There is 1 message totalling 50 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SCIENTIST RECEIVES MERITORIOUS CIVILIAN SERVICE AWARD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:54:38 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SCIENTIST RECEIVES MERITORIOUS CIVILIAN SERVICE AWARD Aug. 1, 2008 William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J08-009 NASA SCIENTIST RECEIVES MERITORIOUS CIVILIAN SERVICE AWARD HOUSTON—Nichola ...Continue Reading

Aug. 1, 2008 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 bob.jacobs@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-196 TAKE AN INTERACTIVE JOURNEY THROUGH NASA'S FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF EXPLORATION WASHINGTON -- This week marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the space act that created NASA. To commemorate NASA's beginning, the agency has released an immersive multimedia experience that takes visitors on an interactive tour of its first five decades of exploration. Combining current and historic video with state-of-the-art co ...Continue Reading

July 31, 2008 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 Sara Hammond University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-1974 shammond@lpl.arizona.edu RELEASE: 08-195 NASA SPACECRAFT CONFIRMS MARTIAN WATER, MISSION EXTENDED TUCSON, Ariz. -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesda ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 30 July 2008. -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- FLOODS IN EASTERN EUROPE Heavy rain falling in the Carpathian Mountains pushed rivers in Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova over their banks on July 27-28, 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14989 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 29 2008 (Posted on Jul 31 2008 1:02PM) * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14988 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 29 2008 (Posted on Jul 31 2008 1:06PM) ---- ...Continue Reading

July 31, 2008 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-191 NASA ANNOUNCES AERONAUTICS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five graduate and undergraduate students have been selected as the first recipients of NASA's Aeronautics Scholarship. The recipients were selected from nearly 400 applications for the school year that begins in fall 2008. The new program is designed to aid students in fields of study with applications promising to aeronautics. "Ou ...Continue Reading

July 31, 2008 Stephanie Schierholz/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997/0668 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-194 NASA TESTS MOON IMAGING SPACECRAFT AT GODDARD GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, also known as LRO, has completed the first round of environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. These tests ensure the ...Continue Reading

July 30, 2008 Dwayne Brown NASA Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9382 carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov Lori Stiles University of Arizona, Tucson 520-360-0574 lstiles@u.arizona.edu RELEASE: 08-193 NASA CONFIRMS LIQUID LAKE ON SATURN MOON PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains li ...Continue Reading

July 30, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov Douglas Keddy University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 519-661-2111 ext: 87485 dkeddy@uwo.ca RELEASE: 08-192 NASA LUNAR SCIENCE INSTITUTE NAMES FIRST INTERNATIONAL PARTNER MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Lunar Science Institute at Moffett Field, Calif., has announced its first international affilia ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 29 July 2008. -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY ON SOUFRIERE HILLS VOLCANO Soufriere Hills Volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat released a plume of ash and steam in late July 2008. On July 28, the volcano's dome partially collapsed, sending an ash column 12 kilometers skyward. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14987 *** MODIS(Terra) image from (Posted on Jul 30 2008 12:18PM) ---------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

July 30, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-189 OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MISSION/JASON 2 BEGINS MAPPING OCEANS WASHINGTON -- Less than a month after launch, the NASA-French space agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps of global ocean surface topography, surface wave height and wind speed. Th ...Continue Reading