Jan. 12, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Rani Gran Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2483 rani.c.gran@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-016 NASA COLD WEATHER AIRBORNE CAMPAIGN TO MEASURE FALLING SNOW WASHINGTON - Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring snowfall from space. GPM is an intern ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 12 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 12 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1391 N12W37 010 0270 Ekc 12 20 Beta 1393 N16W84 057 0560 Eko 13 10 Beta 1395 N21E21 3 ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-6982 michele.johnson@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-013 NASA'S KEPLER MISSION FINDS THREE SMALLEST EXOPLANETS WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Donna Weaver / Ray Villard Space Science Telescope Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4493 / 410-338-4514 dweaver@stsci.edu / villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 12-012 HUBBLE SOLVES MYSTERY ON SOURCE OF SUPERNOVA IN NEARBY GALAXY WASHINGTON -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, which caused a ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE HEIDI Cyclone Heidi approached the northwestern Australian coast in early January 2012, near Port Hedland. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=76923&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 11, 2012 (Posted on Jan 11, 2012 12:35 PM) --------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Donna Weaver / Ray Villard Space Science Telescope Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4493 / 410-338-4514 dweaver@stsci.edu / villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 12-011 NASA'S HUBBLE BREAKS NEW GROUND WITH DISTANT SUPERNOVA DISCOVERY WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than 9 billion years ago. The sighting is the first findi ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-015 NASA ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT RECEIVES AIAA VON KARMAN AWARD WASHINGTON -- The American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has honored Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate with the Von Karman Lectureship in Astronautics. The award is given annually to someone who has performed notably and distinguished themselves t ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 11 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 11 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1391 N12W25 011 0270 Dki 10 22 Beta 1393 N17W70 056 0530 Eki 12 08 Beta-Gamma 1395 N22E ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-001 NASA AWARDS LAUNCH SERVICES PROGRAM SUPPORT CONTRACT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected a.i. solutions Inc. of Lanham, Md., to receive a contract award that will enable the agency's Launch Services Program (LSP) to provide integrated services for the preparation and launch of ...Continue Reading

Jan. 10, 2012 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 bob.jacobs@nasa.gov Jessica Culler Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 jessica.s.culler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-014 NASA'S ONLINE RADIO STATION ROCKS SMARTPHONES MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Third Rock Radio just got mobile. Updates to the NASA App for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android now include a feature to listen to the agency's new online alternative rock radio station. "Now you can listen to great music in the s ...Continue Reading