Friday, April 13, 2007 Gambling on Global Warming Goes Mainstream Scientists have been wagering privately for years, now the public can bet on climate change effects. The odds, however, are not in your favor. Feds: Accuracy of Face Recognition Software Skyrockets Federal investigators interested in gauging its usefulness in national security applications f ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 12 April 2007. -- FIRE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Aqua satellite shows scores of fires burning in Guatemala and Mexico on April 11, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14216 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 11 2007 (Posted on Apr 13 2007 12:20PM) FIRES IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA Multiple fires were burning in Victoria and New South Wales in mi ...Continue Reading

 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *April 13, 2007*      *TOP STORY* *posted: April 13, 2007 11:59 am EDT* *Not a UFO: Venus Dominates the Evening Sky*Venus shines so brilliantly in the west-northwest sky soon as the sun sets that some readers are wondering if it's something else.Read More * MISSIONS/LAUNCHES* *Space Tourist: ISS a Cozy ...Continue Reading

April 13, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 RELEASE: 07-88 REPORT REVEALS LIKELY CAUSES OF MARS SPACECRAFT LOSS WASHINGTON - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter appears to have succumbed to battery failure caused by a complex sequence of events involving the onboard computer memory and ground commands. The causes were released today in a preliminary report ...Continue Reading

NASA Science News for April 12, 2007 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed a remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole, allowing a disk of hot matter swirling around the hole to be measured. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12apr_blackholeeclipse.htm?list882224 Check out our RSS feed at http://science.nasa.gov/rss.xml! You are currently subscribed to snglist as: nasa_reports@aus-city.com. This is a free service. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa.gov/u?id=882224F&n=T& ...Continue Reading

April 12, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 CONTRACT RELEASE: C07-19 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR "GREEN" EXPLORATION SCIENCES BUILDING GREENBELT, Md. - NASA has awarded a contract to Manhattan Construction Company of Fairfax, Va., for the construction of the Exploration Sciences Building at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The firm fixed price for the basic requirement is approximately ...Continue Reading

Thursday, April 12, 2007 T. Rex Related to Chickens An adolescent female Tyrannosaurus rex died 68 million years ago, but its bones still contain intact soft tissue. Monkey DNA Findings Point Toward Common Human Ancestor The rhesus monkey has now had its genome sequenced, promising to improve research into health and yield insights into human evolution. ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 11 April 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- BODELE DEPRESSION DUST STORM On April 11, 2007, a dust storm blew out of northern Africa's Bodele Depression toward Lake Chad. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14213 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 11 2007 (Posted on Apr 12 2007 1:38PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nas ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 09 April 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN THE TAKLIMAKAN DESERT Dust plumes blew out of the Taklimakan Desert toward the east on April 8, 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14212 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 08 2007 (Posted on Apr 10 2007 1:26PM) -- FLOOD (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN SPAIN The Ebro River, which flows through eastern Spain, spilled over its banks in early April 2007 in the wake ...Continue Reading

 * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *April 12, 2007*      *TOP STORY* *posted: April 12, 2007 10:35 am EDT* *Really Old Stars Perhaps Ideal for Advanced Civilizations*In the near future, with the launch of NASA's Kepler Mission in 2008, we'll have the tools to seek evidence of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of distant stars.Read More *Â&Aci ...Continue Reading