August 19th 2012 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 19 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 232 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1543 N23W74 021 0300 Hhx 04 03 Alpha 1546 N16E44 263 0050 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1547 N06E09 ...Continue Reading
August 18th 2012 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 18 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 231 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1543 N24W59 020 0320 Cko 06 05 Beta 1546 N16E56 264 0050 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1547 N05E21 ...Continue Reading
August 17th 2012 PDT
In her latest blog entry, Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Suni Williams discusses the “mixed bag” of activities the crew performs on the station. _http://go.usa.gov/75y_ *Mixed Bag* The past week sort of defines long duration space fliers. We certainly don’t do the same thing every day, and every day was different with different types of activities for all of us. There is an awesome group of people on the ground – the planners – who know what all the constraints are for all the activities we need to d ...Continue Reading
August 17th 2012 PDT
Aug. 17, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov DC Agle / Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 / 818-354-6278 agle@jpl.nasa.gov / guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-287 NASA CURIOSITY TEAM PINPOINTS SITE FOR FIRST DRIVE, FIRST LASER USE ON TAP THIS WEEKEND WASHINGTON -- The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. The t ...Continue Reading
August 17th 2012 PDT
Aug. 17, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Veronica McGregor Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9452 veronica.c.mcgregor@jpl.nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-042 NASA AWARDS CALTECH FIVE-YEAR JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena a new five-year contract to manage the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The contractor's primary mission is ...Continue Reading
August 17th 2012 PDT
Aug. 17, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-286 NASA ROCKET MISSION CARRYING UNIVERSITY STUDENT EXPERIMENTS WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- University students will put their academic skills to the test when atmospheric and technology experiments they developed fly on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket. The launch will take place between 6:30 and 10 a ...Continue Reading
August 17th 2012 PDT
Aug. 17, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Chris Rink Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-6786 chris.rink@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-282 NASA PICKS REVOLUTIONARY SPACE TECH PROPOSALS FOR DEVELOPMENT WASHINGTON -- NASA's Space Technology Program has selected five technologies that could revolutionize America's space capabilities. In March, NASA issued a call for proposal focused on sudden and unexpected innovations that hold a potential for providing a ...Continue Reading
August 17th 2012 PDT
August 17, 2012 Aquarius salinity, wind speed and wind direction data from the Combined Active-Passive (CAP) algorithm are now available at the PO.DAAC. Differences from previous algorithms include: [*] The removal of the dependence on the NCEP wind direction for retrieval. The CAP algorithm was developed to retrieve the salinity and wind without the need to use the NCEP winds for corrections. The CAP algorithm simultaneously retrieves the salinity, wind speed and directio ...Continue Reading
August 17th 2012 PDT
Aug. 17, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-284 NASA COMPLETES PILOT PROGRAM FOR ONE-ON-ONE VIRTUAL MENTORING OF MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS WASHINGTON -- NASA's new virtual mentoring program is helping girls get excited about careers in science and technology by working one-on-one with agency professionals. Twenty-one girls in grades 5-8, representing 12 states from New York to Hawaii, have completed a pilot mentoring program called NASA Giving Init ...Continue Reading
August 17th 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 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=78872&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 14, 2012 (Posted on Aug 16, 2012 4:40 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON KAI-TAK Kai-tak headed ...Continue Reading
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