:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Oct 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 274 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Oct 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1850 N10W73 034 0050 Cso 05 03 Beta 1854 N05E34 287 0010 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1855 S13E16 ...Continue Reading

September 30, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-6982michele.johnson@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-303 * * NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds on Exotic World * Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond ...Continue Reading

September 30, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarter, Washington 202-358-1100rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-304 * * Astronauts Chamitoff and Garan Depart NASA * NASA astronauts Gregory Chamitoff and Ronald Garan are leaving the agency. Chamitoff is joining the faculty of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the University of Sydney in Australia. Garan will work on a range of new entrepreneurial and humani ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (2 updated events, 2 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

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- MOUNT ETNA With a series of paroxysms, Mount Etna has reclaimed its status as one of the most active volcanoes on Earth. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82169&src=nha *** OLI(Landsat 8) image from Sep 24, 2013 (Posted on Sep 30, 2013 1:37 PM) -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new image ...Continue Reading

September 30, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111jay.bolden@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-305 * * NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members * NASA and its international partners have appointed future crew members for the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake are scheduled to launch in December 2015 and return to Earth in spring 2016. T ...Continue Reading

September 30, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal-Jones/Elizabeth Zubritsky Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039/301-614-5438nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov / elizabeth.a.zubritsky@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850jccook@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-301 * * NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ingredient of Household Plastic in Space * NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-39 2013 September 30 at 12:45 a.m. MDT (2013 September 30 0645 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 23-29 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For September 30-October 6 S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm conditions are expected on 30 Sep and 01 Oct due to particle enhancement associated with the 29 Sep coronal ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 30 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 273 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1846 S17W84 059 0100 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1850 N10W60 035 0060 Dso 08 05 Beta-Gamma 1854 N0 ...Continue Reading

September 29, 2013 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600david.s.weaver@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-302 * * Statements on Berthing of Orbital Cygnus Spacecraft to the International Space Station * The following are statements from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology John P. Holdren about the berthing of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden: & ...Continue Reading