The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Agricultural fires of many kinds are common in Southeast Asia in the late winter, which is the mid-dry season for the region. Widespread fires were detected across Cambodia in satellite images from early February 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36994 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from F ...Continue Reading

Feb. 11, 2009 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.Hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-030 NASA LUNAR SPACECRAFT SHIPS SOUTH IN PREPARATION FOR LAUNCH GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft was loaded on a truck Wednesday to begin its two-day journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for Apri ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 39 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA CONTINUES ASSESSMENT OF THE NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:44:06 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA CONTINUES ASSESSMENT OF THE NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION February 10, 2009 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #H09-026 NASA CONTINUES ASSESSMENT OF THE NEXT SH ...Continue Reading

Feb. 10, 2009 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jane Platt Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0880 jane.platt@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-029 NASA RECEIVES SHORTY TWITTER AWARD WASHINGTON -- NASA's activities in social networking media will be recognized Wednesday in New York, when the agency receives an award for its presence on the popular Web site Twitter. Known as the Shorty Award, it was created to honor the best producers of short content on ...Continue Reading

Feb. 10, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Calif. 707-664-2655 lynnc@universe.sonoma.edu RELEASE: 09-028 NASA'S SWIFT, FERMI PROBE FIREWORKS FROM A FLARING GAMMA-RAY STAR WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from a rare type of neutron star know ...Continue Reading

Feb. 10, 2009 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 09-026 NASA'S GREAT OBSERVATORIES CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY WASHINGTON -- Galileo first tu ...Continue Reading

Feb. 09, 2009 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-004 NASA AWARDS LAUNCH SERVICES FOR NUSTAR MISSION TO ORBITAL SCIENCES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp., of Dulles, Va., to launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, high energy X-ray telescope. The spacecraft will fly in 2011 aboard a Pegasus XL rocket ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- BUSHFIRES IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA Out-of-control bushfires killed at least 100 people in southeastern Australia in early February 2009. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36979 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 09, 2009 (Posted on Feb 09, 2009 9:11 AM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id= ...Continue Reading

Feb. 06, 2009 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov RELEASE: 09-026 NASA CONTINUES ASSESSMENT OF THE NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION WASHINGTON -- Because of an ongoing review of the space shuttle's flow control valves, NASA managers are rescheduling meetings next week to assess the launch readiness of shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission to the International Space Station. The Space Shuttle Progr ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- CYCLONE GAEL Tropical Cyclone Gael loomed over the small island of Mauritius in the southern Indian Ocean in early February 2009, headed west toward Madagascar. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36942 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 05, 2009 (Posted on Feb 05, 2009 11:19 AM) * http://earthobservatory.n ...Continue Reading