Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Thu, 28 Sep 89 05:23:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 05:23:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #85 SPACE Digest Volume 10 : Issue 85 Today's Topics: NASA Headline News for 09/19/89 (Forwarded) Re: Face on Mars NASA Advisory - STS-34/Hurricane Hugo update (Forwarded) Re: First group of prospective astronauts to arrive at JSC (Forwarded) Re: Galileo Jovian atmospheric probe -- is it sterilized??? Re: Face on Mars Re: NASA Headline News for 09/19/89 (Forwarded) List of Hurricane Hugo GIF Images on SIMTEL20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 19 Sep 89 17:38:50 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Headline News for 09/19/89 (Forwarded) ----------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Headline News Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1989 Audio: 202/755-1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, September 19..... Space Shuttle launch officials at Kennedy Space Center are keeping a close watch on the movement of Hurricane Hugo. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says it still can't predict where the storm's path will take it in the next three days. Officials at the Cape are not expected to make a decision until Wednesday on whether or not to rollback the Atlantis to the Vehicle Assembly Building. It would take about 24 hours to prepare the spacecraft for a move and another eight hours to return to the VAB. Adverse weather expected at the Cape on Friday has forced a slip in the launch of the FltSatCom aboard an Atlas Centaur to no earlier than 4:13 A.M. Sunday, September 24. NASA officials are scheduled to brief the House Space Science Subcommittee next week on a lunar base initiative. Aviation Week magazine reports that the agency has mobilized several hundred personnel to develop a moon base plan. The magazine quotes NASA Administrator Richard Truly as saying, "It's a fairly massive effort across NASA." The Senate began considering the HUD, VA and independent agencies appropriations bill late yesterday and expects a vote on it sometime today. The bill includes the NASA appropriations of $12.3 billion. Once the Senate clears the bill it goes to conference with the House. There are several differences between the Senate and House versions...particularly in money for the Space Station Freedom program. Meanwhile, the new Space News Weekly publication says NASA has asked the Office of Management and Budget to okay a 1991 budget request of about $14.5 billion. Vice-President Dan Quayle heads for Japan Thursday. While there he will discuss plans for a joint U.S.-Japan space project with the Japanese Prime Minister and space officials. The project is the Geotail satellite. It will carry out an investigation of the Earth's magnetic field which extends out into space. * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the broadcast schedule for public affairs events on NASA Select tv (GE Satcom F2R, Transponder 13). All times are Eastern. Thursday, September 21..... 11:30 A.M. NASA Update will be transmitted. Friday, September 22..... 2:00 P.M. News briefing on launch of the FltSatCom from KSC. Sunday, September 24...... 3:00 A.M. NASA Select TV coverage begins of the launch of the FltSatCom satellite from KSC. 30-minute launch window opens at 4:13 A.M. All events and times are subject to change without notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------- These reports are filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12 noon, Eastern time. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A service of the Internal Communications Branch (LPC), NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Sep 89 16:38:33 GMT From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) Subject: Re: Face on Mars Please do the following: 1) s/sci.astro// 2) s/sci.astro/talk.astro/ with news.groups This is not astronomy. I care less about sci.space because I stopped reading that some time ago. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene Wink if you know ed(1). Live free or die. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Sep 89 17:33:07 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: NASA Advisory - STS-34/Hurricane Hugo update (Forwarded) Sarah Keegan September 19, 1989 Headquarters, Washington, DC 8:30 a.m. EDT NASA ADVISORY - STS-34/HURRICANE HUGO UPDATE The overnight progress of Hugo and most recent weather forecasts appear to indicate a slightly more favorable situation with regard to the storm's track relative to KSC. NASA managers will continue to monitor the updated information issued periodically by the National Hurricane Center and, barring unforeseen developments, will assess the overall situation tomorrow morning. ------------------------------ Date: 20 Sep 89 00:16:04 GMT From: microsoft!gordonl@uunet.uu.net (Gordon Letwin) Subject: Re: First group of prospective astronauts to arrive at JSC (Forwarded) In article <1989Sep15.013851.11339@cs.rochester.edu>, yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes: > In article <31891@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes: > > Approximately 100 of the nearly 2500 total applicants are > >expected to be interviewed here over the next several weeks for > >an opportunity to be among the final 15 to 20 who will be named > >as astronaut candidates in January 1990. > > Since I'm sure that these 100 meet the basic academic, professional, and > medical requirements, on what basis are the final 15-20 chosen? I'm reading a book on the technology and chemistry of foods and there's a section on beans/flatulence. The author states that most research into the subject of flatulence has been as a result of the space program; The odor causing elements are minor compared to the %'s of methane, CO2, and other stuff. If you got a couple of astronauts with a bad case they could literally asphixiate (sp?), depending, obviously, upon the capabilities of their air system. Also, flatus is agravated by a drop in ambient pressure - gas expansion. Since it was a book on food and not NASA, the author didn't state what NASA's final conclusions were, other than to speculate that "excess flatus" would be a particularly unpleasant way to "wash out". ------------------------------ Date: 19 Sep 89 15:05:30 GMT From: bungia!orbit!pnet51!schaper@UMN-CS.CS.UMN.EDU (S Schaper) Subject: Re: Galileo Jovian atmospheric probe -- is it sterilized??? >~If any earth organisms are hardy enough to reach Jupiter, then wouldn't the >Jovian organisms be hardy enough to survive them? Bring out yer dead! Bring out yer dead! ... Which is a dramatic, but reasonable approx of one of Hoyle's theories, isn't it? Does the Gallileo Atmospheric Probe have cameras? Originally it didn't, but an astronomer at the University of Minnesota thought they had added one. Does any one know? Steve Schaper Luddites should take their medicine :-) (such as it is...) UUCP: {amdahl!bungia, uunet!rosevax, chinet, killer}!orbit!pnet51!schaper ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!schaper@nosc.mil INET: schaper@pnet51.cts.com ------------------------------ Date: 18 Sep 89 18:52:31 GMT From: ogccse!littlei!reed!lclark!reeck@ucsd.edu (David Reeck) Subject: Re: Face on Mars In article <755@hutto.UUCP> henry@hutto.UUCP (Henry Melton) writes: >> What did the image look like when enhanced? Did it retain its >> "faceness"? >> >> Mary Kuhner >> mkkuhner@enzyme.berkeley.edu > >If you have ever seen any picture of the face, then what you saw _was_ >the enhanced version. In the raw version, it is practically invisible. The raw data was distributed a while ago. I still have a copy of it for any of you hacks who want to try and decode it. (Encoded as 0-255 hexadecimal numbers representing grays). When we decoded it as is, it came out almost invisible! We tried several contrast increasing methods, and finaly came up with one that works. If you want a copy (picture, the postscript code we used to print it, raw data) drop me a line! >By the way, there was a picture of it on the cover of a tabloid paper I >spotted in the drugstore yesterday. The headline read something like >"Face discovered on Neptune, just like the ones found on Mars and Venus". >Sorry, I didn't read the article. >-- >Henry Melton ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!hutto!henry >1-512-8463241 Rt.1 Box 274E Hutto,TX 78634 Weekly World News. Bought that issue! The face is one of 3 on mars, venus (as mapped by russian radar mapper) and neptune (russian scientist intercepted voyager signal and analyzed the data to find the face!). Its amazing that the face can stand in dry desert sand with winds Mach 1 +, under incredible pressure and heat (700 degrees?), and in ice (I forgot what kind). Looks like powerful forces at work! Dave Reeck !tektronix!reed!lclark!reeck -or- reeck@lclark.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: 19 Sep 89 19:22:22 GMT From: bfmny0!tneff@uunet.uu.net (Tom Neff) Subject: Re: NASA Headline News for 09/19/89 (Forwarded) In article <32172@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes: >Vice-President Dan Quayle heads for Japan Thursday. While there >he will discuss plans for a joint U.S.