The following sections were updated since 15 November 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OFF WESTERN AFRICA Plumes of Saharan dust blew off the west coast of Africa on November 9, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14629 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 09 2007 (Posted on Nov 15 2007 5:15PM) DUST STORM IN SOUTHWEST ASIA On November 14, 2007, a dust storm swept over the borders of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. By the following day, the ...Continue Reading

Nov. 15, 2007 Melissa Mathews/Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1272/2087 melissa.mathews-1@nasa.gov, beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Kim Newton Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 kimberly.d.newton@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-254 NASA CONDUCTS SECOND TEST OF MAIN PARACHUTE FOR ARES ROCKETS HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - NASA and industry engineers successfully tested the main parachute for Constellation Program rockets during a drop test Thursday at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 14 November 2007. -- CROPS AND DROUGHT (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- LOCUSTS IN SUDAN Plenty of water and unusually thick vegetation allowed potentially dangerous locust swarms to develop in Sudan in October and November 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14624 *** (SPOT) image from Nov 10 2007 (Posted on Nov 14 2007 11:38AM) -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN SOUTHWEST ASIA On November 14, 2007, a dust storm swep ...Continue Reading

Nov. 15, 2007 Melissa Mathews/Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1272/2087 melissa.mathews-1@nasa.gov, beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Marc Ransford Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. 765-285-1570 00meransford@bsu.edu RELEASE: 07-253 NASA-FUNDED STUDY FINDS EXERCISE COULD HELP WOMEN ON BED REST WASHINGTON - Short but intense sessions of exercise may help women on bed rest stay strong and recuperate more quickly, according to a NASA-funded study by researchers at Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. The finding ...Continue Reading

Nov. 15, 2007 Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3895 tabatha.thompson-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-161 NEW 'HI-DEF' VIEW OF ANTARCTICA TO BE PRESENTED AT MEDIA BRIEFING WASHINGTON - Media are invited to preview a new map of Antarctica 10 times more detailed than any before at 11 a.m. EST, Tuesday, Nov. 27, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Scientists from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey will introduce a ne ...Continue Reading

Nov. 14, 2007 Melissa Mathews/Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1272/2087 melissa.mathews-1@nasa.gov, beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries/Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov, lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov Leslie Williams Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-3893 leslie.a.williams@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-252 GROUNDBREAKING SIGNALS START OF NASA'S CONSTELLATION FLIGHT TESTS LAS CRUCES, N.M. - With less than a year until flight tests of NA ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 13 November 2007. -- STORM (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- TROPICAL CYLONE SIDR Tropical Cyclone Sidr spun north over the Bay of Bengal in mid-November 2007. It was forecast to become a Category 4 storm. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14622 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Nov 14 2007 (Posted on Nov 14 2007 1:53PM) STORM OVER THE SEA OF AZOV A fierce storm struck both the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov on November 11, 2007. According to news reports, as ma ...Continue Reading

Nov. 14, 2007 Melissa Mathews/Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1272/2087 melissa.mathews-1@nasa.gov, beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries/Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 07-251 NASA TESTS LUNAR HABITAT IN EXTREME ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENT WASHINGTON - NASA will use the cold, harsh, isolated landscape of Antarctica to test one of its concepts for astronaut housing on the moon. The agency is sending a prototype inflatable habitat to Antarct ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 12 November 2007. -- STORM (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYLONE SIDR Tropical Cyclone Sidr spun north over the Bay of Bengal in mid-November 2007. It was forecast to become a Category 4 storm. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14620 *** (QuikSCAT) image from Nov 11 2007 (Posted on Nov 12 2007 3:19PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalh ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 09 November 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER CAPE VERDE Saharan dust lingered over Cape Verde in early November 2007, after a few days of dust storm activity off the west coast of Africa. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14619 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Nov 10 2007 (Posted on Nov 12 2007 1:24PM) -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TIDAL SURGE ON THE NORTH SEA Strong winds over the North Sea combined with high ...Continue Reading