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=44756&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 25, 2010 (Posted on Jul 26, 2010 1:42 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM BONNI ...Continue Reading

July 26, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.braukus@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-0643 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-179 NASA SIMULATES SPACE EXPLORATION AT REMOTE ARCTIC CRATER SITE WASHINGTON -- NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for future planetary exploration as part of the Haughton-Mars Project, or HMP ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AT KILAUEA Kilauea Volcano continues to erupt, with centers of activity at Pu‘u O‘o and Halema‘uma‘u Craters. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Nat ...Continue Reading

July 23, 2010 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-178 NASA ASTRONAUT SENDS FIRST SIGNED MESSAGE FROM ORBIT WASHINGTON -- The number of languages used on the International Space Station has recently increased. In addition to those spoken in the 15 countries that have had representatives aboard the space station, American Sign Language, or AS ...Continue Reading

The NASA History Division is pleased to announce the availability of a new conference proceedings book edited by Steven J. Dick, /NASA//’//s First 50 //Y//ears:  Historical Perspectives// /(NASA SP-2010-4704).  Please see the attached flyer for more details, including ordering information.   We are also pleased to have new e-book versions of two other NASA publications with historical content, /Unmanned Space Project Management: Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter// / (NASA SP-4901, 1972) by Erasmus H. Kloman a ...Continue Reading

July 23, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov Robert Burnham Arizona State University, Tempe 480-458-8207 robert.burnham@asu.edu RELEASE: 10-176 NASA SPACECRAFT CAMERA YIELDS MOST ACCURATE MARS MAP EVER WASHINGTON -- A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. R ...Continue Reading

July 23, 2010 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Jenna Maddix Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-0185 jenna.c.maddix@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-177 NASA SEEKS UNDERGRADS TO DEFY GRAVITY FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING HOUSTON -- NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. Propos ...Continue Reading

July 22, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-174 NASA TELESCOPE FINDS ELUSIVE BUCKYBALLS IN SPACE FOR FIRST TIME WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are soccer-ball-shaped molecules that were first observed ...Continue Reading

July 22, 2010 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Donna Weaver Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4493 dweaver@stsci.edu Warren Brown Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7905 wbrown@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 10-175 NASA'S HUBBLE SHOWS HYPERFAST STAR WAS BOOTED FROM MILKY WAY WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a hypervelocity star, a rare phenomenon moving three times faster than our su ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM CHANTHU Tropical Storm Chanthu formed over the western Pacific Ocean and headed for mainland China, on the heels of already severe flooding. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=44734&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 22, 2010 (Posted on Jul 22, 2010 12:57 PM) * http://earthobservator ...Continue Reading