January 26th 2011 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ICE COVERS LAKE BAIKAL Ice covered Lake Baikal in late January 2011, as snow coated nearby peaks. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=48878&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 24, 2011 (Posted on Jan 24, 2011 4:11 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazar ...Continue Reading
January 26th 2011 PDT
Jan. 24, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Kim Newton Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0371 kimberly.d.newton@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-027 NASA PARTNERS ON NANOSAIL-D AMATEUR ASTRONOMY IMAGE CONTEST WASHINGTON -- NASA has formed a partnership with Spaceweather.com to engage the amateur astronomy community to submit the best images of the orbiting NanoSail-D solar sail. NanoSail-D unfurled the first ever 100-square-foot solar sail i ...Continue Reading
January 26th 2011 PDT
Jan. 24, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-026 NASA EXPLORES POTENTIAL NEW USERS FOR SOME KENNEDY FACILITIES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has released a formal Notice of Availability (NOA) and Request for Information (RFI) to identify interest from industry for space processing and support f ...Continue Reading
January 26th 2011 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SEASONAL FIRES IN SOUTHEASTERN ASIA Mid-January 2011 saw the beginning of the agricultural fire season in Southeast Asia. Widespread fires burn throughout the region between January and May, when farmers are preparing the land between harvest and the next growing season. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=48859&sr ...Continue Reading
January 26th 2011 PDT
Jan. 24, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-014 NASA REMEMBERS THOSE LOST PURSUING DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will lay a wreath at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia at 10 a.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 27, to commemorate the agency's National Day of Remembrance. NASA has an agency-wide Day of Remembrance every January to honor the fallen crews ...Continue Reading
January 22nd 2011 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HAZE OVER INDIA AND BANGLADESH Haze hovered over parts of India and Bangladesh in late January 2011. The haze might have resulted at least in part from a temperature inversion. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=48832&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 20, 2011 (Posted on Jan 20, 2011 6:51 P ...Continue Reading
January 22nd 2011 PDT
Jan. 21, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-015 NASA ANNOUNCES MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ABOUT HUBBLE DISCOVERY WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits and have seen further back in time than ever before. The related discussion will focus on new research findings to be published in the journal Nature. The teleconference p ...Continue Reading
January 21st 2011 PDT
There are 2 messages totalling 148 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA UPDATES BROADCAST PLANS FOR JAPANESE CARGO FLIGHT TO STATION 2. NEXT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:07:18 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA UPDATES BROADCAST PLANS FOR JAPANESE CARGO FLIGHT TO STATION Jan. 20, 2011 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headq ...Continue Reading
January 21st 2011 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN AUSTRALIA Widespread flooding in eastern Australia in late December 2010 and early January 2011 isolated entire communities and forced thousands to evacuate. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=48798&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 20, 2011 (Posted on Jan 20, 2011 1:57 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EAR ...Continue Reading
January 21st 2011 PDT
Jan. 20, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Sarah DeWitt Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0535 sarah.dewitt@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-024 NASA PREPARES TO LAUNCH NEXT EARTH-OBSERVING SATELLITE MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA's newest Earth-observing research mission is nearing launch. The Glory mission will improve our understanding of how the sun and tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols affect Earth's climate. Glory also will extend a legacy of ...Continue Reading
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