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April 29, 2015 RELEASE 15-075*NASA Awards Research Grants for Minority Serving Institutions * NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected 10 minority serving universities for cooperative agreement awards valued at almost $47 million. Award recipients were selected from 76 proposals after a rigorous peer review by education and technical experts. Each university will receive as much as $1 million per year for a maximum of five years based on the availability of funds and s ...Continue Reading
April 29th 2015 PDT
April 29, 2015 RELEASE 15-078*NASA’s New Horizons Detects Surface Features, Possible Polar Cap on Pluto* This image of Pluto and it largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on April 15, 2015. The image is part of several taken between April 12-18, as the spacecraft’s distance from Pluto decreased from about 69 million miles (93 million kilometers) to 64 million miles (104 million kilometers). */Credits: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI /* For t ...Continue Reading
April 29th 2015 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CENTRAL AMERICA Smoke streams from fires on the Yucatan Peninsula. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85800&src=nha *** Image from Apr 26, 2015 (Posted on Apr 28, 2015 3:52 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory ...Continue Reading
April 29th 2015 PDT
April 29, 2015 RELEASE 15-077*NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars * NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured a new high-energy X-ray view (magenta) of the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy. The smaller circle shows the center of our galaxy where the NuSTAR image was taken. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech /* Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-en ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Apr 29 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 119 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Apr 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2327 S07W77 013 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2331 S09W87 023 0210 Dao 07 02 Beta 2333 N21W12 ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2015 PDT
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (28 April 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Tracking the Sulfur Dioxide from Calbuco http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85791&src=eoa-iotd * Iceberg in North Star Bay, Greenland http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85788&src=eoa-iotd * Florianópolis, Brazil http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85775&src=eoa-iotd * Ocean Co ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2015 PDT
April 28, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-068*NASA to Hold Media Call on Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons Spacecraft* NASA will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 29 to discuss recent images returned from the New Horizons spacecraft as it nears its historic July 14 encounter with Pluto. Officials also will provide an update on the timeline and significance of images the mission team will receive in the coming weeks. Participants will be: [*]John Grunsfeld, associate administrator ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2015 PDT
April 28, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-067*NASA Technology Day on Capitol Hill to Showcase Critical Journey to Mars Tech * To demonstrate how technology drives exploration, NASA will highlight key space technologies at its annual Technology Day on the Hill event from 3 to 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 29 in the Rayburn House Office Building Foyer in Washington. NASA’s Chief Technologist David Miller and Associate Administrator for Space Technology Steve Jurczyk will provide media with a guided tour of the displays fro ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2015 PDT
April 28, 2015 RELEASE 15-072*NASA Successfully Tests Shape-Changing Wing for Next Generation Aviation* NASA researchers, working in concert with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and FlexSys Inc., of Ann Arbor, Michigan, successfully completed initial flight tests of a new morphing wing technology that has the potential to save millions of dollars annually in fuel costs, reduce airframe weight and decrease aircraft noise during takeoffs and landings. The test team at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Cen ...Continue Reading
April 28th 2015 PDT
April 28, 2015 The RapidScat Project has ceased production of the Version 1 RapidScat L2B data since 2 April 2015. Originally we intended to release Version 1.1 early enough to avoid any interruption in the data pipeline but the validation of the new dataset was delayed. The Version 1.1 data has been processed and validated by the RapidScat Project and is in the process of becoming archived and distributed via the PO.DAAC. For users who are impacted by this outage, please conside ...Continue Reading
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