October 6th 2006 PST
Space Weather News for Oct. 6, 2006 http://spaceweather.com HARVEST MOON: Tonight's full moon has a special name--the "Harvest Moon." It is the full moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox. Long ago, before electric lights, farmers relied on the Harvest Moon to light up their fields at night, allowing them to harvest autumn crops even after sunset. The Harvest Moon of 2006 is a big one--almost 12% wider than some full Moons we've seen earlier this year. Why? Because the Moon is near perigee, the side ...Continue Reading
October 6th 2006 PST
Oct. 3, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237/1726 Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 MEDIA ADVISORY: 06-155 NASA'S MARS ROVER REVEALS DRAMATIC NEW IMAGES (CORRECTED HEADLINE) NASA is hosting a news briefing at 11 a.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 6, to present stunning images returned by the agency's "Opportunity" rover from the Victoria crater on Mars. The briefing will be in the NASA headquarters auditorium, 300 E Street S.W., Washington. Plans ...Continue Reading
October 6th 2006 PST
Oct. 3, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237/1726 Edward Campion Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-8955 MEDIA ADVISORY: 06-157 NASA TELEPHONE CONFERENCE SCHEDULED WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER NASA hosts a telephone news briefing Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. EDT with Dr. John C. Mather, who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Mather is the first NASA civil servant scientist to be awarded this prestigious honor. Media may call toll ...Continue Reading
October 6th 2006 PST
Oct. 3, 2006 Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237/1726 Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 MEDIA ADVISORY: 06-155 NASA NEWS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER NASA is hosting a news briefing at 11 a.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 6, to present stunning images returned by the agency's "Opportunity" rover from the Victoria crater on Mars. The briefing will be in the NASA headquarters auditorium, 300 E Street S.W., Washington. Plans for the nex ...Continue Reading
October 6th 2006 PST
LiveScience.com Thursday, October 5, 2006 Video: Here’s to Your Brain Antioxidant in red wine protects against Alzheimer’s disease. Marijuana's Key Ingredient Might Fight Alzheimer's The active ingredient of marijuana could be considerably better at suppressing the abnormal clumping of malformed proteins that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's than any currently approved drugs prescribed for the treatment of the disease. Colorful Str ...Continue Reading
October 6th 2006 PST
The following sections were updated since 04 October 2006. -- FIRE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES ON BORNEO Scores of fires created a thick haze over Borneo in September and October 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13916 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Oct 05 2006 (Posted on Oct 05 2006 1:09PM) FIRES ON SUMATRA In late September and early October 2006, scores of fires were burning in southeastern Sumatra. The island's largest city, Palembang, was shrouded in haze. * http://naturalha ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PST
Oct. 4, 2006 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-158 NASA SPACE STATION COMMANDER, CREW TO TAKE A SHORT TRIP The International Space Station's residents will take a brief ride around their home on Tuesday, Oct. 10, and NASA TV will provide live coverage of the short journey. Expedition 14 Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter will shut down vi ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PST
Oct. 3, 2006 Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/1237 Dewayne Washington/Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040/7745 RELEASE: 06-327 NASA SCIENTIST JOHN C. MATHER WINS 2006 NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE The Nobel Prize Committee announced Tuesday that NASA scientist and Goddard Fellow Dr. John C. Mather is this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Mather is currently serving as senior project scientist for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope program. ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PST
SPACE.com Update for October 5, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *October 5, 2006*  *TOP STORY* *posted: October 5, 2006 11:17 am EDT* *Shadows and Silhouettes: Looking for Transits*On November 8, Mercury will transit the Sun. From ...Continue Reading
October 5th 2006 PST
Oct. 5, 2006 Debbie V. Nguyen Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 RELEASE: 06-328 NASA SEEKS UNDERGRADS TO EXPERIMENT IN LUNAR AND ZERO GRAVITY NASA is calling on college undergraduates interested in performing reduced gravity experiments onboard the agency's "Weightless Wonder" aircraft to submit their proposals by Monday, Oct. 30. The Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, has given u ...Continue Reading
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