var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option June 4, 2014 * NASA Invites Universities to Submit Innovative Early-Stage Technology Proposals * NASA is seeking proposals from universities to advance the agency's plans for exploration to deep space and Mars. The Early Stage Innovations NASA Research Announcement calls for innovative space technology proposals that could benefit the ...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 June 4, 2014 * NASA Statement on National Research Council Report on Human Spaceflight * The following is a statement from NASA regarding the National Research Council report, “Pathways to Exploration – Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration” -- “NASA welcomes the release of this report. After a prelim ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jun 04 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 155 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Jun 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2075 S09W69 027 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2077 S08E17 301 0080 Cso 04 06 Beta 2078 S19W13 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (03 June 2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Taking the Temperature of the Hurricane Pool http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83802&src=eoa-iotd * Sangeang Api Erupts http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83799&src=eoa-iotd * Venice Lagoon http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83793&src=eoa-iotd * An Old Bird on the Greenland Ice h ...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 June 3, 2014 * Hubble Team Unveils Most Colorful View of Universe Captured by Space Telescope *  This is a composite image showing the visible and near infrared light spectrum collected from Hubble's ACS and WFC3 instruments over a nine-year period.Image Credit: NASA/ESA  Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ...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 June 3, 2014 * NASA Begins Testing of New Spectrograph on Agency's Airborne Observatory * Astronomers are eagerly waiting to begin use of a new instrument to study celestial objects: a high-resolution, mid-infrared spectrograph mounted on NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the world's largest flying telesc ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jun 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 154 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Jun 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2075 S09W55 026 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2077 S05E31 300 0090 Cso 05 12 Beta 2078 S19E01 ...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 June 2, 2014 * NASA's 'Flying Saucer' Readies for First Test Flight * NASA's flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering shakeout flight. The first launch opportunity for the test vehicle is June 3, when the launch windo ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN ALASKA The 2014 fire season in Alaska. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83776&src=nha *** Image from May 26, 2014 (Posted on May 27, 2014 1:46 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE AMANDA The Aqua satellite captured this view of Amanda—the first named storm of the 20 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SANGEANG API ERUPTION A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sangeang erupted explosively on May 30, 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83799&src=nha *** Image from May 31, 2014 (Posted on Jun 02, 2014 10:28 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natura ...Continue Reading