There are 3 messages totalling 137 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA Awards Construction and Engineering Services Contract 2. NASA TV Coverage Set for Japanese Cargo Ship Destined for Space Station 3. NASA Invites Media to Preview Pollution-Climate Science Flights ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:56:05 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA Awards Construction and Engineering Services Contract July 30, 2013 Linda Matthews- ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Aug 01 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 213 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Aug 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 31 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 31/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1801 N19W36 084 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1805 S07W86 134 0120 Dao 07 03 Beta 1806 S15E09 ...Continue Reading

July 31, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850jccook@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-241 * * NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Reveals Forces Controlling Saturn Moon Jets * The intensity of jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus depends on the moon's proximity to the ringed planet, according to data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The findi ...Continue Reading

July 31, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111josh.byerly@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-119 * * NASA TV Coverage Set for Japanese Cargo Ship Destined for Space Station * The launch of a Japanese cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station and its arrival at the orbiting laboratory will be broadcast on NASA Television Aug. 3 and Aug. 9. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is scheduled to launch ...Continue Reading

July 31, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-240 * * NASA Completes First Internal Review of Concepts for Asteroid Redirect Mission * NASA has completed the first step toward a mission to find and capture a near-Earth asteroid, redirect it to a stable lunar orbit and send humans to study it. In preparation for fiscal year 2014, a mission formulation review on Tuesday brought together NASA leaders from across the country to examine ...Continue Reading

July 31, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-120 * * NASA Invites Media to Preview Pollution-Climate Science Flights * For a behind-the-scenes look at NASA's upcoming airborne campaign to study how air pollution from wildfires and other sources affects our climate, NASA will host a media day from 8-11 a.m. CDT Wednesday, Aug. 21, in Houston. Th ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 683 2013 Jul 30, Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- Expedition 36 is continuing. The crew are commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineers FE-2 Alexandr Misurkin, FE-3 Chris Cassidy, FE-4 Yurchikin, FE-5 Parmitano and FE-6 Nyberg. Ferry ship Soyuz TMA-08M is at Poisk and TMA-09M at Rassvet. Cargo ship ATV-4 i ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jul 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 212 Issued at 0030Z on 31 Jul 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1800 S07W95 156 0030 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1801 N19W23 083 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1805 S07W71 ...Continue Reading

July 30, 2013 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the MetOp-B ASCAT Level 2 datasets provided by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Ocean and Sea Ice Scatterometer Application Facility (OSI SAF). Two Level 2 netCDF datasets are included in this release: [*] operational 25 km (with an effective resolution of 50 km) and [*] operational 12.5 km (wi ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (30 July 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Mile Marker 28 Fire, Washington http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81738&src=eoa-iotd * Tropical Storm Flossie http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81730&src=eoa-iotd * Salton Trough http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81711&src=eoa-iotd * New Ice Island at Pine Island Glacier http:/ ...Continue Reading