Jan. 10, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-001 NASA AWARDS LAUNCH SERVICES PROGRAM SUPPORT CONTRACT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected a.i. solutions Inc. of Lanham, Md., to receive a contract award that will enable the agency's Launch Services Program (LSP) to provide integrated services for the preparation and launch of ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2012 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 bob.jacobs@nasa.gov Jessica Culler Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 jessica.s.culler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-014 NASA'S ONLINE RADIO STATION ROCKS SMARTPHONES MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Third Rock Radio just got mobile. Updates to the NASA App for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android now include a feature to listen to the agency's new online alternative rock radio station. "Now you can listen to great music in the s ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-010 NASA'S FERMI SPACE TELESCOPE EXPLORES NEW ENERGY EXTREMES WASHINGTON -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi team announced its first census of energy sources in this new realm. Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-009 NASA'S RXTE HELPS PINPOINT LAUNCH OF 'BULLETS' IN A BLACK HOLE'S JET WASHINGTON -- Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified the moment when a black hole in our galaxy launched superfast knots of gas into space. Racing outw ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Cyclones and heavy monsoon rains triggered unusually severe seasonal flooding across Southeast Asia. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76913&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 08, 2012 (Posted on Jan 09, 2012 3:07 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #12-2 2012 January 10 at 10:17 a.m. MST (2012 January 10 1717 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For January 2-8 No space weather storms were observed. Outlook For January 11-17 No space weather storms are expected. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 ltrent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 12-008 NASA'S CHANDRA FINDS LARGEST GALAXY CLUSTER IN EARLY UNIVERSE Washington -- An exceptional galaxy cluster, the largest seen in the distant universe, has been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation-funded Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile. Officially known as A ...Continue Reading

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, Mariner 2 sent to Venus, the NASA History Program Office, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, the NASA Science Mission Directorate, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory invite papers for a conference relating to the history of planetary exploration. This historical symposium will be held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012.   Please see the attached updated call for papers for more details. ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 ltrent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Donna Weaver / Ray Villard Space Science Telescope Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4493 / 410-338-4514 dweaver@stsci.edu / villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 12-007 HUBBLE PINPOINTS FARTHEST PROTOCLUSTER OF GALAXIES EVER SEEN WASHINGTON -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development. It is the most distant such grouping ever observed in the e ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 10 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 10 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1389 S19W88 087 0210 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1391 N12W12 011 0280 Dsc 10 22 Beta-Gamma 1392 N18 ...Continue Reading