Jan. 19, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Leslie McCarthy Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York 212-678-5507 leslie.m.mccarthy@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-020 NASA FINDS 2011 NINTH WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD WASHINGTON -- The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 19 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 19 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1396 N25W44 285 0010 Bxo 02 04 Beta 1399 S23E17 224 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1401 N16E27 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 18, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Caroline McCall MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 617-253-1682 cmccall5@mit.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-010 NASA JOINS MIT AND DARPA FOR OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD STUDENT ROBOTIC CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- NASA will join the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school student teams from the U.S. and abroad for the third annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge on Monday, ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN NORTHWESTERN AUSTRALIA Heavy rains from Tropical Cyclone Heidi filled a normally dry riverbed in northwestern Australia in January 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76957&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 15, 2012 (Posted on Jan 17, 2012 3:49 PM) ---------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Jan. 18, 2012 Stephanie L. Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-022 NASA HOSTS DC TWEETUP WITH SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT RON GARAN WASHINGTON -- NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with astronaut Ron Garan at 1:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 14. The event will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW in Washington. Garan spent 164 days in space during the Expedition 27/28 mission to the Internat ...Continue Reading

Jan. 18, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Jessica Culler Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 jessica.culler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-021 NASA CLEARS THE RUNWAY FOR OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency's open source software development Open source development, which invites the public access to ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #12-3 2012 January 17 at 8:46 a.m. MST (2012 January 17 1546 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For January 9-15 A category R1 (Minor) radio blackout was observed on 14 January due to flare activity from NOAA sunspot Region 1401. Outlook For January 18-24 R1 (Minor) and R2 (Moderate) radio blackouts are possible throughout the period from NOAA sunspot Regions ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 18 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 18 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1396 N24W33 287 0030 Dro 04 17 Beta 1398 N11W64 318 0010 Bxo 01 03 Beta 1399 S23E29 2 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 17, 2012 J.D. Harrington / Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov / michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-009 MEDIA INVITED TO SIMULATION OF ASTEROID MISSION HOUSTON - An astronaut and geologist will camp out in a prototype Space Exploration Vehicle this week to simulate an asteroid mission at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronaut Al Drew and geologist Jose M. Hurt ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 38 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA TO HAND OVER SHUTTLE TRAINER KEYS TO SEATTLE MUSEUM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:23:05 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA TO HAND OVER SHUTTLE TRAINER KEYS TO SEATTLE MUSEUM Jan. 17, 2012 Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #J12-001 NASA TO HAND OVER SHUTTLE TRAINER �KEYS� TO SEATTL ...Continue Reading