NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Mar. 7, 2000

Media Advisory m00-44

SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES:

SOHO SEES THROUGH THE SUN TO FIND STORMY REGIONS ON THE OTHER SIDE

VIDEO:

VIDEO FILE:
ITEM 1 - MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS FROM LANDSAT-7 - GSFC (replay)
ITEM 2 - IMAGES OF EUROPA AND IO - WEB RELEASE ON 3/6/00 (replay)

NEW MARS IMAGES AND LIVE INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES ABOUT MARS ON

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK

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VIDEO PRODUCERS NOTE: NEW MARS IMAGES ON FRIDAY:

TAKE A 3-D TOUR OF A MYSTERIOUS, HIDDEN MARS
--"Don't wait for the Movie"

On Friday, as Hollywood launches millions of moviegoers on a

fictional adventure to Mars, NASA will release striking new 3-D
images of the real Mars. The new images allow scientists to look
beneath the surface of Mars and provide a window into Mars'
geologic past--a window that reveals tantalizing clues into the
evolution of some of the most puzzling surface features of any
planet in our solar system.

Planetary Scientist Dr. Jim Garvin will be available to discuss

the images Friday, March 10, from 6:00 - 11:00 a.m. EST. The
interviews come to you from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, MD.

Ask Jim about the 3-D images:

- Mission to Mars is another in a long series of Mars movies.

What do you think is behind public's fascination with Mars?
(Video: 3-D Flyover Mars Montage of Valleys, Mars Surface)

- What excites Scientists at NASA about studying Mars? (Video:

Polar Caps)

- How do the most recent images allow scientists to see inside the
red planet? (Video: Mars Window)

- What do the new images say about Mars' early past? (Video:
Inside Mars)
- Why are scientists interested in finding water on Mars? (Video:
Mars B-Roll)

- How are the 3-D Images Created? (Video: 3-D Flyover)

Book a window: Deanna Corridon (301-286-0041;

corridon@pop100.gsfc.nasa.gov) or Wade Sisler 301-286-6256, 888-
474-0914 pager, wsisler@pop100.gsfc.nasa.gov). Basic window is
four minutes long with a one-minute transition.

Roll-ins/B-roll: It is recommended that we roll the short video

sequences for you so our talent can see and talk to the visuals.
We will also uplink B-roll at 5:50 a.m. EST on Friday, March 10.

NASA-TV: The interview will take place on NASA-TV. 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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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

March 10, Thursday

5:00 - 11:30 am - Latest Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA)

Images Live News Interviews - GSFC

1:00 pm - Backside of the Sun Space Science Update - HQ

March 11, Saturday

8:00 am - 5:00 pm - Kennedy Space Center Southeast Regional First

Robotics Competition - KSC

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NEWS RELEASES:

SOHO SEES THROUGH THE SUN TO FIND STORMY REGIONS ON THE OTHER SIDE

With a new technique that uses ripples on the Sun's visible

surface to probe its interior, scientists are able to see right
through the Sun to observe active regions on its far side, the
side facing away from the Earth. With a far-side preview,
scientists may be able to have a week's advance warning of
potential bad weather in space. This new observation from the
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft is the
subject of a Space Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March
9, at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dolores Beasley

(Phone 202/358-1753).
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Bill
Steigerwald (Phone 301/286-5017).

For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-006.txt

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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

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VIDEO:

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.
Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will

continue to be posted at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

For general information about NASA TV see:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/

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