Sept. 30, 2008 Stephen Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Jennifer Morcone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 jennifer.j.morcone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-247 'SMOG BLOG' FOR CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN DEBUTS WASHINGTON -- NASA and its partners today unveiled a new way to connect satellite air quality data with communities in Central America and the Caribbean. The MesoAmerican and Caribbean Smog Blog, a Web site interpre ...Continue Reading

Sept. 30, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-250 NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY'S STS-129 MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle Discovery's STS-129 mission. The flight will deliver two experiment racks to the International Space Station. Marine Col. Charlie Hobaugh wi ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 29 September 2008. -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON JANGMI Typhoon Jangmi was spinning off the coast of Luzon in the Philippines on September 26, 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15085 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 28 2008 (Posted on Sep 29 2008 9:51AM) -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- PLUME FROM RABAUL VOLCANO Rabaul Volcano released a plume of ash and steam in late September 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa ...Continue Reading

Sept. 30, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov Keith Henry Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-6120 h.k.henry@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-248 NASA CHALLENGES STUDENTS TO DESIGN TOOLS FOR MOON ROVERS WASHINGTON -- A new NASA contest challenges college-level students to design tools or instrument packages that could be used on the next generation of human-driven moon rovers. Student wil ...Continue Reading

Sept. 30, 2008 David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898 david.r.mould@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-249 CABANA TO SUCCEED PARSONS AS KENNEDY SPACE CENTER DIRECTOR CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA announced Tuesday that William Parsons, director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is leaving the agency in mid-October to pursue opportunities in the private sector. Parsons will be succeeded by former astronaut Robert ...Continue Reading

Sept. 29, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Paulette Campbell Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-6792 paulette.campbell@jhuapl.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-186 NASA TO PREVIEW SECOND MERCURY FLYBY WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 1, to preview the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft. This se ...Continue Reading

Sept. 29, 2008 Don Savage/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0183/5241 donald.l.savage@nasa.gov j.d.harrington@nasa.gov John Yembrick/Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 / 4715 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov michael.curie@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-187 NASA TO DISCUSS HUBBLE ANOMALY AND SERVICING MISSION LAUNCH DELAY WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT today to discuss a significant Hubble Space Telescope anomaly that occurred this weekend af ...Continue Reading

Sept. 29, 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: 08-246 NASA MARS LANDER SEES FALLING SNOW, SOIL DATA SUGGEST LIQUID PAST WASHINGTON -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil tests experiments ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 26 September 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OFF EGYPT A thick plume of dust blew off the northern coast of Egypt, west of the Nile Delta, on September 25, 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=15084 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 25 2008 (Posted on Sep 26 2008 6:18PM) -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON JANGMI Typhoon Jangmi was spinning off the coast of Luzon in the Philippines on September 26, 20 ...Continue Reading

Sept. 29, 2008 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-185 NASA UPDATES AVIATION SAFETY DATA WEB SITE WASHINGTON -- NASA will update its National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service, or NAOMS, Web site Tuesday to add more information from pilot survey responses. The data files are essentially the same files posted to the Web site in late 2007 and early 2008. However, the files are packaged differently and contain fewer redactions than the original po ...Continue Reading