May 22, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius v3.0 data covering the month of April 2015. Aquarius v3.0 data are being distributed via PODAAC's general public ftp site, OPeNDAP and also THREDDS.  Links to these and also other Aquarius resources (eg. Aquarius v3.0 documentation package) are available at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/aquarius. Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of April, and will ...Continue Reading

  May 22, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-080*Space Station Module Relocation Makes Way for Commercial Crew Spacecraft* This illustration shows the current location (blue) of the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) on the International Space Station and the location to which it will be repositioned (green) during the May 27 move. */Credits: NASA/* The International Space Station Program will take the next step in expanding a robust commercial market in low-Earth orbit when work continues Wednesda ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 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 142 Issued at 0030Z on 22 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2346 S06W69 061 0020 Cro 04 02 Beta 2348 S11W32 024 0040 Hax 02 01 Alpha 2349 S21W10 ...Continue Reading

  May 21, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-077*NASA TV to Air Announcement of Instruments for Europa Mission* The fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon's surface at the highest resolution. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute/* NASA will announce on Tuesday, May 26, ...Continue Reading

  May 21, 2015 RELEASE 15-097*NASA, Canadian Agency Renew Agreement to Reduce Aviation Icing Risks* On hand to sign the renewal agreement Thursday at the NRC offices in Ottawa, Ontario, were Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington, and Ian Potter, the NRC’s vice-president of engineering. "The combined efforts of our two agencies will help solve some of the most difficult and challenging weather-related issues facing t ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 712 2015 May 21 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 43 continues under the command of Terry Virts, with FE-1 Anton Shkaplerov and FE-2 Samantha Cristoforetti joined by FE-3 Gennadiy Padalka, FE-4 Mikhail Kornienko and FE-5 Scott Kelly after the TMA-16M (flight 42S) docking. Dragon CRS-6 arrived ...Continue Reading

  May 21, 2015 RELEASE 15-103*Critical NASA Research Returns to Earth Aboard U.S. SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft * The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was released from the International Space Station's robotic arm at 7:04 a.m. EDT Thursday. The capsule then performed a series of departure burns and maneuvers to move beyond the 656-foot (200-meter) "keep out sphere" around the station and begin its return trip to Earth. */Credits: NASA TV/* SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed dow ...Continue Reading

  May 21, 2015 RELEASE 15-095*NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe* A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy found to date and belongs to a new class of objects recently discovered by WISE -- extremely luminous infrared galaxies, or ELIRGs. "We are looking at a very intense phase of galaxy evolution," ...Continue Reading

  May 21, 2015 RELEASE 15-100*NASA Invites Universities to Submit Innovative Early-Stage Technology Proposals* Artist conception of space structures robotically assembled from discrete building blocks. */Credits: NASA/* NASA is seeking proposals from universities for early stage technology development that will support the agency's long-term plans for human exploration of Mars and scientific study of our solar system and beyond. The Early Stage Innovations NASA Research Announcement call ...Continue Reading

  May 21, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-079*Media Accreditation Opens for Launch of Ocean-Measuring Satellite*  IN May 2013, technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, performed a practice run of the mechanical integration sequence used to mate the Jason-3 spacecraft's Advanced Microwave Radiometer instrument to the Jason-3 satellite. The radiometer is one of three NASA-built instruments that are integral components of Jason-3. It measures radiation from Ea ...Continue Reading