Jan. 3, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-003 NASA KICKS OFF 2013 FIRST ROBOTICS SEASON WITH LIVE BROADCAST JAN. 5 WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will broadcast the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Kickoff event on Saturday, Jan. 5, starting at 10:30 a.m. EST from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. The event also will be streamed live on NASA's website. ...Continue Reading

Jan. 03, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Steve Carr University of New Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics, Albuquerque, N.M. 505-277-1821 scarr@unm.edu Tina McDowell Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington 703-965-1340 tmcdowell@carnegiescience.edu RELEASE: 13-001 RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY WATER RICH METEORITE LINKED TO MARS CRUST WASHINGTON -- NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE DUMILE Tropical Storm Dumile formed at the beginning of 2013 in the southern Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80074&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 03, 2013 (Posted on Jan 03, 2013 1:34 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new im ...Continue Reading

Jan. 3, 2013 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886/344-8511 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov Duane Hyland AIAA Headquarters, Reston, Va. 703-264-7558/835-4867 duaneh@aiaa.org MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-001 NASA GREEN AVIATION PROJECT TO MOVE INTO NEXT PHASE OF RESEARCH WASHINGTON -- NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project is moving forward with its research effo ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report: 24th anniversary edition No. 672 2013 Jan 2 Somerville, MA USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy perihelion to all my readers in the Earth-Moon system! International Space Station ---------------------------- Expedition 34 is underway with commander Kevin Ford and flight engineers FE-1 Oleg Novitskiy and FE-2 Yevgeniy Tarelkin. Their ferry ship, Soyuz TMA-06M, is docked at the Poisk modu ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 03 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 3 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1638 N13W07 308 0110 Cao 03 04 Beta 1640 N28W21 320 0220 Eai 12 18 Beta 1641 N05E23 27 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 02, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Michael Curie Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 michael.curie@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-001 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has awarded the Kennedy Space Center Institutional Support Services III, or KISS III, contract to Wichita Tribal Enterprises, LLC of Tulsa, Okla. KISS III begins Feb. 1. The contract has a seven-month base period and opt ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TAKLIMAKAN DESERT SNOW A winter storm in December 2012 left the Taklimakan desert in northwestern China with a blanket of snow. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80058&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 02, 2013 (Posted on Jan 02, 2013 1:23 PM) -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (0 updated events, 1 new images) -- ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 02 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 2 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1636 N14W27 340 0010 Bxo 05 03 Beta 1638 N13E06 308 0140 Dao 04 08 Beta 1639 S16E04 31 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (01 January 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Moon Phases Over the Persian Gulf http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79834&src=eoa-iotd * Auroras light up the Antarctic night http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79750&src=eoa-iotd * Dallas Metropolitan Area at Night http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80020&src=eoa-iotd * Pay&uacu ...Continue Reading