Jan. 22, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-021 STELLAR STUDENTS SELECTED AS NASA AMBASSADORS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 105 of its best and brightest interns and fellows for the NASA Student Ambassador Program. The agency uses the program to engage undergraduate and graduate students in NASA science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, research and interactive opportunities. Selected students represent 33 states and 8 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 22, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Jeannette Owens Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2990 jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-018 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS CAN SEND EXPERIMENTS FLYING WITH NASA CLEVELAND -- NASA is inviting student teams nationwide to design and build an experiment or technology demonstration to be sent to the near space environment of the stratosphere, an altitude of 100,000 feet. The Balloonsat High Altitude ...Continue Reading

Jan. 22, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-012 NASA EXTENDS THE WORLD WIDE WEB OUT INTO SPACE HOUSTON -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week - personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection. Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first ...Continue Reading

Jan. 21, 2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Amy Johnson Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022/757-272-9859 amy.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-015 FROM SPACE TO THE CLASSROOM: NASA SCIENCE IMPROVES CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded approximately $1.4 million in cooperative agreements to enhance learning through the use of the agency's unique Earth science resources. The grants will support elementary, secondary an ...Continue Reading

Jan. 21, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Leslie McCarthy Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York 212-678-5507 leslie.m.mccarthy@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-017 NASA RESEARCH FINDS LAST DECADE WAS WARMEST ON RECORD, 2009 ONE OF WARMEST YEARS WASHINGTON -- A new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists finds the past year was tied for the second warmest since 1880. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year on record. Althoug ...Continue Reading

Jan. 21, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: 10-016 ROVER GIVES NASA AN "OPPORTUNITY" TO VIEW INTERIOR OF MARS PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars. Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a basketball was the target of interest for ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 621 2010 Jan 21 Somerville, MA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial --------- This issue completes the first 21 years of JSR. I began the newsletter in January 1989, at the request of friends who needed a compact summary of space activities with all the technical details. After a few issues of email distribution I started making available on the sci.space newsgroups and ftp. After the inve ...Continue Reading

Jan. 21.2010 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Monica Carazo Vintage Magnet School, Los Angeles 213-241-6766 monica.carazo@lausd.net MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-010 QUESTIONING SPACE -- LOS ANGELES STUDENTS CONNECT WITH AND QUERY ORBITING SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS WASHINGTON -- Elementary students at Vintage Math, Science and Technology Magnet School in Los Angeles will get to ask questions of astronauts aboard the International Space station while the crew ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- STORMS IN CALIFORNIA A series of severe storms pounded California in January 2010, bringing strong winds and heavy rains. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42369&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 20, 2010 (Posted on Jan 21, 2010 1:41 PM) ------------------------------------------------------------ ...Continue Reading

Jan. 21, 2010 Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Kimberly W. Land Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-746-4749 kimberly.w.land@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-011 REPORTERS INVITED TO "DIG IT" WITH NASA IN HAWAII HILO, Hawaii -- Reporters are invited to field tests of NASA equipment and concept vehicles that demonstrate how explorers might prospect for resources and make their own oxygen for survival while on other planetary bodies. The demonstrat ...Continue Reading