November 18, 2015 RELEASE 15-213*NASA Awards Grants to Broaden STEM Education for Underserved Students* NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected four minority serving institutions for cooperative agreement awards totaling approximately $2 million to help strengthen science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curricula at the schools. Four universities were selected to receive MUREP Other Opportunities grants, which provide up to a tota ...Continue Reading

  November 18, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-164*New York Students Quiz Space Station Crew on Life Off the Earth* Students from East Side Middle School in New York will have the opportunity to speak with NASA astronauts on the International Space Station at 9:40 a.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 19 during an event hosted by TIME For Kids. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Space station commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Kjell Lin ...Continue Reading

November 17, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the JPL GRACE Mascon Ocean, Ice and Hydrology Equivalent Water Height (hereafter, Mascon) data product, which is now available as part of the Tellus MEaSUREs collection of Earth System Data Records (ESDRs).  This data product differs from other GRACE data products in that gravity anomalies have been solved for in terms of equal-area 3-degree spherical cap mass concentration functions rather t ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Nov 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 322 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Nov 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2454 N05E12 121 0030 Dro 05 11 Beta 2455 N15W04 137 0010 Bxo 04 02 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (17 November 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Gains at Hofsjokull Ice Cap http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87005&src=eoa-iotd * Is That a Forest? That Depends on How You Define It http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86986&src=eoa-iotd * Suez Canal, Port Said http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86994&src=eoa-iotd * Fog Over ...Continue Reading

  November 17, 2015 RELEASE 15-223*NASA Receives Fifth Consecutive Clean Audit Opinion* NASA has received an unmodified audit opinion on its Fiscal Year 2015 (FY 2015) financial statements, marking the fifth consecutive year of “clean” opinions. The agency has released its FY 2015 Agency Financial Report (AFR), which provides details on its financial results and performance highlights. The auditor's unmodified opinion is that NASA's financial statements fairly present th ...Continue Reading

November 17, 2015 PO.DAAC will be performing maintenance on our Data Management and Archive System (DMAS) on Wednesday 11/18/2015 from 8am to 5pm PST. There will be no new data posted during this maintenance window, but existing data will continue to be available through all of our tools and services. All data collected during this maintenance window will be processed and posted after the maintenance is completed. ----------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

  November 17, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-163*NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra Available for Interviews Before Space Station Mission*  Attired in the training versions of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra trains in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. */Credits: NASA/* NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, who is making final preparations for a December launch to the International Space Station, is available for ...Continue Reading

  November 17, 2015 RELEASE 15-222*NASA Awards Two Robots to University Groups for R&D Upgrades* Humanoid robots will be helpful to astronauts on our journey to Mars, so NASA has awarded prototypes to two universities for advanced research and development work. NASA is interested in humanoid robots because they can help or even take the place of astronauts working in extreme space environments. Robots, like NASA’s R5, could be used in future NASA missions either as precursor robots p ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Nov 17 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 321 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Nov 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2453 N06W35 182 0010 Bxo 05 04 Beta 2454 N07E27 119 0010 Bxo 04 05 Beta 2455 N15E09 ...Continue Reading