Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: NEW NASA FACILITY WILL COMPLETE WORLDWIDE COMMUNICATIONS COVERAGE
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Jennifer McCarter
Headquarters, Washington, DC July 13, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-1639)
Susan Hendrix
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-7745)
RELEASE: 98-122
NEW NASA FACILITY WILL COMPLETE
WORLDWIDE COMMUNICATIONS COVERAGE
Guam Island will be the site for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on
July 15, 1998, to officially open a new terminal that will
effectively complete NASA's vital communications and data-
gathering support for NASA Earth-orbiting missions.
Providing global, full-time and real-time communications
support for NASA's Space Network customers, including the Space
Shuttle, International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope,
the new ground terminal will be capable of communicating with
geosynchronous tracking and data relay satellites stationed out of
view of the existing Cacique and Danzante ground stations in White
Sands, NM. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD,
manages the overall system.
"NASA built the Guam ground station to significantly expand
the quantity and quality of services we provide to all our
customers," said Goddard's ground terminal project manager, Tom
Gitlin. Cost of funding the Guam station will be provided by
NASA's Space Network operations budget and mitigated in part by
the deactivation of the Canberra station.
The Guam Remote Ground Terminal was conceived after NASA's
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory suffered an onboard tape recorder
failure in March 1992, and required full-time, real-time
communications support. NASA established a limited capability
ground terminal in Canberra, Australia, in late 1993 to provide
continued support for the observatory's science mission. Goddard
project officials quickly realized that an enhanced ground station
was needed in the Pacific to better serve NASA's Space Network
customers who traverse the Indian Ocean area.
For more information, refer to NASA's Network Control Center
homepage on the Internet at: http://ncc.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: NASA ESTABLISHES NEAR-EARTH OBJECT PROGRAM OFFICE AT JET PROPULSION LA
Subject: NASA ESTABLISHES NEAR-EARTH OBJECT PROGRAM OFFICE AT JET PROPULSION LA
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Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC July 14, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-1727)
Mary Beth Murrill
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 818/354-5011)
RELEASE: 98-123
NASA ESTABLISHES NEAR-EARTH OBJECT
PROGRAM OFFICE AT JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
A new program office to coordinate NASA-sponsored efforts
to detect, track and characterize potentially hazardous asteroids
and comets that could approach Earth will be established at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA.
NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office will focus on the
goal of locating at least 90 percent of the estimated 2,000
asteroids and comets that approach the Earth and are larger than
about 2/3-mile (about 1 kilometer) in diameter, by the end of the
next decade.
"These are objects that are difficult to detect because of
their relatively small size, but are large enough to cause global
effects if one hit the Earth," said Dr. Donald K. Yeomans of JPL,
who will head the new program office. "Finding a majority of this
population will require the efforts of researchers at several NASA
centers, at universities and at observatories across the country,
and will require the participation by the international astronomy
community as well."
"We determined that, in order to achieve our goals, we need
a more formal focusing of our near-Earth object tracking efforts
and related communications with the supporting research
community," said Dr. B. Carl Pilcher, science director for Solar
System Exploration in NASA's Office of Space Science, NASA
Headquarters. "I want to emphasize that science research
solicitations and resulting peer reviews, international
coordination, and strategic planning regarding future missions
will remain the responsibilities of NASA Headquarters."
In addition to managing the detection and cataloging of
near-Earth objects, the new NASA office will be responsible for
facilitating communications between the astronomical community and
the public should any potentially hazardous objects be discovered
as a result of the program, Pilcher said.
JPL was selected to host the program office because of its
expertise in precisely tracking the positions and predicted paths
of asteroids and comets. No significant additional staff hiring
at JPL is expected at this time.
