NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Sept. 16, 1999

Media Advisory m99-190

Summary:

No News Releases Today.

Video File for Sept. 16, 1999

ITEM 1 - GIANT STAR CLUSTERS
ITEM 2 - MYSTERIOUS LAKE MICHIGAN "WHITING EVENT" (replay)
ITEM 3 - HURRICANE SATELLITE IMAGES
Note: if we can acquire images in time, they will
appear on the 3:00 pm feed and thereafter
throughout the day

Live Television Events Coming Up This Week:

September 16, Thursday

1:00 - 2:00 pm - Eileen Collins and STS-93 Crew at the National
Press Club (questions from Press Club audience
only) - HQ

The STS-93 crew, including Eileen Collins, the first woman

Space Shuttle Commander, will discuss the significance of
Space exploration and share unique perspectives from their
flight as part of a luncheon presentation Thursday, Sept.
16 at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., NW,
Washington, D.C. The luncheon begins at 12:30 p.m., the
presentation at 1 p.m. For ticket information, call Pat
Nelson at (202) 662-7539. The Press Club Web site is at
http://npc.press.org/

NOTE: The Diabetes Technology Live Interviews originally

scheduled for Sept. 17 have been rescheduled to Sept. 24. See
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking for full information.

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No News Releases Today.

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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 1999 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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Video File for Sept. 16, 1999

Item 1 - Giant Star Clusters TRT - :20

Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD: Ray

Villard 410/338.4514.

Video sequence of still images going deep into the Milky Way
Galaxy to the Arches Cluster. Hubble, penetrating through dust and
clouds, peered into the core where two giant clusters shine more
brightly than any other clusters in the galaxy.

Item 1a - Various Images TRT - :45

Images from the preceding sequence. Listed as follows:

1 - Wide view of Sagittarius constellation
2 - Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
3 - Two Micron All Sky Survey
4 - Hubble Space Telescope image of Arches Cluster

Item 1b - Interview excerpts TRT - :27

Dr. Don Figer, Principal Investigator, The Space Telescope Science

Institute

ITEM 2 - MYSTERIOUS LAKE MICHIGAN "WHITING EVENT" TRT: - 1:38

(replay)

NASA's Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) has

captured images showing a mysterious flush of color spreading
across Lake Michigan. Biologists suspect the color change is
either a "whiting event" or a bloom of the algae Microcystis that
is known for forming thick layers of toxic "green paint" on the
surface of Lake Erie.

Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Wade

Sisler 301/286-6256.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: David E. Steitz
202/358-1730.

For more informationa see:

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html

Item 2a - Mysterious "Whiting Event"

NASA's Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) has

captured images showing a mysterious flush of color spreading
across Lake Michigan. Biologists suspect the colors is either a
"whiting event" or a bloom of the algae Microcystis that has been
known to form thick layers of toxic "green paint" on the surface
of Lake Erie. A whiting event is caused when high concentrations
of calcium carbonate lead to the underwater formation of chalky
white clouds of the material which "rain" calcium carbonate on the
lake bottom. Left image from July 24, 1999; right image from Sept.
7, 1999.

Item 2b - "Whiting Sequence"Sequence

Sshowing dramatic color change in Lake Michigan. This is the

second year SeaWiFS has documented these changes in late summer.
Images recorded July 24, August 2, and Sept. 7, 1999.

ITEM 3 - HURRICANE SATELLITE IMAGES

Note: if we can acquire images in time, they will
appear on the 3:00 pm feed and thereafter
throughout the day

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