API docs now linked in the footer of https://images.nasa.gov.
Want to feature NASA's "best of the best" imagery, video, and/or audio in your own projects? Please do! Just be sure to follow NASA's usage guidelines (also linked in the footer): https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html.
Is it not ridiculous that well-funded high-tech agencies like nasa don't have their direct @ url working? I can't access or ping nasa.gov, yet www.nasa.gov works. Are they being lazy, or is there a deeper reason for why they would do this?
In the hopes of not breaching the politics guidelines, but a topic i genuinely wonder about since the new administration took office:
I'm worried if things are progressing as they are, that US-science, especially Nasa might fall victim of being put behind a fence for the rest of the global science community.
Anyone here who can give this worry a sanity check, besides the political and speculative nature of the question at hand?
I attempted to visit http://nasa.gov/, but got "Server not found", so I checked https://dnsquery.org/dnsquery/nasa.gov/A and there is no A record. Does anyone know why not?
I just finished watching a documentary called Cowspiracy that takes a closer look into the effects of mass production livestock and fishing on the environment.
Link: www.cowspiracy.com
FAQ: http://www.cowspiracy.com/faq/
On Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80033772
Do you think we can help reverse or stop the devastation of our environment and its many undesirable effects by quitting meat and growing and eating only plant base foods?
Because I just read that the raising of agricultural animals accounts for more than half of greenhouse gas production: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6297
And the warming accelerated by these gases apparently helps to intensify storms: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php
If you type google.com or facebook.com into a web browser, you're redirected to www.google.com and www.facebook.com respectively. nasa.gov doesn't even resolve and you must type in www.nasa.gov to reach their website. I've read up a bit on the history and preferences regarding the www subdomain, but what should we do now? If you're setting up a website in 2012, would you forward the naked domain to www or not?
I'm thinking about going to school for this major and I've been wanting to do something on the side with my development skills related to it.
There's pet projects with data crunching like with this stuff (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ and https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=oceanography) but I'm wondering more about problems and needs from scientists and people doing fieldwork.
Fellow HN'ers I gennerally dont post articles but this one has a personal interest for me, NASA is hosting a wake up competion and one of my good friend and a talanted artist Kurt Lanham has made it to the finals. I am not asking to rig the results, but if you are interested please take a listen and vote for the artist you like the most. I ask that you just give Kurt's song Just Another Day in Space a listen that is all. The URL is: https://songcontest.nasa.gov
For all the sophisticated equipment on this rover, the computer seems surprisingly underpowered. Surely, they are going for quality of quantity, but these specifications are somewhat lackluster - 256MB of DRAM, 300 MIPS processor. Maybe they just spec'd it out for only what they need?
Anyone have insight into this? I'm sure there is a very good reason for this - I'd just like to know.
I don't always all-caps, but when I do, it's because every word is an acronym.
The NASA HORIZONS[1] system is a telnet service that provides planetary data and ephemeris tables, which are basically coordinate-time plots for celestial bodies.
It's pretty archaic and somewhat difficult to use, especially since it just dumps out text tables and you have to parse it to do anything with it.
Some projects, e.g. KDE Marble, use it as a data source and typically just consume it with a little procedural code to get what they need.
I wanted to provide a full-fledged library for it so that you can easily mash it up in a web app, so I started a Gem called Tengai[2]. It has a very minimal set of features right now, but I have a lot of ideas and I'd appreciate feedback (and forking!).
This little Sinatra app[3] uses Tengai to provide a JSON interface to the ephemerides. Check it out:
Alot of US government sites are directing to a status page today, such as data.dov or nasa.gov. Obviously the hardware and such is still in place, ready to be re-enabled. I fail to see where they would be saving money by taking this action.
Is there any way that this is actually saving money? Maybe on bandwidth? Electric usages?
About the Open Government Initiative: http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/about
About the public participation period: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/23/make-your-voice-heard
I just learned about the Open Government Initiative last night.The OG Initiative was setup to improve the transparency of US government operations as well as provide a method for the public to influence govt operations. To achieve the latter, the govt opened up a window (Feb 23 - Mar 19) for the public to submit feedback (new new ideas, vote and comment on submitted ideas etc.) to any one of the numerous government agencies.
The deadline to submit this feedback is today! Each agency has a website where you can provide feedback (the links to these are in the blog post referenced above). For example, this is NASA's website: http://opennasa.ideascale.com/
I hear NASA has been quite receptive of the ideas submitted through its portal. One suggestion was that NASA support existing communities that are working on space-related ideas. NASA followed up quickly by providing funding for the SpaceUp barcamp: http://www.nasa.gov/open/spaceup.html
Want to feature NASA's "best of the best" imagery, video, and/or audio in your own projects? Please do! Just be sure to follow NASA's usage guidelines (also linked in the footer): https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html.