A fact sheet describing NASA's research and spacecraft
missions related to asteroids and comets is available on the
Internet at the following address:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-023-HQ.htm
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Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: SPACE FLIGHT, AVIATION PROGRAMS RECEIVE NASA SOFTWARE AWARD
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Brian Dunbar
Headquarters, Washington, DC July 15, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-0873)
RELEASE: 98-124
SPACE FLIGHT, AVIATION PROGRAMS RECEIVE NASA SOFTWARE AWARD
NASA has chosen a computer program designed to remotely
control Space Station experiments through the Internet and one
designed to improve air traffic control as winners of the Agency's
1998 Software of the Year Award.
Lee B. Holcomb, NASA Chief Information Officer, and Dr. Daniel
R. Mulville, NASA Chief Engineer and Chair of NASA's Inventions and
Contributions Board, selected the winners. The award is given
annually by the Inventions and Contributions Board to NASA-
developed software that has significantly enhanced the Agency's
performance of its mission and helped American industry maintain
its world-class technology status.
One program, called Tempest, was originally developed to
support the science experiments on the International Space Station.
The commercial quality software is fully documented, installs
simply and uses standard World Wide Web browsers to let users
operate the experiments. Tempest is considered to be breakthrough
and enabling technology, which has spawned new markets and will
continue to do so. A study performed for NASA estimated that an
extensive commercial market is likely to develop for Web-embedded
remote control mechanisms, especially in the automotive, consumer
electronics, office products and medical industries.
Tempest was written by Maria Babula, Lisa Lambert, Joseph
Ponyik and David York of NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland,
OH, and Richard A. Tyo, Intel Corp.
The second winner, Center TRACON Automation System Software,
is a set of three software tools for managing air traffic control
systems at major airports. Designed to optimize flight operations,
the software analyzes and predicts aircraft paths, creating visual
representations of the flow of arriving traffic. It also provides
controllers up-to-the second advisories of information to pass on
to pilots that will reduce time between landings to the minimum
possible.
The software has been integrated into the existing radar
system at Dallas/Ft. Worth airport. Software displays in the
control room supplement the manual air traffic control system. Use
of the program saves an average of two minutes per flight, in turn
saving money for the airlines and passengers. The Federal Aviation
Administration has chosen Center TRACON for immediate
implementation into all major airports and estimated its use could
save airports as much as $800 million annually.
Center TRACON Automation System Software was written by
Michelle Eshow and a team of 37 others at NASA's Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, CA.
NASA will grant the awards at a special ceremony at the
Technology 2008 Conference to be held in Boston, MA, on Nov. 3-5,
1998. The list of winners can be found on the Internet at the URL:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codei/swy98win.html
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Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: Three New Teams File Notices Of Intent For Proposals On NEAP
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Jim Benson Shirley Thompson, President
CEO Mike Trueblood, Account Executive
SpaceDev, Inc. Carl Thompson Associates, Inc.
(619) 684-3570 (800) 665-4200
SpaceDev Reports Three New Teams File Notices of Intent for Proposals on
Near Earth Asteroid Prospector
Notices filed under NASA's MIDEX program, adding to those filed under
Discovery
San Diego, CA -- SpaceDev (OTC BB: SPDV), the world's first commercial
space exploration company, reported today that three principal
investigators filed Notices of Intent (NOI) with NASA for funding under
the Agency's Medium-class Explorers (MIDEX) Announcement of Opportunity.
These notices make them eligible to submit formal proposals for funding
the purchase of insured rides for their instruments on SpaceDev's Near
Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) mission.
"We are thrilled to have these three highly respected teams demonstrate
their interest in submitting proposals for funding under the MIDEX
program," said Jim Benson, SpaceDev CEO.
The science teams include the University of Iowa, the University of
California at Berkeley and Southwest Research Institute.
The NOI is the first formal step in a process that could result in
government funding for specific experiments or instruments to be carried
on NEAP, currently scheduled for launch in October 2000.
"Once again, we have been impressed by the degree of support our mission
is finding within our customer base, the scientific community. Such
response reinforces our belief that there is serious demand for
inexpensive scientific data collected from space. We fully intend to
capitalize on, and even fuel, this demand by producing high quality
science at the lowest current cost."
SpaceDev's commercial price list places the cost of rides for science
experiments or technology demonstrations at $10 or $12 million each,
depending on the type of ride purchased. Mr. Benson noted that the
filing of an NOI does not automatically result in a proposal to NASA,
and does not guarantee funding for any of the investigations proposed.
