var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option May 23, 2014 * NASA Invites Public to Select Favorite Moon Image for Lunar Orbiter Anniversary Collection * NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will celebrate five years in orbit June 18. To celebrate the anniversary and LRO's many scientific contributions, NASA invites the public to select a favorite orbiter image of the moon fo ...Continue Reading

Readers of this listserv may be interested in this announcement.  Thanks a lot. -Steve Garber   * ____________________________________________________________________________________________________* Time is running out! The deadline for the 2014 Sacknoff Prize for Space History is rapidly approaching 20 June 2014* *  Details on the 2014 prize: www.spacehistory101.com/prize A 2014 Flyer for Posting:* *www.spacebusiness.com/prize-2014.pdf First awarded in 2011, the annual prize  ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 May 23 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 143 Issued at 0030Z on 23 May 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2061 S24W74 191 0100 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2066 S17W79 196 0020 Cro 08 04 Beta 2071 S12E35 ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option May 22, 2014 * NASA Teams with Web Tech Company Slooh to Bring Universe to Everyone and Help Protect Earth Too * As part of the agency's Asteroid Grand Challenge, NASA is partnering with private internet technology company Slooh to engage citizen scientists in the effort to track and characterize near-Earth asteroids (NEOs) that are po ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option May 22, 2014 * NASA Releases Earth Day "Global Selfie" Mosaic of Our Home Planet *  NASA’s “Global Selfie” Earth mosaic contains more than 36,000 individual photographs from the more than 50,000 images posted around the world on Earth Day, April 22, 2014.Image Credit: NASA  For Earth Day this year, NASA invited peo ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option May 22, 2014 * NASA Mars Weather Camera Helps Find New Crater on Red Planet *  The new Mars crater spans half the length of a football field in this photo from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s sharpest-sighted camera, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Research ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option May 22, 2014 * NASA's WISE Findings Poke Hole in Black Hole 'Doughnut' Theory *  This image shows galaxies clumped together in the Fornax cluster, located 60 million light-years from Earth. The picture was taken by WISE, but has been artistically enhanced to illustrate the idea that clumped galaxies will, on average, be surrounde ...Continue Reading

May 22, 2014 Recently an anomaly in GHRSST MUR Level 4 SST (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/JPL-L4UHfnd-GLOB-MUR) granules was discovered.  During the period of 19 Dec 2013 to 3 May 2014 very little high spatial resolution MODIS and AVHRR data were ingested into the analysis.  This has now been remedied and the affected data reprocessed. Please download MUR files for these dates again. We apologize for your inconvenience. ------------------------------------------ ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN ALASKA The 2014 fire season in Alaska. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83725&src=nha *** Image from May 20, 2014 (Posted on May 21, 2014 6:31 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa. ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 May 22 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 142 Issued at 0030Z on 22 May 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2061 S24W60 189 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2065 S18W14 144 0010 Axx 03 03 Alpha 2066 S17W65 ...Continue Reading