September 17, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov Jenny Knotts Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111norma.j.knotts@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-152 * * Home from Space, NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy Set for Interviews * NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, who returned to Earth Sept. 10 after more than five months on the International Space Station, will be available for media interviews from 2-3 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 19. To participate in the interviews, ...Continue Reading

September 17, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Jon Campbell U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va. 703-648-4180joncampbell@usgs.gov * RELEASE 13-283 * * NASA Launches Study of New Global Land Imaging System * NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will kick off a quest for an innovative and affordable space-based system to extend the Landsat satellite data record for decades to come with a public forum and call for ideas Wednesday, Sept. 18. The ...Continue Reading

September 17, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov John Verrico U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, Washington 202-254-2385john.verrico@dhs.gov   * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-151 * * NASA and Homeland Security To Demonstrate Disaster Rescue Tool * NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...Continue Reading

September 17, 2013 Sarah Ramsey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1694sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov   * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-149 * * NASA Highlights Asteroid Grand Challenge at World Maker Faire * NASA is reaching out to a new community for ideas on how to find and track potentially hazardous asteroids, and protect the planet from their impacts. The World Maker Faire is being held Sept. 21-22 at the New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th St., in New York. The World Maker Faire is a festival o ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 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 260 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1840 S11W75 222 0010 Bxo 02 02 Beta 1841 S04E02 144 0030 Hsx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- FIRES IN ARGENTINA A gallery of notable fires in Argentina. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82057&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 10, 2013 (Posted on Sep 13, 2013 3:12 PM) FIRES IN CALIFORNIA Notable fires in California in 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82038&src= ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN ARGENTINA A gallery of notable fires in Argentina. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82057&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 10, 2013 (Posted on Sep 13, 2013 3:12 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN COLORADO Intense rains brought widespread, destructive floods to Colorado ...Continue Reading

September 16, 2013 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius-CAP v2.0 data covering the month of August 2013.  CAP Level 2 and 3 products are described and discoverable via the PO.DAAC data portal http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?search=CAP and are being distributed via PODAAC’s general public ftp site, OPeNDAP, THREDDS and LAS.  Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of August, and will b ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 16 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 259 Issued at 0030Z on 16 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1841 S05E14 146 0030 Hax 02 02 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 15 ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-37 2013 September 15 at 6:14 p.m. MDT (2013 September 16 0014 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 9-15 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For September 16-22 No space weather storms are expected during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, ...Continue Reading