"As we have noted in the past, SpaceDev is responding directly and
substantively to the White House National Space Policy and to Congress
and NASA's call for 'cheaper, better, faster,' space access via the
private sector," said Benson.
The following is the list of principal investigators who filed Notices
of Intent, and their respective mission objectives:
Dr. Louis A. Frank, University of Iowa. Mission: Investigate and
monitor the ambient plasma environment of the asteroid and monitor solar
wind plasmas in an effort to identify evidence of asteroid-plasma
interactions.
Dr. Kevin C. Hurley, University of California at Berkeley. Mission:
Detect and localize gamma-ray bursts and rapidly communicate that
information to ground-based observers.
Dr. S. Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute. Mission: Conduct
observations of the interaction between solar wind and the moon's
atmosphere, or use an ultra violet photometer to search for surface ice
on the moon.
SpaceDev, the world's first commercial space exploration and development
company, intends to launch the first privately financed spacecraft to
land on another planetary body. SpaceDev is selling rides for scientific
instruments to governments and companies to transport their instruments
and experiments through deep space to a near earth asteroid. SpaceDev
intends to sell the data acquired by its instruments as commercial
products. Colorado-based SpaceDev has offices in San Diego, CA and
Washington, D.C.
Except for historical financial information contained herein, the
matters set forth in this release are forward-looking statements that are
dependent on certain risks and uncertainties including but not limited
to, such factors as market demand, pricing, and changes in worldwide
economic conditions.
Note: News releases and other information on SpaceDev can be accessed
at http://www.SpaceDev.com or http://www.ctaonline.com/spdv on the
Internet.
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Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: New TOPEX/Poseidon Satellite Image Shows Pacific Stabilizing
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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Contact: Mary Hardin (818) 354-0344
INTERNET ADVISORY July 16, 1998
NEW TOPEX/POSEIDON SATELLITE IMAGE SHOWS PACIFIC STABLIZING
The most recent measurements of sea surface height by the
TOPEX/Poseidon satellite suggests that the location of a pool of
cold water in the central tropical Pacific Ocean has changed very
little since mid-June.
The image shows sea surface height on July 11, 1998,
relative to normal ocean conditions. Sea surface height is an
indicator of the heat content of the ocean; the pool of cold
water in the Pacific is detected by the satellite as a region of
lower than normal sea level. Such measurements have provided
scientists with a detailed view of how the 1997-98 El Nino
behaves because the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite measures the
changing sea surface height with unprecedented precision. It is
not certain yet if the current cooling trend will eventually
evolve into a long-lasting La Nina situation.
A La Nina situation is essentially the opposite of an El
Nino condition, where the trade winds are stronger than normal
and the cold water that normally exists along the coast of South
America extends to the central equatorial Pacific. Like El Nino,
a La Nina situation also changes global weather patterns, and is
associated with less moisture in the air resulting in less rain
along the coasts of North and South America. TOPEX/Poseidon will
be able to track a potentially developing La Nina with the same
accuracy.
The July 11 image is now available online at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/elnino
The U.S./French TOPEX/Poseidon mission is managed by NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
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Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: Discovery Of A New Population Of Distant Galaxies Obscured By Dust
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University of Hawaii
University Relations
Media & Publications
Honolulu, HI 96822
Telephone: (808) 956-8856
Facsimile: (808) 956-3441
E-Mail: ur@hawaii.edu
CONTACT NUMBERS:
Amy Barger (University of Hawaii), barger@ifa.hawaii.edu, (808)-956-8306
Lennox Cowie (University of Hawaii), cowie@ifa.hawaii.edu, (808)-956-8134
Dave Sanders (University of Hawaii), sanders@ifa.hawaii.edu, (808)-956-5055
PRESS RELEASE: Embargoed until July 15, 1998, 2pm, EDT
THE HIDDEN UNIVERSE REVEALED: THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW POPULATION OF
DISTANT STAR FORMING GALAXIES OBSCURED BY DUST
A team of American and Japanese astronomers has detected a population
of distant, dusty galaxies which are radiating roughly the same amount
of stellar energy as the entire optical Universe. The astronomers Amy
Barger, Lennox Cowie, David Sanders, Eliza Fulton (University of
Hawaii), Yoshi Taniguchi (Tohoku University, Japan), Yasu Sato,
Haruyuki Okuda (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan),
and Kimiaki Kawara (University of Tokyo, Japan) announced their
discovery in the July 16 issue of the internationally renowned journal
Nature. A parallel study of a smaller area around the well known
Hubble Deep Field performed by a British group led by David Hughes
(University of Edinburgh) appears in the same issue of Nature and
reaches broadly similar conclusions.
