NASA Daily News Summary For Release: Mar. 6, 2000 Media Advisory m00-43 SUMMARY NO NEWS RELEASES INTERNET RELEASE: New Images of Io and Europa from Galileo VIDEO FILE FOR MARCH 6, 2000 -------- INTERNET RELEASE: New Images of Io from Galileo See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ for images and captions. -------- VIDEO: Video File: Item 1 - MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS FROM LANDSAT-7 GSFC Item 2 - GLENN RESEARCH CENTER'S NEW BALLISTICS LAB - GRC (replay) Item 3- CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY IMAGE OF GALAXY CLUSTER ABELL 2142 - MSFC (REPLAY) Item 4- CHANDRA X-RAY TELESCOPE OPERATIONS UPDATE - MSFC (REPLAY) Item 5 - NEW IMAGES OF IO AND EUROPA FROM GALILEO ----------------------- Live Television Events This Week: March 7, Tuesday 1:00 - 2:00 pm - Live From the Storm: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Weather - GSFC (switch to NTV from TELSTAR 5, 97 degrees West Ku band, transponder 25. Downlink polarization: Vertical. Frequency: 12144.0 MHz Audio 6.2 and 6.8 ) 5:00 - 7:00 pm - KC-135 Student Campaign Live News Interviews - JSC March 9, Thursday 5:00 - 7:00 pm - KC-135 Student Campaign Live News Interviews - JSC 1:00 pm - Backside of the Sun Space Science Update - HQ March 10, Thursday 5:00 - 11:30 am - Latest Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Images Live News Interviews - GSFC March 11, Saturday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm - Kennedy Space Center Southeast Regional First Robotics Competition - KSC ***************************** NEWS RELEASES: If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e- mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list. Index of 2000 NASA News Releases: http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html Index of 1999 NASA News Releases: http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html ***************************** VIDEO: Video File for Mar. 6, 2000: Item 1 - MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS FROM LANDSAT-7 Contact: Wade Sisler 301-286-6256 David Steitz 202-358-1730 These Landsat 7 images reveal the extent of the massive flooding on the Limpopo and other rivers in southern Mozambique. The first image was captured before the flooding on August 22, 1999. The second image from March 1, 2000 shows the flooding covering over a million acres. Credit: NASA/USGS ITEM 2 - NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER'S BALLISTICS LAB - GRC (replay) Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Michael Braukus (Phone 202/358-1979). Contact at NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH: Pam Caswell (Phone 216/433-5795). ITEM 2a - FACILITY DESCRIPTION----------------------------TRT 2:06 B-roll shows the facility's gas gun, its pressure vessel and the target area. Researcher Michael Pereira talks about target and projectile materials during a staff open house. Also shows shots of damaged plates after tests. ITEM 2b - PREPARING FOR A TEST----------------------------TRT :51 B-roll shows staff preparing for a shot. The pressure chamber is sealed, cameras setup and calibrated, and safety precautions taken. ITEM 2c - TEST FOOTAGE------------------------------------TRT 2:09 B-roll shows a carbon-epoxy composite pellet striking a metal plate; another pellet piercing a plate and travelling into a water tank; a "hockey puck" projectile cutting the ribbon the at the facility's open house; and a simulated blade striking and breaking through a candidate engine housing containment ring. Events are shown in slow and ultra slow motion. ITEM 2d - INTERVIEW EXCERPTS------------------------------TRT 1:56 Dale Hopkins, Structures Engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH. ITEM 3 - CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY IMAGE-(replay)---------TRT :15 OF GALAXY CLUSTER ABELL 2142 - MSFC The image shows a colossal cosmic weather system produced by the collision of two giant clusters of galaxies. For the first time, the pressure fronts in the system can be traced in detail, and they show a bright, but relatively cool 50 million degree central region (white) embedded in large elongated cloud of 70 million degree gas (magenta), all of which is roiling in a faint atmosphere of 100 million degree gas (faint magenta and dark blue). The bright source in the upper left is an active galaxy in the cluster. Abell 2142 is six million light years across and contains hundreds of galaxies and enough gas to make a thousand more. It is one of the most massive objects in the universe. Galaxy clusters grow to vast sizes as smaller clusters are pulled inward under the influence of gravity. Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage (Phone 202/358-1547). Contact at Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA: Dr. Wallace Tucker (Phone 617/496-7998). ITEMS 4- CHANDRA X-RAY TELESCOPE OPERATIONS UPDATE - MSFC (replay) Contact at Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL: Steve Roy (Phone 205/544-0034). ITEM 4a - CHANDRA EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS------------------TRT 6:15 The worldıs most powerful telescope, Chandra, is exceeding expectations in search of the mysteries of the universe. Chandra has been in orbit for six months, and is revealing much new information about black holes, exploding stars, hot gases, and powerful galactic winds. Video sequences: 1 - Chandra Animation 2 - M-82 Starburst Galaxy Animation 3 - Launch 4 - Operations Control Center (OCC) in Cambridge, MA 5 - Chandra Deployment 6 - Chandra Images ITEM 4b - INTERVIEW EXCERPTS------------------------------TRT 3:40 Marty Weisskopf, Chief Scientist, Chandra Program, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL. Item 5 - NEW IMAGES OF IO AND EUROPA FROM GALILEO See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ for images and captions. ---------------- Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN. ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY. The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and midnight Eastern Time. NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0 megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz. 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