June 20, 2011 Rachel Hoover/Jill Dunbar Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov / jill.dunbar@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-194 NASA'S PLEIADES SUPERCOMPUTER RANKS AMONG WORLD'S FASTEST WASHINGTON -- NASA's largest supercomputer is seventh on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Pleiades, located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Fie ...Continue Reading

June 20, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook/Priscilla Vega Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850/1357 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov/priscilla.r.vega@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-126 NASA HOSTS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACECRAFT VISIT OF LARGE ASTEROID WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 23, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's year-long visit to the large asteroid Vesta. The missio ...Continue Reading

June 20, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Eric T. Mazzacone Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Washington darpapublicaffairsoffice@darpa.mil RELEASE: 11-189 NASA AND DARPA OFFER STUDENTS CHANCE TO SUPPORT FUTURE MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are offering high school students the opportunity to design experiments that will be tested in space. The 2011 Zero Robotics challenge is a continuation and expansi ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jun 20 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 171 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Jun 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1234 S16W74 245 0060 Dso 09 04 Beta 1236 N16E06 165 0200 Esi 12 11 Beta-Gamma 1238 S ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jun 19 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 170 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Jun 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1234 S16W61 246 0150 Dsi 09 15 Beta 1236 N17E18 166 0200 Esi 12 21 Beta-Gamma 1237 S ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jun 18 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 169 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jun 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1234 S16W48 246 0100 Dsi 08 17 Beta 1236 N17E33 165 0260 Dho 10 17 Beta-Gamma 1237 S ...Continue Reading

June 17, 2011 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Amy Johnson Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-7022/757-272-9859 amy.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-190 NASA'S 2011 INNOVATIONS IN GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION AWARDS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded $7.2 million in cooperative agreements to 14 minority-serving organizations across the United States to enhance learning through the use of the agency's Earth Science resources. The ...Continue Reading

June 17, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Lori J. Rachul Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-8806 lori.j.rachul@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-191 NASA ISSUES ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION STUDIES CLEVELAND -- NASA issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals for mission concept studies of a solar electric propulsion system demonstration to test and validate key capabilities and ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN THE MISSOURI BASIN Record snowmelt and intermittent heavy rains contributed to flooding in the Missouri Basin in the spring of 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51054&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 15, 2011 (Posted on Jun 16, 2011 3:12 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, ...Continue Reading

June 17, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Nancy Neal-Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-124 NASA SCHEDULES TELECON TO HIGHLIGHT LUNAR MISSION RESULTS WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 21, to highlight the results of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. A panel will summarize the ...Continue Reading