May 29th 2008 PDT
May 28, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-107 (CORRECTION) NASA SETS BRIEFING ON NEW SPACE STATION NATIONAL LAB PARTNERS CORRECTION: Deletes reference to canceled May 31 MOU signing event with the Department of Agriculture and corrects location of Zero Gravity Inc. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will hold a briefing at 11 a.m. EDT, Friday, May 30, to discuss new opportun ...Continue Reading
May 29th 2008 PDT
The following sections were updated since 27 May 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER IRAQ A dust storm swept through Iraq in late May 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14861 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 25 2008 (Posted on May 28 2008 12:35PM) DUST OVER MONGOLIA AND CHINA A springtime dust storm spread from Mongolia through northern China in late May 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14859 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 28 20 ...Continue Reading
May 29th 2008 PDT
May 28, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-107 NASA SETS BRIEFING ON NEW SPACE STATION NATIONAL LAB PARTNERS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will hold a briefing at 11 a.m. EDT, Friday, May 30, to discuss new opportunities to use the International Space Station's unique research environment. The briefing will originate from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and be broadcast live ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2008 PDT
The following sections were updated since 23 May 2008. -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SPRING FLOODS IN SIBERIA May brought warming temperatures and spring floods to Siberia. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14853 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 21 2008 (Posted on May 23 2008 5:17PM) -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 3 new images) -- CHAITEN VOLCANO ERUPTS Dormant for more than 9,000 years, the Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile began to erupt on May 2, 2008, forcing thousands of residents ...Continue Reading
May 26th 2008 PDT
May 25, 2008 Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-5011 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov Dwayne Brown NASA Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Sara Hammond University of Arizona, Tucson 520-626-1974 shammond@lpl.arizona.edu RELEASE: JPL2008-081 NASA'S PHOENIX SPACECRAFT LANDS AT MARTIAN ARCTIC SITE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2008 PDT
The following sections were updated since 22 May 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE YELLOW SEA Dust and haze hovered over Bo Hai and the Yellow Sea in late May 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14851 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 21 2008 (Posted on May 22 2008 5:05PM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SUMMIT FIRE, CALIFORNIA The Summit Fire in California was forcing road closures and evacuations in the Santa Cruz Mountains on May 23, 2008. ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2008 PDT
*NASA SimLabs News * VOLUME 8, ISSUE 2 http://www.simlabs.arc.nasa.gov/newsletter/news.html *May 2008 * TABLE OF CONTENTS If you are receiving this newsletter for the first time, SimLabs News is a quarterly publication reviewing current projects at the NASA Ames Simulation Laboratories (SimLabs). The facilities support government as well as private industry in a wide array of applications. To find out more, read on! 1. Improving Safety for the RASCAL Researchers evaluate improvements to the ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2008 PDT
May 22, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Rob Gutro Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4044 robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-106 NASA'S GLAST SPACE TELESCOPE TO LAUNCH ABOARD DELTA II ON JUNE 3 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Launch of NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is targeted for Tuesday, June 3, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2008 PDT
May 22, 2008 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-105 NASA ANNOUNCES SHUTTLE PRELAUNCH EVENTS AND COUNTDOWN DETAILS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Discovery. Shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission to the International Space Station is sched ...Continue Reading
May 23rd 2008 PDT
The following sections were updated since 21 May 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN Dust plumes blew off the north African coast and over the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14849 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 19 2008 (Posted on May 21 2008 4:36PM) -- VOLCANO (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY ON RABAUL VOLCANO, NEW BRITIAN Rabaul Volcano, on the northeastern tip of the island of New Britain ...Continue Reading
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