September 27, 2013 Stephen Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4787cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov * CONTRACT RELEASE C13-047 * * NASA Awards Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center Contract * NASA has selected the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to develop and operate the Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for NASA’s Earth Observing ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- EARTHQUAKE BIRTHS NEW ISLAND OFF PAKISTAN On September 24, 2013, a violent earthquake rocked the Balochistan province of Pakistan and disturbed the land and seafloor surface. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82146&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Sep 26, 2013 (Posted on Sep 27, 2013 10:36 AM ...Continue Reading

September 27, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5227rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-300 * * Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA's New Orion Spacecraft * Astronauts Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman try out a prototype display and control system inside an Orion spacecraft mockup at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston during the first ascent and abort simulations for the program. For ...Continue Reading

September 27, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111josh.byerly@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-157 * * Updated Cygnus Rendezvous Date, NASA TV Coverage for Orbital Sciences' Demonstration Mission to International Space Station * NASA and its International Space Station partners have approved a Sunday, Sept. 29, target arrival of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft on its demonstration cargo ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 27 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 270 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1846 S18W44 059 0130 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1850 N10W18 033 0180 Dao 07 16 Beta 1852 S21W70 ...Continue Reading

September 26, 2013 Dear PO.DAAC Data User, Recently, the CFI Group on behalf of NASA sent out an email requesting your participation in a survey of users of NASA Earth science data and services, which includes the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC).  People have reported they did not receive any emails from the CFI group.  While this issue is being investigated, we are providing the following link to the survey to encourage every ...Continue Reading

September 26, 2013 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, A spacecraft anomaly first detected on 17 September 2013 of the Metop-B Solid State Recorder (SSR) requires correction. This anomaly impacted the enhanced timeliness achieved through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA). During the recovery period there will be ...Continue Reading

September 26, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-298 * * Science Benefits from Diverse Landing Area of NASA Mars Rover * NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and atmosphere. Examination of loose rocks, sand and dust has provi ...Continue Reading

September 26, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-156 * * NASA Media Resources Available on New International Climate Report * NASA will make scientists and data visualizations available to journalists Friday, Sept. 27, with the release of a portion of the Fifth Assessment Report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC will issue the "Summary for Policymakers" of the "Physica ...Continue Reading

September 26, 2013 Sarah Ramsey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1694sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov   * RELEASE 13-299 * * NASA, Partners Announce LAUNCH: Systems Challenge Forum * NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike Inc. will host the fifth forum of the LAUNCH initiative at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.  Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28. This year’s forum, LAUNCH: Systems Challeng ...Continue Reading