Jan. 24, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Markus Bauer ESA science and Robotic Exploration Communication Officer +31 71 565 6799 markus.bauer@esa.int RELEASE: 13-029 NASA JOINS ESA'S 'DARK UNIVERSE' MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Euclid will launch in 2020 and spend six years mapping the loc ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 24 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 24 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1658 S12W73 096 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1660 N13W42 065 0200 Dai 10 25 Beta-Gamma 1661 N13 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 23, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Janet L. Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-030 NASA TELESCOPE OBSERVES HOW SUN STORES AND RELEASES ENERGY WASHINGTON -- A NASA suborbital telescope has given scientists the first clear evidence of energy transfer from the sun's magnetic field to the solar atmosphere or corona. This process, known as solar braiding, has been theor ...Continue Reading

Jan. 23, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-4787 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-004 NASA AWARDS PROTECTIVE SERVICES CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a protective services follow-on contract to Alutiiq Pacific LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, which consolidates services at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and its three affiliated facilities in t ...Continue Reading

Jan. 23, 2013 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Tammie Letroise-Brown Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 tammie.r.letroise-brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-019 IOWA STUDENTS SPEAK LIVE WITH NASA SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS JAN. 25 WASHINGTON -- Students in Davenport, Iowa, will speak with NASA Expedition 34 astronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn, currently aboard the International Space Station, at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 25. This educational event wi ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA A plume of Saharan dust spanned the Mediterranean Sea in late January 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80243&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 21, 2013 (Posted on Jan 22, 2013 5:11 PM) DUST STORM IN THE SAHARA DESERT A dust storm blew through northe ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 23 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 23 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1658 S12W60 096 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1660 N14W28 064 0190 Dac 09 21 Beta-Gamma 1661 N13 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (22 January 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * How Widespread was the Australian Heatwave? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80232&src=eoa-iotd * Marine Layer Clouds off the California Coast http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79758&src=eoa-iotd * Polar Mesospheric Clouds, South Pacific Ocean http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id ...Continue Reading

Jan. 22, 2013 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov Leslie Williams Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-3893 leslie.a.williams@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-027 NASA SELECTS EXPERIMENTAL COMMERCIAL SUBORBITAL FLIGHT PAYLOADS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 13 cutting-edge space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusabl ...Continue Reading

Jan. 22, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-018 NASA HOSTS JAN. 23 MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON SUN OBSERVATIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 23, to discuss new observations of a large active region in the sun's 1- million-degree atmosphere called the corona. Researchers have been studying detailed images from the High Resolution Coronal (Hi-C) Imager telescope with its 9.5-inch diameter mi ...Continue Reading