Jan. 12, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-006 NASA TO PREVIEW FEBRUARY COMET ENCOUNTER WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 19, to discuss the Feb. 14 Stardust-NExT mission flyby of comet Tempel 1. The encounter will mark the first time scientists can look for changes on a comet's surface caused by a close fl ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST ACROSS CENTRAL AFRICA Dust mixed with smoke across central Africa in early January 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=48556&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 09, 2011 (Posted on Jan 12, 2011 12:08 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- FLOODING IN AUSTRALIA Widespread ...Continue Reading

Jan. 12, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-013 NASA TELESCOPES HELP IDENTIFY MOST DISTANT GALAXY CLUSTER WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today ...Continue Reading

Jan. 12, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-009 NASA NAMES DEPUTY CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST WASHINGTON -- NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun has announced the appointment of Michael J. Gazarik as the agency's deputy chief technologist. Gazarik will be a key member of the office responsible for coordination, integration and tracking of all technology investments across the agency, as well as management of NASA's Space Tec ...Continue Reading

Jan. 12, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Kasey Richter Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum McMinnville, Ore. 503-434-4185 x4790 kasey.richter@sprucegoose.org MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-005 OREGON STUDENTS TO TALK WITH ORBITING SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS WASHINGTON -- International Space Station residents Scott Kelly, Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli will speak to approximately 250 school students in McMinnville, Ore., about what it is like to live and work in ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-011 PLANCK MISSION PEELS BACK LAYERS OF THE UNIVERSE WASHINGTON -- The Planck mission released a new data catalogue Tuesday from initial maps of the entire sky. The catalogue includes thousands of never-before-seen dusty cocoons where stars are forming and some of the most massive clusters of galaxies ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 68 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SCHEDULES NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:44:35 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SCHEDULES NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS Jan. 10, 2011 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M11-004 NASA SCHEDULES NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT SPAC ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-6162 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-008 NASA'S FERMI CATCHES THUNDERSTORMS HURLING ANTIMATTER INTO SPACE WASHINGTON -- Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter particles were forme ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2011 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-004 NASA SCHEDULES NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS HOUSTON -- NASA managers will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. CST Tuesday, Jan. 11, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. They will discuss Discovery's STS-133 flight to the International Space Station and talk about the progress of repairs since ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-007 NASA'S KEPLER MISSION DISCOVERS ITS FIRST ROCKY PLANET WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. The discovery of this so-called e ...Continue Reading