:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Aug 10 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 222 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Aug 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1263 N17W81 298 0340 Ehc 14 08 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1266 N19W26 243 0070 Dso 08 13 Beta ...Continue Reading

August 09, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Leslie Williams Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-3893 leslie.a.williams@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-258 NASA SELECTS SEVEN FIRMS TO PROVIDE NEAR-SPACE FLIGHT SERVICES WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. As part of NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, eac ...Continue Reading

August 09, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 george.h.diller@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.w.webster@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-166 NASA OFFERS MEDIA ACCESS TO MARS-BOUND ROVER ON AUG. 12 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's next Mars rover, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) known as Curiosity, will be the focus of a media opportunity at 7 a.m. E ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRE IN SOUTHERN VIRGINIA Lightning ignited a large wildfire in southern Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp on August 4, 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51670&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Aug 08, 2011 (Posted on Aug 09, 2011 11:28 AM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON MUIFA M ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11- 36 2011 August 09 at 10:18 a.m. MDT (2011 August 09 1618 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For August 1-7 R1 (Minor) and R2 (Moderate) Radio Blackouts were observed on 03 and 04 August. S1 (Minor) Solar Radiation Storms were observed on 04, 05, and 06 August. G1 (Minor), G2 (Moderate), and G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storms were observed on 05 August. G1 (Minor ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1835 Issue Time: 2011 Aug 09 0511 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1834 Begin Time: 2011 Aug 08 1315 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3581 pfu Comment: 09/0500 = 1089 2MeV flux 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 informati ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Aug 09 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 221 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Aug 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1263 N18W68 298 0450 Ekc 14 13 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1266 N18W12 242 0050 Dsi 06 20 Beta ...Continue Reading

Aug. 8, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal-Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-263 NASA RESEARCH SHOWS DNA BUILDING BLOCKS CAN BE MADE IN SPACE WASHINGTON -- NASA-funded researchers have found more evidence meteorites can carry DNA components created in space. Scientists have detected the building blocks of DNA in meteorites since the 1960s, but we ...Continue Reading

August 08, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 david.steitz@nasa.gov Dan Weber/Ben Gerdes Office of Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards 202-225-8699 dan.weber@mail.house.gov / ben.gerdes@mail.house.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-165 NASA HOLDS FUTURE FORUM AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WASHINGTON -- NASA's first Future Forum of 2011 will bring together agency officials and local business, science and education leaders to discuss the agency's role in advancin ...Continue Reading

August 08, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-033 NASA ANNOUNCES WEB ENTERPRISE SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected The Portal Group (TPG) Consulting of Long Beach, Calif., for the Information Technology Infrastructure Integration Program's Web Enterprise Services and Technology (WEST) contract. Under the contract, TPG will install and operate hardware, software and provide support services. The ...Continue Reading