Jan. 22, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-025 NASA, AHOORA FOUNDATION UNITE TO IGNITE STUDENTS' PASSION FOR SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON -- Candy, soda and other everyday items will be the tools of the trade for teenage rocket makers competing in the What If? Live Student Design Challenge, which was kicked off Tuesday by NASA and the Ahoora Foundation of Plano, Texas. Registration is open through Feb. 28 for the worldwide contest, in which 14- to ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 22 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 22 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1654 N09W88 144 0010 Bxo 03 04 Beta 1658 S12W46 096 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1660 N12W15 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- THE SUMMER OF 2012-13 BRINGS FIRES TO AUSTRALIA Wildfires burned in Australia during 2012 and 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80187&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Jan 15, 2013 (Posted on Jan 16, 2013 3:35 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (4 updated events, 6 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OFF LIBYA Dust plume ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT TOLBACHIK VOLCANO Tolbachik Volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula continued to erupt in January of 2013, along with several other nearby volcanoes. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80226&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Jan 11, 2013 (Posted on Jan 18, 2013 4:18 PM) -- CROPS ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-3 2013 January 20 at 9:23 p.m. MST (2013 January 21 0423 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For January 14-20 No space weather storms were observed. Outlook For January 21-27 No space weather storms are expected. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services an ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 21 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 21 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1654 N08W84 147 0280 Fko 18 09 Beta-Gamma 1658 S12W32 095 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1660 N13 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 20, 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 Alan Fischer Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Ariz. 520-382-0411 fischer@psi.edu RELEASE: 13-026 MARTIAN CRATER ONCE MAY HAVE HELD GROUNDWATER-FED LAKE PASADENA, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasing ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 20 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 20 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1654 N07W73 149 0360 Fko 22 11 Beta-Gamma 1658 S13W19 095 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1660 N11 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 19 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 19 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1654 N07W59 148 0460 Fko 22 18 Beta-Gamma 1658 S12W05 094 0090 Hsx 02 03 Alpha 1659 N04 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 18, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Jenny Knotts Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-792-7671 norma.j.knotts@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-028 NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE STATION SCIENCE CHALLENGE WINNERS HOUSTON -- Students from two schools, one in Iowa and the other in New York, are the winners of the International Space Station (ISS) Science Challenge, NASA announced Friday. Challenge winners from North Tama Elementary in Traer, Iowa, and Madison Elementary in Mass ...Continue Reading