Feb. 28, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Laura Catherine Snider University of Colorado 303-735-0528 laura.snider@colorado.edu Geoff Brown Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 240-228-5618 or 443-778-5618 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 13-065 NASA'S VAN ALLEN PROBES REVEAL A NEW RADIATION BELT AROUND EARTH WASHINGTON -- NASA's Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt ar ...Continue Reading

Thirty-two will vie for the title, but only one can be the winner. They are the best Earth images of the year, the top 32 from 2012. But which ones will be good enough to survive head-to-head competition? From March 4 through April 5, Earth Observatory readers can vote for their favorite images of the year, whittling the total from 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 in a tournament of remote sensing science. The competition will be stiff in the four bra ...Continue Reading

Thirty-two will vie for the title, but only one can be the winner. They are the best Earth images of the year, the top 32 from 2012. But which ones will be good enough to survive head-to-head competition? From March 4 through April 5, Earth Observatory readers can vote for their favorite images of the year, whittling the total from 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 in a tournament of remote sensing science. The competition will be stiff in the four bra ...Continue Reading

Thirty-two will vie for the title, but only one can be the winner. They are the best Earth images of the year, the top 32 from 2012. But which ones will be good enough to survive head-to-head competition? From March 4 through April 5, Earth Observatory readers can vote for their favorite images of the year, whittling the total from 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to 2 in a tournament of remote sensing science. The competition will be stiff in the four brackets — Earth at Night, Events, Data, and True-Color — so it is up to y ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Feb 28 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 59 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Feb 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1680 S29E11 271 0010 Bxo 04 04 Beta 1681 N17E33 249 0040 Cso 03 03 Beta 1682 S18W17 2 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ANOTHER SNOWSTORM STRIKES WESTERN STATES Following on the heels of another storm, heavy snow fell on Colorado and neighboring states on February 24, 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80541&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Feb 25, 2013 (Posted on Feb 26, 2013 2:40 PM) --------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Feb. 27, 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: 13-063 NASA'S NUSTAR HELPS SOLVE RIDDLE OF BLACK HOLE SPIN WASHINGTON -- Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 mi ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 125 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA PARTNER ORBITAL TESTS ROCKET, NEWEST U.S. LAUNCH PAD 2. NASA COVERAGE SET FOR MARCH 1 SPACEX MISSION TO SPACE STATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:16:08 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA PARTNER ORBITAL TESTS ROCKET, NEWEST U.S. LAUNCH PAD February 22, 2013 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Wash ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Feb 27 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 58 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Feb 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1680 S28E23 273 0040 Dao 05 05 Beta 1681 N16E46 249 0040 Cso 02 03 Beta 1682 S18W03 2 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (26 February 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Swirling Sediment Reveals Erosive Power of New England Storm http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80523&src=eoa-iotd * Winter Storm across Central United States http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80526&src=eoa-iotd * Northeastern USA Coastline in Sunglint http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/vie ...Continue Reading