The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST IN THE TAKLIMAKAN DESERT Dust stirred along the margins of China's Taklimakan Desert in late March and early April 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77597&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Apr 05, 2012 (Posted on Apr 05, 2012 3:44 PM) ------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

In his latest blog entry, Astronaut Don Pettit discusses the details behind the recent space station "flash" by an amateur astronomy group. _http://bit.ly/HntU7K_   More About That Flash   There’s more to that _recent Space Station flash by an amateur astronomy group_ than may have met the eye, so here are a few more details.   Lasers produce not only monochromatic light, but also a unique intensity profile. If you take a cross-section of the beam and plot the intensity, it is far from uniform ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 55 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH STATION CREW MEMBERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:15:15 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH STATION CREW MEMBERS April 5, 2012 Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M12-058 NASA HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH STATION CREW MEMBERS ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Apr 06 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 97 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Apr 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1450 N15W31 323 0130 Esi 12 14 Beta-Gamma 1452 N18E05 287 0030 Dro 07 05 Beta IA. H-alp ...Continue Reading

April 05, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-016 NASA AWARDS LAUNCH CONTRACT FOR GOES-R AND GOES-S MISSIONS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R and S, or GOES-R and GOES-S. The spacecraft will laun ...Continue Reading

April 5, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-101 NASA SCIENCE CHIEF STATEMENT ON NAMING OF SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE'S ASTRONOMICAL DATABASE FOR SENATOR MIKULSKI WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NASA's Chief Scientist, Waleed Abdalati, on the Space Telescope Science Institute naming its astronomical database the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). MAST holds science data from ...Continue Reading

April 5, 2012 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kylie.s.clem@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-058 NASA HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH STATION CREW MEMBERS HOUSTON -- Three of the six crew members living aboard the International Space Station will take questions from reporters during a news conference on Wednesday, April 11, at 9:15 a.m. CDT. The conference will air live on NASA Television and will be streamed on the a ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 56 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA SEEKS HOSTS FOR SPACE STATION INTERACTIVE EDUCATION EVENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 14:29:51 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA SEEKS HOSTS FOR SPACE STATION INTERACTIVE EDUCATION EVENTS April 4, 2012 Rachel Kraft Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-792-7690 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 Report #H12-105 NASA SEEKS HOSTS FOR ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Apr 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 96 Issued at 0030Z on 05 Apr 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 04/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1445 S21W87 032 0090 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1450 N17W19 324 0080 Dsi 10 11 Beta 1452 N18E19 ...Continue Reading

April 4, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Beth Hagenauer Dryden Flight Research Center 661-276-7960 beth.hagenauer@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-104 NASA TO HOST 75 SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS AT DRYDEN NASA SOCIAL EDWARDS, Calif. -- NASA will host 75 social media followers May 4 to go behind-the-scenes and learn more about NASA aeronautics, science and other projects at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base in California. Dry ...Continue Reading