August 13th 2009 PDT
August 12, 2009 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Sarah DeWitt Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0535 sarah.l.dewitt@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-185 SATELLITES UNLOCK SECRET TO NORTHERN INDIA'S VANISHING WATER WASHINGTON -- Using NASA satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot p ...Continue Reading
August 12th 2009 PDT
August 11, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-154 VIRGINIA ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Patrick Forrester, whose hometown is Springfield, Va., will make his third journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station. Disc ...Continue Reading
August 12th 2009 PDT
August 11, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-152 FLORIDA NATIVE TO LIVE ABOARD INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Nicole Stott, a native of Clearwater, Fla., will make her first journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's upcoming mission to the International Space Station. She will live and work ab ...Continue Reading
August 12th 2009 PDT
August 11, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-153 TEXAS NATIVE TO FLY ON NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Danny Olivas, born and raised in El Paso, Texas, will conduct three spacewalks during the upcoming space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. This is the first shuttle flight to f ...Continue Reading
August 12th 2009 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON MORAKOT Typhoon Morakot became a Category 2 storm before moving over Taiwan on August 7, 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39747&src=nha *** MPA(TRMM) image from Aug 03, 2009 (Posted on Aug 10, 2009 2:48 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- PLUME FROM BAGAN ...Continue Reading
August 12th 2009 PDT
August 11, 2009 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-187 NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR STS-134 SHUTTLE MISSION, CHANGE TO STS-132 WASHINGTON -- NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-134 to the International Space Station. The flight will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, to the station. The AMS is a state-of-the-art cosmic ray parti ...Continue Reading
August 11th 2009 PDT
August 10, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 gay.y.hill@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-186 METEORITE FOUND ON MARS YIELDS CLUES ABOUT PLANET'S PAST PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. The rock, dubbed "Block Island,&quo ...Continue Reading
August 11th 2009 PDT
August 10, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-151 TWO CALIFORNIA ASTRONAUTS TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-- NASA's next space shuttle mission will carry two California- born astronauts into orbit. Veteran space flier Rick Sturckow, from Lakeside, Calif., will command shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Stat ...Continue Reading
August 11th 2009 PDT
August 10, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-150 TEXAS ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Patrick Forrester, who was born in El Paso, Texas, will make his third journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station. Discovery is targeted to launch at 1:36 a.m. ...Continue Reading
August 11th 2009 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (3 updated events, 4 new images) -- TYPHOON MORAKOT Typhoon Morakot became a Category 2 storm before moving over Taiwan on August 7, 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39741&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 09, 2009 (Posted on Aug 10, 2009 1:03 PM) HURRICANE FELICIA Hurricane Felicia became a dangerous Category 4 hurricane as ...Continue Reading
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