-Japan space project with >the Japanese Prime Minister and space officials. The project is >the Geotail satellite. It will carry out an investigation of the >Earth's magnetic field which extends out into space. Note that the magnetic tail is practically in the same orbit as the earth. And we believe there's magnetism out there. Where magnetism, also electricity; hence, we can blow-dry. So landing men on the Geotail ought to be a project for the future. Will someone forward this to JDQ's speechwriters for me? -- 'We have luck only with women -- \\\ Tom Neff not spacecraft!' *-((O tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET -- R. Kremnev, builder of FOBOS \\\ uunet!bfmny0!tneff (UUCP) ------------------------------ Date: 20 Sep 89 01:33:27 GMT From: gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ctrsol!IDA.ORG!roskos@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Eric Roskos) Subject: List of Hurricane Hugo GIF Images on SIMTEL20 The following is the list of Hurricane Hugo GIF pictures as of 9PM EDT 9/12/89 (13/0100Z). These are currently available on SIMTEL-20.ARMY.MIL in the directory PD3:. All times in the table below are EDT. I've tried to give a fairly critical description of the images so that if you are only interested in a few of the pictures that look good, you can tell which to skip and which to choose. But I've included all of them even if the signal was not too good, for the people interested in tracking the hurricane based on the satellite picutures, or similar observations. HUGO1.GIF 9/17 7:15AM GOES IR Has some noise over the hurricane image due to HF propagation conditions. HF conditions are currently only moderately good here for receiving the GOES pictures, so this tends to be a problem in a number of them (conditions were much better for the Hurricane Gabrielle pictures). HUGO2.GIF 9/17 8:20AM Meteor 3-2 This is a picture from the Soviet Meteor satellite, before I modified my receiver to have a wider bandwidth. You may want to skip this one unless you are really interested in having all of them. HUGO3.GIF 9/17 11:00AM Meteor 2-16 This and subsequen Meteor pictures were recorded after I modified my receiver to have a 25 KHz bandwidth, so the picture quality is better. (I'm still looking for a way to get a wider bandwidth, though.) HUGO4.GIF 9/17 1:47PM NOAA 11 An enlargement of the hurricane as it approaches Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; the latter is visible in the picture. At this time the satellite was passing over the hurricane as it came over the horizon at my location, so the image emerges out of the background noise as the signal is acquired. HUGO5.GIF 9/17 1:47PM NOAA 11 An unzoomed image of the above; I was testing the new IF filter in the radio at this time, so the quality of the picture varies. You may want to skip this one too. HUGO6.GIF 9/17 7:15PM GOES IR This is a fairly good GOES Infrared picture of the hurricane as it began to reach Puerto Rico. HUGO7.GIF 9/17 7:15PM GOES IR An enlargement of HUGO6.GIF. HUGO8.GIF 9/18 8:00AM Meteor 3-2 Moderate picture of the hurricane from the Soviet satellite Monday morning. HUGO9.GIF 9/18 7:00PM GOES IR Also moderate quality due to HF conditions. At this point the hurricane had "wobbled around" Puerto Rico and is slightly to the north of it. HUGO10.GIF 9/18 7:00PM GOES IR An enlargement of HUGO9.GIF. HUGO11.GIF 9/19 7:00AM GOES IR This picture is only of interest if you want to see the geographic location of the hurricane, since the HF conditions were even worse than usual. You probably should skip this one unless you want to see the location of the hurricane as shown in HUGO13 and 14. HUGO12.GIF 9/19 7:00AM GOES IR Enlargement of HUGO11. See comments above. HUGO13.GIF 9/19 7:40AM Meteor 3-2 The best picture thus far of the hurricane. It is illuminated obliquely by the recently-risen sun to the East, so some shadow detail is visible, including the small "eye" feature. Since the hurricane had moved North some by this time, and since Meteor 3-2 gives a strong signal and is higher than the NOAA and Meteor 2 satellites, the quality of the signal was better than in previous pictures. Note the length of the shadows to the left of some of the isolated clouds to the left of the hurricane, and the sea-glint from the sun reflecting off the ocean to the right. HUGO14.GIF 9/19 7:40AM Meteor 3-2 An enlargement of HUGO13.GIF. If you only want to get one picture from the Hugo images thus far, this is the best one. The very delicate fringe of clouds to the South of the hurricane is clearly visible, as well as the raised center and very small eye. HUGO15.GIF 9/19 7:00PM GOES IR HF propagation conditions were very good for most of this image (they steadily improved throughout the image), but the subcarrier seemed to be modulated by a fairly high-frequency (AF-range) signal at the transmitter, with the result that the image is greyish and mottled. It gives a good view of the position of the hurricane a few hours ago this evening, as it heads towards the US, but the quality is not very good due to the above problem. Iris is also now clearly visible as distinct from Hugo (though it is also visible in some of the earlier images), following the path Hugo took a few days ago. -- Eric Roskos (roskos@CS.IDA.ORG or Roskos@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL) ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V10 #85 *******************