April 21, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov Barry Beneski Orbital Sciences Corp., Virginia 703-406-5528 beneski.barron@orbital.com RELEASE: 13-114 NASA PARTNER ORBITAL SCIENCES TEST LAUNCHES ANTARES ROCKET WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corporation Sunday launched its Antares rocket at 5 p.m. EDT from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spa ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 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 111 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1722 S20W86 044 0030 Cro 03 04 Beta 1723 S19W44 001 0060 Cao 07 09 Beta 1724 S26W19 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 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 110 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1721 S18W86 057 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1722 S21W73 044 0040 Cao 06 06 Beta 1723 S18W32 ...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 CHINA AND MONGOLIA On April 17, 2013, a dust storm blew through parts of China and Mongolia. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80940&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 17, 2013 (Posted on Apr 18, 2013 2:57 PM) -------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

April 19, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Mark Hess Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-6255 mark.s.hess@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-063 EARTH DAY MEDIA BRIEFING WITH NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR GARVER WASHINGTON -- Journalists are invited to attend an Earth Day visit by NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver to the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., from 10 - 11:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 22. Garver will tour a God ...Continue Reading

April 19, 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.edu RELEASE: 13-106 NASA'S HUBBLE SEES A HORSEHEAD OF A DIFFERENT COLOR WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. L ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 68 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. HIGH SCHOOL TECHNOLOGISTS WIN 2013 SPIRIT OF INNOVATION CHALLENGE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:52:30 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: HIGH SCHOOL TECHNOLOGISTS WIN 2013 SPIRIT OF INNOVATION CHALLENGE April 18, 2013 Ashl� Robinson Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #JE13-009 HIGH SCHOOL TECHNOLOGISTS WIN 2013 SPIRIT OF INNOVATION CHALLENGE HOUST ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 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 109 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1719 N09W91 074 0050 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1721 S17W75 058 0100 Cso 03 02 Beta 1722 S20W62 ...Continue Reading

April 18, 2013 The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is pleased to announce the availability of Level-3 products from the Combined Active-Passive (CAP) Algorithm applied to the Aquarius/SAC-D version 2.0 data.  These L3 datasets include 7-day and monthly CAP sea surface salinity (SSS) and wind speed mapped products.  Note that the former product is based on a 7-day rolling mean, such that a L3 CAP 7-day data file for both SSS and wind s ...Continue Reading

April 18, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 michele.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-112 NASA'S KEPLER DISCOVERS ITS SMALLEST 'HABITABLE ZONE' PLANETS TO DATE WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature o ...Continue Reading