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

The following sections were updated since 06 April 2007. -- CROPS AND DROUGHT (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DROUGHT IN CHINA A warm, dry winter left much of China in extreme drought by March 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14204 *** (SPOT) image from Mar 31 2007 (Posted on Apr 05 2007 11:09AM) -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST AND CLOUDS OVER EASTERN CHINA Dust mixed with clouds over eastern China, and the Korean Peninsula on March 31, 2007. * http://naturalh ...Continue Reading

April 12, 2007 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton,Va. 757-864-9886/344-8511 (mobile) Pat Paterno Leader Dogs for the Blind, Rochester, Mich. 248-659-5019/917-6035 (mobile) RELEASE: 07-87 NASA ENGINEER HELPS TRAIN PUPPY FOR FUTURE LEADERSHIP ROLE HAMPTON, Va. - One of NASA's newest workers is a top dog ? literally. A golden retriever puppy named Aries goes to work every day at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. as part of the &qu ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 10 April 2007. -- CROPS AND DROUGHT (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DROUGHT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Southern African crops wilted under hot temperatures and dry skies in January, February, and March 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14211 *** (SPOT) image from Mar 31 2007 (Posted on Apr 09 2007 2:01PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.n ...Continue Reading