March 12, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-044 * * NASA to Host Visit by Students of U.S. Senate Youth Program * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will address high school students participating in the 2014 United States Senate Youth Program at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, March 13, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will air on NASA Television. The discussion will focus on the intersection of public service and U.S. leadership in space exploration. Bolden will deliver the keynote remarks followed ...Continue Reading

March 12, 2014 * RELEASE 14-074 * * NASA's Operation IceBridge Begins New Arctic Campaign *  The NASA P-3 leaving the hangar at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on the morning of March 10 in preparation for the flight to Thule Air Base, Greenland. Image Credit: NASA/Patrick Black Researchers aboard NASA's P-3 research aircraft left the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season of collecting data on Arctic land and sea ice. The ...Continue Reading

March 12, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-046 * * Future Space Station Crew to Participate in NASA TV News Conference, Media Interviews * The crew of International Space Station Expedition 40/41, including NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, will participate in a NASA Television news conference and media interviews Tuesday, March 18, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Wiseman, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency will launch ...Continue Reading

March 12, 2014 The following position has opened at PO.DAAC. For additional information or to apply online, please visit: Scientific Applications Software Engineer, Science Data Engineering and Archiving Group Will be a member of the Science Data Engineering and Archiving Group and will report to the group supervisor. Will work as a data engineer in the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) in support of data management and engineering activities ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Mar 12 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 71 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Mar 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1996 N14W64 051 0190 Eac 11 17 Beta-Gamma 1998 S09W13 000 0060 Cao 04 04 Beta 2002 S19E ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (11 March 2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Second round of voting for Tournament: Earth now open! Voting is now open for the second round of Tournament: Earth. Only 16 images remain: how did your favorites fare in the first round? Many of the top seeds survived, but the "events" section has been turned upside down. Vote now, as the second round will close at 4pm EDT on Friday, March 14. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/T ...Continue Reading

March 11, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-043 * * NASA Administrator to See Space Launch System Progress at Marshall * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will get a firsthand look at the work being done on the Space Launch System (SLS) avionics and flight software during a visit Friday, March 14 to the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Journalists are invited to participate in the tour and media availability at 1:20 p.m. CDT. SLS, NASA's new rocket, will be the largest, most capab ...Continue Reading

March 11, 2014 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius v2.0 data covering the month of February 2014. Aquarius v2.0 data are being distributed via PODAAC’s general public ftp site, OPeNDAP and also THREDDS.  Links to these and also other Aquarius resources (eg. Aquarius v2.0 documentation package) are available at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/aquarius. Users should note that Aquarius v2.0 data are processed through the end of Fe ...Continue Reading

March 11, 2014 * RELEASE 14-073 * * Long-Term Warming Likely to Be Significant Despite Recent Slowdown * A new NASA study shows Earth's climate likely will continue to warm during this century on track with previous estimates, despite the recent slowdown in the rate of global warming. This research hinges on a new and more detailed calculation of the sensitivity of Earth's climate to the factors that cause it to change, such as greenhouse gas emissions. Drew Shindell, a climatologist at NASA's Godda ...Continue Reading

March 10, 2014 * RELEASE 14-072 * * Space Station Crew Returns to Earth, Lands Safely in Kazakhstan * Three crew members from the International Space Station returned to Earth Monday after 166 days in space, during which they made 2,656 orbits around the planet and traveled almost 70.5 million miles Expedition 38 crew members Michael Hopkins of NASA, and Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) touched down southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at abo ...Continue Reading