:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Feb 10 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 41 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Feb 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1665 N11W81 241 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1667 N23W37 197 0070 Cso 06 02 Beta 1670 N19W01 ...Continue Reading

Feb. 9, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-044 NASA CURIOSITY ROVER COLLECTS FIRST MARTIAN BEDROCK SAMPLE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first ti ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Feb 09 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 40 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Feb 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1665 N13W72 244 0120 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1667 N23W25 197 0080 Cso 06 04 Beta 1669 N07E11 ...Continue Reading

Feb. 08, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Dan Huot Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-009 NASA AWARDS ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., for an engineering, technology and science contract at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The cost-plus-award-fee services contract has a potential value of $1.93 bill ...Continue Reading

Feb. 08, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Dewayne Washington Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040 dewayne.a.washington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-046 NASA'S REFUELING DEMONSTRATION PROVES VIABILITY OF SATELLITE-SERVICING TECHNOLOGIES WASHINGTON -- NASA has demonstrated robotic fluid transfer in space, an objective that will help inform the development of robotic technology to refuel satellites. The first-of-its-kind demonstration was p ...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 THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS In early February 2013, a dust storm arose in the Atlas Mountains along the border between Morocco and Algeria. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80379&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 06, 2013 (Posted on Feb 07, 2013 4:09 PM) ----------------------------- ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Feb 08 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 39 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Feb 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1665 N12W58 244 0120 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1667 N22W13 199 0100 Dso 06 06 Beta 1669 N08E24 ...Continue Reading

Feb. 7, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-028 NASA ADMINISTRATOR, INTERIOR SECRETARY ATTEND LANDSAT LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will attend the launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday, Feb. 11. The launch is scheduled for 10:02 a.m. PST. LDCM is a collaboration between NASA and the D ...Continue Reading

Feb. 7, 2013 John Yembrick/Jason Townsend Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1584/202-358-0359 john.yembrick@nasa.gov / jason.c.townsend@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-042 NASA HOSTS ITS FIRST GOOGLE+ HANGOUT CONNECTING WITH SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA will host its first Google+ Hangout live with the International Space Station from 11 a.m. to noon EST, Friday, Feb. 22. This event will connect NASA's social media followers with astronauts on the ground and living and working aboard th ...Continue Reading

Feb. 07, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 villard@stsci RELEASE: 13-041 NASA TELESCOPES DISCOVER STROBE-LIKE FLASHES IN A SUSPECTED BINARY PROTOSTAR WASHINGTON -- Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light. Every 25.34 days, the object, designated LRLL 54361, unleas ...Continue Reading