:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 20 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 20 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1399 S23E03 223 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1401 N18E13 213 0540 Eki 15 22 Beta-Gamma 1402 N29 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-023 NASA TV COVERS SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP LAUNCH AND ARRIVAL HOUSTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of the next spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station. Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA and his five crewmates will be standing by as the unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 46 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2012 Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 757-864-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-011 WALLOPS MEDIA ROUNDTABLE WITH NASA'S SPACE TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Journalists are invited to a roundtable discussion at 11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 24, with NASA's Chief Technologist Mason Peck during his visit to the agency's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va. Wallops Flight Facility ...Continue Reading

Jan. 19, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Leslie McCarthy Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York 212-678-5507 leslie.m.mccarthy@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-020 NASA FINDS 2011 NINTH WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD WASHINGTON -- The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 19 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 19 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1396 N25W44 285 0010 Bxo 02 04 Beta 1399 S23E17 224 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1401 N16E27 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 18, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Caroline McCall MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 617-253-1682 cmccall5@mit.edu MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-010 NASA JOINS MIT AND DARPA FOR OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD STUDENT ROBOTIC CHALLENGE WASHINGTON -- NASA will join the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school student teams from the U.S. and abroad for the third annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge on Monday, ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN NORTHWESTERN AUSTRALIA Heavy rains from Tropical Cyclone Heidi filled a normally dry riverbed in northwestern Australia in January 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76957&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 15, 2012 (Posted on Jan 17, 2012 3:49 PM) ---------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Jan. 18, 2012 Stephanie L. Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-022 NASA HOSTS DC TWEETUP WITH SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT RON GARAN WASHINGTON -- NASA invites its Twitter followers to a special Tweetup with astronaut Ron Garan at 1:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 14. The event will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW in Washington. Garan spent 164 days in space during the Expedition 27/28 mission to the Internat ...Continue Reading

Jan. 18, 2012 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Jessica Culler Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 jessica.culler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-021 NASA CLEARS THE RUNWAY FOR OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency's open source software development Open source development, which invites the public access to ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #12-3 2012 January 17 at 8:46 a.m. MST (2012 January 17 1546 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For January 9-15 A category R1 (Minor) radio blackout was observed on 14 January due to flare activity from NOAA sunspot Region 1401. Outlook For January 18-24 R1 (Minor) and R2 (Moderate) radio blackouts are possible throughout the period from NOAA sunspot Regions ...Continue Reading