News

August 2001

• August 6, 2001: Galileo Millennium Mission Status
• August 6, 2001: GENESIS NEXT PLANNED LAUNCH OPPORTUNITY AUG. 8
• August 3, 2001: Another Daring Adventure for Galileo
• August 3, 2001: ETNA VOLCANO: UPDATE FROM SPACE
• August 3, 2001: GENESIS NEXT PLANNED LAUNCH OPPORTUNITY AUG. 12
• August 2, 2001: SPACECRAFT TO FLY OVER SOURCE OF RECENT POLAR ERUPTION ON IO
• August 2, 2001: NEXT GENESIS LAUNCH OPPORTUNITY AUG. 3
• August 1, 2001: GENESIS LAUNCH POSTPONED AT LEAST 24 HOURS DUE TO WEATHER

July 2001

• July 31, 2001: Jason 1 satellite arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base
• July 31, 2001: Anticipating the Perseids
• July 30, 2001: NASA watches Wyoming wildfire
• July 30, 2001: LAUNCH OF GENESIS SPACECRAFT POSTPONED 24 HOURS
• July 30, 2001: Genesis L-1 Weather Forecast
• July 27, 2001: Space-Buff Volunteers Wanted as Solar System Ambassadors
• July 27, 2001: Meteorites Don't Pop Corn
• July 25, 2001: Space View Shows Two Plumes from Mt. Etna Eruption
• July 25, 2001: "CLAMS" MISSION STUDIES EAST COAST OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERE
• July 24, 2001: Launch of Sunbathing Spacecraft to be Webcast
• July 24, 2001: GENESIS SCHEDULED FOR LAUNCH JULY 30 ABOARD BOEING DELTA II
• July 23, 2001: GOES-M ENVIRONMENTAL SPACECRAFT SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED
• July 20, 2001: Happy Anniversary, Viking Lander
• July 20, 2001: PRESIDENT BUSH MARKS VIKING'S SILVER ANNIVERSARY TO THE RED PLANET
• July 20, 2001: NASA, NOAA PREPARE TO LAUNCH WEATHER SATELLITE DESIGNED TO SEE SOLAR STORMS
• July 19, 2001: A Propitious Alignment Planets
• July 18, 2001: NEW NASA SUPERCOMPUTER MODELS EARTH CLIMATE AT WARP SPEED
• July 17, 2001: NASA CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARS LANDING
• July 16, 2001: Volcano Research Erupts in Space
• July 16, 2001: Seventy-Day Jupiter Movie
• July 16, 2001: Mars Odyssey Mission Status
• July 16, 2001: GOES-M WEATHER SATELLITE LAUNCH RESCHEDULED FOR JULY 22 FROM CCAFS
• July 16, 2001: Planet Gobbling Dust Storms
• July 12, 2001: GREATER SOLAR ACTIVITY MAY BRING U.S. MORE GRAY DAYS
• July 12, 2001: NASA SCIENTIST FINDS CLUE TO POSSIBLE EVOLUTIONARY SHIFT
• July 11, 2001: Genesis Set to Catch a Piece of the Sun
• July 10, 2001: LAUNCH OF GOES-M WEATHER SATELLITE POSTPONED
• July 10, 2001: Morning Coffee and Planets
• July 9, 2001: Dust storm swallows half of Mars
• July 5, 2001: How Fast Does the World Turn? New Quantum Gyro May Tell Us
• July 3, 2001: NASA SELECTS PROPOSALS TO STUDY EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT
• July 3, 2001: Aphelion Away! Earth is far from the Sun on the 4th of July
• July 2, 2001: Mars Odyssey Mission Status
• July 2, 2001: Birdseye View of the Red, White and Blue

