Sept. 21, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-197 UPDATE WITH ADDITIONAL SPEAKER: MEDIA OPPORTUNITY WITH NASA'S SOFIA DURING WASHINGTON STOPOVER WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting journalists to tour and learn more about the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory on Thursday, Sept. 22, from 12 to 2 p.m. EDT at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a highly modified Boe ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 21 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 264 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1295 N23W35 057 0310 Dhc 10 18 Beta-Gamma 1296 N27W16 038 0030 Cro 03 05 Beta 1298 N ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, Last week you should have received an e-mail invitation from the Claes Fornell International (CFI) Group on behalf of NASA to participate in a Web-based survey about the quality and utility of PO.DAAC products and services. We greatly appreciate you taking this 10 minute anonymous survey, as your feedback is used to help us to better serve our data user community. At the end of the survey there is an "Additional Comments" field. Please consider using this to provided feedback on servic ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11- 41 2011 September 20 at 02:52 p.m. MDT (2011 September 20 2052 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 12-18 A category G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm occurred on 17 September due to the arrival of a coronal mass ejection from 13 September. Outlook For September 21-27 Isolated category R1 (minor) radio blackouts are possible from 24 - 27 September ...Continue Reading

Sept. 20, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-313 NASA ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL SPACE APPS COMPETITION WASHINGTON -- NASA is announcing the International Space Apps Competition to support the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which President Barack Obama announced Tuesday. The challenge will culminate with a two-day event next year that will provide an opportunity for government to u ...Continue Reading

Sept. 20, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Janet L. Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Jo Dempsey CAFE Foundation, Santa Rosa, Calif. 707-484-5137 jo@cafefoundation.org MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-200 NASA AND CAFE HOSTING GREEN FLIGHT CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation of Santa Rosa, Calif., will hold the 20 ...Continue Reading

Sept. 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-314 NASA'S WISE MISSION CAPTURES BLACK HOLE'S WILDLY FLARING JET WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets. Scientists study jets to ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON ROKE Typhoon Roke formed in the western Pacific on September 11, 2011, and by September 20 had become a powerful category 4 storm poised to strike Japan. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=52224&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 20, 2011 (Posted on Sep 20, 2011 12:41 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTH ...Continue Reading

Sept. 20, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Kim Newton Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 kimberly.d.newton@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-305 NASA PICKS BOEING FOR COMPOSITE CRYOGENIC PROPELLANT TANK TESTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected The Boeing Company of Huntington Beach, Calif., for the Composite Cryotank Technologies Demonstration effort. Under the contract, Boeing will design, manufacture and test two lightweight composite cryogenic ...Continue Reading

Sept. 20, 2011 Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886/344-8511 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov Duane Hyland American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, Va. 703-264-7558 duaneh@aiaa.org MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-193 NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO KICK OFF AVIATION FORUM WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is schedu ...Continue Reading