NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Dec. 22, 1998

Media Advisory 98-100

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

FUTURE MISSIONS TO STUDY CLOUDS, AEROSOLS, VOLCANIC PLUMES

NASA VIDEO FILE FOR DEC. 22, 1998

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FUTURE MISSIONS TO STUDY CLOUDS, AEROSOLS, VOLCANIC PLUMES

NASA has chosen for development three small spacecraft missions designed to
explore the Earth's dynamic systems early in the new millennium under the Office
of Earth Science's Earth System Science Pathfinders (ESSP) program.

The primary mission is PICASSO-CENA (Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and

Aerosol Spaceborne Observations -- Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des
Aerosols), co-led by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, and the
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France.

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1998/98-226.txt

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http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

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NASA VIDEO FILE FOR DEC. 22, 1998

ITEM 1: TRACE Looks at the Sun

Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Wade Sisler 301/286-
6256.
Contact at Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage 202/358-1727.

ITEM 2: NEAR To Encounter Asteroid Eros (replay)

Contact at Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD: Helen Worth 443/778-5113.
Contact at Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage: 202/358-1727.

ITEM 3: AXAF Gets New Name

Animation and B-Roll to accompany release above.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage : 202/358-1547.
Contact at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL: Dave Drachlis
256/544-0034.
Contact at AXAF Science Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, MA: Wallace Tucker 617-496-7998.

ITEM 4: Apollo 8 Christmas Message

Excerpt from Dec. 24, 1968, television broadcast by NASA Astronauts Frank
Borman,
James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders during the Apollo 8 mission. This was
the first mission to orbit the moon. Upon entering lunar orbit, on Dec. 24, the
astronauts broadcast vistas of the moon and "Earthrise" over the moon. As a
Christmas message to the world, they read passages from Genesis. This is the 30th
anniversary of this mission, which took place Dec. 21-27, 1968.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Elvia Thompson 202/358-1696.

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