November 19, 2013 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov  * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-183 * * NASA Hosts News Conference Call to Discuss Record-Setting Cosmic Blast * NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 21, to announce new findings about a record-setting gamma-ray burst observed in unprecedented detail by the agency's Fermi, ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Nov 19 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 323 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Nov 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1893 S13W66 102 0480 Eki 12 15 Beta-Delta 1895 S16W42 078 0040 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1896 N1 ...Continue Reading

November 18, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468george.h.diller@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-342 * * NASA Launches Mission to Study Upper Atmosphere of Mars * A NASA mission that will investigate how Mars lost its atmosphere and abundant liquid water launched into space at 1:28 p.m. EST Monday from Cap ...Continue Reading

Readers of this list-serv in the Washington, DC, area might be interested in this announcement from our Air & Space Museum colleague, Cathy Lewis. The Air and Space Museum is having a public program on Thursday that I though you or your staff might find interesting.  It is on spacesuits and will consist of an hour and a half formal program in the Moving Beyond Earth gallery, followed by an informal program in the Suited for Space exhibit in the Art Gallery.  Please feel free to distribute this announcem ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- STUBBLE BURNING IN NORTHERN INDIA As they do every fall, Indian farmers burned crop residue in November 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82409&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 12, 2013 (Posted on Nov 15, 2013 3:40 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- RARE TROPICAL CYCLONE STRIKE ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- STUBBLE BURNING IN NORTHERN INDIA As they do every fall, Indian farmers burned crop residue in November 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82409&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 12, 2013 (Posted on Nov 15, 2013 3:40 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Haz ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-47 2013 November 17 at 5:51 p.m. MST (2013 November 18 0051 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For November 11-17 R1 (minor) solar radio blackouts were observed on 11, 13 and 15 - 17 November due to solar flares from active Regions 1897, 1899 and 1900. Outlook For November 18-24 A continued chance for R1 (minor) radio blackouts exists through the outlook p ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Nov 18 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 322 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Nov 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1893 S13W52 101 0420 Dkc 10 31 Beta-Delta 1895 S16W30 079 0080 Hsx 03 05 Alpha 1896 N1 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Nov 17 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 321 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Nov 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1893 S13W39 101 0290 Dkc 07 23 Beta-Gamma 1895 S16W17 079 0070 Hax 02 02 Alpha 1896 N1 ...Continue Reading

November 16, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov George Hale Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-614-5853george.r.hale@nasa.gov   * RELEASE 13-341 * * NASA Begins First Antarctic Airborne Campaign from McMurdo Station * NASA's Operation IceBridge has begun its 2013 Antarctic field campaign with the arrival of the agency's aircraft and scientists at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The IceBridg ...Continue Reading