June 23, 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 RELEASE: 11-199 NASA MISSION SUGGESTS SUN AND PLANETS CONSTRUCTED DIFFERENTLY WASHINGTON -- Analysis of samples returned by NASA's Genesis mission indicates our sun and its inner planets may have formed differently than scientists previously thought. The data revealed slight differences in the types ...Continue Reading

June 23, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Dewayne Washington Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040 dewayne.a.washington@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-130 NASA TO HIGHLIGHT ROBOTIC REFUELING MISSION PAYLOAD, COMMUNICATION SUPPORT ON FINAL SHUTTLE FLIGHT GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will host a media event to highlight its role in the final space shuttle flight, currently ...Continue Reading

June 23, 2011 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Priscilla Vega/Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 626-298-3290/818-354-0850 priscilla.r.vega@jpl.nasa.gov / jccook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-197 NASA PROBE NEARS POSITION FOR YEAR-LONG STAY AT GIANT ASTEROID WASHINGTON -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on J ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HONEY PRAIRIE COMPLEX FIRE, GEORGIA Lightning ignited the Honey Prairie Fire in the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, on April 28, 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51151&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jun 20, 2011 (Posted on Jun 22, 2011 5:08 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SPRING FLOODS I ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1808 Issue Time: 2011 Jun 23 1542 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2011 Jun 23 1455 UTC Station: GOES13 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 cor ...Continue Reading

June 23, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-201 NASA MARS ROVER ARRIVES IN FLORIDA AFTER CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall. ...Continue Reading

June 23, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-385-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Michael Finneran Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-598-1720 michael.p.finneran@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-200 NASA FLIGHTS SEEK TO IMPROVE VIEW OF AIR POLLUTION FROM SPACE WASHINGTON -- Two NASA research airplanes will fly over the Baltimore-Washington region and northeast Maryland this summer as part of a mission to enhance the capability of satellites to measure ground-level air quality fr ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jun 23 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 174 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Jun 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1236 N16W32 164 0140 Cso 10 06 Beta 1239 N18W14 146 0010 Bxo 03 03 Beta 1240 S19E16 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OVER IRAQ Dual dust plumes blew southeastward through Iraq on June 19, 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51138&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 19, 2011 (Posted on Jun 21, 2011 4:25 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- ERUPTION AT NABRO VOLC ...Continue Reading

June 22, 2011 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov Markus Bauer European Space Agency 011-31-71-565-6799 markus.bauer@esa.int RELEASE: 11-196 NASA CASSINI SPACECRAFT CAPTURES OCEAN-LIKE SPRAY AT SATURN MOON WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of ...Continue Reading