These results are important because they suggest that much of the star
formation occurring in the distant Universe may be hidden to visual
observations from ground-based observatories and the Hubble Space
Telescope.
''The recent submillimeter observations have opened an exciting new
era in cosmological exploration comparable to that which occurred with
the restoration of image quality with the Hubble Space Telescope,''
said Richard Ellis, Director of the Institute of Astronomy at the
University of Cambridge in the UK. ''The pioneering deep exposures
conducted by groups in Hawaii, the UK, and Canada have shown the
importance of studying galaxies at large look-back times at
wavelengths other than simply the traditional optical and infrared
regions. Understanding this new population is essential in order to
obtain a comprehensive picture of cosmic galaxy formation.''
Dust in galaxies absorbs starlight emitted at visible wavelengths by
hot young stars and reradiates it at much longer wavelengths. In very
dusty galaxies most of the light emitted by stars in the visible may
be reradiated into the far-infrared. For galaxies at large distances
this light is further ''redshifted'' by the expansion of the Universe
to wavelengths slightly less than a millimeter. For comparison, the
wavelength of visible light is about 1000 times shorter than one
millimeter. Thus, dust-enshrouded galaxies that may be obscured or
even invisible in the optical can be detected in the submillimeter.
The astronomers performed a deep survey of two blank regions of sky
using a revolutionary new instrument on the 15-meter diameter James
Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) atop the dormant volcano Mauna Kea on
the Big Island of Hawaii. The JCMT is jointly owned and operated by
the United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands and is the largest
telescope in the world that can observe submillimeter radiation. The
instrument is a camera called SCUBA (Submillimeter Common User
Bolometer Array), built by the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh (now the
UK Astronomical Technology Centre). The supercooled detectors used in
SCUBA measure heat emission from small dust particles, enabling
astronomers to map a region of sky at submillimeter wavelengths. The
Hawaii-Japanese observation of the heavily studied field ''SSA13'' is
the longest exposure (51 hours) which has yet been made with this
instrument.
''SCUBA has produced a true revolution in submillimeter astronomy, and
it is just fabulous to see the new fields that are opening up from
planets around nearby stars to the tremendously exciting cosmological
studies that are really opening up our view of the early Universe,''
said Ian Robson, Director of the Joint Astronomy Centre, the
operational headquarters for the JCMT and the United Kingdom Infrared
Telescope.
The dusty galaxies discovered by the research team are forming stars
at rates that are extremely high, a factor of 10 to 100 times higher
than the rates of star formation in most optical sources. The detected
submillimeter sources are less numerous than optically-observed
sources, but in total radiate as much or more energy.
The only objects in the local Universe which have characteristics
similar to those of the distant submillimeter sources are the
''ultraluminous infrared galaxies'' which were one of the major
discoveries of the IRAS satellite. The infrared light emitted by these
objects is produced by reradiation from dust, which has been heated by
stars formed in an intense starburst and by the active galactic nuclei
in these galaxies. The ultraluminous infrared galaxies are often
formed by a strong merger between two gas-rich galaxies, and it is
possible that the submillimeter sources at high redshift may be
galaxies in the process of formation through the merger of smaller
pieces.
The discovery of the submillimeter sources may require a major
revision in deductions about the epoch of peak star formation
activity. Optical surveys have concluded that star formation in the
Universe peaked at a time when the Universe was already about
three-quarters of its present age. However, it now appears that these
surveys have missed an entire population of rapidly star forming
galaxies, which may be located at greater distances and hence earlier
times. A combination of both optical and submillimeter observations
will be necessary to accurately trace the global star formation rate
back to the time when primordial galaxies first assembled. The
detection of galaxies in this submillimeter survey has opened up a new
frontier for the exploration of the distant Universe.
