June 11th 2012 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jun 12 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 164 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Jun 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1494 S17W74 200 0080 Hax 02 01 Alpha 1499 N16W60 187 0010 Bxo 09 05 Beta 1504 S17E40 ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
June 11, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-194 NASA'S UNDERSEA MISSION SUBMERGES IN THE ATLANTIC HOUSTON -- An international crew of aquanauts is settling into its home on the ocean floor, where the team will spend 12 days testing concepts for a potential asteroid mission. The expedition is the 16th excursion of the NASA Extreme Environment ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
June 11, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 12-191 BLACK HOLE GROWTH FOUND TO BE OUT OF SYNC WASHINGTON -- New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. Astronomers long have thought that a supermassive black hole and the bulge of stars at the c ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
June 11, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-111 MEDIA INVITED TO NASA'S NEWEST COMMUNICATIONS-DELAY TESTS HOUSTON -- NASA is preparing to move exploration beyond Earth's orbit, but communication delays will change how the agency conducts its missions. Reporters can see for themselves how NASA is planning for that change through NASA's newest test project, the Autonomous M ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
June 11, 2012 J. D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-193 NASA'S FERMI DETECTS THE HIGHEST-ENERGY LIGHT FROM A SOLAR FLARE WASHINGTON -- During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role as a solar observatory, a powerful new tool for understanding solar outbursts during the sun's maximum period of activity. ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
June 11, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Janet L. Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Tom Bradley Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. 860-967-5357 tbradleypr@yahoo.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-110 GARVER TO ATTEND NASA $1.5 MILLION ROBOT COMPETITION JUNE 16 WASHINGTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck will ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
How would you spend your last day on Earth? Astronaut Don Pettit ponders launch preparations in his latest poem from the space station. _http://__bit.ly/KM8kir_ *Last Day on Earth* The day before launch maybe gone for a year perhaps half right Your last day on Earth what would you do? Robbing the piggybank of time to spend it on what ever you desire We live in quarantine a flower by any other name that smells like white collar prison You know your crew ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
June 11, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-192 NASA MARS ROVER TEAM AIMS FOR LANDING CLOSER TO PRIME SCIENCE SITE WASHINGTON -- NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. The car-sized rover will arrive closer to its ultimate destination for science operations, but also closer to ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HIGH PARK FIRE IN COLORADO The High Park Fire broke out west of Fort Collins, Colorado, in early June 2012, and spread rapidly. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78236&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 09, 2012 (Posted on Jun 11, 2012 1:05 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (3 updated events, 3 new images) -- DU ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HIGH PARK FIRE IN COLORADO The High Park Fire broke out west of Fort Collins, Colorado, in early June 2012, and spread rapidly. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78236&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 09, 2012 (Posted on Jun 11, 2012 1:05 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading
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