:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 16 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 16 Issued at 0030Z on 16 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1649 S16W75 203 0020 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1650 S31W65 194 0010 Axx 02 04 Alpha 1652 N19W59 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (15 January 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Long-Term Global Warming Trend Continues http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80167&src=eoa-iotd * Air Quality Suffering in China http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80152&src=eoa-iotd * Liège at Night http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80145&src=eoa-iotd * Sand and Tour ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2013 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-023 NASA PARTICIPATES IN PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ACTIVITIES JAN. 18-21 WASHINGTON -- NASA will participate in the inauguration of President Obama with several events, including an open house, a star party and a NASA Social; exhibits on the National Mall and at NASA Headquarters; and with two floats and marchers in the inaugural parade. During the events Jan. 18 - 21, members of the public will have an ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 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: 13-022 NASA MARS ROVER PREPARING TO DRILL INTO FIRST MARTIAN ROCK PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it wil ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (3 updated events, 5 new images) -- DUST STORM IN COLORADO AND KANSAS A dust storm arose along the Colorado-Kansas border in early January 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80164&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 11, 2013 (Posted on Jan 14, 2013 5:36 PM) DUST STORM OVER IRAN AND THE ARABIAN SEA Starting on January 11, 2 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Leslie McCarthy Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York 212-678-5507 leslie.m.mccarthy@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-021 NASA FINDS 2012 SUSTAINED LONG-TERM CLIMATE WARMING TREND WASHINGTON -- NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1988, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 20 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2013 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-018 NASA ISSUES 2013 CALL FOR VISIONARY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Space Technology Program is looking for visionary advanced concepts. This year's annual call for NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) is seeking proposals for revolutionary concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions. Proposed concepts should enable new missions or significantly im ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 15 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 15 Issued at 0030Z on 15 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1649 S15W62 204 0030 Hax 05 02 Alpha 1650 S30W52 194 0050 Hax 01 01 Alpha 1652 N18W44 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-017 CORRECTION: NASA, SPACE STATION PARTNERS ANNOUNCE FUTURE CREW MEMBERS Corrected to update crew mission dates HOUSTON -- NASA and its international partners have named several future International Space Station expedition crews. They include NASA astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman, Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts. Swanson was b ...Continue Reading

Jan. 14, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kim Henry Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 kimberly.m.henry@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-020 NASA AWARDS SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT GRANTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded grants to nine universities for advanced development activities for the nation's next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The agency is providing approximately $2.25 million that will be shared by all the pr ...Continue Reading