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NASA Announces Competitive Grant Programs

baa...@earthlink.net — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:17:27 UT

July 18, 2008
Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1761
sonja.r.alexan...@nasa.gov
RELEASE: 08-180
NASA ANNOUNCES COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAMS
WASHINGTON -- NASA's Office of Education at headquarters in
Washington
has announced three new extramural funding opportunities that could
result in the award of grants or cooperative agreements.

Cassini Update - July 18, 2008

baa...@earthlink.net — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:11:35 UT

Cassini Significant Events
for 07/09/08 - 07/15/08
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on July 15 from the
DSN tracking complex at Goldstone, California. The Cassini spacecraft
is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating
normally. Information on the present position and speed of the

Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests with Rasp

baa...@earthlink.net — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:16:48 UT

[link]
Nasa's Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests with Rasp
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 18, 2008
TUCSON, Ariz. -- The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans
to
tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized
rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.

Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: July 14-18, 2008

baa...@earthlink.net — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:20:53 UT

MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES
July 14-18, 2008
o THEMIS ART #89 (Released 14 July 2008)
[link]
o THEMIS ART #90 (Released 15 July 2008)
[link]
o THEMIS ART #91 (Released 16 July 2008)
[link]
o THEMIS ART #92 (Released 17 July 2008)

Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint Statement

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:35:26 UT

July 17, 2008
David Mould/Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600/1979
david.r.mo...@nasa.gov, michael.j.brau...@nasa.gov
RELEASE: 08-178
HEADS OF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION JOINT STATEMENT
PARIS -- The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies
from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met at

MRO HiRISE Images - July 16, 2008

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:38:14 UT

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
July 16, 2008
o Mystery Mounds
[link]
o Layering and Inverted Streams
[link]
o Cratered Cones in Utopia Planitia u
[link]
o Layered Rocks in Orson Welles Crater

Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:32:46 UT

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Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 17, 2008
A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an
unprecedented
view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered
together in Jupiter's atmosphere. The images were taken by the Wide

3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:28:05 UT

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3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 17, 2008
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian
surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery
<[link]> combine views from

NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:30:38 UT

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NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 17, 2008
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video
of
the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the
spacecraft's point of view 50 million kilometers (31 million miles)

NASA Names Strain New Goddard Space Flight Center Director

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:36:12 UT

July 17, 2008
David Mould/Jason S. Sharp
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600/5213
david.r.mo...@nasa.gov, jason.s.sh...@nasa.gov
Mark Hess
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-6255
mark.s.h...@nasa.gov
RELEASE: 08-179
NASA NAMES STRAIN NEW GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER DIRECTOR
WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Thursday

Closing in on Venus (Forwarded)

a...@nova.astro.utoronto.ca (Andrew Yee) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:40:52 UT

ESA News
[link]
17 July 2008
Closing in on Venus
Starting this week, spacecraft controllers have been executing a series
of manoeuvres to gradually bring Venus Express closer to its host
planet. In its modified orbit, the spacecraft will be able to observe
unexplored regions and investigate phenomena that were not within its

A New Way to Weigh Giant Black Holes (Forwarded)

a...@nova.astro.utoronto.ca (Andrew Yee) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:49:26 UT

Jennifer Morcone
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. July 16, 2008
256-544-0034
Megan Watzke
Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass.
617-496-7998
News release: 08-086
A New Way to Weigh Giant Black Holes
How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now
comes from a completely new and independent technique that astronomers have

First Hubble Flight Hardware Arrives At Kennedy For STS-125

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:26:12 UT

July 16, 2008
George Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
george.h.dil...@nasa.gov
Susan Hendrix
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-7745
susan.m.hend...@nasa.gov
RELEASE: 13-08
FIRST HUBBLE FLIGHT HARDWARE ARRIVES AT KENNEDY FOR STS-125
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The first major flight hardware for the fifth

MRO Spacecraft Shows Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:21:54 UT

July 16, 2008
Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.br...@nasa.gov
Guy Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-5011
guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov
Jennifer Huergo
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md.
240- 228-5618
jennifer.Hue...@jhuapl.edu

Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample

baa...@earthlink.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:17:39 UT

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Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
July 16, 2008
TUCSON, Ariz. -- A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop
of
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil
and
loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.