MORE INFORMATION:
The SCUBA maps and related information can be found at the following URL:
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~cowie/scuba/scuba_int.html
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Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: LEADING SCIENTISTS MEET TO MAP OUT ASTROBIOLOGY STRATEGY
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Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC July 16, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-1727)
Kathy Burton
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
(Phone: 650/604-1731)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N98-46
LEADING SCIENTISTS MEET TO MAP OUT ASTROBIOLOGY STRATEGY
Leading scientists from around the world will meet next week
in a critical first step in planning NASA's emerging astrobiology
program. In a three-day "roadmapping" session, participants will
discuss development of a five-year strategic plan for astrobiology
research, next-generation missions and technology requirements.
The goal of the workshop is to provide direction and set the
tone for astrobiology research and its impact on NASA's missions,
both in the near term and looking ahead to the year 2020.
Astrobiology is the search for the origin, evolution and destiny
of life in the universe. It involves research to gain
understanding of the origins of life in the universe, the
formation and evolution of habitable worlds, life's evolution and
the biogeochemical cycles in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere,
and the potential for biological evolution beyond an organism's
planet of origin.
The roadmap team will define top-level mission and technology
requirements to achieve astrobiology science goals and map these
requirements onto NASA's future missions and technology
development programs. Topics for discussion include life's
molecular roots, the cosmic context for life, the origin of
terrestrial life and the prospects for life beyond the planet of
origin.
The three-day planning workshop will be held July 20-22,
1998, at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. Media
representatives are invited to attend the workshop's opening
sessions, which run from 8:30 a.m. until approximately 1:00 p.m.
PDT on July 20 in the Moffett Training and Conference Center
(Building 3). Contact the Ames Public Affairs Office at 650/604-
1731 for media access information.
"Future Shock" author Alvin Toffler will lead a dialogue
about the "fourth wave" and astrobiology. Other speakers will
include Michael Meyer, astrobiology discipline scientist; Henry
McDonald, Ames center director; David Morrison, Ames director of
space; and Scott Hubbard, interim manager of the NASA Astrobiology
Institute based at Ames.
Workshop attendees will include top multidisciplinary
researchers from around the nation, including Nobel laureates Dr.
Walter Gilbert of Harvard University and Dr. Stanley N. Cohen of
the Stanford University School of Medicine. Other attendees will
include National Academy of Science members and representatives
from leading research institutions and universities. Represented
disciplines will range from astronomy and astrophysics, to
biology, chemistry and planetary geology. Scientists in all
fields are working toward the common goal of discovering the role
of life in the universe.
Members of NASA's recently formed virtual Astrobiology
Institute will participate in this exercise. This highly
interdisciplinary group comes from 11 selected institutions which
include: Arizona State University; Carnegie Institution; Harvard
University; Pennsylvania State University; Scripps Research
Institute; the University of Colorado; the University of
California, Los Angeles; Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory;
Ames; and NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, and Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
Information about astrobiology at Ames can be found on the
world wide web at:
http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/
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Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: NASA SATELLITE S EDS NEW LIG T ON T E LA NINA P ENOMENON
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David E. Steitz
eadquarters, Washington, DC July 16, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-1730)
Allen Kenitzer
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-2806)
RELEASE: 98-126
NASA SATELLITE SEDS NEW LIGT ON TE LA NINA PENOMENON
Research scientists using data from the recently launched
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, a joint
U.S/Japanese mission, are shedding new light on the phenomenon
known as La Nina. TRMM research team members have successfully
retrieved sea-surface temperature data from the TRMM Microwave
Imager (TMI) instrument onboard the spacecraft.
This temperature data is giving scientists new insight into
the complex evolution of the La Nina event -- the TMI is the only
spaceborne microwave instrument observing sea-surface temperature
in the tropics. The images show changes in sea-surface
temperature, and ocean current movement and the dissipation of El
Nino. While it is too early to draw definite conclusions, the
results to date appear to confirm the onset of La Nina type
conditions.
