NASA Daily News Summary 8 September 2000

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
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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
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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 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.
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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.
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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
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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/
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