NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  Mar. 9, 2000
Media Advisory m00-46


SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES:

SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING REPORT AVAILABLE TODAY;
OTHER REVIEW REPORTS TO BE RELEASED THIS MONTH

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



VIDEO:

VIDEO FILE:

ITEM 1 - SOHO SEES FAR SIDE OF THE SUN - GSFC
         (will air beginning with 3:00 pm feed)

ITEM 2 - CRUSTAL THICKNESS ON MARS (MOLA 3-D) - GSFC

ITEM 3 - MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES SHOW BIG
         DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MARS' POLAR CAPS- JPL (replay)

ITEM 4 - KC-135 STUDENT CAMPAIGN - JSC (REPLAY)


NOTES FOR PRODUCERS:

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 9, Thursday

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

5:00 - 7:00 pm - KC-135 Student Campaign Live News Interviews -
JSC

March 10, Friday

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



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NEWS RELEASES:

SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING REPORT AVAILABLE TODAY;
OTHER REVIEW REPORTS TO BE RELEASED THIS MONTH

     The work of four review teams chartered by NASA to study its
programs and practices is nearing completion, with reports
scheduled for release today, next week and later in March.

     The first report, to be released today, will be that of the
Space Shuttle Independent Assessment Team, chartered in September
1999 and led by Ames Research Center Director Dr. Henry McDonald.
That report will be available on the NASA Home Page (www.nasa.gov)
at Noon Eastern time on Thursday.

     Two additional reports will be released on Monday March 13,
also at Noon Eastern time via the NASA Home Page:  the report on
Faster, Better, Cheaper Project Management, and the final Report
on Project Management in NASA by the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap
Investigation Board.

     An additional report, from the Mars Independent Assessment
Team chaired by Thomas Young, will be available by the end of
March.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Brian Welch (Phone
202/358-1600).
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Donald Savage
(Phone 202/358-1547).
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dwayne C. Brown
(Phone 202/358-1726).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-007.txt



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

     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.  Images and
additional information are available at:
http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/spacesci/sunearth/sunearth.htm#soho

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/pressrel/2000/00-033.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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Contract Awards

Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition information
Service Web site: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html



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For Release: March 9, 2000
Media Advisory m00-046a

ALL TIMES EASTERN


VIEW INSIDE MARS REVEALS RAPID COOLING AND BURIED CHANNELS

     Some of Mars' best kept secrets, long buried beneath
the surface of the red planet, were recently revealed by
instruments on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

     New observations of Mars reveal that the planet's flat
northern lowlands were an early zone of high heat flow that
later may have been the site of rapid water accumulation,
according to a view of the Martian interior generated using
data from Mars Global Surveyor (MGS).  Elevation and
gravity measurements, which have been used to probe beneath
the surface of Mars, indicate a period of rapid cooling
early in Martian history, and evidence for large, buried
channels that could have formed from the flow of enormous
volumes of water.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Donald Savage
(Phone 202/358-1547).
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:  Cynthia M.
O'Carroll (Phone:  301-614-5563).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-036.txt



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If NASA issues additional news releases later today, we will e-
mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.
Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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The NASA Daily News Summary is issued each business day at
approximately 2 p.m. Eastern time. Members of the media who wish
to subscribe or unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail
message to:

Brian.Dunbar@hq.nasa.gov

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