"TMI is an all-weather measuring instrument that can see
through clouds," said Dr. David Adamec, oceanographer at the
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. "The standard
instrument (infrared radiometer), used to measure sea-surface
temperature, must contend with clouds and atmospheric aerosols.
Clouds block the flow of data, yet an uninterrupted consistent
data stream is crucial for long-term climate study."
La Nina is essentially the opposite of the El Nino phenomenon
and is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the
equatorial Pacific, as compared to El Nino, where ocean
temperatures are warmer than normal. La Nina and El Nino often
are spoken of together and termed the El Nino/Southern
Oscillations, or "ENSO." La Nina sometimes is referred to as the
cold phase of the ENSO.
At the EarthХs surface, La Nina effects on the world's
climate tend to be opposite those of El Nino. At higher
latitudes, El Nino and La Nina are just two of several factors
that influence climate. owever, the impacts of El Nino and La
Nina at higher latitudes are most clearly seen in winter. During
a typical La Nina year, winter temperatures are warmer than normal
in the Southeast and cooler in the Northwest.
Knowledge of La Nina is not as mature as that for El Nino.
For example, every strong El Nino is not necessarily followed by a
La Nina. Scientists at Goddard are performing advanced studies of
El Nino and La Nina through information obtained from satellites
in space and instruments in the oceans.
Acquiring quality sea-surface temperature data via a
microwave scanner has been a long-term aspiration among
oceanographers for more than a decade, when the last microwave
imager ceased operations. In addition, none of the previously
existing microwave scanners had the capability of the TRMM
Microwave Imager. Ideally, this information will be used for the
improvement of weather forecasting, anomalous weather study, and a
better understanding of ocean current alteration.
Several NASA missions study the effects of El Nino and La
Nina with orbiting satellites. The joint U.S.-French
TOPEX/Poseidon satellite measures sea surface height; the Sea-
Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) measures ocean color;
and TRMM measures precipitation and sea-surface temperature. The
Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Array consists of nearly 70 moored buoys
in the tropical Pacific designed by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The devices take real-time
measurements of air temperature, relative humidity, surface winds,
sea surface temperatures and subsurface temperatures down to a
depth of 500 meters. Data from these moored buoys is processed by
NOAA and then made available to scientists.
The TRMM Microwave Imager instrument was provided by NASA.
TRMM was developed jointly by NASA and NASDA and launched last
November from NASDA's Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.
This La Nina research is part of NASA's Earth Science
Enterprise, a long-term research program designed to study the
Earth's land, oceans, air, ice and life as a total system.
Images on this research are available at URL:
http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/TRMM
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Дата: 17 июля 1998 (1998-07-17)
От: Alexander Bondugin
Тема: NASA PRODUCES THIRD VOLUME OF "EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN"
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Ray Castillo
Headquarters, Washington, DC July 16, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-4555)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N98-47
NASA PRODUCES THIRD VOLUME OF "EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN "
Today, NASA unveils Exploring the Unknown: Selected
Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume
3: Using Space, edited by John M. Logsdon, with Roger D. Launius,
David H. Onkst, and Steven J. Garber.
Exploring the Unknown is an essential reference series for
anyone interested in the history of the U.S. civil space program
and its development over time. Using Space is the third book in
the six volume series that contains a selection of key documents,
many of which are available for the first time, and provides
insight into the U.S. civil space program. The three major
sections of this book -- History of Satellite Communications,
Observing the Earth from Space, and Space as an Investment in
Economic Growth -- include essays and critical documents in the
history of space flight. Further, each document is introduced by
a headnote to provide context, bibliographic details, and
background information to enlighten the reader as necessary.
The first two volumes of the Exploring the Universe series
are: Organizing for Exploration and External Relationships. The
three future volumes will trace the evolution of space
transportation, human space flight, and space science.
John M. Logsdon, Director of the Space Policy Institute at
the George Washington University, will be signing the new book
this evening, from 5:30 - 7:00 pm, in the NASA Headquarters
Library. NASA Headquarters is located at the corner of 4th and E
Streets, SW, in Washington, DC. Any reporter wishing to attend
the book signing or to obtain a copy of the book should contact
NASA Senior Historian Roger Launius at 202/358-0383.
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