June

• June 29, 2001: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY AND NASA SET NEW CASSINI-HUYGENS PLAN
• June 28, 2001: El Niño Repellent?
• June 26, 2001: Catching Dust Devils on Mars
• June 26, 2001: All the World's a Stage ... for Dust
• June 25, 2001: NEW SOLAR-POWERED HYPERION ROBOT STAYS IN SYNC WITH THE SUN
• June 22, 2001: Temperature Map of Volcanic Moon Io Presents a Puzzle
• June 22, 2001: Artificial Intelligence: It's More than a Movie
• June 21, 2001: Pacific Remains Locked in Three-Year-Old Pattern
• June 21, 2001: NASA'S TERRA SATELLITE CAPTURES A WORLD OF SUNLIGHT AND HEAT
• June 21, 2001: A Close Encounter with Mars
• June 20, 2001: The First Day of Summer
• June 20, 2001: NASA SHOWS FIRST TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
• June 19, 2001: STATUS REPORT - EXPENDABLE VEHICLES AND DEPLOYABLE PAYLOADS
• June 19, 2001: LAUNCH OF HESSI SPACECRAFT POSTPONED
• June 19, 2001: Eclipse Safari
• June 18, 2001: Mobile Homes for Microbes
• June 18, 2001: MARS ODYSSEY MISSION STATUS
• June 15, 2001: Pinatubo: 10 Years After the Big One
  
• June 14, 2001: SATELLITES REVEAL HAWAII'S LONG TAIL OF WIND AND WATER
  
• June 14, 2001: MICROBES AND THE DUST THEY RIDE IN ON MAY POSE HEALTH RISK
  
• June 13, 2001: Brighter, Redder Mars to Illuminate Summer Nights
  
• June 13, 2001: NASA Selects First Mars Scout Concepts for Further Study
  
• June 12, 2001: Watching Soil Moisture from Space
  
• June 11, 2001: NASA'S JPL LICENSES TECHNOLOGY TO MAP EARTH
  
• June 7, 2001: The Biggest Explosions in the Solar System
  
• June 7, 2001: SATURN'S 'TILTED' RINGS REVEAL MYSTERIOUS COLOR VARIATIONS
  
• June 6, 2001: NASA SELECTS TWO INVESTIGATIONS FOR PLUTO-KUIPER BELT MISSION FEASIBILITY STUDIES
  
• June 4, 2001: PEGASUS/HESSI LAUNCH POSTPONED
  
• June 1, 2001: MARS MISSION UPDATE VIA WEBCAST
  
• June 1, 2001: HESSI SPACECRAFT TO STEAL EXPLOSIVE SOLAR SECRETS WITH X-RAY VISION
  

May

• May 31, 2001: JUPITER PARTICLES' ESCAPE ROUTE FOUND
  
• May 31, 2001: CRESCENTS SLICE THE DARKNESS IN "FAREWELL JUPITER" PICTURE BY CASSINI
  
• May 31, 2001: GENESIS SPACECRAFT ARRIVES IN FLORIDA FOR JULY LAUNCH
  
• May 30, 2001: NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID IS TWO CHUNKS IN ONE
  
• May 30, 2001: NASA'S MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR CAPTURES DUST STORMS
  
• May 29, 2001: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE TO COMMAND MISSION
  
• May 25, 2001: GALILEO SUCCEEDS IN ITS CLOSEST FLYBY OF A JOVIAN MOON
  
• May 24, 2001: NASA GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR DEEP IMPACT MISSION DEVELOPMENT
  
• May 24, 2001: NASA GIVES GO-AHEAD TO BUILD 'DEEP IMPACT' SPACECRAFT
  
• May 24, 2001: GALILEO MILLENNIUM MISSION STATUS
  
• May 24, 2001: NEW DUST DEVILS, DUNES & MORE FROM MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR
  

January

• January 31, 2001: Near Mission Completes Main Task, Now Will Go Where No SpaceCraft Has Gone Before
  
• January 25, 2001: NASA's IMAGE Reveals Earth's Invisible Magnetic Tail
  
• January 11, 2001: Stardust Can See Clearly Now -- Just Before Earth Flyby
  
• January 10, 2001: Chandra Links Pulsar to Historic Supernova


• January 9, 2001: NASA Researcher Validates Discovery of Planets' Gravitational "Dance"


• January 4, 2001: NASA Considers Discovery Mission Proposals

2000 NASA Press Releases

December

• December 21, 2000: NASA, NOAA Gain Unprecedented View of Angry of Solar Cycle


• December 11, 2000: Students Using NASA and NSF Data Make Stellar Discovery; Win science Team Competition


• December 7, 2000: NASA, FEMA Partner to Use Science and Space Technology for Disaster Prevention


• December 4, 2000: Evidence of Martian Land of Lakes Discovered
  

November

• November 29, 2000: Astrobiologists Find Evidence of Early Life on Land
  
• November 28, 2000: Science Team Chosen for Space Interferometry Mission
  
• November 24, 2000: NASA Astrobiology Architect, Dr. Gerald Soffen, Dies
  
• November 21, 2000: The Sky's the Limit: Science Teams Chosen for Space Observatory
  
