A different kind of imaging. Check This Out!

[James Shadle]

BPN's own Roger Clark will be involved in a NASA press conference this Thursday(09/24/2009) at 2PM. The press conference will be covered live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site.
Roger said there would be interesting imagery presented. That is all he could say due to an information embargo.

MEDIA ADVISORY : M09-183

Nasa To Reveal New Scientific Findings About The Moon

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WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss new science data from the moon collected during national and international space missions. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefing from the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, in Washington.

The briefing participants are:
- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Carle Pieters, principal investigator, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, Brown University
- Rob Green, project instrument scientist, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
- Roger Clark, team member, Cassini spacecraft Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer and co-investigator, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, U.S. Geological Survey in Denver
- Jessica Sunshine, deputy principal investigator for NASA’s Deep Impact extended mission and co-investigator for Moon Mineralogy Mapper, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland

Reporters unable to attend the briefing may ask questions by telephone. To reserve a telephone line, journalists should e-mail their name, media affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at:


stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov


Papers supporting the briefing will be published online by the journal Science at its Science Express Web site. Science will lift its embargo at 2 p.m. EDT, Sept. 24.

For more information about NASA TV downlinks and streaming video, visit:


http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

[Mike Tracy]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/09/24/moon.water/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

[James Shadle]

Their overall findings also were confirmed by data from a high-tech spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft -- which also found evidence of water at lower latitudes away from the poles -- and from infrared mapping done by the Deep Impact spacecrafts -- which found trace amounts over much of the moon's surface.

Reports on those findings came from teams led by Roger Clark of the U.S. Geological Survey and Jessica Sunshine of the University of Maryland.

[James Shadle]

Roger spent about 1000 hours on the following image!

http://www.floridatoday.com/content/...-on-moon.shtml (http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/space/2009/09/nasa-water-is-widespread-on-moon.shtml)

The above image is the low resolution version. The full resolution would be 37,000 x 37,000 pixels and instead of 3 colors in a digital camera, we have 85 colors, 16-bit data. That's a 233 gigabyte raw file.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/...n20090924.html (http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/moon20090924.html)

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2..._moonwater.htm (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24sep_moonwater.htm)