:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 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 241 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1553 S18E05 184 0120 Dso 09 04 Beta 1554 N16W27 216 0110 Dao 07 06 Beta 1555 N08E43 ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@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: 12-297 NASA ROVER RETURNS VOICE AND TELEPHOTO VIEWS FROM MARTIAN SURFACE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and back. In spoken words radioed to the rover on Mars and back to NASA's Deep Spa ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2012 John Yembrick/Jason Townsend Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1584/202-358-0359 john.yembrick@nasa.gov / jason.c.townsend@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-163 NASA HOSTS SOCIAL MEDIA EVENT TO WELCOME ENDEAVOUR TO CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON -- To welcome space shuttle Endeavour to Southern California, NASA is inviting 40 of its social media followers to a NASA Social Sept. 19-20 at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. Parts of the s ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2012 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Tracy Young Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 tracy.g.young@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-164 NASA OPENS MEDIA ACCREDITATION FOR SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR DEPARTURE CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Media accreditation is open for activities surrounding space shuttle Endeavour's departure from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sept. 17. Endeavour will be transported atop the NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified 7 ...Continue Reading

Aug. 24, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta/Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601/1726 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov / dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-160 NASA JOINS MUSICIAN WILL.I.AM, DISCOVERY EDUCATION FOR PREMIERE OF SONG FROM MARS WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold an educational event to share findings about Mars with students and premiere a new song by musician will.i.am that will be broadcast from the surface of the Red Planet via the Curiosity rover. The ev ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Maria-Jose Vinas Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-614-5883 mj.vinas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-162 NASA, NSIDC TO HOLD MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON ARCTIC SEA ICE RECORD LOW GREENBELT, Md. -- The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., the amount is the smallest siz ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Tammie Letroise-Brown Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-4942 tammie.r.letroise-brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-161 ASTRONAUTS CALL OHIO STUDENTS FROM SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- Students at Wickliffe Progressive Community School in Upper Arlington, Ohio, will speak with Expedition 32 flight engineer Suni Williams aboard the International Space Station at 11:05 a.m. ...Continue Reading

Aug. 27, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4787 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-045 NASA SELECTS SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCE DATA ANALYSIS CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected ADNET Systems Inc. of Rockville, Md., to provide a broad range of services to support Earth and space science research and d ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (3 updated events, 4 new images) -- FIRE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA A fire near Lake Gregory produced thick smoke on August 19, 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78921&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 19, 2012 (Posted on Aug 21, 2012 10:50 AM) WILDFIRE ON CHIOS In mid-August 2012, an intense wildfire broke out on the Greek island of Chios. ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- TYPHOON BOLAVEN Bolaven formed as a tropical depression over the western Pacific Ocean on August 20, 2012, and strengthened to a typhoon the following day. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78990&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 24, 2012 (Posted on Aug 24, 2012 5:03 PM) TYPHOON TEMBIN Tembin form ...Continue Reading