The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM IN THE BARENTS SEA A large phytoplankton bloom spread across the southern Barents Sea in late August 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45624&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 31, 2010 (Posted on Sep 03, 2010 4:41 PM) ------------------------------------------------------ ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 108 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA INVITES MEDIA TO EXPERIENCE FUTURE OF HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION 2. NASA SETS BRIEFING ABOUT ASSISTANCE TO TRAPPED MINERS IN CHILE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:57:37 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA INVITES MEDIA TO EXPERIENCE FUTURE OF HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION September 3, 2010 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Braukus ...Continue Reading

Sep. 03, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz/John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-127 NASA SETS BRIEFING ABOUT ASSISTANCE TO TRAPPED MINERS IN CHILE HOUSTON -- A NASA team sent to Chile to aid trapped miners will hold a news conference about their work at the San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo at noon CDT, Tuesday, Sept. 7. The conference wil ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- TYPHOON KOMPASU Tropical Storm Kompasu formed over the western Pacific Ocean on August 30, 2010, and strengthened to a Category 3 typhoon the next day. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45603&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 01, 2010 (Posted on Sep 02, 2010 4:42 PM) HURRICANE EARL Tropical Storm ...Continue Reading

Sep. 03, 2010 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Joseph Cuenco Science Center of Pinellas County, Inc. St. Petersburg, Fla. 727-384-0027 x226 MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-126 SPACE STATION CREW TALKS WITH STUDENTS AT FLORIDA SCIENCE CENTER WASHINGTON -- Approximately 500 middle school students and teachers at the Pinellas County Science Center in St. Petersburg, Fla., will have an out-of-this-world phone conversation with NASA astronauts aboard the Internati ...Continue Reading

Sep. 03, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-125 NASA INVITES MEDIA TO EXPERIENCE FUTURE OF HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION HOUSTON -- To see what life might be like on a distant planet, reporters need only travel to the Arizona desert. NASA's Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, will make its 13th trip to the desert this fall to test rovers, habitats a ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA AND ITS PARTNERS ANNOUNCE A NEW SPACE STATION CREW ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:04:53 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA AND ITS PARTNERS ANNOUNCE A NEW SPACE STATION CREW September 2, 2010 Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report ...Continue Reading

Sep. 02, 2010 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-208 NASA SELECTS INVESTIGATIONS FOR FIRST MISSION TO ENCOUNTER THE SUN WASHINGTON -- NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018. The small car-sized spacecraft will plunge directly into the sun's atmosphere approximately four million miles from our star's sur ...Continue Reading

Sep. 02, 2010 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-124 NASA, NEWSEUM INVITE MEDIA TO DISCOVER AND ENCOUNTER COMETS WASHINGTON -- NASA will commemorate a quarter-century of comet discoveries and discuss upcoming comet encounters during a symposium at 9 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 10, in the Knight Studio of the Newseum. The Newseum is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in Washington. The event will be covered live by NASA Television and streamed ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 4 new images) -- TYPHOON KOMPASU Tropical Storm Kompasu formed over the western Pacific Ocean on August 30, 2010, and strengthened to a Category 3 typhoon the next day. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45592&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 02, 2010 (Posted on Sep 02, 2010 12:53 PM) HURRICANE EARL Tropical Stor ...Continue Reading