:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Mar 03 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 63 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Mar 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1423 N17W36 057 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1427 N15W16 037 0020 Cro 02 03 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUME FROM WHITE SANDS A dust plume blew out of White Sands National Monument in late February 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77294&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 28, 2012 (Posted on Mar 01, 2012 5:19 PM) -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HYDROGEN SULFID ...Continue Reading

March 2, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Rachel Kraft Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Priscilla Vega Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-5011 priscilla.r.vega@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-069 COMMUNITY COLLEGE SCHOLARS SELECTED TO DESIGN ROBOTIC ROVERS WASHINGTON -- Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA. Ninety-two students from schools in 2 ...Continue Reading

Mar. 02, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-034 NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO EVENT HONORING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WASHINGTON -- NASA invites the public to an event featuring senior government leaders, scientists and innovators in celebration of Women's History Month. The "Women, Aerospace and Innovation" program will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST on March 8 at the George Washington University's Jack ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1863 Issue Time: 2012 Mar 02 1447 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2012 Mar 02 1425 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

March 2, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 12-068 DARK MATTER CORE DEFIES EXPLANATION IN NASA HUBBLE IMAGE WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge current theories about dark m ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Mar 02 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 62 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Mar 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1423 N17W21 055 0090 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1427 N15W01 035 0020 Cro 02 03 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

March 1, 2012 Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 michael.s.mewhinney@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-008 NASA AWARDS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR EARTH SCIENCE RESEARCH MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has awarded a cooperative agreement to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute of Sonoma, Calif., to support Earth science research at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The Ames Cooperative for ...Continue Reading

March 1, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Jeannette Owens Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-2990 jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-067 STUDENT TEAMS TO CONDUCT MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS AT GLENN RESEARCH CENTER CLEVELAND -- NASA-selected student teams will test their science experiments in the 2.2-second drop tower at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland from March 15-20. While in free fall, the students' experiments will experience mi ...Continue Reading

March 1, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-065 NASA CONTINUES ORION PARACHUTE TESTING FOR ORBITAL TEST FLIGHT HOUSTON -- On Feb. 29, NASA successfully conducted another drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's entry, descent and landing parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the vehicle's orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry astronauts deep ...Continue Reading