:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 27 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 117 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1726 N13W93 331 0600 Ekc 13 20 Beta-Gamma 1727 N25W39 277 0010 Axx 01 02 Alpha 1728 N1 ...Continue Reading

April 26, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-123 NASA, PARTNERS SOLICIT CREATIVE MATERIALS MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. State Department and Nike have issued a challenge to identify 10 game-changing innovations that could enable fabric systems to enhance global economic growth, drives human prosperity and replenishes the planet's resources. T ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUME OVER THE SAHARA DESERT A dust storm blew through the Sahara Desert in late April 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81004&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Apr 24, 2013 (Posted on Apr 26, 2013 1:05 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natura ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 44 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA EXTENDS MISSION OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:29:45 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA EXTENDS MISSION OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT April 25, 2013 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #C13-021 NASA EXTENDS MISSION OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT HOU ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 26 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 116 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1726 N13W85 331 1000 Fkc 17 17 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1727 N24W26 277 0030 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1 ...Continue Reading

April 25, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-120 NASA PROBE OBSERVES METEORS COLLIDING WITH SATURN'S RINGS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides Earth, the moon, an ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION AT PALUWEH VOLCANO A recent eruption covered much of Indonesia's Paluweh Volcano in ash. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80987&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Apr 19, 2013 (Posted on Apr 25, 2013 12:15 PM) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

April 24, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1760 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-118 NASA SELECTS SMALL BUSINESSES FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 44 additional proposals from 42 small high-technology companies to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Valued at about $30.7 million, these selections complement 39 Phase 2 proposals announced in Novem ...Continue Reading

April 25, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-021 NASA EXTENDS MISSION OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT HOUSTON -- NASA has exercised a contract option with Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide continued mission control systems services, development, maintenance and operations support as part of the Facilities Development and Operations Contract. The ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 25 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 115 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1726 N13W63 328 0840 Fkc 17 30 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1727 N25W11 276 0030 Hax 02 03 Alpha 1 ...Continue Reading