September 12, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514villard@stsci.edu * RELEASE 13-282 * * Hubble Uncovers Largest Known Group of Star Clusters, Clues to Dark Matter * Hubble Space Telescope image of largest known population of globular clusters, in Abell 1689 galaxy grouping. Image Credit: NASA/ESA NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known p ...Continue Reading

September 12, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle/Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 / 818-354-0850agle@jpl.nasa.gov / jia-rui.c.cook@jpl.nasa.gov/   * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-147 * * NASA News Conference Today To Discuss Voyager Spacecraft * NASA will host a news conference today at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT), to discuss NASA's Voyager mission. It is related to a paper to be published in the journa ...Continue Reading

There are 3 messages totalling 154 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. San Antonio Native Earns NASA JSC POWER of One Award 2. NASA TV Coverage Set for Orbital Sciences Demonstration Mission 3. Space Station Crew Lands, Wrapping Up 166 Days in Space ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:08:54 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: San Antonio Native Earns NASA JSC POWER of One Award September 11, 2013 Megan Sumner Johnson Space Center, Hou ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 12 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 255 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1838 S04W13 226 0010 Axx 02 03 Alpha 1839 S12W40 252 0020 Cro 04 04 Beta 1840 S12W03 ...Continue Reading

September 11, 2013 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius v2.0 data covering the month of August 2013. Aquarius v2.0 data are being distributed via PODAAC’s general public ftp site, OPeNDAP and also THREDDS.  Links to these and also other Aquarius resources (eg. Aquarius v2.0 documentation package) are available at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/aquarius. Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of ...Continue Reading

For those interested in Pluto and planetary missions, Please join us next Thursday, September 19, 2013, at 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT for our next History Quarterly Speaker, Dr. Mike Neufeld.  A curator in the Space History Department of the National Air and Space Museum, Mike is well known for his incisive, carefully researched, award–winning works, including: "The Rocket and the Reich," and "Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War."  Mike will be speaking to us about his latest resea ...Continue Reading

September 11, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Ellen Gray Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-1950ellen.t.gray@nasa.gov   * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-146 * * Media Invited to Final Prelaunch Exhibition of New Weather Satellite * News and social media members have an opportunity to get an up-close look at NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory satellite Tuesday, Oct. 8, at NASA's Goddard Spac ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA Notable fires in California in 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82038&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Sep 09, 2013 (Posted on Sep 10, 2013 2:48 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://n ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 685 2013 Sep 11, Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- Expedition 36 was completed on Sep 10. The crew were commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineers FE-2 Alexandr Misurkin, FE-3 Chris Cassidy, FE-4 Yurchikin, FE-5 Parmitano and FE-6 Nyberg. Expedition 37, which began after the undocking of Soyuz TMA-08M fr ...Continue Reading

September 10, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111josh.byerly@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-281 * * Space Station Crew Lands, Wrapping Up 166 Days in Space * Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy of NASA and Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency have returned to Earth from the International Space Station, landing safely in Kazakhstan at 10:58 p.m. EDT Tuesday (8:58 a.m. Se ...Continue Reading