July 19, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover/Gretchen Curtis Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643/415-235-8733 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov/gretchen.curtis@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-172 NASA'S NEBULA CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY TO PLAY KEY ROLE IN NEW OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVE WASHINGTON -- The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN EASTERN SIBERIA Fires burned across eastern Siberia north of the Kamchatka Peninsula throughout July 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44683&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 19, 2010 (Posted on Jul 19, 2010 1:39 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM CONSO ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 630 2010 Jul 17 Somerville, MA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station ------------------- Soyuz TMA-19 undocked from Zvezda at 1913 UTC on Jun 28 and backed away to a distance of 30m, then flew around the station and redocked at the Rassvet module at 1938 UTC. This freed the Zvezda port for the planned arrival of Progress M-06M, which was launched on Jun 30. At around 1630 on Jul 2 ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-168 NASA'S WISE MISSION READY TO COMPLETE EXTENSIVE SKY SURVEY WASHINGTON -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky on July 17. The mission has generated more than one million images so far, of everything from as ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2010 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Amy Johnson Langley Research Center 757-864-7022/272-9859 amy.johnson@nasa.gov Karen Jenvey Ames Research Center 650-604-4034 karen.jenvey@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-171 TEACHERS GET HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE THROUGH NEW NASA INTERNSHIP WASHINGTON -- Select teachers will spend part ...Continue Reading

July 15, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Mike Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 michael.buckley@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 10-170 MESSENGER SPACECRAFT REVEALS NEW INFORMATION ABOUT MERCURY WASHINGTON -- The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet's atmosphere and evolution. Launched in August 2004, the Mercury Surface, ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- GULF OIL SPILL (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- OIL SLICK IN THE GULF OF MEXICO On April 20, 2010, an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico left nearly a dozen workers missing and started a large fire. The damaged well was still leaking in early July. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44647&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 14, 2010 (Posted ...Continue Reading

July 15, 2010 Fred Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0713 fred.a.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-169 NASA TELEVISION DEBUTS FULL-TIME HIGH DEFINITION CHANNEL WASHINGTON -- On Monday, July 19, NASA Television will launch a full-time High Definition (HD) channel that media, cable and satellite service providers can access for news content and coverage of agency missions and programs. The channel will deliver HD video that only NASA can provide, such as live launch coverage of space shuttles and other sp ...Continue Reading

July 15, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Donna Weaver Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4493 dweaver@stsci.edu Jeffrey Linsky University of Colorado, Boulder 303-492-7838 jlinsky@jila.colorado.edu RELEASE: 10-167 NASA FINDS SUPER HOT PLANET WITH UNIQUE COMET-LIKE TAIL WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a "cometary planet.& ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 47 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SETS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION SPACEWALK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:28:53 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SETS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION SPACEWALK July 14, 2010 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M10-100 NASA SETS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION SPACEWA ...Continue Reading