Aug. 9, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle / Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011/818-354-6278 agle@jpl.nasa.gov / guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-275 NASA'S CURIOSITY BEAMS BACK A COLOR 360 OF GALE CRATER PASADENA, Calif. -- The first images from Curiosity's color Mast Camera (Mastcam) have been received by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. The 130 low-resolution thumbna ...Continue Reading

Aug. 09, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Doug LeMere NASA Shared Services Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-813-6617 douglas.m.lemere@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: C12-035 NASA SELECTS CONTRACT FOR EMPLOYEE RELOCATION SERVICES WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Franconia Real Estate Services of Woodbridge, Va., for agencywide employee relocation services effective Oct. 1. The firm-fixed price Blanket Purchase Agreement with delivery/task orders includes ...Continue Reading

Aug. 9, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-147 NASA TO HOLD MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ABOUT RECORD-BREAKING GALAXY CLUSTER WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 15, to discuss an extraordinary galaxy cluster that is smashing several important cosmic records. The panelists are: -- Michael McDonald, Hubble Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. -- Bradford Benson, astroph ...Continue Reading

Aug. 09, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-274 TO THE STARS: NASA SELECTS SMALL SPACECRAFT TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA has chosen three teams to advance the state of the art for small spacecraft in the areas of communications, formation flying and docking systems. The cutting-edge space technology flights are expected to tak ...Continue Reading

Aug. 9, 2012 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Geoffrey Brown Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel Md. 240-228-5618 or 443-778-5618 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 12-272 NEW NASA MISSION READY TO BRAVE EARTH'S RADIATION BELTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will send two spacecraft into the harsh environment of our planet's radiation belts. Final preparations have begun for launch on Thursday, Aug. 23, ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HOLLOWAY FIRE IN OREGON AND NEVADA The Holloway fire burned near the Nevada-Oregon border in August of 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78801&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 07, 2012 (Posted on Aug 08, 2012 3:13 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- HURRICANE ERNESTO Ernesto stre ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 09 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 222 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1535 N18W54 134 0070 Cso 05 02 Beta 1537 N12W30 110 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1538 S23W35 ...Continue Reading

Aug. 8, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle / Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 / 818-354-6278 agle@jpl.nasa.gov / guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-273 FIRST 360-DEGREE PANORAMA FROM NASA'S CURIOSITY MARS ROVER PASADENA, Calif. -- Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars. The images ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 664 2012 Aug 8 Somerville, MA USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- On the ISS, Expedition 32 continues with astronauts Gennadiy Padalka, Sergey Revin, Joseph Acaba, Yuriy Malenchenko, Sunita Willams and Akihiko Hoshide. Soyuz TMA-05M docked with the Rassvet module on Jul 17 at 0451 UTC. Progress M-15M redocked with Pirs at 0101 UTC on Jul 2 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE ERNESTO Ernesto strengthened to a tropical storm in early August 2012, and headed for the Yucatán Peninsula. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78795&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 07, 2012 (Posted on Aug 07, 2012 4:39 PM) __________________________________________________________ ...Continue Reading