Dec. 04, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-414 2012 AWARDS PRESENTED FOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN EARTH REMOTE SENSING WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) presented the 2012 William T. Pecora awards for achievement in earth remote sensing to Gilberto Camara of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research and Leung Tsang of the University of Washington in Seattle. Camara was recognized for his contr ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- TYPHOON BOPHA Typhoon Bopha was headed for the Philippines in early December 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79872&src=nha *** VIIRS(Suomi NPP) image from Dec 03, 2012 (Posted on Dec 03, 2012 3:56 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79867&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) ...Continue Reading

Dec. 4, 2012 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: 12-418 NASA OPPORTUNITY ROVER FINISHES WALKABOUT ON MARS CRATER RIM SAN FRANCISCO -- The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout. "If you are a geologist studying a site like this, one of the first thing ...Continue Reading

Dec. 04, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Kathryn Hansen/Rani Gran NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 443-257-7757/301-332-6975 kathryn.h.hansen@nasa.gov / rani.c.gran@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-419 CLIMATE MODELS PROJECT INCREASE IN U.S. WILDFIRE RISK WASHINGTON -- Scientists using NASA satellite data and climate models have projected drier conditions likely will cause increased fire activity across the United States in coming decades. Other fin ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Dec 04 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 339 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Dec 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1621 N17W42 018 0080 Dao 03 04 Beta 1623 N08W05 341 0140 Cso 07 06 Beta 1625 N14W05 ...Continue Reading

Dec. 03, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-416 NASA VOYAGER 1 PROBE ENCOUNTERS NEW REGION IN DEEP SPACE WASHINGTON -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space. Scientists refer to this new region a ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- WILDFIRES IN AUSTRALIA Wildfires burned in Australia during spring and summer 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79741&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 24, 2012 (Posted on Nov 26, 2012 5:11 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER THE ARABIAN SEA Multiple dust ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER THE ARABIAN SEA Multiple dust plumes blew off the coasts of Iran and Pakistan in late November 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79858&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Nov 29, 2012 (Posted on Nov 30, 2012 5:06 PM) -------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Dec. 3, 2012 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 Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-415 NASA MARS ROVER FULLY ANALYZES FIRST MARTIAN SOIL SAMPLES PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #12-55 2012 December 2 at 8:11 p.m. MST (2012 December 3 0311 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For November 26-December 2 R1 radio blackouts were observed on 27 and 28 November. Outlook For December 3-9 There is a chance for R1 radio blackouts, primarily after 06 December. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, N ...Continue Reading