var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 3, 2014 * NASA Challenge Invites Students to Design Exploration Systems * College and university students have an opportunity to help design systems for future space habitats and exploration systems through NASA's Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge. Applications for the fifth annual challenge will be accept ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 55 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA, Conrad Foundation Collaborate on 2014 Spirit of Innovation Challenge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:23:26 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA, Conrad Foundation Collaborate on 2014 Spirit of Innovation Challenge April 2, 2014 Megan Sumner Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #MEDIA ADVISORY M14-058 NASA, Conrad Foundation Collaborate on 2014 S ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Apr 03 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 93 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Apr 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2021 S13W17 075 0330 Dki 07 12 Beta-Gamma 2022 N17W03 061 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2026 S11 ...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 April 2, 2014 * NASA Celebrates Earth Day with "Global Selfie" Event *  NASA’s “Global Selfie” event is designed to encourage environmental awareness and recognize the agency’s ongoing work to protect our home planet.Image Credit: NASA/JPL  For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth-observing mission ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Apr 02 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 92 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Apr 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2017 N10W78 149 0010 Axx 02 02 Alpha 2021 S14W05 076 0220 Dai 07 18 Beta-Gamma 2022 N17 ...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 April 1, 2014 * NASA Begins Search for Potential SOFIA Partners * NASA issued a Request for Information (RFI) Monday soliciting potential partners interested in using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft for scientific investigations or for other potential uses. NASA's Fiscal Year 2015 budget request ...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 April 1, 2014 * NASA to Host Media Teleconference on Spacecraft's Planned Moon Impact * NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 3, to discuss the extended mission operations, additional science gathering, and planned impact in April of the agency's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spac ...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 April 1, 2014 * Media Invited to View Space Station-Bound Earth Science Instrument with NASA’s Associate Administrator * Media are invited to meet with NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot during a visit to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 2. During the visit, Lightfoot and med ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (01 April 2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tournament: Earth -- The Finals are here! Last year, a longshot image showing an underwater volcanic eruption near the Canary Islands came from nowhere to win our first-ever Tournament Earth. The championship round of the 2014 tournament has arrived, and yet another Canary Islands image seems poised to capture the crown. However, "Trailing the Canaries" will have some stiff compet ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT MOUNT MERAPI Indonesia's Mount Merapi exhibited a short-lived increase in activity on March 27, 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83442&src=nha *** Image from Mar 27, 2014 (Posted on Mar 31, 2014 6:13 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading