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July 1, 2011 David S. Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-218 NASA ADMINISTRATOR DISCUSSES AGENCY'S FUTURE ENDEAVORS WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden delivered a speech Friday about the agency's future. Below are excerpts from his speech at the National Press Club in Washington. "Some say that our final shuttle mission will mark the end of America's 50 years of dominance in human spaceflight; as a former astronaut and the current NASA admini ...Continue Reading
July 2nd 2011 PST
July 01, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. 650-960-4537 krandall@seti.org RELEASE: 11-214 NASA RESEARCH OFFERS NEW PROSPECT OF WATER ON MARS WASHINGTON -- NASA scientists are seeing new evidence that suggests traces of water on Mars are under a thin varnish of iron oxide, or rust, similar to conditions fo ...Continue Reading
July 2nd 2011 PST
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- LAS CONCHAS FIRE, NEW MEXICO The Las Conchas Fire broke out in the mountains southwest of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on June 26, 2011, and grew swiftly, threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51250&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jun 29, 2011 (Posted on Jun 30, 2011 2:39 P ...Continue Reading
July 2nd 2011 PST
July 07, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Jessica Culler Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 jessica.culler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-215 NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO TEDXNASA@SILICONVALLEY 2011 WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting reporters and the public to join agency leaders, technologists and innovators from a variety of fields at TEDxNASA@SiliconValley 2011 on Aug. 17. The event will ...Continue Reading
July 2nd 2011 PST
July 01, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.braukus@nasa.gov Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-213 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STUDENTS WIN SPACE HABITAT COMPETITION HOUSTON -- University of Wisconsin students topped two other university teams to win the 2011 NASA eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge, a competition to design and build a ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2011 PST
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 01 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 182 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1242 N16W30 056 0080 Dso 06 08 Beta 1243 N16E36 350 0030 Cro 04 06 Beta IA. H-alpha ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2011 PST
June 30, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-137 NASA PLANS AIR POLLUTION FLIGHTS OVER MARYLAND ON JULY 1 WASHINGTON -- NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor on Friday, July 1, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT. The flight is part of a mission to enhance the capability of satellites to measure ground-level air quality from space. NASA's P-3B research aircra ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2011 PST
June 30, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-212 NASA'S SPITZER FINDS DISTANT GALAXIES GRAZED ON GAS WASHINGTON -- Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in the distant universe continuously ingested the ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2011 PST
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER IRAQ Multiple dust plumes blew through Iraq and over the Persian Gulf at the end of June 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51247&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 30, 2011 (Posted on Jun 30, 2011 1:42 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading
July 1st 2011 PST
June 30, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Mary Blake Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, Calif. mary.blake@ngc.com 310-812-6291 RELEASE: 11-210 NASA COMPLETES MIRROR POLISHING FOR JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE WASHINGTON -- Mirrors are a critical part of a telescope. The quality is crucial, so completion of mirror polishing represents a major milestone. All of the mirrors that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have been polished so the obse ...Continue Reading
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