NASA Daily News Summary
For Release: Feb. 1, 2000
Media Advisory m00-019


SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES:
No News Releases Today

VIDEO:

ALL TIMES EASTERN

Video File for Feb. 1, 2000

Item 1 - Sun's Crooked Magnetic Field

Item 2 - KSC Clean Up

Item 3 - Solar Maximum

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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 2000 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

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



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ALL TIMES EASTERN

Video File for Feb.1, 2000

Item 1 - Sun's Crooked Magnetic Field

Item 2 - KSC Clean Up

Item 3 - Solar Maximum

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Item 1 - The Solar Magnetic Field is Crooked and Variable 

By compiling all the solar wind data gathered in the space age, NASA scientists 
have concluded that even though the solar magnetic field is constantly changing, 
it always returns to its original shape and position. Animation of a compilation 
of images spanning approximately one month show the solar wind and bursts of 
coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that periodically occur. Other images include 
photos taken by x-ray and ultraviolet telescopes. 

Video Courtesy NASA

TRT - 1:00

Center contact: Jane Platt 818/354-0880

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov



Item 2 - Groundwater Clean Up at KSC (b-roll) 

NASA's Kennedy Space Center is one of several federal agencies participating in 
an environmental research project that evaluates groundwater cleanup techniques 
at Launch Complex 34 at the Cape Canaveral Air Station. Concentrations of 
Trichloroethylene solvent have been identified in the soil there as a result of 
cleaning methods for rocket parts during the Apollo program in the 1960s. 

Video Courtesy NASA

TRT 1:16

Center contact:	Bruce Buckingham 321/867-2468 


Item 3 - Solar Max (replay)

The Solar Cycle will reach its peak in the year 2000. This year is going to be a 
solar max, which occurs every 11 years. A solar max could damage satellites and 
cause power outages across the country. A NASA scientist has developed a new 
more reliable forecasting technique for solar max. Package includes animation 
and interviews. 


Item 3a - SOLAR MAXIMUM ANIMATION-------------------------TRT 4:40 

Item 3b - INTERVIEW EXCERPTS------------------------------TRT 4:10 

David Hathaway, NASA Scientist, MSFC


TRT - 9:45

Center contact:	Steve Roy 256/544-6535



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