May 31st 2007 PST
May 30, 2007 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 RELEASE: 07-124 NASA UPDATES AERONAUTICS RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate has amended its NASA Research Announcement to seek additional research topics. NASA is soliciting research in several new topic areas for the Airspace Systems Program's Next Generation Air Transportation System Airportal Project and the Fundamental Aeronautics Program's Supersonics Project. The Airportal Project will in ...Continue Reading
May 31st 2007 PST
The following sections were updated since 29 May 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST IN NORTHERN CHINA A late-spring dust storm skirted the China-Mongolia border on May 26, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14281 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 26 2007 (Posted on May 30 2007 12:28PM) SMOKE PLUME OVER EASTERN CANADA In late May, a massive smoke plume hundreds of kilometers across blew eastward over New Brunswick toward the Atlantic Ocean. * http://naturalhazards.na ...Continue Reading
May 31st 2007 PST
May 30, 2007 Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/3895 Paulette Campbell Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-6792 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-60 NASA TO PREVIEW MERCURY MISSION'S FLIGHT PAST VENUS WASHINGTON - NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, June 4, to preview the June 5 flyby of the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft through the Venus system. The probe, the first space m ...Continue Reading
May 31st 2007 PST
 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *May 30, 2007*  *TOP STORY* *posted: May 30, 2007 11:14 am EDT* *Astronomers Find Thousands of New Galaxies*Astronomers bag thousands of new galaxies using infrared telescope.Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *Fungi Thrive on Dangerous Radiation * *Cosmonauts Prepare for Today's Spacewalk * * ...Continue Reading
May 30th 2007 PST
NASA Science News for May 30, 2007 This Thursday evening, May 31st, the moon over North America will become full for the second time in the month of May. According to folklore, that makes it a blue moon. But will it really be blue? Believe it or not, blue-colored moons are possible. Read today's story for a look at the folklore and physics of blue moons. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/30may_bluemoon.htm?list882224 Find out about the Science@NASA Podcast feed at http://science.nasa.gov/podcast.htm ...Continue Reading
May 30th 2007 PST
Version 1.0 of the PO.DAAC Event Tracker is now available at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/hurricanes/. This tool provides subsets of PO.DAAC data holdings chopped around major oceanographic events such as hurricanes and typhoons. The types of data that the Event Tracker currently provides are: 1) Near-real-time ultra-high-resolution wind and sigma0 data from SeaWinds on QuikSCAT 2) Scientific wind and sigma0 data from SeaWinds on QuikSCAT 3) Level 4 interpolated daily sea surface temperature data from UKMO's OSTIA an ...Continue Reading
May 30th 2007 PST
Today's Top News Tuesday May 29, 2007 Who Sleeps Around? Scientists Know Dominant people who are either very friendly or very hostile tend to have more sexual partners. Greenland Continues to Slip-Slide Away Shhh! 10 Ways to Quiet Noisy National Parks No Idling Saves School Bus Kids The Truth About 'Healthy' Bottled Water advertisement Top Features Top 10 Most Incredible Animal Journeys Read More Gallery: Sky Scenes Read More Vote for the Freakiest Lab Anim ...Continue Reading
May 30th 2007 PST
The following sections were updated since 28 May 2007. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES AND THICK HAZE IN CENTRAL CHINA This photo-like image from NASA's Terra satellite shows fires and thick haze over central China in late May 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14278 *** MODIS(Terra) image from May 29 2007 (Posted on May 29 2007 11:38AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://nat ...Continue Reading
May 30th 2007 PST
 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *May 29, 2007*  *TOP STORY* *posted: May 29, 2007 11:39 am EDT* *Fungi Thrive on Dangerous Radiation*Fungus that eat dangerous radiation could help feed astronauts.Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *SPACE.com Interplayer: More Power! STS-117 Upgrades the ISS * *Getting Business Off The Ground *&nbs ...Continue Reading
May 26th 2007 PST
May 25, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 STATUS REPORT: SS07-28 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-28 HOUSTON - Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov prepared this week for two spacewalks while Flight Engineer Suni Williams prepared for her return to Earth. In preparation for her successor's arrival, Williams' downlinked a 10-minute video tour for Clayton Anderson, who will t ...Continue Reading
This mailing list is announce-only.
NASA Reports list
Private list