NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: March 30, 1999

Media Advisory m99-062

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Summary

-- Upcoming Media Event: Landsat 7 Briefing

-- Video File for March 30

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There are no news releases scheduled for March 30, 1999.

If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will

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Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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Upcoming Media Event: Landsat 7 Briefing

Reviewing 27 years of environmental discovery and

previewing new ways of looking at our world, NASA and the
U.S. Geological Survey will brief reporters March 31 on the
April launch of Landsat 7. Landsat 7 will gather data from
Earth's land surface and surrounding coastal regions.
Analysis of the data will provide scientists with new
information on deforestation, receding glaciers and crop
monitoring. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch on
April 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. The briefing
will be held at 1 p.m. EST March 31 in the James E. Webb
Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., SW,
Washington, DC. The briefing will be carried live on NASA TV
with two-way question-and-answer capability for reporters at
NASA centers.

Contact at Headquarters: David E. Steitz, 202/358-1730;

Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Lynn Chandler,
301/614-5562;
Contact at U.S. Geological Survey: Catherine Watson, 703/648-
4732.

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VIDEO FILE FOR MARCH 30, 1999

ITEM 1 MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR ANTENNA (replay)

ITEM 2 SPRINGTIME ON URANUS (replay)
ITEM 3 KC-135 STUDENT EXPERIMENTS (replay)

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ITEM 1 Mars Global Surveyor Antenna (replay)
A steady stream of new data from Mars, including high-
resolution images, will begin arriving next week at Earth
receiving stations following the March 28 deployment of the
Mars Global Surveyor's high-power communications antenna.
Before the antenna was fully deployed, the spacecraft had to
stop collecting data periodically to transmit the information
back to Earth. Now that the high-gain antenna is deployed,
the spacecraft can study the Red Planet 24 hours a day. Video
shows 1) animation of antenna deployment; 2) three recent
images of Mars.

Contact at Headquarters: Douglas Isbell, 202/358-1547;

Contact at Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Mary Hardin, 818/354-
0344.

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ITEM 2 Springtime on Uranus (replay)
If springtime on Earth were anything like it is now on
Uranus, we would have numerous massive storm systems, each
one covering the country from Kansas to New York and
temperatures plunging to 300 degrees below zero. A dramatic
new time-lapse movie by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows
for the first time seasonal changes on the planet. No one has
ever seen this view in the modern era of astronomy because of
the long year of Uranus -- more than 84 Earth years. Uranus
is now revealed as a dynamic world with the brightest clouds
in the outer Solar System and a fragile ring system that
wobbles like an unbalanced wagon wheel.

Contact at Headquarters: Donald Savage, 202/358-1727;

Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Nancy Neal, 301/286-
0039;
Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute: Ray Villard,
410/338-4514.

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ITEM 3 KC-135 Student Experiments (replay)
For the third consecutive year, college students from
around the country are investigating a variety of scientific
experiments aboard a NASA KC-135A aircraft known as the
"weightless wonder." The program will take up to 96 teams of
undergraduate students aloft this year to study the effects
of microgravity on their experiments. During each two- to
three-hour flight, the aircraft maneuvers through a series of
about 40 steep climbs and descents that can induce about 25
seconds of a zero-gravity environment each. The KC-135A
aircraft is used to introduce astronauts to the feeling of
microgravity, test hardware and experiments destined for
spaceflight and evaluate medical protocols that may be used
in space.

Contact at Headquarters: Beth Schmid, 202/358-1760;

Contact at Johnson Space Center: Eileen M. Hawley, 281/483-
5111.

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