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For Release: Dec. 22, 1998

Media Advisory 98-100a

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.

Full text available at:

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

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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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