:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 17 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 17 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1652 N19W72 188 0090 Hax 02 02 Alpha 1654 N06W33 149 0590 Fkc 21 18 Beta-Gamma-Delta 16 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 16, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-024 NASA TO TEST BIGELOW EXPANDABLE MODULE ON SPACE STATION LAS VEGAS -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology. NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which is s ...Continue Reading

January 16, 2013 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the "Preview" release of the "SeaWinds on QuikSCAT Arctic Sea Ice Age Classification (BYU/SCP)" dataset produced by Dr. David Long at Brigham Young University (BYU) as part of the Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) (Swan and Long, 2012). This dataset  identifies First-Year (FY) and Multi-Year (MY) sea ice using SeaWinds on QuikSCAT scatterometer observations on a daily basis from 20 June 2002 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 16, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Rani Gran Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2483 rani.c.gran@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-017 ACCREDITATION OPEN FOR NASA LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION LAUNCH VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Members of the media planning to cover the launch of NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) at Vandenberg Air F ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 16 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 16 Issued at 0030Z on 16 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1649 S16W75 203 0020 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1650 S31W65 194 0010 Axx 02 04 Alpha 1652 N19W59 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (15 January 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Long-Term Global Warming Trend Continues http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80167&src=eoa-iotd * Air Quality Suffering in China http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80152&src=eoa-iotd * Liège at Night http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80145&src=eoa-iotd * Sand and Tourism i ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2013 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-023 NASA PARTICIPATES IN PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ACTIVITIES JAN. 18-21 WASHINGTON -- NASA will participate in the inauguration of President Obama with several events, including an open house, a star party and a NASA Social; exhibits on the National Mall and at NASA Headquarters; and with two floats and marchers in the inaugural parade. During the events Jan. 18 - 21, members of the public will have an ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2013 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: 13-022 NASA MARS ROVER PREPARING TO DRILL INTO FIRST MARTIAN ROCK PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it wil ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (3 updated events, 5 new images) -- DUST STORM IN COLORADO AND KANSAS A dust storm arose along the Colorado-Kansas border in early January 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80164&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 11, 2013 (Posted on Jan 14, 2013 5:36 PM) DUST STORM OVER IRAN AND THE ARABIAN SEA Starting on January 11, 2 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 15, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Leslie McCarthy Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York 212-678-5507 leslie.m.mccarthy@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-021 NASA FINDS 2012 SUSTAINED LONG-TERM CLIMATE WARMING TREND WASHINGTON -- NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1988, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 20 ...Continue Reading