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

March 1, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-064 NASA FINDS SEA ICE DECLINE DRIVING RISE IN ARCTIC AIR POLLUTANTS WASHINGTON -- Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of toxic mer ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE IRINA Following on the heels of other tropical storms Tropical Cyclone Irina struck Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel in late February and early March 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77279&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 01, 2012 (Posted on Mar 01, 2012 1:21 PM) -- VO ...Continue Reading

March 1, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-066 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HEADS OF AGENCIES JOINT STATEMENT WASHINGTON -- The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Quebec City, Canada, on March 1, 2012, to review the scientific, technological, and social benefits being produced through their collaboration, and to discuss plans for further broadening these b ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Mar 01 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 61 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Mar 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1423 N17W09 057 0120 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1426 N11W31 078 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

Feb. 29, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Rob Wyman NASA Langley Research Center 757-864-6120 rob.wyman@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-009 NASA AWARDS ADMINISTRATIVE, MEDIA, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA today announced the selection of GenTech Partners Joint Venture, of Hampton, Va., to provide Langley Research Center's administrative, media and professional services (LAMPS). GenTech Partners Joint Venture, of Genex Systems ...Continue Reading