Sept. 24, 2007 Beth Dickey/Melissa Mathews Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/1272 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov, melissa.mathews-1@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov Kathy Major National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), Houston 713-798-5893 major@bcm.edu RELEASE: 07-211 NASA, NSBRI SELECT 17 PROPOSALS IN SPACE RADIATION RESEARCH WASHINGTON - The crews of future missions to the moon and Mars could face serious health risks from exposure to space ra ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 21 September 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE GULF OF OMAN AND ARABIAN SEA Dust plumes blew from Afghanistan southward through Pakistan and over the Arabian Sea on September 23, 2007. The same day, smaller plumes of dust blew off the coast of Iran over the Gulf of Oman. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14544 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 23 2007 (Posted on Sep 24 2007 1:52PM) -- FIRE (3 updated events, 3 new images ...Continue Reading

Sept. 24, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-121 NASA POSTPONES DAWN SPACECRAFT LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The launch of NASA's Dawn spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket has been postponed 24 hours. Fueling of the launch vehicle's second stage was unable to be completed on Sunday because of weather conditions at the launch pad. The ...Continue Reading

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