The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER NORTHEASTERN AFGHANISTAN A dust storm spanning hundreds of kilometers stretched from northern Afghanistan into neighboring countries in early October 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=64489&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 05, 2011 (Posted on Oct 06, 2011 11:52 AM) -- ...Continue Reading

Oct. 6, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-339 NASA DEVELOPING INSTRUMENTS FOR NEW SOLAR ORBITER MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA will begin development and testing of two science instruments, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), to be placed on ESA's newly selected Solar Orbiter mission. The spacecraft will study the sun from a closer distance than any previous mission. At its closest approach, the European-led project will operate approx ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 06 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 279 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1305 N10W65 248 0250 Cho 03 04 Beta 1306 N14W47 230 0015 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1307 N17W13 ...Continue Reading

Oct. 5, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-338 SPACE OBSERVATORY PROVIDES CLUES TO CREATION OF EARTH'S OCEANS WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans. The findings may help explain how Earth's surface ended up covered in water. New measur ...Continue Reading

Oct. 5, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-208 NASA ANNOUNCES NEWS BRIEFING ON NEXT EARTH SCIENCE LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news briefing on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m. EDT, on the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP), scheduled to launch on Oct. 27 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. NPP is the first of a new gener ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1855 Issue Time: 2011 Oct 05 1311 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1854 Begin Time: 2011 Oct 02 1355 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3742 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscalesThank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product S ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 85 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASTRONAUT CELEBRATES HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH AT DISCOVERY MUSEUM 2. NASA TO SEEK APPLICANTS FOR NEXT ASTRONAUT CANDIDATE CLASS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:11:09 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT CELEBRATES HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH AT DISCOVERY MUSEUM October 3, 2011 Brenda Cabaniss Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-8860 Report #J11-024 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 05 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 278 Issued at 0030Z on 05 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 04/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1302 N13W85 281 0240 Dso 08 07 Beta 1305 N11W49 246 0190 Csi 08 10 Beta 1306 N14W34 ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11- 43 2011 October 04 at 12:49 p.m. MDT (2011 October 04 1849 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 26-October 2 Category G1 (Minor) to G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storms occurred 26 - 29 September due to CME passage and substorming. A category S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm was observed 23 - 27 September due to solar activity from active sunspot Regio ...Continue Reading

Oct. 4, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-331 NASA SELECTS TECHNOLOGY PAYLOADS FOR REDUCED-GRAVITY FLIGHTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected nine proposals to demonstrate new technologies for the second set of payloads to fly on commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicles and the Zero-G commercial parabolic aircraft. NASA is using commercially available vehicles to carry these technology demonstration payloads to help develop the U.S. comm ...Continue Reading