Jan. 30, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 william.p.jeffs@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-005 NASA INCREASES VALUE OF BIOASTRONAUTICS CONTRACT HOUSTON -- NASA has increased the value of a contract with Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group of Houston to provide continuing support to the Human Health and Performance Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space C ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN AFGHANISTAN AND TURKMENISTAN On January 23, 2013, a dust storm blew from northern Afghanistan into neighboring Turkmenistan. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80304&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 23, 2013 (Posted on Jan 29, 2013 5:25 PM) ------------------------------------ ...Continue Reading

Jan. 30, 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: 13-036 HERSCHEL FINDS STAR POSSIBLY MAKING PLANETS PAST ITS PRIME WASHINGTON -- A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may in fact be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding the surprising star called TW Hydrae may be massive enough to make even more planets than w ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 30 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 30 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1662 N28W12 317 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1663 S11E05 299 0120 Dso 09 09 Beta 1664 N28W79 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (29 January 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Close-up of Flooding in Mozambique http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80297&src=eoa-iotd * Torres del Paine National Park http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80266&src=eoa-iotd * Sakurajima Volcano, Kyushu, Japan http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80274&src=eoa-iotd * Bushfire Bur ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE FELLENG Felleng formed as a tropical storm over the southern Indian Ocean on January 26, 2013, and strengthened into a cyclone on January 29. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80294&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 29, 2013 (Posted on Jan 29, 2013 12:43 PM) SNOW ACROSS GREAT BRITA ...Continue Reading

Jan. 29, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-032 NASA TO LAUNCH OCEAN WIND MONITOR TO SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the Internation ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 673 2013 Jan 29 Somerville, MA USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- Expedition 34 is underway with commander Kevin Ford and flight engineers FE-1 Oleg Novitskiy, FE-2 Yevgeniy Tarelkin, FE-4 Roman Romanenko, FE-5 Chris Hadfield, and FE-6 Tom Marshburn. Ferry ship Soyuz TMA-06M is docked at the Poisk module; Soyuz TMA-07M is at Rassvet ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 29 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 29 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1661 N13W21 339 0000 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1662 N27E01 317 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1663 S11E19 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 28, 2013 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2191 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-021 NASA OBSERVES DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FEB. 1 WASHINGTON -- NASA will pay will tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA colleagues, during the agency's Day of Remembrance on Friday, Feb. 1, the 10th anniversary of the Columbia accident. NASA's Day of Remembrance honors members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the ca ...Continue Reading