March 7, 2014 * RELEASE 14-063 * * NASA Selects 10 Proposals for Unprecedented Twin Astronaut Study * Only one set of twins has ever been into space, and now those twins are providing an unprecedented opportunity for scientists to understand better the effects of microgravity on the human body. NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) will fund 10 short-term, first-of-its-kind investigations into the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight in a continuous effort to reduce the he ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2014 * RELEASE 14-070 * * NASA Picks Small Business Tech Proposals for Development * NASA has selected 108 research and technology proposals from U.S. small businesses that will enable NASA's future missions while benefiting America's new high technology-driven economy right here on Earth. The selected proposals now will enter into negotiations for contract awards as part of Phase II of the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The selected aerospace technology and inn ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2014 * RELEASE 14-067 * * NASA's WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No 'Planet X' * After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system commonly dubbed "Planet X." Researchers previously had theorized about the existence of this large, but unseen celestial body, suspected to lie somewhere beyond the orbit of Pluto. In addition to ...Continue Reading

March 6, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-041 * * NASA Officials to View New Solar Array System at Ohio's Plum Brook Station * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Associate Administrator for Space Technology Michael Gazarik will visit the agency's Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station Wednesday, March 12, to see an advanced solar array system being tested at the facility. Bolden, Gazarik, Glenn Director Jim Free and executives of ATK, the California company that built the array, will tour the Plum B ...Continue Reading

March 6, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-038 * * NASA Television Set to Cover March Soyuz Landing Operations * Three crew members aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to end almost six months on the orbiting laboratory on March 10, and NASA Television will provide complete coverage. Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA will undock their Soyuz spacecraft from the s ...Continue Reading

March 6, 2014 * RELEASE 14-064 * * NASA Radar Demonstrates Ability to Foresee Sinkholes *  Aerial photo of a 25-acre sinkhole that formed unexpectedly near Bayou Corne, La., in Aug. 2012. Image Credit: On Wings of Care, New Orleans, La. New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, La. that year. The findings suggest such radar data, if collected routinely fro ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Mar 07 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 66 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Mar 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1990 S12W55 107 0180 Dso 06 11 Beta 1991 S25W38 090 0110 Eso 13 19 Beta 1993 N16W51 1 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- PACAYA VOLCANO Pacaya Volcano, near Guatemala City, erupted violently in March 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83278&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 02, 2014 (Posted on Mar 05, 2014 3:47 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards ...Continue Reading

Folks:             Alex Geppert, the organizer of this conference, asked that we spread the word.  Thanks a lot.             -Steve –––––––––––––––––––––––– Embattled Heavens. The Militarization of Space in Science, Fiction, and Politics Freie Universität Berlin, 10–12 April 2014 For much of the twentieth century, outer space has been envisioned as not only a site of heavenly utopias, but also t ...Continue Reading

March 6, 2014 * RELEASE 14-060 * * NASA's Hubble Telescope Witnesses Asteroid's Mysterious Disintegration *  This series of Hubble Space Telescope images reveals the breakup of an asteroid over a period of several months starting in late 2013. The largest fragments are up to 180 meters (200 yards) in radius.Image Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA)  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. Fragile comets, c ...Continue Reading