:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 04 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 185 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1243 N16W05 352 0060 Dso 08 10 Beta 1244 N16W38 024 0060 Dso 04 12 Beta-Gamma IA. H- ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 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 184 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1242 N18W57 056 0020 Dro 05 05 Beta 1243 N16E08 351 0080 Cao 08 13 Beta 1244 N15W24 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 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 183 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1242 N18W45 058 0050 Dro 05 05 Beta 1243 N17E22 351 0060 Cro 06 10 Beta 1244 N15W11 ...Continue Reading

July 1, 2011 David S. Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-218 NASA ADMINISTRATOR DISCUSSES AGENCY'S FUTURE ENDEAVORS WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden delivered a speech Friday about the agency's future. Below are excerpts from his speech at the National Press Club in Washington. "Some say that our final shuttle mission will mark the end of America's 50 years of dominance in human spaceflight; as a former astronaut and the current NASA admini ...Continue Reading

July 01, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. 650-960-4537 krandall@seti.org RELEASE: 11-214 NASA RESEARCH OFFERS NEW PROSPECT OF WATER ON MARS WASHINGTON -- NASA scientists are seeing new evidence that suggests traces of water on Mars are under a thin varnish of iron oxide, or rust, similar to conditions fo ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- LAS CONCHAS FIRE, NEW MEXICO The Las Conchas Fire broke out in the mountains southwest of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on June 26, 2011, and grew swiftly, threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51250&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jun 29, 2011 (Posted on Jun 30, 2011 2:39 P ...Continue Reading

July 07, 2011 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov Jessica Culler Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 jessica.culler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-215 NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO TEDXNASA@SILICONVALLEY 2011 WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting reporters and the public to join agency leaders, technologists and innovators from a variety of fields at TEDxNASA@SiliconValley 2011 on Aug. 17. The event will ...Continue Reading

July 01, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.braukus@nasa.gov Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-213 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STUDENTS WIN SPACE HABITAT COMPETITION HOUSTON -- University of Wisconsin students topped two other university teams to win the 2011 NASA eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge, a competition to design and build a ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 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 182 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1242 N16W30 056 0080 Dso 06 08 Beta 1243 N16E36 350 0030 Cro 04 06 Beta IA. H-alpha ...Continue Reading

June 30, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-137 NASA PLANS AIR POLLUTION FLIGHTS OVER MARYLAND ON JULY 1 WASHINGTON -- NASA's DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign is scheduled to take to the skies over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor on Friday, July 1, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT. The flight is part of a mission to enhance the capability of satellites to measure ground-level air quality from space. NASA's P-3B research aircra ...Continue Reading