:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 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 230 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1542 S11W62 035 0000 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1543 N22W48 022 0360 Hhx 03 02 Alpha 1546 N16E69 ...Continue Reading

August 16, 2012 The Dataminer subsetting tool is slated to be retired and taken offline AUGUST 31, 2012.  At that time, users will be redirected to Dataminer's successor,  HITIDE (HIgh-level Tool for Interactive Data Extraction).  HITIDE refactors and expands upon Dataminer's functionality with an improved graphical user interface and web service-based search, image, and extract capabilities that can be accessed directly.  A ...Continue Reading

Aug. 16, 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 MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-152 NASA TO HOST CURIOSITY ROVER UPDATE TELECONFERENCE AUG. 17 WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 17, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. Mission controllers at N ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON KAI-TAK Kai-tak headed for southeastern China in mid-August 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78867&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 16, 2012 (Posted on Aug 16, 2012 1:22 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- NASA SATELLITES PINPOINT VOLCANIC ERUPTION ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 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 229 Issued at 0030Z on 16 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1542 S14W46 033 0010 Bxo 02 03 Beta 1543 N21W34 021 0300 Cho 04 09 Beta-Gamma IA. H-al ...Continue Reading

Aug. 15, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Linda Matthews-Schmidt Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 linda.j.matthews-schmidt@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-040 NASA AWARDS JOHNSON SPACE CENTER PROTECTIVE SERVICES CONTRACT HOUSTON -- NASA has selected Chenega Security & Support Solutions, LLC (CS3) of Ashburn, Va., for a $30 million contract to provide protective services at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The two-year $30 mill ...Continue Reading

Aug. 15, 2012 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 bdickey@nasa.gov@nasa.gov Michael Curie Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 michael.curie@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-041 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SAFETY AND MISSION SUPPORT SERVICES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected A-P-T Research Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., to provide mission assurance, engineering and risk assessment services at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The maximum potential value f ...Continue Reading

Aug. 15, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-039 NASA SELECTS ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER SERVICES CONTRACTS BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- NASA has selected S&B Infrastructure Ltd. of Houston and CDM-CH2M Hill JV of Fairfax, Va., to provide architect and engineer services under indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contracts ...Continue Reading

Aug. 15, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-281 NASA GOES GREEN: NASA SELECTS GREEN PROPELLANT TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance "green" propellant alternative to the highly toxic fuel hydrazine. With this award, NASA opens a new era of innovative and non-toxic green fuels that ar ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT SOPUTAN VOLCANO Soputan Volcano on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi erupted in early July 2011, and frequent activity continued into August 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78857&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Aug 08, 2012 (Posted on Aug 14, 2012 3:39 PM) ----------- ...Continue Reading