Aug. 30, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Veronique Masterson The University of Texas El Paso 915-747-7503 vjmasterson@utep.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-166 NASA'S CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST TO ATTEND UTEP SPACE TECH CENTER OPENING WASHINGTON -- NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck will join officials from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), along with state and local leaders, for the official opening of the Center for Space Exploration Technology Research (cSETR) ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1952 Issue Time: 2012 Aug 30 1307 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1951 Begin Time: 2012 Aug 28 1535 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1114 pfu 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 Ser ...Continue Reading

Aug. 30, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Geoffrey Brown Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-5618 or 443-778-5618 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 12-289 NASA LAUNCHES RADIATION BELT STORM PROBES MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 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 243 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1553 S21W20 182 0130 Cso 06 05 Beta 1554 N17W54 216 0050 Dso 05 06 Beta 1555 N08E15 ...Continue Reading

August 29, 2012 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, The OSI SAF and EARS ASCAT wind products will be upgraded on Tuesday, 18 September. Apart from some minor bug fixes, the main change will be the implementation of a Bayesian sea ice screening algorithm, based on probabilistic distances to ocean wind and sea ice Geophysical Mod ...Continue Reading

Aug. 29, 2012 Dwayne Brown / Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 / 202-358-0918 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov / stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Guy Webster / D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-5011 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov / agle@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-301 NASA CURIOSITY ROVER BEGINS EASTBOUND TREK ON MARTIAN SURFACE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter-mile (400 meters) away, w ...Continue Reading

Aug. 29, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Patrick Fant RFC Media LLC, Houston 832-485-0490 pat@rfcmedia.com RELEASE: 12-300 NASA "MOHAWK GUY" TO HOST SHOW ON THIRD ROCK RADIO WASHINGTON -- NASA's "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory mission that lowered the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface in early August, will host a two-hour online broadcast on Internet ra ...Continue Reading

Aug. 29, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Patrick Fant RFC Media LLC, Houston 832-485-0490 pat@rfcmedia.com RELEASE: 12-300 NASA "MOHAWK GUY" TO HOST SHOW ON THIRD ROCK RADIO WASHINGTON -- NASA's "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory mission that lowered the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface in early August, will host a two-hour online broadcast on Internet ra ...Continue Reading

Aug. 29, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-165 NASA, WHOI TO HOLD MEDIA BRIEFING ON OCEAN SALINITY EXPEDITION WASHINGTON -- NASA-funded researchers are making final preparations at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Mass., for an ocean-going campaign designed to shed new light on the link between ocean salinity and shifts in global precipitation patterns. Reporters are invited to attend a media briefing on the ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- WILDFIRES IN IDAHO Dry, windy conditions fueled numerous wildfires in southern and central Idaho in August. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79021&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 28, 2012 (Posted on Aug 29, 2012 9:40 AM) WILDFIRES IN SIBERIA Fires burned across Russia during the summer of 2012. * http: ...Continue Reading