June 13th 2013 PDT
June 13, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Maria-Jose Vinas Garcia Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-614-5883 maria-jose.vinasgarcia@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-183 WARM OCEAN, NOT ICEBERGS, CAUSING MOST OF ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES' MASS LOSS PASADENA, Calif. -- Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of ...Continue Reading
June 13th 2013 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- FIRES IN COLORADO A gallery of notable fires in Colorado during 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81396&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jun 12, 2013 (Posted on Jun 13, 2013 11:47 AM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81389&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 11, 2013 ...Continue Reading
June 13th 2013 PDT
June 13, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Donna Weaver Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4593 dweaver@stsci.edu RELEASE: 13-182 NASA'S HUBBLE UNCOVERS EVIDENCE OF FARTHEST PLANET FORMING FROM ITS STAR WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star, a finding that may challenge current theories about planet formation. Of the ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2013 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jun 13 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 164 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Jun 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1765 N09W78 055 0030 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1768 S11W19 354 0050 Dao 04 06 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2013 PDT
June 12, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 13-181 NASA'S CHANDRA TURNS UP BLACK HOLE BONANZA IN GALAXY NEXT DOOR WASHINGTON -- Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. Using more than 150 Chandra observations, sp ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2013 PDT
June 12, 2013 In preparation for the upcoming release of MetOp-B ASCAT data, the existing FTP/OPeNDAP layout and location for the MetOp-A ASCAT datasets will undergo a slight change effective this Thursday, 13 June 2013 at approximately 16:00 PDT (23:00 UTC). For the FTP site, all existing MetOp-A ASCAT dataset basepaths will change from ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/ascat/preview/L2/ to the new basepath: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/ascat/preview/L2/metop_a/ For OPeNDAP ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2013 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jun 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 163 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Jun 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1765 N09W64 054 0050 Dao 10 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 11/ ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2013 PDT
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (11 June 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Surging Elbe in Wittenberg http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81368&src=eoa-iotd * A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81313&src=eoa-iotd * Little Rock, Arkansas http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81310&src=eoa-iotd * Monochromatic Lava Fields ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2013 PDT
June 11, 2013 Steve Cole/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918/202-358-1726 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov / dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-095 NASA SCHEDULES MEDIA EVENTS AND COVERAGE FOR NEW SOLAR MISSION LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 26, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch on an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegas ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2013 PDT
June 11, 2013 The user guide and web portal dataset description have been updated for this dataset in response to some issues recently discovered by experts in the ocean vector wind community. For a summary of known issues, please refer to the updated dataset description: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/QSCAT_OSUCOAS_L3_OW_USWestCoast For more details, please refer to Sections 7-8 of the user guide: ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/quikscat/preview/L3/osu_coas/docs/qscat_vanho ...Continue Reading
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