June 12, 2013 In preparation for the upcoming release of MetOp-B ASCAT data, the existing FTP/OPeNDAP layout and location for the MetOp-A ASCAT datasets will undergo a slight change effective this Thursday, 13 June 2013 at approximately 16:00 PDT (23:00 UTC). For the FTP site, all existing MetOp-A ASCAT dataset basepaths will change from ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/ascat/preview/L2/ to the new basepath: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/ascat/preview/L2/metop_a/ For OPeNDAP ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jun 12 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 163 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Jun 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1765 N09W64 054 0050 Dao 10 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 11/ ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (11 June 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Surging Elbe in Wittenberg http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81368&src=eoa-iotd * A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81313&src=eoa-iotd * Little Rock, Arkansas http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81310&src=eoa-iotd * Monochromatic Lava Fields ...Continue Reading

June 11, 2013 Steve Cole/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918/202-358-1726 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov / dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-095 NASA SCHEDULES MEDIA EVENTS AND COVERAGE FOR NEW SOLAR MISSION LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 26, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch on an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegas ...Continue Reading

June 11, 2013 The user guide and web portal dataset description have been updated for this dataset in response to some issues recently discovered by experts in the ocean vector wind community. For a summary of known issues, please refer to the updated dataset description: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/QSCAT_OSUCOAS_L3_OW_USWestCoast For more details, please refer to Sections 7-8 of the user guide: ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/quikscat/preview/L3/osu_coas/docs/qscat_vanho ...Continue Reading

June 11, 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: 13-180 MARKS ON MARTIAN DUNES MAY REVEAL TRACKS OF DRY ICE SLEDS PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go. Researchers deduced this process coul ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- WILDFIRES IN NEW MEXICO Notables wildfires that occurred in New Mexico in 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81362&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jun 10, 2013 (Posted on Jun 11, 2013 10:36 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 90 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASTRONAUT TO ATTEND SUMMER SKIES AT MACOMB 2. NASA AWARDS JOHNSON SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE CONTRACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:36:35 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT TO ATTEND SUMMER SKIES AT MACOMB June 10, 2013 Dana Davis Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-0933 Report #JA13-003 NASA ASTRONAUT TO ATTEND SUMMER SKIES AT MACOMB ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jun 11 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 162 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Jun 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1765 N09W50 052 0120 Dai 10 11 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 10/ ...Continue Reading

June 10, 2013 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-028 NASA AWARDS JOHNSON SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of McLean, Va., to provide safety and mission assurance engineering support services for the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quant ...Continue Reading