August 9th 2012 PDT
Aug. 9, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Geoffrey Brown Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel Md. 240-228-5618 or 443-778-5618 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 12-272 NEW NASA MISSION READY TO BRAVE EARTH'S RADIATION BELTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will send two spacecraft into the harsh environment of our planet's radiation belts. Final preparations have begun for launch on Thursday, Aug. 23, ...Continue Reading
August 9th 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HOLLOWAY FIRE IN OREGON AND NEVADA The Holloway fire burned near the Nevada-Oregon border in August of 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78801&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 07, 2012 (Posted on Aug 08, 2012 3:13 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HURRICANE ERNESTO Ernesto stre ...Continue Reading
August 9th 2012 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 09 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 222 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1535 N18W54 134 0070 Cso 05 02 Beta 1537 N12W30 110 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1538 S23W35 ...Continue Reading
August 8th 2012 PDT
Aug. 8, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@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: 12-273 FIRST 360-DEGREE PANORAMA FROM NASA'S CURIOSITY MARS ROVER PASADENA, Calif. -- Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars. The images ...Continue Reading
August 8th 2012 PDT
Jonathan's Space Report No. 664 2012 Aug 8 Somerville, MA USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- On the ISS, Expedition 32 continues with astronauts Gennadiy Padalka, Sergey Revin, Joseph Acaba, Yuriy Malenchenko, Sunita Willams and Akihiko Hoshide. Soyuz TMA-05M docked with the Rassvet module on Jul 17 at 0451 UTC. Progress M-15M redocked with Pirs at 0101 UTC on Jul 2 ...Continue Reading
August 8th 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE ERNESTO Ernesto strengthened to a tropical storm in early August 2012, and headed for the Yucatán Peninsula. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78795&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 07, 2012 (Posted on Aug 07, 2012 4:39 PM) ___________________________________________________ ...Continue Reading
August 8th 2012 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 08 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 221 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1532 S16W92 185 0180 Hsx 08 01 Alpha 1535 N19W42 135 0050 Cso 05 02 Beta 1537 N12W17 ...Continue Reading
August 7th 2012 PDT
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (07 August 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Mount Tongariro Erupts http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78791&src=eoa-iotd * Night View of Fires in Siberia http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78767&src=eoa-iotd * Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78754&src=eoa-iotd * Myrtle Fire in South Dakot ...Continue Reading
August 7th 2012 PDT
Aug. 7, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster / D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 / 818-393-9011 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov / agle@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-271 ORBITER IMAGES NASA'S LATEST ADDITIONS TO MARTIAN LANDSCAPE PASADENA, Calif. -- Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the ...Continue Reading
August 7th 2012 PDT
In his latest blog entry, Flight Engineer Joe Acaba talks about the crew getting together to watch the Olympics. _http://go.nasa.gov/MrtptF_ *Sharing the Olympic Spirit* Every week, usually at the end of the day on Friday, we have a conference with our Lead Flight Director, Dina Contella. At the start of this week’s conference, she put the week into perspective. She said this time last week (our conference was on a Thursday because of HTV arrival on Friday) HTV had not docked, 47 Progress was ...Continue Reading
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