Oct 24, 2007

Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3895 tabatha thompson-1@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: 07-145

NEW NASA SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW VAST SIZE OF CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES

WASHINGTON - NASA satellites have obtained new images of the California wildfires, illustrating the scale of the blazes The National Interagency Fire Center reports that 12 large, uncontained fires have burned more than 335,000 acres in Southern California

The latest images are accessible on NASA's Web site and new images will be posted as they become available A video file will air on NASA TV at 2 p m EDT, during mission coverage of STS-120

These new NASA satellite images of the wildfires show the area between Los Angeles and San Diego Fire activity is indicated by red pixels Vast plumes of thick smoke can be seen blowing out over the Pacific Ocean

The first image was captured by NASA's Terra satellite at 2:25 p m EST on October 23 The second image was acquired by NASA's Aqua satellite at 5:40 p m EST, just over three hours later

To view and download the images and for additional information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/socal_wildfires_oct07 html

The NASA TV schedule for STS-120 is available at:

http://www nasa gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule html

-end-

To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@mediaservices nasa gov To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@mediaservices nasa gov

The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription:

You are subscribed to the following list: [list_name]

using the following email: example@example.com

You may automatically unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL:

http://www aus-city com/cgi-bin/dada/mail cgi/u/[list]/

If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break this automatic unsubscribe mechanism

You may also change your subscription by visiting this list's main screen:

http://www aus-city com/cgi-bin/dada/mail cgi/list/[list]

If you're still having trouble, please contact the list owner at:

<mailto:list
admin@aus-city
com>

The following physical address is associated with this mailing list:

http://www aus-city com