March 20, 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: M13-052 NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS TO LAUNCH AND DOCK THE SAME DAY HOUSTON -- Three new crew members are set to launch to the International Space Station on a six-hour flight to travel from the launch pad to their destination. Chris Cassidy of NASA, along with Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander M ...Continue Reading

March 20, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov George Hale Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-614-5853 george.r.hale@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-081 NASA BEGINS NEW SEASON OF ARCTIC ICE SCIENCE FLIGHTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Operation IceBridge scientists have begun another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice with the first of a series of science flights from Greenland completed on Wednesday. A specially equipped P-3B res ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1993 Issue Time: 2013 Mar 20 1745 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2013 Mar 20 1720 UTC Station: GOES-13 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or upd ...Continue Reading

March 20, 2013 David Weaver/Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov / bob.jacobs@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-082 NASA ADMINISTRATOR CONGRATULATES APOLLO ENGINE RECOVERY TEAM WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the successful recovery of Apollo Saturn V first stage engines announced Wednesday by Jeff Bezos, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the aerospace company Blue Origin and Amazon.com. " ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Mar 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 79 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Mar 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1692 N09W57 077 0240 Dai 04 05 Beta 1695 N10W37 057 0150 Dao 06 06 Beta 1696 N05W77 0 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (19 March 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Baytown, Texas http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80673&src=eoa-iotd * Clouds over the Southern Indian Ocean http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80661&src=eoa-iotd * Belgrade, Serbia http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80652&src=eoa-iotd * Submarine Vehicle Probes Beneath an Ice Shee ...Continue Reading

March 19, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-049 NASA TO HOLD NEWS TELECONFERENCE TO DISCUSS PLANCK COSMOLOGY FINDINGS (UPDATE) WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT, Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant N ...Continue Reading

March 19, 2013 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, Tomorrow, 20 March, an out of plane manoeuvre of Metop-A will be performed which will lead to a considerable outage time of all ASCATwind products. Please read the message from EUMETSAT: "This is a short note to ensure you are informed that, due to the planned double-burn ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM TIM Tropical Storm Tim formed over the Coral Sea on March 13, 2013, and remained off the coast of northeastern Australia for the next four days. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of Tim on March 17. Although lacking a distinct eye, Tim s ...Continue Reading

March 19, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-078 HERSCHEL DISCOVERS SOME OF THE YOUNGEST STARS EVER SEEN WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Ata ...Continue Reading