Sept. 21, 2007 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-198 NASA RESTARTS TELESCOPE MISSION TO DETECT BLACK HOLES WASHINGTON -- NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, will expand our understanding of the origins and destinies of stars and galaxies. NASA had stopped the study e ...Continue Reading

Sept. 21, 2007 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: 07-207 NASA ORBITER FINDS POSSIBLE CAVE SKYLIGHTS ON MARS PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. The find is fueling interest in potential underground habitats and sparking searches for caverns elsewhere on the Red Planet. V ...Continue Reading

Sept. 20, 2007 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 Lori Stiles University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-4402 lstiles@email.arizona.edu RELEASE: 07-206 CORRECTION: NASA ORBITER PROVIDES INSIGHTS ABOUT MARS WATER AND CLIMATE (The name of the instrument in the fifth paragraph has been corrected. The corrected sentence is: The orbiter's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Ma ...Continue Reading

Sept. 20, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-120 NASA DEBUTS VIDEO OF TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE WASHINGTON - Starting Friday, NASA Television will air video documenting a science expedition to Tripoli and the Sahara desert that studied a total solar eclipse. The international mission was an unprecedented collaboration with Libyan scientists and researchers from around the globe. The video will be broadcast on NASA TV and NASA's Web site on Friday, at 1 ...Continue Reading

Sept. 20, 2007 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 Lori Stiles University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-4402 lstiles@email.arizona.edu RELEASE: 07-206 NASA ORBITER PROVIDES INSIGHTS ABOUT MARS WATER AND CLIMATE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history. Fea ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 19 September 2007. -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN CHAD The annual rainy season brought unusually intense rains and floods to Chad in August and September 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14538 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 18 2007 (Posted on Sep 20 2007 12:16PM) -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SUPER TYPHOON WIPHA Super Typhoon Wipha was a powerful Category 4 typhoon when it approached the densely populated East ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 18 September 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN THE TAKLIMAKAN Dust plumes lined the northern edge of the Taklimakan Desert on September 17, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14533 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 17 2007 (Posted on Sep 18 2007 4:12PM) -- FLOOD (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FLOODS IN UGANDA Like many other countries in Western, Middle, and Eastern Africa, Uganda faced severe flooding as a re ...Continue Reading

Sept. 18, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937 michael.mewhinney@nasa.gov Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-195 NASA MAPS THE MOON WITH GOOGLE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - New higher-resolution lunar imagery and maps that include NASA multimedia content now are available on the Google Moon Web site. Updates include new conte ...Continue Reading

Sept. 18, 2007 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-197 NASA, U.S. ARMY AGREE TO AERONAUTICS COOPERATION WASHINGTON - NASA and the United States Army have formed an aeronautics research partnership. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Secretary of the Army Pete Geren recently signed a memorandum of understanding that builds upon and expands the longstanding relationship between the two organizations. "Although NASA and the Army have different missio ...Continue Reading

Sept. 18, 2007 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 202-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-119 NASA SETS BRIEFINGS FOR SPACE STATION CREW CHANGE AND SOYUZ MOVE HOUSTON - NASA will hold a pair of media briefings on Tuesday, Sept. 25, to preview the upcoming exchange of crews aboard the International Space Station. At 1 p.m. CDT, NASA will review the work completed during the current Expedition 15 missio ...Continue Reading