----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NASA News Briefs for Dec. 13
RELEASE: 02-135AR Dec. 13, 2002
NASA Television to Air Video About New Method That May Lead to
Smaller Electronics: NASA Television today will broadcast a video
that describes how scientists at NASA Ames Research Center in
California's Silicon Valley have invented a breakthrough biological
method to make ultra-small structures that may be used to produce
electronics 10 timer to 100 times smaller than today's components. As
part of their new method, researchers used modified proteins from
'extremophile' microbes that live in near-boiling, acidic hot springs
to grow mesh-like structures so small that an electron microscope is
needed to see them.
For more information about the video, contact Victoria Steiner,
650/604-0176 or by e-mail at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NASA
Television is broadcast on GE-2, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at
85 degrees West longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization
is vertical and audio is monaural at 6.8 MHz. The video file normally
airs weekdays at noon (EST), with replays at 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.,
midnight, 3 a.m. and 9 a.m., but the schedule is subject to change.
Please click on "NTV video file" at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/ for
schedule changes. For more information about the new method, contact
John Bluck, 650/604-5026, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit:
http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2002/02_122AR.html
NASA Ames to Host Student Competitors: On Dec. 17, NASA Ames Research
Center, located in California's Silicon Valley, will host student
competitors from the Minority University Research and Education
Program (MUREP) to investigate design possibilities for a vertical
lift aerial vehicle to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The
meeting will begin at 8:00 a.m. PST in the second floor conference
room of Building 215 and will end at 4:00 p.m. PST. During the
one-day meeting, NASA Ames engineers and scientists will brief the
students on the status of the competition, the future of
rotor-powered vehicles, planetary science research at NASA Ames and
various vehicle design considerations such as autonomous operations
and looking at nature for design inspiration. The competition is
being held in anticipation of the arrival of the Cassini/Huygens
probe to Saturn and Titan in 2004. Design proposals for the Titan
vertical lift aerial vehicle design competition are due March 14,
2003. Winners will be announced on May 3, 2003. To attend, contact
Jonas Dino at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 650/604-5612. For more
information about the competition, see:
http://www.integratedspacetechnologies.com/titan.
-end-
To receive Ames news releases via -email, send an -email with the
word "subscribe" in the subject line to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an
-email to the same address with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
Also, the NASA Ames News Home Page at URL,
http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov includes news releases and JPEG images
in AP Leaf Desk format minus embedded captions
