August 30th 2012 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 30 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 243 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1553 S21W20 182 0130 Cso 06 05 Beta 1554 N17W54 216 0050 Dso 05 06 Beta 1555 N08E15 ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
August 29, 2012 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, The OSI SAF and EARS ASCAT wind products will be upgraded on Tuesday, 18 September. Apart from some minor bug fixes, the main change will be the implementation of a Bayesian sea ice screening algorithm, based on probabilistic distances to ocean wind and sea ice Geophysical Mod ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
Aug. 29, 2012 Dwayne Brown / Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 / 202-358-0918 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov / stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Guy Webster / D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-5011 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov / agle@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-301 NASA CURIOSITY ROVER BEGINS EASTBOUND TREK ON MARTIAN SURFACE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter-mile (400 meters) away, w ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
Aug. 29, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Patrick Fant RFC Media LLC, Houston 832-485-0490 pat@rfcmedia.com RELEASE: 12-300 NASA "MOHAWK GUY" TO HOST SHOW ON THIRD ROCK RADIO WASHINGTON -- NASA's "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory mission that lowered the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface in early August, will host a two-hour online broadcast on Internet ra ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
Aug. 29, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Patrick Fant RFC Media LLC, Houston 832-485-0490 pat@rfcmedia.com RELEASE: 12-300 NASA "MOHAWK GUY" TO HOST SHOW ON THIRD ROCK RADIO WASHINGTON -- NASA's "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory mission that lowered the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface in early August, will host a two-hour online broadcast on Internet ra ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
Aug. 29, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-165 NASA, WHOI TO HOLD MEDIA BRIEFING ON OCEAN SALINITY EXPEDITION WASHINGTON -- NASA-funded researchers are making final preparations at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Mass., for an ocean-going campaign designed to shed new light on the link between ocean salinity and shifts in global precipitation patterns. Reporters are invited to attend a media briefing on the ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 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=79021&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 28, 2012 (Posted on Aug 29, 2012 9:40 AM) WILDFIRES IN SIBERIA Fires burned across Russia during the summer of 2012. * http: ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
Aug. 29, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-295 NASA'S WISE SURVEY UNCOVERS MILLIONS OF BLACK HOLES WASHINGTON -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies. Images from the telescope have revealed millions of dus ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Suni Williams shares some thoughts on the passing of Neil Armstrong in her latest blog entry. _http://go.usa.gov/rnbH_ *Everyone Knows the Name Neil Armstrong* Saturday was a sad day for this planet. I was thinking about it and I’ll bet practically every person on (and off) this planet knows the name Neil Armstrong. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, what you do for a living, what kind of car you drive, or how many kids you have – most everyone here from sch ...Continue Reading
August 29th 2012 PDT
Aug. 29, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-299 NASA COMPLETES MAXIMUM PARACHUTE TEST FOR ORION SPACECRAFT HOUSTON -- NASA Tuesday successfully completed another parachute test of its Orion spacecraft high above the skies of the U.S. Yuma Army Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona. The test examined the maximum pressure Orion's parachutes might face when returning ...Continue Reading
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