:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 15 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 15 Issued at 0030Z on 15 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1391 N12W80 013 0120 Dao 05 09 Beta 1395 N21W18 311 0020 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 1396 N27E06 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 14 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 14 Issued at 0030Z on 14 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 13 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 13/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1391 N12W67 014 0120 Dao 06 11 Beta 1395 N21W06 312 0040 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 1396 N26E18 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 13, 2012 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-008 NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN ATTENDS CENTER CELEBRATION WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will speak at the 44th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Service on Monday, Jan. 16 at 10 a.m. EST at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Bolden will give brief remarks and bring greetings from President Obama. The theme of this year's celebration is "Remember! Celebrate! Act ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST STORM IN CHAD Dust plumes blew across southwestern Chad in early January 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76939&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 12, 2012 (Posted on Jan 13, 2012 1:05 PM) HAZE OVER EASTERN CHINA Haze filled the skies over eastern China in early January 2012. * ...Continue Reading

Jan. 13, 2012 Fred Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0713 fred.a.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-007 NASA TV'S PUBLIC, MEDIA CHANNELS TRANSITIONING TO HD WASHINGTON -- Beginning Feb. 17, 2012, NASA Television's Public and Media channels will transmit their respective content in high definition. NASA Television's Public Channel (101), the channel most often carried by cable and satellite service providers, provides digital coverage of NASA missions and events, as well as documentaries, archival and ot ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 51 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA'S ORION SPACECRAFT TO LAND IN OKLAHOMA, TEXAS AND ALABAMA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:51:30 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA'S ORION SPACECRAFT TO LAND IN OKLAHOMA, TEXAS AND ALABAMA Jan. 12, 2012 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/5241 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 13 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 13 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1391 N12W51 011 0180 Cao 09 11 Beta 1395 N21E07 313 0070 Hsx 01 02 Alpha 1396 N25E32 ...Continue Reading

January 12, 2012 New dataset: GHRSST Level 2P Gridded Global Subskin Sea Surface Temperature from WindSat polarimetric radiometer on the Coriolis satellite A new sea surface temperature (SST) dataset from the WindSat radiometer on the Coriolis satellite in now available from the JPL PO.DAAC.  This radiometer senses in the microwave spectrum and is thus relatively immune to clouds similar to the now defunct AMSR-E instrument  on the NASA Aqua platform. The spatial resoluti ...Continue Reading

Jan. 12, 2012 Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/5241 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov / j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-006 NASA'S ORION SPACECRAFT TO LAND IN OKLAHOMA, TEXAS AND ALABAMA WASHINGTON -- A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft soon will make a cross-country journey, giving residents in three states the chance to see a full scale test version of th ...Continue Reading

Jan. 12, 2012 Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/5241 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov/j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Jennifer Stanfield Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 jennifer.m.stanfield@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-018 NASA MOVES SHUTTLE ENGINES FROM KENNEDY TO STENNIS HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The relocation of the RS-25D space shuttle main engine inventory from Kennedy Space Center's Engine Shop in Cape Canaveral, Fla., is underwa ...Continue Reading