Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1883 Issue Time: 2012 Apr 14 0315 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2012 Apr 14 0300 UTC Station: GOES13 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or upda ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Apr 14 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 105 Issued at 0030Z on 14 Apr 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 13 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 13/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1454 S12E26 160 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1455 N07W19 206 0130 Dai 07 15 Beta-Gamma 1457 N2 ...Continue Reading

April 13, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Jim Ong Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., San Mateo, Calif. 650-931-2710 Ong@stottlerhenke.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-068 NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST PECK TO VISIT SAN MATEO COMPANY TUESDAY WASHINGTON -- Reporters are invited to join NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck on Tuesday, April 17, during his visit to Stottler Henke in San Mateo, Calif. at 10:30 a.m. PDT. Stottler Henke has receive ...Continue Reading

April 13, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Linda Billings George Washington University, Washington 703-635-9799 libillin@gwu.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-067 NASA TELEVISION TO AIR FAMELAB ASTROBIOLOGY FINALS FROM ATLANTA WASHINGTON -- Young scientists are competing to see who is the best communicator. NASA Television will air the FameLab Astrobiology final competition on Monday, April 16, from 7-9 p.m. EDT, live from the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference C ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- COUNTY LINE FIRE IN FLORIDA Drought fueled a large fire near Jacksonville. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77652&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 11, 2012 (Posted on Apr 13, 2012 11:33 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Eart ...Continue Reading

April 13, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-112 NASA PLANNING GROUP TAKES KEY STEPS FOR FUTURE MARS EXPLORATION WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG), established to assist the agency in developing a new strategy for the exploration of the Red Planet, has begun analyzing options for future robotic missions and enlisting the assistance of scientists and engineers worldwide. NASA is reformulating the Mars Exploration Program to be r ...Continue Reading

Expedition 30 Flight Engineer Don Pettit shares a poem in his latest #spaceblog entry. _http://go.usa.gov/meS_   I Wonder Why Nature has a vivid imagination, more so than any human. By venturing into unknown territory, discoveries will be made that tickle our imagination and enrich our minds.  On the frontier, you can once again see the world through the eyes of a child. I wonder why the sky is up, and why the stars abound? And why the Sun comes up each morn, and why the Earth goes ’round? I wonder what th ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Apr 13 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 104 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Apr 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1454 S12E43 158 0020 Cro 03 03 Beta 1455 N06W05 205 0070 Dai 06 13 Beta 1456 S20W19 ...Continue Reading

April 12, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-065 NASA HOSTS TELECONFERENCE ON STATUS OF NEW MARS PROGRAM PLANS WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 13, to provide an update about the framework and schedule of the newly formed Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG). The MPPG was established to construct a coordinated strategy and continue America's leadership role in the exploration of Mars within ...Continue Reading

April 12, 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: 12-109 NASA'S WISE MISSION SEES SKIES ABLAZE WITH BLAZARS WASHINGTON -- Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission has revealed more than 200 blazars ...Continue Reading