May 21st 2015 PST
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 calls for innovative space ...Continue Reading
May 21st 2015 PST
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 Earth's surface at three freque ...Continue Reading
May 20th 2015 PST
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 21 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 141 Issued at 0030Z on 21 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2342 N18W92 096 0010 Bxo 10 01 Beta 2344 S10W67 073 0010 Cro 03 01 Beta 2346 S06W55 ...Continue Reading
May 20th 2015 PST
May 20, 2015 For users of the "GHRSST Level 2P Global Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite created by the NOAA Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO)” dataset (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/VIIRS_NPP-OSPO-L2P-v2.3) we are ingesting and making available a new version. This new version 2.4 can be accessed via FTP from the following URL: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/O ...Continue Reading
May 20th 2015 PST
May 20, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-078*NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Next SpaceX Station Resupply Launch* A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft on the sixth commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett /* Media accreditation is open for the June 26 launch of NASA's next commercial cargo resupply mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...Continue Reading
May 20th 2015 PST
May 20, 2015 RELEASE 15-101*NASA’s CubeSat Initiative Aids in Testing of Technology for Solar Sails in Space* With help from NASA, a small research satellite to test technology for in-space solar propulsion launched into space Wednesday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, as part of the agency’s CubeSat Launch Initiative. The Atlas V sent the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane on its fourth mission, which also is carrying NASA’s Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation i ...Continue Reading
May 20th 2015 PST
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON DOLPHIN Typhoon Dolphin tracks across the Pacific Ocean. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85897&src=nha *** Image from May 18, 2015 (Posted on May 18, 2015 4:11 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. ht ...Continue Reading
May 19th 2015 PST
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (19 May 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * Science in a Dark Freezer: A Tale of Icy Beards, Frozen Tools, and Wintering Over at the South Pole http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Benson/?src=eoa-features NASA scientist Robert Benson was one of “eighteen crazy men and a dog” who set up the first permanent science base at the South Pole. -------------------- Latest I ...Continue Reading
May 19th 2015 PST
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 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 140 Issued at 0030Z on 20 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2341 S20W83 101 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2342 N16W73 093 0090 Cao 07 03 Beta 2344 S10W53 ...Continue Reading
May 19th 2015 PST
May 19, 2015 RELEASE 15-099*NASA Soil Moisture Mission Begins Science Operations * High-resolution global soil moisture map from SMAP's combined radar and radiometer instruments, acquired between May 4 and May 11, 2015, during SMAP's commissioning phase. The map has a resolution of 5.6 miles (9 kilometers). */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC /* NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed has begun science operations. Launche ...Continue Reading
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