Feb. 19, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Paul Foerman Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-1880 paul.foerman-1@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-006 NASA AWARDS CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR ROCKET ENGINE TESTING WASHINGTON -- NASA signed a contract Thursday with American Tank and Vessel Inc. of Mobile, Ala., for the installation of a test cell diffuser and associated systems in the A-3 test stand at NASA's Sten ...Continue Reading

Feb. 19, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-026 NASA PLANS ORBITING CARBON OBSERVATORY POST-LAUNCH MEDIA BRIEFING WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 9 a.m. EST on the day the Orbiting Carbon Observatory spacecraft launches. The observatory is set to launch Feb. 24 at 4:51 a.m. EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The briefin ...Continue Reading

Feb. 19, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov David Harris SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, Calif. 650-926-8580 david.harris@slac.stanford.edu Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Calif. 707-664-2655 lynnc@universe.sonoma.edu RELEASE: 09-033 NASA'S FERMI TELESCOPE SEES MOST EXTREME GAMMA-RAY BLAST YET WASHINGTON -- The first gamma-ray burst to be seen in high-resolution from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is one fo ...Continue Reading

Feb. 19, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-035 NASA'S KEPLER MISSION TO SEEK OTHER EARTHS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft is ready to be moved to the launch pad today and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could pot ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OFF ARGENTINA Continuing an intermittent pattern from the previous month, more dust plumes blew off the coast of Argentina in mid-February 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37057 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 17, 2009 (Posted on Feb 19, 2009 12:42 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated even ...Continue Reading

We've just received word that there will be a power outage at the NASA Goddard MODIS Facility from Wednesday, February 18, 5pm (EST) through Friday, February 20, 3pm (EST). During this time there will be no MODIS level 0 data and hence no MODIS higher level products. The affected data products will include all PODAAC Level 3 MODIS, all GHRSST L2P products and any other sea surface temperature product what relies on the MODIS data stream. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. --------------------- ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- BUSHFIRES IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA Out-of-control bushfires killed at least 200 people in southeastern Australia in early February 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37048 *** ASTER(Terra) image from Feb 16, 2009 (Posted on Feb 18, 2009 2:16 PM) -------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Feb. 17, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Jonas Dino Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-5612 jonas.dino@nasa.gov Sally Koris Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, Calif. 310-812-4721 sally.koris@ngc.com RELEASE: 09-032 NASA MISSION TO SEEK WATER ICE ON MOON HEADS TO FLORIDA FOR LAUNCH MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is en ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- VOLCANIC ACTIVITY ON MT. EREBUS The world’s southernmost volcano to show activity during recorded history, Erebus holds a lava lake, and occasionally experiences explosive eruptions. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37043 *** (EO-1) ima ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE ARABIAN PENINSULA Starting in Iraq and northern Saudi Arabia, dust storms spread southward across the Arabian Peninsula in mid-February 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=37037 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Feb 14, 2009 (Posted on Feb 16, 2009 2:18 PM) -------------------------- ...Continue Reading