[meteorite-list] SPACE ODYSSEY 2000 FOR NASA REVIEWED
From: MARSROX_at_aol.com <MARSROX_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:37:37 2004 Message-ID: <33.e5fa0ce.277518b3_at_aol.com> --part1_33.e5fa0ce.277518b3_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here's NASA's good news for the year. I guess the sequel for these successes will be....... "2001: A Space Odyssey"! Mars, ho! (ho,ho). Happy holidays, everyone. Kevin Kichinka --part1_33.e5fa0ce.277518b3_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <owner-press-release-aol_at_lists.hq.nasa.gov> Received: from rly-yc02.mx.aol.com (rly-yc02.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.34]) by air-yc01.mail.aol.com (v77.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:37:57 -0500 Received: from spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov [198.116.65.43]) by rly-yc02.mx.aol.com (v77.27) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:37:11 1900 Received: from localhost (daemon_at_localhost) by spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA01030; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:11:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (bulk_mailer v1.5); Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:11:46 -0500 Received: (from majordom_at_localhost) by spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00911; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:11:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov: majordom set sender to owner-press-release using -f Received: (from root_at_localhost) by spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00878 for press-release-aol_at_lists.hq.nasa.gov; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:11:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:11:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200012221611.LAA00878_at_spinoza.public.hq.nasa.gov> From: NASANews_at_hq.nasa.gov Subject: SPACE ODYSSEY FOR NASA RENEWED IN 2000 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-press-release_at_lists.hq.nasa.gov To: undisclosed-recipients:; X-Mailer: Unknown Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington, DC December 22, 2000 (Phone: 202/358-1600) RELEASE: 00-198 SPACE ODYSSEY FOR NASA RENEWED IN 2000 NASA has pioneered the future for more than four decades, and the agency's achievements this past year are marked by a spirit of cooperation never-before-seen in the history of Space exploration. The dream of the first crew to live on the International Space Station is realized at a time when nations that were once separated by the Cold War are now joined in a project of discovery. The discovery in 2000 of evidence of flowing water on Mars rekindled hopes of finding life on our planetary neighbor. The images from Mars Global Surveyor also helped fuel the excitement for NASA's long-term exploration plans of the Red Planet. "We face a new frontier of possibilities and opportunities in 2001," said NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin. "NASA is about discovery and that's what we're going to do next year and for many years to come." For additional information and images from the past year, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/topten2000.html EXPEDITION ONE CREW BEGINS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ADVENTURE The arrival of the Zvezda service module cleared the way for the Expedition One crew to launch a new era in space history Oct. 31. American Commander Shepherd and his Russian crewmates, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev lifted off in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to make their new home aboard the International Space Station. http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/ EVIDENCE OF LIQUID WATER FOUND ON MARS Imaging scientists using data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor camera spacecraft found features that suggest there may be current sources of liquid water at or near the surface of the red planet. Studies of later images by Mars Global Surveyor revealed layers of sedimentary rock that paint a portrait of an early Mars filled with numerous lakes and shallow seas. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2000/marswater.html EARTH MAPPING MISSION A STUNNING SUCCESS The Space Shuttle Endeavour served as an Earth observatory early in 2000 during STS-99. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission was a breakthrough in the science of remote sensing and produced topographic maps of Earth 30 times as precise as the best global maps in use today. The information collected will help produce one of the most comprehensive and accurate maps of Earth ever assembled. http://www-radar.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ SOHO SEES TURBULENT SIDE OF THE SUN A week's advance warning of potential bad weather in space is now possible thanks to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. With a technique that uses ripples on the Sun's visible surface to probe its interior, SOHO scientists have, for the first time, imaged solar storm regions on the far side of the Sun, the side facing away from the Earth. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov NASA TECHNOLOGY MAY EASE FLIGHT DELAYS AND ENHANCE RUNWAY SAFETY The Aircraft Vortex Spacing System can predict aircraft wake turbulence on final approach, so airliners can be spaced more safely and efficiently. NASA's Runway Incursion Prevention System is designed to prevent runway incursion incidents by giving pilots and air traffic controllers earlier warnings. http://avsp.larc.nasa.gov NEAR HAS CLOSE-CALL WITH ASTEROID EROS The Shoemaker Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission became the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid Feb. 15. NEAR's close encounter with the asteroid Eros brought the spacecraft within 3 miles (5 kilometers) of the space rock. The mission returned stunning images and other data on the object, which is also known as asteroid 433. http://near.jhuapl.edu TRACE ILLUMINATES SUPERHEATED SOLAR MYSTERY Giant fountains of fast-moving, multi-million degree gas in the outermost atmosphere of the Sun revealed an important clue in Sept. to a long standing mystery - the heating source that makes the corona 300 times hotter than the Sun's visible surface. NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer captured dramatic images of the immense coils of hot, electrified gas, known as coronal loops. http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/GSFC/SpaceSci/sunearth/tracecl.htm LARGEST-EVER OZONE HOLE OBSERVED A NASA spectrometer has detected an Antarctic ozone "hole" (what scientists call an "ozone depletion area") that is three times larger than the entire land mass of the United States, nearly 11 million square miles - the largest such area ever observed. Although production of ozone-destroying gases has been curtailed under international agreements, concentrations of the gases in the stratosphere are only now reaching their peak. Researchers believe it may be many decades before the ozone hole is no longer an annual occurrence http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/TOMSmain.html BIOFEEDBACK TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED FOR VIDEO GAMES A unique interactive system developed for NASA by Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA, trains people to change their brainwave activity while playing off-the-shelf video games. This mind-over-matter technique is combined with hand-eye coordination to create video games that can actually improve your health. http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/news_rels/2000/00-063.html NASA OUTLINES TWO DECADES OF MARS EXPLORATION By means of orbiters, landers, sample return missions and next-generation super rovers, NASA revamped its campaign to explore Mars. The comprehensive exploration proposal is poised to unravel the secrets of the red planet's past environments, the history of Martian rocks, its watery legacy and possible evidence of past or present life. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ - end - * * * NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to domo_at_hq.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type the words "subscribe press-release" (no quotes). The system will reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. A second automatic message will include additional information on the service. NASA releases also are available via CompuServe using the command GO NASA. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, address an E-mail message to domo_at_hq.nasa.gov, leave the subject blank, and type only "unsubscribe press-release" (no quotes) in the body of the message. --part1_33.e5fa0ce.277518b3_boundary-- Received on Fri 22 Dec 2000 03:50:59 PM PST |
StumbleUpon del.icio.us Yahoo MyWeb |