David C. Fair									Feb. 1, 1995	
Goddard Space Flight Center 
Visitor Center  
Greenbelt, Md.  20771
(301) 286 8981
 
Tammy Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center
Office of Public Affairs  
Greenbelt, Md.  20771
(301) 286 5566  

Release No.:  95-063

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

SUNDAY, MARCH 26, AT 1 P.M.

GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER VISITOR CENTER "DISCOVER GODDARD" 
 PRESENTATION: "MEASURING THE SOLAR BREEZE" 

	Energy streams out from the Sun towards the Earth in a solar 
wind of electrified particles.  The spacecraft that will help predict 
how the Earth's atmosphere will respond to changes in solar wind is called 
Wind.  At the Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center on Sunday, 
March 26, at 1 p.m., Dr. Tycho T. Von Rosenvinge, of Goddard's Nuclear 
Astrophysics Branch, will show how the existence of the solar wind was 
first confirmed in the early 1960s by NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft.

	The Visitor Center is located on Soil Conservation Road in 
Greenbelt, Md. Admission is free.  For further information, call (301) 
286 8981.  Sign language interpreters are available with seven days' 
notice, call TDD (301) 286-8103. 

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