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

There is 1 message totalling 58 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. ASTRONAUT MARK KELLY ANNOUNCES PLANS TO RETIRE FROM NASA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:37:27 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: ASTRONAUT MARK KELLY ANNOUNCES PLANS TO RETIRE FROM NASA June 21, 2011 Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #H11-198 ASTRONAUT MARK KELLY ANNOUNC ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jun 22 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 173 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Jun 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1236 N17W21 165 0190 Esi 13 18 Beta 1239 N18W00 145 0010 Bxo 04 06 Beta 1240 S17E27 ...Continue Reading

June 21, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-128 NASA SCHEDULES NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA managers will hold a news conference on Tuesday, June 28, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the final space shuttle launch. The briefing will begin afte ...Continue Reading

June 21, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-198 ASTRONAUT MARK KELLY ANNOUNCES PLANS TO RETIRE FROM NASA HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Kelly has announced his plans to retire from the agency on Oct. 1. He is a veteran of four space shuttle missions. "We salute Commander Mark Kelly and his contributions to NASA as an extremely accompli ...Continue Reading

June 21, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.braukus@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones/Elizabeth Zubritsky Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039/301-614-5438 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov/elizabeth.a.zubritsky@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-192 NASA DETAILS ACHIEVEMENTS OF LUNAR SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- NASA has declared full mission success for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). LRO changed our view ...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=51119&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 19, 2011 (Posted on Jun 20, 2011 2:52 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HEAVY RA ...Continue Reading