May 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 RELEASE: 12-154 NASA $1.5 MILLION ROBOT COMPETITION ROLLS ONTO WPI CAMPUS JUNE 14-17 WASHINGTON -- Autonomous robots created by 11 teams of engineers from across the country will com ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1898 Issue Time: 2012 May 11 1018 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1897 Begin Time: 2012 May 10 1415 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 2180 pfu 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 Ser ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 May 11 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 132 Issued at 0030Z on 11 May 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1471 S22W91 281 0090 Hsx 06 01 Alpha 1476 N12E08 180 1040 Fkc 20 50 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1 ...Continue Reading

May 10, 2012 GHRSST GOES-15 Sea Surface Temperature L2P data now available A new Level 2P GOES-15 SST data set produced by the NOAA Office of Satellite and Product Operations is now available from the JPL PO.DAAC. See: Information Page: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/OSDPD-L2P-GOES15 FTP Location: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/data/L2P/GOES15/OSDPD/2012/ This data set covers the central-eastern Pacific region (GOES-West) and is formatted to the GHRSST L2P v1 ...Continue Reading

May 10, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui C. Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-153 NASA DAWN SPACECRAFT REVEALS SECRETS OF LARGE ASTEROID WASHINGTON -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and relation to the terrestrial planets and Earth's moon. Vesta now has been revealed as a ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN KENYA Floods affected multiple locations in Kenya in April and May 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77882&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from May 10, 2012 (Posted on May 10, 2012 1:15 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA' ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1897 Issue Time: 2012 May 10 1434 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2012 May 10 1415 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 May 10 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 131 Issued at 0030Z on 10 May 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1471 S21W78 281 0110 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1474 N16W23 232 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1476 N10E22 ...Continue Reading

May 09, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Angela D. Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 angela.d.storey@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-020 NASA AWARDS ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE SERVICES AND SKILLS AUGMENTATION SERVICES CONTRACT HUNTSVILLE -- NASA has selected Jacobs Technology, Inc., of Tullahoma, Tenn., for its Engineering and Science Services and Skills Augmentation contract at Marshall Space ...Continue Reading

May 9, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Geoff Brown Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-5618 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-152 NASA MARS SPACECRAFT DETECTS LARGE CHANGES IN MARTIAN SAND DUNES WASHINGTON -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet oc ...Continue Reading