April 12, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-100 NASA SELECTS EXPLORER PROJECTS TO PROBE EARTH'S UPPER ATMOSPHERE WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected a new satellite mission and a new space-based instrument to begin development as part of the agency's Heliophysics Explorer Program. The projects will provide space observations to study Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere. The Ionospheric Connection (ICON) missi ...Continue Reading

April 12, 2013 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius v2.0 data covering the month of March, 2013.  Aquarius v2.0 data are being distributed via PODAAC’s general public ftp site, OPeNDAP and also THREDDS. Links to these and also other Aquarius resources (eg. Aquarius v2.0 documentation package) are available at  http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/aquarius. User should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of March, a ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- ERUPTING KAMCHATKA VOLCANOES The Kamchatka Peninsula, the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire, is one of the most volcanically active regions on Earth. At least 114 Kamchatkan volcanoes have erupted in the past 12,000 years. A handful of these volcanoes is erupting currently. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/N ...Continue Reading

April 13, 2013 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Gray Creech Dryden Flight Research Center 661-276-2662 gray.creech-1@nasa.gov Tom Koehler Boeing Research & Technology Communications 425-373-2921 thomas.j.koehler@boeing.com RELEASE: 13-105 X-48 PROJECT COMPLETES FLIGHT RESEARCH FOR CLEANER, QUIETER AIRCRAFT EDWARDS, Calif. -- NASA's remotely piloted X-48C hybrid-wing-body subscale aircraft, which demonstr ...Continue Reading

April 12, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-060 NASA TV PROVIDES COVERAGE OF SPACE STATION SPACEWALK WASHINGTON -- Two members of the Expedition 35 crew will venture outside the International Space Station April 19 for a six-hour spacewalk to deploy and retrieve several science experiments and install a new navigational aid. NASA Television will broadcast the spacewalk li ...Continue Reading

April 12, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-077 NASA ANNOUNCES CHALLENGES FOR THE 2013 INTERNATIONAL SPACE APPS CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- NASA and over 150 partner organizations worldwide will be hosting the International Space Apps Challenge on April 20-21, 2013. The International Space Apps Challenge is a technology development event during which citizens from around the world work together to solve challenges ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Apr 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 102 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Apr 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1711 S16W82 158 0230 Hax 04 02 Alpha 1714 N13W52 128 0050 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1718 N22W32 ...Continue Reading

April 11, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Amber Philman Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 amber.n.philman@nasa.gov RELEASE: M13-061 NASA INVITES MEDIA TO VIEW ORION, SPEAK WITH KENNEDY SPACE CENTER DIRECTOR CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is offering media representatives at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida an opportunity on Monday, April 15, to see Orion, the spacecraft that could take astronauts on a sample collection mission to an asteroid as ...Continue Reading

April 11, 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 Marie Vanover Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, N.M. 505-846-6086 marie.vanover@kirtland.af.mil RELEASE: 13-093 NASA, AIR FORCE SEEK NEXT GENERATION SPACE PROCESSOR PROGRAM WASHINGTON -- NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are requesting researc ...Continue Reading

April 11, 2013 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Ruth Dasso Marlaire Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4709 ruth.marlaire@nasa.gov Jennifer Jones U.S. Forest Service, Boise, Idaho 208-387-5437 jejones@fs.fed.us RELEASE: 13-101 NASA IMAGING SENSOR PREPARES FOR WESTERN WILDFIRE SEASON WASHINGTON - Airborne imaging technology developed at NASA and transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service ...Continue Reading