The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN QUEENSLAND In late October 2008, scattered fires burned across Queensland from Cape York Peninsula to the area around the city of Rockhampton. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35895 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 14, 2008 (Posted on Nov 14, 2008 10:50 AM) -------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Nov. 13 2008 Ashley Edwards/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1756/0668 ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 june.e.malone@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-290 NASA'S NEW HIGH-PERFORMANCE ENGINE FOR ARES ROCKET PASSES REVIEW HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA's newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X, successfully completed its critical design review Thursday at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Th ...Continue Reading

Nov. 13, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Kimberly Newton Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-5026 kimberly.d.newton@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-291 NASA RESTORES HISTORIC LUNAR ORBITER IMAGE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA released a newly restored 42-year-old image of Earth on Thursday. The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. Using refurbished machinery and modern digital tech ...Continue Reading

Nov. 13, 2008 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 RELEASE: 08-289 HUBBLE DIRECTLY OBSERVES A PLANET ORBITING ANOTHER STAR WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhau ...Continue Reading

Nov. 13, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-288 NASA TESTS LUNAR ROVERS AND OXYGEN PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY HILO, Hawaii -- NASA has concluded nearly two weeks of testing equipment and lunar rover concepts on Hawaii's volcanic soil. The agency's In Situ Resource Utilization Project, which studies ways astronauts can use resources found at landing sites, demonstrated how people might prospect for resources on the moon and make their own oxygen from ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HAZE ALONG THE HIMALAYA Haze hugged the Himalaya in late October 2008. The haze probably resulted from a combination of agricultural fires and urban pollution, and may have contained some airborne dust. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=35888 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 11, 2008 (Posted on No ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 41 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER TO PARTICIPATE IN TEXAS RECYCLES DAY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:37:45 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: JOHNSON SPACE CENTER TO PARTICIPATE IN TEXAS RECYCLES DAY Nov. 12, 2008 Jennifer Knotts Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-792-7671 Report #J08-014 JOHNSON SPACE CENTER TO PARTICIPATE IN TEXAS RECYCLES DAY HOUSTON – John ...Continue Reading

Nov. 12, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-232 NASA TV TO AIR CLEAN FEED OF ENDEAVOUR'S STS-126 COUNTDOWN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Television will provide a continuous clean video feed on its Media Channel of space shuttle Endeavour in the hours before its 7:55 p.m. EST liftoff on Nov. 14. Beginning at 2:30 p.m., video will show one stationary wide ...Continue Reading

Nov. 12, 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: 08-285 NASA'S CARBON-SNIFFING SATELLITE SLEUTH ARRIVES AT LAUNCH SITE WASHINGTON -- NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final launch preparations. The Orbitin ...Continue Reading

Nov. 12, 2008 David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.r.mould@nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-286 NASA ANNOUNCES EXPLORATION SYSTEMS MISSION DIRECTORATE LEADERSHIP CHANGES WASHINGTON -- NASA Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Rick Gilbrech announced Wednesday that he will be leaving the agency for a position in the private sector. NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin announced that Doug Cooke, who has been serving as deputy associate administrator for the directorate since its inception i ...Continue Reading