Office of Science and Technology Policy
| For Immediate Release Contact: 202/456-6108 | March 8, 2000 |
Statement of Neal Lane
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
on
NASA�s Triana Mission
The National Academy of Sciences report, released today, on NASA�s Triana mission validates the strong scientific merit of a satellite that will transmit continuous pictures of a full sunlit Earth to the world via television and the Internet.
This rigorous analytic review, undertaken by some of the nation�s most distinguished scientists at the request of Congress, determined that Triana is a technologically sound, feasible, and unique scientific mission that will enhance our understanding of the earth�s energy balance and how it affects our climate systems. The scientists noted that Triana�s potential impact was sufficiently valuable to Earth science that such a mission might have been viewed as an earlier NASA priority.
The panel concluded that Triana�s costs are reasonable and that the mission has potential to stimulate valuable scientific discoveries. Triana is worthy of bipartisan Congressional support and should not be kept earthbound -- instead it should fly as scheduled next year.
The full report is available at www.nap.edu.
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