March 10, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9382 carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-078 CASSINI SPACECRAFT TO DIVE INTO WATER PLUME OF SATURN MOON PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., March 12. The spacecraft, orchestrating its closest approach to date, will skirt along the edges of hug ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 07 March 2008. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER EAST ASIA A dust storm passed over the Beijing region and the Yellow Sea in early March 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14735 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 01 2008 (Posted on Mar 10 2008 12:30PM) DUST STORMS OVER THE MIDDLE EAST Dust storms struck the Middle East in late February 2008. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14734 *** MODIS(Terra) ima ...Continue Reading

March 10, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-056 MEDIA INVITED TO NASA CO-SPONSORED 'POLAR-PALOOZA' TOUR WASHINGTON - "Polar-Palooza: Stories from a Changing Planet," an education initiative supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF), comes to the National Geographic Society in Washington on March 13 as part of a national tour of science centers and museums. Polar-Palooza is a multimedia presentation featuring original ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2008 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Robert Naeye/Rob Gutro Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4453/4044 Lisa De Nike Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 443-287-9960 Lde@jhu.edu Kitta MacPherson Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 609-258-5729 kittamac@princeton.edu Rebecca Johnson University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory 512-475-6763 rjohnson@astro.as.utexas.edu RELEASE: 08-079 WMAP REVEALS NEUTRINOS, END OF DARK AGES, ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-010 NASA AWARDS SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE CONTRACT AT KENNEDY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Kennedy Space Center has awarded Millennium Engineering and Integration Company of Satellite Beach, Fla., a safety and mission assurance support services contract. The cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued approximately ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2008 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 dsteitz@hq.nasa.gov Koby South NASA Shared Services Center, Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-813-6011 koby.l.south@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-009 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR AGENCY BANKCARD SERVICES STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - On Friday, NASA announced the selection of JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, of Washington to provide agency bankcard services. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, task order contract was awarded ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 06 March 2008. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRE IN KENYA'S LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK In late February 2008, Kenya's Lake Nakuru National Park suffered a major blow when an accidental fire scorched a large section of the relatively small park. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14729 *** ASTER(Terra) image from Mar 06 2008 (Posted on Mar 07 2008 1:31PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a s ...Continue Reading

March 6, 2008 Stephanie Schierholz/Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997/0668 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov , grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov Katherine K. Martin Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2406 katherine.martin@grc.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-055 NASA OFFERS ARES I-X MEDIA OPPORTUNITY AT GLENN, MARCH 13 CLEVELAND - Reporters are invited to NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m. EDT to view a full-scale element of NASA's Ares I-X rocket. The test lau ...Continue Reading

March 6, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Carolina Martinez Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9382 carolina.martinez@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 08-074 SATURN'S MOON RHEA ALSO MAY HAVE RINGS PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found around a moon. A broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been detected by a sui ...Continue Reading

March 5, 2008 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202 358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Jeanne Ryba Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 jeanne.m.ryba@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-054 NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE SHUTTLE PRE-LAUNCH AND MISSION WEB COVERAGE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A pre-launch webcast, live blogs, podcasts, pictures and videos will highlight NASA's Web coverage of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. NASA will provide continuous online updates at: h ...Continue Reading