals to travel from the lower atmosphere into the stratosphere, where the protective ozone layer resides.

[Wednesday, May 10, 2006] Scientists at The University of Manchester have uncovered the first evidence of seawater deep inside the Earth shedding new light on the fate of the planet's oceans, according to research published in Nature.

[Thursday, May 11, 2006] The NPOESS satellites are under development and are designed to become the nation's key weather satellites, replacing the current generation of both civilian and military weather satellites as they reach the end of their useful lives. 

[Friday, May 12, 2006] Our initial conclusion is that the Heliophysics program (the bottom to paths in the attached summary sheet from that report) defined in the recent roadmap can be carried out with the current funding profile.

[Friday, May 12, 2006] Before we get into specifics, however, we must express our deep frustration at being put in the position to accommodate the large cuts in Earth Science funding in FY05 and FY06, compounded by long-term prospects of sub-inflationary growth.

[Sunday, May 14, 2006] Penn State Researchers studying how an obscure undersea microbe found not merely a previously unknown biochemical process--their discovery also became the inspiration for a fundamental new theory of the origin of life on Earth

[Monday, May 15, 2006] Rep. Bart Gordon and ETS Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. David Wu are calling for the removal of NOAA Administrator Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher , Jr. (Ret.) and General John J. Kelly Jr., Deputy Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere.

[Monday, May 15, 2006] NASA is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a workshop on Near-Earth Object (NEO) Detection, Characterization and Threat Mitigation to be held at a site to be announced.

[Wednesday, May 17, 2006] ESA has for the first time acquired and processed images sent by ALOS – Japan's four-tonne satellite dedicated to land-based Earth Observation – including views of Italy, The Netherlands and Norway.

[Thursday, May 18, 2006] GOES-N joins a system of weather satellites that graphically display the intensity, path and size of storms. Early warning about severe weather enhances the public's ability to take shelter and protect property.

[Friday, May 19, 2006] How the study of Earthshine continues to elucidate climate variables and how the use of Earthshine data may help to search for advanced life on distant planets, will be the foci of an upcoming panel discussion in Baltimore.

[Friday, May 19, 2006] On 25 January 2005, the four Cluster spacecraft found themselves in the right place at the right time: a region of space known as an electron diffusion region.

[Tuesday, May 23, 2006] A team of scientists reports that actual warming due to human fossil fuel emissions may be 15-to-78 percent higher than warming estimates that do not take into account the feedback mechanism involving carbon dioxide and Earth's temperature.

[Wednesday, May 24, 2006] ESA has announced the shortlist of new Earth Explorer mission proposals. This is part of the selection procedure that will eventually lead to the launch of the fourth Earth Explorer Core mission in the first half of the next decade.

[Wednesday, May 24, 2006] New funding, to extend the mission of ESA's venerable solar watchdog SOHO, will ensure it plays a leading part in the fleet of solar spacecraft scheduled to be launched over the next few years.

[Thursday, May 25, 2006] What are seven NASA Explorer School teachers doing in the Atacama desert in Chile? They are studying side-by-side with NASA scientists who search for life in extreme environments, closely approximating what they expect to find on other planets.

[Friday, May 26, 2006] Comparing limited ionospheric data sets acquired by Mars Global Surveyor and TIMED, Elsayed Talaat says his findings provide evidence that the photochemistry of Mars' ionosphere responds similarly as Earth's to solar inputs.

[Monday, May 29, 2006] Bacteria and fungi, some with the potential to cause disease in plants or animals, may be finding their way from Africa to the Americas by hitchhiking on microscopic dust particles kicked up by storms in the Sahara.

[Wednesday, May 31, 2006] The International Polar Foundation (IPF) unveiled today the final plans for Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctic research station, to be built during the International Polar Year 2007-08 (IPY).