NASA Daily News Summary For Release: Sept. 8, 2000 Media Advisory m00-176 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES COMPUTER SIMULATION REVEALS UPS AND DOWNS OF JUPITER'S WINDS VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN*** VIDEO FILE FOR SEPT. 8, 2000 UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ***************************** NEWS RELEASES COMPUTER SIMULATION REVEALS UPS AND DOWNS OF JUPITER'S WINDS Waves of up-and-down winds that span great ranges in air pressure may explain the surprisingly clear, dry areas near Jupiter's equator, new research based on data from NASA's Galileo entry probe indicates. Scientists have been trying to understand the stability of these clear "hot spots" ever since the probe plunged into one of them nearly five years ago. An explanation of how these deep holes in Jupiter's clouds could persist is reported in today's edition of the journal Science by Dr. Adam Showman, of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, and Dr. Timothy Dowling, director of the University of Louisville's Comparative Planetology Laboratory in Kentucky. Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage (Phone: 202/358-1547) Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA: Guy Webster (Phone: 818/354-6278) For full text see: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-138.txt ---------------------------- 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 File for Sept. 8, 2000 THERE IS NO NASA TV VIDEO FILE SCHEDULED FOR TODAY DUE TO MISSION OPERATIONS. THE VIDEO FILE SERVICE WILL RESUME MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, AND WILL BE AIRED ONE TIME DAILY DURING SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION STS-106. ---------------------------- 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. ----------------------------- UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS September 8, Friday - 3:30 a.m. - Live Coverage and Commentary for STS-106 Begins - KSC - 8:45 a.m. - STS-106 Launch - KSC September 12, Tuesday - 1:00 p.m. - Chandra Space Science Update - Live from NASA HQ September 13, Wednesday - 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Health Benefits From Space Live News Interviews - JPL September 14, Thursday - 1:30 p.m. - STS-92 TCDT Pad Q & A (questions from Kennedy only) - KSC - 5:00 - 7:15 p.m. - First Long Duration Science Experments on the ISS Live News Interviews -MSFC September 15, Friday - 5:00 - 7:15 p.m. - First Long Duration Science Experments on the ISS Live News Interviews -MSFC September 18, Monday - 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Typhoons and Hurricanes Can't Hide From NASA's Seawinds Live News Interviews - JPL September 19, Tuesday - 3:54 a.m. - STS-106 Landing - KSC - 1:00 p.m. - NOAA-L L-1 Prelaunch Briefing - VAFB For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html ----------------------------- Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN. 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/ ***************************** Contract Awards Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition information Service Web site: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html ***************************** The NASA Daily News Summary is issued each business day at approximately 2 pm 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 ***************************** end of daily news summary