:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Mar 02 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 61 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Mar 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1680 S29W13 270 0010 Bxo 02 02 Beta 1681 N17E06 251 0010 Axx 01 02 Alpha 1682 S18W42 ...Continue Reading

March 1, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-041 SPACEX AND NASA HOST TELECONFERENCE TODAY ON SPACEX 2 MISSION TO SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- SpaceX and NASA will hold a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EST today to discuss the latest information about the company's second cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract. The teleconference participants are: - Elon M ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN TURKMENISTAN A dust storm blew through Turkmenistan at the end of February 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80552&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 28, 2013 (Posted on Mar 01, 2013 1:12 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Ha ...Continue Reading

March 1, 2013 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-066 NASA BEGINS FLIGHT RESEARCH CAMPAIGN USING ALTERNATE JET FUEL WASHINGTON -- NASA researchers have begun a series of flights using the agency's DC-8 flying laboratory to study the effects of alternate biofuel on engine performance, emissions and aircraft-generated contrails at altitude. The Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions (ACCESS) research involves flying the DC-8 as hig ...Continue Reading

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:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Mar 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 60 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Mar 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1680 S28W00 270 0020 Cro 04 03 Beta 1681 N17E20 249 0020 Cro 02 02 Beta 1682 S18W30 2 ...Continue Reading

Feb. 28, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Laura Catherine Snider University of Colorado 303-735-0528 laura.snider@colorado.edu Geoff Brown Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 240-228-5618 or 443-778-5618 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 13-065 NASA'S VAN ALLEN PROBES REVEAL A NEW RADIATION BELT AROUND EARTH WASHINGTON -- NASA's Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt ar ...Continue Reading

Thirty-two will vie for the title, but only one can be the winner. They are the best Earth images of the year, the top 32 from 2012. But which ones will be good enough to survive head-to-head competition? From March 4 through April 5, Earth Observatory readers can vote for their favorite images of the year, whittling the total from 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 in a tournament of remote sensing science. The competition will be stiff in the four bra ...Continue Reading

Thirty-two will vie for the title, but only one can be the winner. They are the best Earth images of the year, the top 32 from 2012. But which ones will be good enough to survive head-to-head competition? From March 4 through April 5, Earth Observatory readers can vote for their favorite images of the year, whittling the total from 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 in a tournament of remote sensing science. The competition will be stiff in the four bra ...Continue Reading

Thirty-two will vie for the title, but only one can be the winner. They are the best Earth images of the year, the top 32 from 2012. But which ones will be good enough to survive head-to-head competition? From March 4 through April 5, Earth Observatory readers can vote for their favorite images of the year, whittling the total from 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 in a tournament of remote sensing science. The competition will be stiff in the four brackets — Earth at Night, Events, Data, and True-Color — so it is up to y ...Continue Reading