December 3, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington                                    202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-359 * * NASA Statement on Planetary Research and Analysis Restructuring * The following is a statement from NASA's Planetary Director Jim Green on Tuesday's virtual town hall meeting wi ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (03 December 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Air and Tenere Natural Reserves http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82487&src=eoa-iotd * A Ridge with a Cloud on Top http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82451&src=eoa-iotd * Activity at Kliuchevskoi http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82471&src=eoa-iotd * Blooming in the South Atla ...Continue Reading

December 3, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-930-6149rachel.hoover@nasa.gov * CONTRACT RELEASE C13-052 * * NASA Selects Contractors for Facility Construction at Ames * NASA has selected four California companies to perform facility construction and modifications at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The companies are Cyber Professional Solutions of Chula ...Continue Reading

December 3, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-356 * * NASA iPad Application Shows Earth Changing Before Your Eyes * NASA Administrator Charles Bolden explores "Images of Change," a NASA application that allows users to view "before and after" images of the impact of human activities, a changing climate and natural disasters on E ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT SAKURAJIMA VOLCANO INTENSIFIES Sakurajima Volcano erupted more than 400 times during 2009, and frequent activity continued through 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82485&src=nha *** OLI(Landsat 8) image from Nov 23, 2013 (Posted on Dec 03, 2013 10:35 AM) ------------------ ...Continue Reading

December 3, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Stephanie Covey Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468stephanie.a.covey@nasa.gov Gwen Griffin/Brooke Crawford Griffin Communications Group 281-335-0200gwen@griffincg.com / brooke@griffincg.com * RELEASE 13-353 * * NASA Commercial Crew Partner Blue Origin Test-Fires New Rocket Engine * Blue Origin test fires a powerful new hydrogen- and oxygen-fueled American rocket engine at the company's ...Continue Reading

December 3, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Nancy Neal-Jones/Elizabeth Zubritsky Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039/301-614-5438Nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov/elizabeth.a.zubritsky@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute 410-338-4514villard@stsci.edu * RELEASE 13-324 * * Hubble Traces Subtle Signals of Water on Hazy Worlds * Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of w ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 03 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 337 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1908 S25W22 233 0120 Eao 11 09 Beta-Gamma 1909 S17E06 205 0330 Ekc 11 27 Beta-Gamma 19 ...Continue Reading

December 2, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington       202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850jccook@jpl.nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-190 * * NASA Holds Google+ Hangout on Cassini's Findings at Saturn * NASA will host a Google+ Hangout at 3:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 4, to discuss images of Saturn taken by the agency's Cassini spacecraft. The Hangout also will look ahead to the next ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- WINTER STORM OVER THE UNITED STATES A large winter storm swept across the United States during the busy Thanksgiving travel period. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82469&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 26, 2013 (Posted on Nov 27, 2013 5:54 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/ ...Continue Reading