Jan. 11, 2007 Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/3895 Michael Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-004 NASA BRIEFING TO PREVIEW JUPITER FLYBY OF PLUTO MISSION WASHINGTON - NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 18, to preview the flight of the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St., S.W., ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for January 11, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *January 11, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: January 11, 2007 11:17 am EDT* *Eavesdropping on ET Sooner Than We Think*On Wednesday, January 10, here at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Seattle, theorist Dr. Avi Loeb from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics led a pr ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Thursday, January 11, 2007 World's Largest Flower Finally Finds Home The heavyweight of the flower world never fit in with the other plants, until now. Scientists found the basketball-size bloom belongs to a plant family made up mostly of teeny blossoms. New Meth Coffee is Super-Caffeinated An edgily-named coffee company based in San Francisco, opened for business yesterday with its own special brew of super-caffeinated coffee. Higher Education Linked to Fas ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2007 Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/3895 Cynthia O'Carroll/Rani Gran Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-4647/2483 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-003 NASA MEDIA BRIEFING ON MISSION TO STUDY AURORAS GREENBELT, Md. - NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 1 p.m. EST. THEMIS consists of five identical probes that will study the violent colorful erup ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 RELEASE: 07-04 PANEL WILL STUDY MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR EVENTS WASHINGTON - NASA has formed an internal review board to look more indepth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November 2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase safety for other spacecraft. Mars Global Surveyor launched in 1996 on a mission designed to study Mars from orbit fo ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Diet Strategies That Really Work Enough with the dieting advice. Here is what actually worked for 99 percent of 5,000 people who lost weight and kept off at least 30 pounds of it. In a Vast Sea, How Fish Find Home Ocean currents can whisk tiny larval fish a long way from home. Turns out, the little ones follow their noses back to their native reefs. Record Warm Year for U.S. in 2006 The average annual temperature for the contiguous ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for January 10, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *January 10, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: January 10, 2007 04:21 pm EDT* *Phoenix Mars Lander: The Search For A Safe Haven*As NASA prepares its Mars Phoenix spacecraft for an August launch, program officials are still trying to find a suitable landing site.Read More   ...Continue Reading

------------------------------------- Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007 NASA UPDATE SCHEDULED THURSDAY Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Jan. 11, 1 p.m., auditorium NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will host a NASA Update to discuss the year ahead for the agency. This all-hands meeting for NASA employees will be broadcast live on NASA Television and webcast on the agency's home page. Headquarters employees are invited to attend the program in the auditorium. You may also watch the update on N ...Continue Reading

Comet McNaught Viewing Alert - January 10 - Starry NIght Version Subject: Starry Night Viewing Alert - Catch Comet McNaught Now! Newly discovered Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) is brightening, and this evening may be the best opportunity to catch a glimpse of it. Some observers are claiming it?s one of the brightest comets in recent years. The keys for a successful observation are clear skies, an unobstructed view of the horizon to the west-southwest, binoculars or telescopes and, of course, knowing exactly when and w ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 08 January 2007. -- DUST AND SMOKE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- BODELE DEPRESSION DUST STORM On January 2, 2007, another winter dust storm whipped dust from the Bodele Depression across Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14062 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 06 2007 (Posted on Jan 08 2007 11:57AM) -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- NORTHERN AFRICA FIRE SEASON Hundreds of active fires dot the Sahel and savan ...Continue Reading