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Overview: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris persist today at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. The buried glaciers extend for tens of miles from edges of mountains or cliffs and are up to one-half-mile thick.
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Interview Excerpts RT: 256
Super: NASA/JPL/Italian Space Agency
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1) Animation outlines the dust-covered ice within the craters at Hellas Basin in the southern hemisphere of Mars, then an artist's depiction of glacier water ice underneath.
2) Comparison of ice-filled craters on Mars and Lake Huron in the United States.
3) Animation of the Shallow Radar instrument in operation on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Super: Ali Safaeinili (pronounced sah-fah-NEEL-ee)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final launch preparations. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory arrived at its launch site on California's central coast on Tues., Nov.11. After final tests, the spacecraft will be integrated onto an Orbital Sciences Taurus launch vehicle in preparation for a planned launch in January 2009.
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Interview Excerpts RT - : 1:58
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Edited B-roll:
1) The Orbiting Carbon Observatory being unloaded at Vandenberg Air Force Base
2) Animation of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory flying over Earth
Super: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Interview Excerpts
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David Crisp
Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Principal Investigator
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ralph Basilio
Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Deputy Project Manager
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has successfully tested the first-ever deep-space communications network modeled on the Internet. Engineers are using Disruption-Tolerant Networking software to transmit dozens of images of Mars to and from NASA's Epoxi spacecraft, located about 20 million miles away. This is the first step in creating a new deep-space communications backbone, dubbed the "Interplanetary Internet."
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TRT: 7:23
Edited B-roll RT: 3:11
Interview Excerpts RT: 2:45
Super: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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HQ Contact - Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
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