:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Aug 08 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 221 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Aug 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1532 S16W92 185 0180 Hsx 08 01 Alpha 1535 N19W42 135 0050 Cso 05 02 Beta 1537 N12W17 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (07 August 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Mount Tongariro Erupts http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78791&src=eoa-iotd * Night View of Fires in Siberia http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78767&src=eoa-iotd * Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78754&src=eoa-iotd * Myrtle Fire in South Dakot ...Continue Reading

Aug. 7, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster / D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 / 818-393-9011 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov / agle@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-271 ORBITER IMAGES NASA'S LATEST ADDITIONS TO MARTIAN LANDSCAPE PASADENA, Calif. -- Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the ...Continue Reading

In his latest blog entry, Flight Engineer Joe Acaba talks about the crew getting together to watch the Olympics. _http://go.nasa.gov/MrtptF_   *Sharing the Olympic Spirit*   Every week, usually at the end of the day on Friday, we have a conference with our Lead Flight Director, Dina Contella.  At the start of this week’s conference, she put the week into perspective.  She said this time last week (our conference was on a Thursday because of HTV arrival on Friday) HTV had not docked, 47 Progress was ...Continue Reading

Aug. 7, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rob Wyman Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., 757-864-6120 robert.d.wyman@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-034 NASA USES TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND AEROSPACE MISSION SUPPORT CONTRACT OPTION HAMPTON, Va. -- NASA has elected to exercise the first option of the Technology, Engineering and Aerospace Mission Support contract (TEAMS 2) that was awarded to Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. of Hampton, Va., ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO Ernesto strengthened to a tropical storm in early August 2012, and headed for the Yucatan Peninsula. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=78783&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 06, 2012 (Posted on Aug 06, 2012 5:04 PM) TYPHOON HAIKUI Haikui strengthened to a typhoon off the co ...Continue Reading

Aug. 7, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Gray Creech Dryden Flight Research Center 661-276-2662 gray.creech-1@nasa.gov Tom Koehler Boeing Research & Technology Communications 425-373-2921 thomas.j.koehler@boeing.com RELEASE: 12-259 TRANSFORMED X-48C FLIES SUCCESSFULLY Edwards AFB, Calif. -- The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The aircraf ...Continue Reading

Aug. 7, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-145 BRIEFING SET TO PREVIEW TWO SPACEWALKS FROM SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA will preview a pair of spacewalks involving U.S., Russian and Japanese crew members aboard the International Space Station at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 14. The briefing will be broadcast on NASA Television from the agency's Johnson Space Center ...Continue Reading

Aug. 7, 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 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-146 NASA TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ON UPCOMING RADIATION BELT STORM PROBES LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 9 to discuss the upcoming launch of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), a mission to study Earth's radiation belt ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 42 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. SMOKEY BEAR TO CELEBRATE 68TH BIRTHDAY AT MISSION CONTROL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:06:50 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: SMOKEY BEAR TO CELEBRATE 68TH BIRTHDAY AT MISSION CONTROL August 6, 2012 Michael Hernandez / Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-792-7457 / 281-483-6270 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #H12-266 SMOK ...Continue Reading