The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- CROPS AND DROUGHT (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DROUGHT IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES A serious drought settled over California in early 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=84105&src=nha *** Image from Jul 21, 2014 (Posted on Jul 31, 2014 3:44 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a servic ...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 August 1, 2014 * NASA Awards Mission Operations Support Contract Extension * NASA has awarded a contract extension to Lockheed Martin Corporation of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for the Facilities Development and Operations Contract (FDOC) at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. This $340.6 million three-year extension includes a ...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 August 1, 2014 * NASA Awards Modification for Geophysics, Geodynamics and Space Geodesy Support Contract * NASA has awarded a modification to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT) of Greenbelt, Maryland to continuing working the the Geophysics, Geodynamics and Space Geodesy (GGSG) Support Services contract. The maximum ordering v ...Continue Reading

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:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Aug 01 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 213 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Aug 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 31 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 31/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2121 N08W54 325 0090 Cai 05 11 Beta 2125 S14E03 268 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2126 S09W54 ...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 July 31, 2014 * Reporters Invited to See Orion, Speak with NASA Managers at Navy Days-Los Angeles * A test version of NASA's new Orion spacecraft will be at the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Aug. 6, following testing with the U.S. Navy. Media are invited from 6 to 9 a.m. PDT to see the craft and learn about NASA's deep space exploration p ...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 July 31, 2014 * NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Reveals New Source of Gamma Rays *  These images show Fermi data centered on each of the four gamma-ray novae observed by the LAT. Colors indicate the number of detected gamma rays with energies greater than 100 million electron volts (blue indicates lowest, yellow highest).Image Credit ...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 July 31, 2014 * NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before * The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet. Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic str ...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 July 31, 2014 * NASA Hosts 3 p.m. EDT Teleconference with Mars 2020 Principal Investigators * NASA will host a teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT today with the principal investigators of the selected instruments that will fly aboard the agency’s Mars 2020 rover. The agency announced at its headquarters in Washington that its next roving M ...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 July 31, 2014 * Hubble Shows Farthest Lensing Galaxy Yields Clues to Early Universe *  The farthest cosmic lens yet found, a massive elliptical galaxy, is shown in the inset image at left. The galaxy existed 9.6 billion years ago and belongs to the galaxy cluster, IRC 0218. Image Credit: NASA and ESA  Astronomers using NASA' ...Continue Reading