December 4, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850jccook@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-358 * * NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon * NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north pole. This is the first movie of its kind, using color filters, and the first ...Continue Reading

December 4, 2013 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730david.steitz@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover 650-604-0643 Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.rachel.hoover@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-362 * * NASA's Latest Space Technology Small Satellite Phones Home * PhoneSat 2.4, NASA's next generation smartphone cubesat has phoned home. The tiny spacecraft that uses an off-the-shelf smartphone for a brain has completed checkout and sent back data confirming all systems are "go" f ...Continue Reading

December 4, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu * RELEASE 13-355 * * Supernova Blast Provides Clues to Determining Age of Binary Star System * Illustration of Circinus X-1, an X-ray binary star system. (Image credit: NASA) Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed faint remnants of a supernova explosion and helped researchers determine Circinus ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 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 338 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1908 S26W34 232 0080 Dso 10 05 Beta 1909 S18W07 205 0250 Ekc 11 17 Beta-Gamma 1911 S11 ...Continue Reading

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The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (03 December 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Air and Tenere Natural Reserves http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82487&src=eoa-iotd * A Ridge with a Cloud on Top http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82451&src=eoa-iotd * Activity at Kliuchevskoi http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82471&src=eoa-iotd * Blooming in the South Atla ...Continue Reading

December 3, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-930-6149rachel.hoover@nasa.gov * CONTRACT RELEASE C13-052 * * NASA Selects Contractors for Facility Construction at Ames * NASA has selected four California companies to perform facility construction and modifications at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The companies are Cyber Professional Solutions of Chula ...Continue Reading

December 3, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-356 * * NASA iPad Application Shows Earth Changing Before Your Eyes * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden explores "Images of Change," a NASA application that allows users to view "before and after" images of the impact of human activities, a changing climate and natural disasters on E ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT SAKURAJIMA VOLCANO INTENSIFIES Sakurajima Volcano erupted more than 400 times during 2009, and frequent activity continued through 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82485&src=nha *** OLI(Landsat 8) image from Nov 23, 2013 (Posted on Dec 03, 2013 10:35 AM) ------------------ ...Continue Reading

December 3, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Stephanie Covey Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468stephanie.a.covey@nasa.gov Gwen Griffin/Brooke Crawford Griffin Communications Group 281-335-0200gwen@griffincg.com / brooke@griffincg.com * RELEASE 13-353 * * NASA Commercial Crew Partner Blue Origin Test-Fires New Rocket Engine * Blue Origin test fires a powerful new hydrogen- and oxygen-fueled American rocket engine at the company's ...Continue Reading