July 30, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-930-6149rachel.hoover@nasa.gov * RELEASE C13-032 * * NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services * NASA will exercise the fifth one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. of Lanham, Md., for supercomputing support services at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The option exercised on the cost ...Continue Reading

July 30, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-930-6149rachel.hoover@nasa.gov * RELEASE C13-032 * * NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services * NASA will exercise the fifth one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. of Lanham, Md., for supercomputing support services at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The option exercised on the cost ...Continue Reading

July 30, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington  202-358-1761sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gv Linda Matthews-Schmidt Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111linda.j.matthews-schmidt@nasa.gov * RELEASE C13-031 * * NASA Awards Construction and Engineering Services Contract * NASA has selected Gilbane Building Company of Houston to provide Construction Management and Professional Engineering Services (CoMPES) at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The five-year $25 million fi ...Continue Reading

July 30, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia 757-824-1579keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-122 * * Accreditation Open for Launches, Hurricane Study Media Day at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility * Media accreditation now is open for two launches and a media viewing opportunity in September from NASA's Wallop ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES IN SIBERIA Fires burned across Russia during the summer of 2012 and 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81736&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 25, 2013 (Posted on Jul 29, 2013 3:14 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81734&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 29 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jul 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 211 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Jul 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1800 S08W84 159 0170 Dao 06 05 Beta-Gamma 1801 N19W09 083 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1805 S0 ...Continue Reading

July 29, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu * RELEASE 13-237 * * NASA's Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time * For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star. An advantageous alignment of ...Continue Reading

Readers of this list-serv may be interested to know…The renovation of the NASA Headquarters building at 300 E Street SW in Washington, DC, will reach our Historical Reference Collection (the "archive" in the basement) in November 2013. With that date in mind, we will begin packing up the collection in August. This will not only limit access to the collection, but will consume much of the time of our archival staff during packing this fall and unpacking next spring. Nearly everything in the office will be pack ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN WASHINGTON A gallery of notable fires that affected Washington in 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81726&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 27, 2013 (Posted on Jul 29, 2013 10:13 AM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM FLOSSIE In late July 2013, a rare tropic ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES IN WASHINGTON A gallery of notable fires that affected Washington in 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81726&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jul 27, 2013 (Posted on Jul 29, 2013 10:13 AM) FIRES IN MONTANA AND IDAHO Fires in Montana and Idaho * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/vie ...Continue Reading