:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 30 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 273 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1301 N16W64 327 0020 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1302 N13W16 279 0750 Fkc 18 23 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1 ...Continue Reading

Sep. 29, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-328 NASA SELECTS SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS FOR CONCEPT STUDIES WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 11 science proposals for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the Earth's atmosphere, the sun, the Milky Way galaxy, and Earth-like planets around nearby stars. The selections were made from responses to Announcements of Opportunity for Explorer Missions ...Continue Reading

The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, Since the resumption of the ASCAT service after the out of plane manoeuvre this morning, we are unable to compute winds in the descending Metop passes. This is due to an issue in the Level 1 backscatter data. In the ascending Metop passes there seems to be no problem and we obtain good quality winds. EUMETSAT is investigating ...Continue Reading

Sept. 29, 2011 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Dan Kanigan Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-6849 daniel.n.kanigan@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-332 NASA, AEROSPACE BUSINESS LEADERS DISCUSS SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM -- NEXT U.S. HEAVY LIFT SPACECRAFT -- AT INDUSTRY DAY EVENT HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA leaders met Thursday to discuss acquisition plans for the agency's new heavy-lift rocket with hundreds of representatives ...Continue Reading

Sept. 29, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Paulette Campbell Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-6792 paulette.campbell@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 11-330 NASA SPACECRAFT REVEALING MORE DETAILS ABOUT PLANET MERCURY WASHINGTON -- NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, the first to achieve orbit around Mercury, is providing scientists new information about the planet. The data show widespread flood volcanism similar to Earth, clearer views ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN AUSTRALIA Fires burned throughout northern Australia during September 2011 at the end of the dry winter season. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=52331&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 29, 2011 (Posted on Sep 29, 2011 1:49 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- TYPHOON NESAT Typ ...Continue Reading

Sept. 29, 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: 11-333 NASA SPACE TELESCOPE FINDS FEWER ASTEROIDS NEAR EARTH WASHINGTON -- New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought. The findings also indicate NASA has found more than 90 per ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 47 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASTRONAUT WILL SPEAK AND SIGN AUTOGRAPHS AT DEWBERRY FARM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:39:35 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT WILL SPEAK AND SIGN AUTOGRAPHS AT DEWBERRY FARM Sept. 28, 2011 Brenda Cabaniss Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-8860 Report #JA11-011 NASA ASTRONAUT WILL SPEAK AND SIGN AUTOGRAPHS AT DEWBERRY FARM HOUSTON � NAS ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 29 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 272 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1301 N18W51 327 0030 Cro 08 08 Beta 1302 N13W04 280 1070 Fkc 18 37 Beta-Gamma-Delta ...Continue Reading

Sept. 28, 2011 Stephanie L. Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Veronica McGregor Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-9452 veronica.c.mcgregor@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-327 150 OF NASA'S TWITTER FOLLOWERS WILL BE INVITED TO MARS ROVER LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Nov. 23 and 25 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Tweetup is expected to culmina ...Continue Reading