Sept. 5, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Karen Jenvey Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 karen.jenvey@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-307 NASA SELECTS SCIENCE TEAMS FOR ASTROBIOLOGY INSTITUTE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $40 million to five research teams to study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The newly selected teams are from the University of Washington; ...Continue Reading

September 5, 2012 Today or in the next few days, Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) users will receive an email invitation from CFI Group on behalf of NASA. This message will ask you to participate in a web-based survey of NASA Earth Science data and services. PO.DAAC is one of twelve NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data centers evaluated by this survey. The purpose of this survey is to help PODAAC assess cu ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST OVER THE RED SEA Dust blew off the coast of Sudan and over the Red Sea in early September 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79095&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 01, 2012 (Posted on Sep 05, 2012 1:48 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natu ...Continue Reading

Sept. 5, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-308 NEW NASA BOOK REVEALS PRESSURE SUITS ARE HEIGHT OF FASHION WASHINGTON -- NASA has published a colorful, picture-filled book that details the development and use of the protective clothing worn by test pilots, astronauts and others as they soar high above Earth. "Dressing for Altitude: U.S. Aviation Pressure Suits -- Wiley Post to Space Shuttle" provides a 526-page survey of the partial- ...Continue Reading

Sept. 05, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-305 NASA VOYAGE SET TO EXPLORE LINK BETWEEN SEA SALTINESS AND CLIMATE WASHINGTON -- A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet. The research voyage is part of a multi-year mission, dubbed ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Sep 05 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 249 Issued at 0030Z on 05 Sep 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 04/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1559 N15W30 112 0050 Dso 07 07 Beta 1560 N04W47 129 0170 Eai 11 15 Beta-Gamma-Delta 15 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (04 September 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * A Voyager Far From Home http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79091&src=eoa-iotd * Horton River Delta, Arctic Canada http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79044&src=eoa-iotd * Sutter Buttes, California http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79049&src=eoa-iotd * Flooding and Drought in Et ...Continue Reading

Sept. 4, 2012 David Weaver/Michael Cabbage Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov / mcabbage@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-172 NASA TO HONOR NEIL ARMSTRONG AT NATIONAL CATHEDRAL WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other dignitaries will attend a public memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the life and career of astronaut Neil Armstrong on Thursday, Sept. 13. The memorial will be broadcast live on NASA Television an ...Continue Reading

Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Sunita Williams writes about the trials of spacewalking in her latest blog entry. _http://go.usa.gov/rmQV_   *Space is Busy, Active and Unkind*   We have been pretty much up to our ears in EVA, extravehicular activity or spacewalking, preparations and then spacewalking! I think most of you know we had a spacewalk using the robotic arm Thursday, August 30th. It went sort of long. You don’t just “go outside.” Usually that is the fun and easy part of the entire thing. The days lead ...Continue Reading

Sept. 4, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-304 NASA IS EXPANDING OFFER FOR SPACE SHUTTLE TILES AND FOOD WASHINGTON -- NASA is expanding its offer to museums and schools of space shuttle heat shield tiles and food packaged for spaceflight. Beginning Tuesday, museums across the United States will be eligible to receive these pieces of space history, in addition to the schools and universities that have received them since the end of the Space Shuttle Progra ...Continue Reading