April 18th 2013 PDT
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
April 18th 2013 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION Dust plumes blew over parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah in mid-April 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80933&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 16, 2013 (Posted on Apr 17, 2013 6:26 PM) --------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading
April 17th 2013 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 18 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 108 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1719 N10W79 075 0050 Cso 04 03 Beta 1721 S17W61 057 0120 Cso 06 05 Beta 1722 S19W48 ...Continue Reading
April 16th 2013 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 17 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 107 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1719 N09W64 074 0060 Cso 03 03 Beta 1721 S18W47 056 0110 Dao 07 06 Beta 1722 S20W36 ...Continue Reading
April 16th 2013 PDT
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (16 April 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Earthquake in Southeastern Iran http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80921&src=eoa-iotd * Eye Exam for a Satellite http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80913&src=eoa-iotd * Island of Ibiza, Spain http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80910&src=eoa-iotd * Activity at Tolbachik Volcano ht ...Continue Reading
April 16th 2013 PDT
April 16, 2013 PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the release of the NASA MEaSUREs Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Data for Climate Research version 2 (v2) sea surface height anomaly dataset. It is comprised of TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P), Jason-1, and OSTM/Jason-2 (TPJAOS) altimeter data integrated to form a single Sea Surface Height (SSH) Climate Data Record (CDR) and merged into a single mean reference orbit. Since the last quarterly release of TPJAOS v1, which spann ...Continue Reading
April 16th 2013 PDT
April 16, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Nicholas A. Veronico SOFIA Science Center Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4589 / 650-483-6902 nveronico@sofia.usra.edu RELEASE: 13-099 SOFIA OBSERVATIONS REVEAL A SURPRISE IN MASSIVE STAR FORMATION WASHINGTON -- Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a d ...Continue Reading
April 16th 2013 PDT
April 16, 2013 At the 13th GHRSST Science Team Meeting in Tokyo, Japan (June 4-8, 2012), Dudley Chelton and co-authors presented preliminary results of a proposed test for evaluating the analysis procedures used by various GHRSST L4 datasets. In their presentation (that can be found at https://www.ghrsst.org/files/download.php?m=documents&f=120611160329-04CheltonGHRSSTTokyo.pdf) and recent Journal of Climate article that is now in press ("Objective Determination of Feature Re ...Continue Reading
April 16th 2013 PDT
April 16, 2013 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton Va. 757-864-9886 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-108 NASA SEEKS INNOVATIVE SUBORBITAL FLIGHT TECHNOLOGY PROPOSALS WASHINGTON -- For a second year, NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate is seeking proposals for suborbital technology payloads and spacecraft capability enhancements that could help revolutionize future space missions. Selected technologie ...Continue Reading
April 16th 2013 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM IMELDA Tropical Storm Imelda formed over the southern Indian Ocean in early April 2013. The storm was forecast to strengthen into a strong cyclone. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80918&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 14, 2013 (Posted on Apr 15, 2013 2:17 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EART ...Continue Reading
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