Oct. 3, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov Caroline McCall Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 617-253-1682 Cmcall5@mit.edu RELEASE: 11-335 NASA INVITES STUDENTS TO NAME MOON-BOUND SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names. The naming contest is open ...Continue Reading

Oct. 3, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-334 NASA AWARDS HISTORIC GREEN AVIATION PRIZE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies demonstrated by the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, competitors may end up in general aviation aircraft, spawning n ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 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=52361&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 30, 2011 (Posted on Sep 30, 2011 3:48 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STOR ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1853 Issue Time: 2011 Oct 03 1101 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1852 Begin Time: 2011 Oct 02 1355 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1458 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

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 03 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 276 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1302 N16W55 278 0410 Fkc 16 14 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1305 N12W26 249 0190 Dsi 06 09 Beta-Gam ...Continue Reading

Oct. 2, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0474 alan.d.buis@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-329 NASA LEADS STUDY OF UNPRECEDENTED ARCTIC OZONE LOSS WASHINGTON -- A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. The study, published on ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1852 Issue Time: 2011 Oct 02 1411 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2011 Oct 02 1355 UTC Station: GOES15 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 Subscription Site. Please do not use the from address for corre ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 02 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 275 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1302 N16W41 277 0700 Fkc 16 16 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1305 N12W12 248 0170 Dso 06 14 Beta-Gam ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 42 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA MODIFIES CONTRACT TO CONTINUE GROUND OPERATIONS WORK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:10:13 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA MODIFIES CONTRACT TO CONTINUE GROUND OPERATIONS WORK Sep. 30, 2011 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #C11-042 NASA MODIFIES CONTRACT TO CONTINUE GROU ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 01 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 274 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1301 N16W76 326 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1302 N13W29 278 0750 Fkc 17 25 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1 ...Continue Reading