March 27, 2014 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, The ASCAT data flows were restored yesterday evening. Metop-A ASCAT data have been unavailable for sensing time from 12:00 to 15:12. Metop-B ASCAT data have been unavailable for sensing time from 12:54 to 13:42. Best regards, Anton KNMI Scatterometer Team http://ww ...Continue Reading

Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 27, 2014 * NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Spots Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets *  The images above show -- before and after filtering -- comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, as captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science I ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 116 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. High School 'Final Five' Compete for Out-of-This-World Test on Orion 2. NASA TV to Air Arrival of New Space Station Crew Thursday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:47:36 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: High School 'Final Five' Compete for Out-of-This-World Test on Orion March 26, 2014 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Ann Marie Trotta Headq ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Mar 27 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 86 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Mar 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2010 S14W54 204 0130 Dai 09 21 Beta-Gamma 2014 S14W19 168 0200 Esi 12 26 Beta-Gamma 201 ...Continue Reading

Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 26, 2014 * High School 'Final Five' Compete for Out-of-This-World Test on Orion * Five teams of high school student engineers have made it to the final round in a competition to build and test designs for radiation shields for NASA's new Orion spacecraft. The competition is part of the Exploration Design Challenge (ED ...Continue Reading

Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 26, 2014 * NASA Awards Contract for Intelligent Systems Research * NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT) of Greenbelt, Md., for a contract for Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support services at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. This cost-plus, fixed-fee c ...Continue Reading

Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 26, 2014 * NASA TV to Air Arrival of New Space Station Crew Thursday * NASA Television will broadcast the arrival of three crew members to the International Space Station beginning at 7 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 27. Their Soyuz spacecraft will dock with the station at 7:58 p.m. Coverage will resume at 10:15 p.m. for hat ...Continue Reading

Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 26, 2014 * NASA Marks Major Programmatic Milestone for Spaceport of the Future *  Click this link or the image above to view the videoAnimation of how NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft would be prepared for a deep space mission launch from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Image Credit: NA ...Continue Reading

March 26, 2014 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, Today, 26 March 2014, at 12.15 UTC an anomaly on the EPS dissemination system resulted in a loss of data from Metop-A and Metop-B, from sensing time 10.02 UTC onwards. Hence the ASCAT wind products are unavailable. Recovery actions are ongoing to resume the service as soon ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE GILLIAN Tropical Cyclone Gillian reached Category 5 status as it moved south over the Indian Ocean in March 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83423&src=nha *** Image from Mar 24, 2014 (Posted on Mar 26, 2014 1:18 PM) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading