Dec. 12, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Rob Navias Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 rob.navias-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-257 NASA TV TO AIR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION BRIEFING AND SPACEWALK HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing Dec. 18 to discuss an upcoming International Space Station spacewalk. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the Dec. 22 spacewalk of Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yur ...Continue Reading

Dec. 12, 2008 Grey Hautaluoma/Ashley Edwards Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/1756 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, ashley.edwards-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-256 NASA TO UPDATE REPORTERS ABOUT CONSTELLATION PROGRAM WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 4 p.m. EST, to brief reporters about recent developments and ongoing progress in NASA's Constellation Program. Constellation will build the spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and r ...Continue Reading

Dec. 12, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-258 SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGES SEASONS GREETINGS WITH EARTH HOUSTON -- Soaring high above the Earth, the crew of the International Space Station has beamed down season's greetings that will air on NASA Television starting Friday, Dec. 12. The public can return the extraterrestrial good will ...Continue Reading

Dec. 11, 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 RELEASE: 08-324 MARS ORBITER COMPLETES PRIME MISSION PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments. The orbiter has returned 73 ter ...Continue Reading

Dec. 11, 2008 Stephen Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918/202-657-2194 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-251 NASA SCIENCE ON DISPLAY AT AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING WASHINGTON -- NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics during the 2008 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The meeting runs from Monday, Dec. 15, through Friday, Dec. 19, at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center at 747 Howard St. News briefings held duri ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- PLUME FROM KLYUCHEVSKAYA VOLCANO The Klyuchevskaya Volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula released a plume of ash in early December 2008. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36125 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Dec 10, 2008 (Posted on Dec 10 ...Continue Reading

Dec. 9, 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: 08-323 HUBBLE TELESCOPE FINDS CARBON DIOXIDE ON AN EXTRASOLAR PLANET WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step toward finding chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life. The Jupiter-sized ...Continue Reading

Dec. 09, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-247 NASA SETS MEDIA CREDENTIALS DEADLINES FOR NEXT SHUTTLE FLIGHT WASHINGTON -- NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Shuttle Discovery is targeted to launch Feb. 12 at 7:28 a.m. EST on the STS-119 mission to the station. The seven-member crew will deliver the final pair of power-generating solar arrays and the las ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HAZE OVER INDIA AND THE BAY OF BENGAL Thick haze collected south of the Himalaya in early December 2008, continuing a weeks-long pattern. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36107 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 08, 2008 (Posted on Dec 08, 2008 1:42 PM) DUST PLUME OFF WESTERN AFRICA A plume of Sah ...Continue Reading

Dec. 08, 2008 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: M08-246 NEWS MEDIA INVITED TO VIEW SPACE STATION'S SOLAR WINGS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kennedy Space Center will provide an opportunity for reporters to see the International Space Station's next element at 10 a.m. EST, Thursday, Dec. 18. The S6 truss segment, with its set of large U.S. solar arrays, will be a ...Continue Reading