• November 14, 2000: NASA Program Helps Brain-injured Patients Reach for the Stars
  
• November 13, 2000: Leonid Meteors Yield Rich Astrobiology Research Results
  
• November 3, 2000: NASA Cancels Miniature Rover for Joint Japan-U.S. Asteroid Mission
  
• November 3, 2000: Unique Satellite Duo on Target for Nov. 18 Launch
  
• November 2, 2000: Scientists Peer Into the Future via Supercomputer Simulations
  

October

• October 26, 2000: NASA Outlines Mars Exploration Program for Next Two Decades
  
• October 24, 2000: Spacecraft Double-team the King of the Planets
  
• October 16, 2000: Nobel Prize Laureate Appointed as Senior NASA Advisor
  
• October 4, 2000: Astrobiologists Zero in on Search for Clues to Life
  
• October 2, 2000: NASA Space Science Education Resource Directory Available Online
  

September

• September 29, 2000: NASA Creates New Enterprise Focusing on Biology
  
• September 28, 2000: NASA's Langley [Research Center] First Stop to Look at Impact Crater's "Blast from the Past"
  
• September 26, 2000: Fountains of Fire Illuminate Solar Mystery
  
• September 21, 2000: Asteroid Eros Yields Secrets from Time Before Earth Was Born
  
• September 14, 2000: Landmark Commercial Technology Agreement Gives Biotechnology Research A New Dimension
  
• September 11, 2000: Tropical Depressions Can't Hide Behind Clouds Anymore
  
• September 8, 2000: Computer Simulation Reveals Ups and Downs of Jupiter's Winds
  
• September 7, 2000: Largest-ever Ozone Hole Observed Over Antarctica
  
• September 7, 2000: SOFIA Successfully Completes Critical Design Review (or "SOFIA Makes the Grade!")

August

• August 29, 2000: New View on the Culprits of Climate Change Published
• August 25, 2000: Galileo Evidence Points to Possible Water World Under Europa's Icy Crust
• August 21, 2000: Scientists Cut through the Clouds to See the Shifting Arctic Ice
  
• August 18, 2000: Cosmic Gas Clouds Yield Puzzling Concentrations of Water (or Astronomers are Running Hot and Cold about Water in the Solar System)
  
• August 15, 2000: Deep Space 1 Spacecraft Keeps Going . . . and Going . . .
  
• August 14, 2000: African Scientists on "Safari" Mission Study African Smog/Ecosystems
  
• August 10, 2000: NASA Plans to Send Rover Twins to Mars in 2003
  
• August 7, 2000: Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet LINEAR
  
• August 1, 2000: Pacific Decadal Oscillation Packs a One-Two Punch (or The Pacific Ocean has Dramatic Mood Swings!)

July

• July 31, 2000: Flying Laboratory Begins Pacific Rim Earth Science Studies
• July 27, 2000: NASA's Two Great Observatories Keep Their "Eyes" on Comet LINEAR (or LINEAR Temporarily Loses It's Head!)
• July 27, 2000: NASA Goes Back to the Future with Plans for a Mars Rover (maybe two!!) in 2003
• July 20, 2000: A School Community Living in the Bronx Explores "Living on Mars" through Art
• July 20, 2000: NASA Scientists Detect Rapid Thinning of Greenland's Coastal Ice
• July 19, 2000: Time Travel through a Trail of Comet Dust
• July 19, 2000: Cuddling Up in a Quilt of Gamma-ray stars
• July 18, 2000: NASA Satellite Technology to Monitor Motor Vehicle Pollution
• July 13, 2000: New Cluster Mission to Provide Unprecedented Detail about Space Weather
• July 11, 2000: Chandra Captures Flare from Brown Dwarf

June

• June 22, 2000: New Images Suggest Present-Day Sources of Liquid on Mars
• June 21, 2000: Advanced Communication Satellite Ready to Serve New Millennium Space Projects
• June 19, 2000: More Accurate Space Storm Warnings Now Possible
• June 13, 2000: Back to the Garden: NASA Goes from Plants to Planets
• June 13, 2000: New Rocket Technology Could Cut Mars Travel Time