December 31, 2013 * RELEASE 13-383 * * NASA's Hubble Sees Cloudy Super-Worlds With Chance for More Clouds * Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have characterized the atmospheres of two of the most common type of planets in the Milky Way galaxy and found both may be blanketed with clouds. The planets are GJ 436b, located 36 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, and GJ 1214b, 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. Despite numerous efforts, the nature of the atmosph ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 31 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 365 Issued at 0030Z on 31 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1931 S14W87 290 0130 Hax 02 01 Alpha 1934 S17W68 269 0140 Eac 12 09 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- A NEW ISLAND FORMS NEAR NISHINO-SHIMA VOLCANO Volcanic activity along the western edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire” gave rise to a tiny island in late November 2013. Located in the Ogasawara Islands, part of the Volcano Islands arc, the new islet sits about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Tokyo in waters considered p ...Continue Reading

December 30, 2013 * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-198 * * NASA Sends Out of This World New Year’s Greeting in Times Square * NASA astronauts will help ring in 2014 by sending greetings from space and from Earth to the crowd gathered in New York's Times Square on New Year’s Eve. Astronaut Mike Massimino will participate in the New Year’s Eve Countdown event on Tuesday evening, Dec. 31. He also will introduce a video greeting from Expedition 36 flight engineer Karen Nyberg, who returned from the International S ...Continue Reading

December 30, 2013 * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-197 * * NASA Offers News Media Access to TDRS-L Spacecraft Jan. 3 * NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)-L will be the focus of a media opportunity at 10 a.m. EST Friday, Jan. 3, at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla. Media  will be able to view the TDRS-L spacecraft and interview project and launch program officials from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; the Launch Services Program at the agency's Ken ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-53 2013 December 29 at 7:19 p.m. MST (2013 December 30 0219 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For December 23-29 R1 (Minor) radio blackouts were observed on 23 and 29 December due to flare activity from active Regions 1928 and 1936 respectively. S1 (Minor) solar radiation storms were observed from 28 December at 2150Z to 29 December at 0645Z due to an erupti ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 30 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 364 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1931 S14W73 289 0110 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1934 S18W53 269 0160 Esc 12 17 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 29 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 363 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1931 S15W58 287 0140 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1934 S18W38 267 0160 Esi 13 15 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 28 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 362 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1930 S08W89 332 0030 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1931 S15W43 286 0160 Cao 06 03 Beta 1934 S16W26 ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 92 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA TV Coverage of Russian Spacewalk at Space Station on Dec. 27 2. NASA Awards Information Technology and Multimedia Contract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 08:50:09 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA TV Coverage of Russian Spacewalk at Space Station on Dec. 27 December 24, 2013 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, ...Continue Reading