Jan. 20, 2010 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov C. Patton Tidmore NASA Shared Services Center, Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-813-6486 c.patton.tidmore@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-002 OUTSOURCING DESKTOP INITIATIVE FOR NASA (ODIN) CONTRACT EXTENDED STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., a contract extension to continue the Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA, or ODIN, services to support the agency. The con ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2010 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Don Savage Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-8982 donald.savage@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-008 NASA TO HOLD BRIEFING ON ADVANCED MISSION TO STUDY OUR SUN WASHINGTON -- NASA is scheduled to host a briefing at 1 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Jan. 21, to discuss the upcoming launch and science of an unprecedented mission to study the sun and its dynamic behavior. The briefing on NASA's Solar Dynamics Ob ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2010 Morrie Goodman Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 morrie.goodman@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-010 NASA NAMES NEW WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY DIRECTOR WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named William Wrobel as director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., and director of the center's Suborbital and Specia ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA A dust storm clouded the skies over Queensland, Australia, on January 17, 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42337&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 17, 2010 (Posted on Jan 19, 2010 1:28 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) - ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2010 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-007 NASA OFFERS TRANQUILITY NODE SATELLITE INTERVIEWS FROM LAUNCH PAD CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Bill Dowdell, NASA Kennedy Space Center's deputy director for International Space Station and spacecraft processing, is available for satellite interviews from 6 to 9 a.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 22. Dowdell will cond ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 3 new images) -- 7.0 QUAKE NEAR PORT AU PRINCE On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Hispaniola Island, just 15 kilometers (10 miles) southwest of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. More than 30 aftershocks rocked the region over the next day. Authorities feared that the disaster had killed thousands. * http://eartho ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2010 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-012 NASA REVISES COST AND SCHEDULE FOR DISPLAYING RETIRED SHUTTLES WASHINGTON -- NASA has issued a follow-up Request for Information, or RFI, for ideas from education institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community's ability to acquire and publicly display orbiters after the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. The original RFI in December 2008 noted that a potenti ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2010 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-006 AEROSPACE SAFETY ADVISORY PANEL RELEASES ANNUAL REPORT WASHINGTON -- The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, a congressionally mandated group of independent experts established after the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, has released its 2009 annual report. Following the 2003 space shuttle Columbia accident, Congress directed the ASAP to submit an annual report to Congress and the NASA administrat ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- RAPID SEA ICE BREAKUP ALONG THE RONNE-FILCHNER ICE SHELF On the morning of January 13, the MODIS sensor on NASA’s Terra satellite spotted a large area of sea ice breaking away from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=42302&src=nha *** M ...Continue Reading

The Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) would like to announce the upcoming GHRSST XI Meeting June 21-25 in Lima, Peru. The meeting will be held at the beautiful Plaza Del Bosque Hotel. Information and registration can be found at http://www.ghrsst.org. Please register and make hotel reservations at the same time. Current deadline for Hotel reservations is January 15, with possible extensions depending on number of registrants. ------------------------------------------------------------ ...Continue Reading