NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 255 Status Reports

05/30/2013 06:51 PM EDT

WW 0255 Status Updates

    STATUS FOR WATCH 0255 HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED YET  

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SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 255

05/30/2013 06:51 PM EDT

WW 255 SEVERE TSTM IL IN LM 302250Z - 310600Z

    URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED 

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 255  NWS STORM 

PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK  550 PM CDT 

THU MAY 30 2013 

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A 

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 

NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS 

NORTHWESTERN INDIANA 

LAKE MICHIGAN 

NASA's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity

NASA's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft.

Landsat 8 Satellite Begins Watch

Landsat 8 Satellite Begins Watch

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars has Implications for Future Human Missions

Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars has Implications for Future Human Missions

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human explorers from radiation exposure on deep-space expeditions in the future.

Actor Jaden Smith Focuses on Earth Science in a New NASA PSA

Actor Jaden Smith Focuses on Earth Science in a New NASA PSA

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Jaden Smith, star of Columbia Pictures' movie "After Earth," is featured in a new NASA public service announcement that describes the contributions of the agency's Earth science program to environmental awareness and exploration of our home planet.

European Space Agency Flickr Update

Launch fairing placed over ATV-4

30-05-2013 05:31 PM CEST

ATV-4 Albert Einstein is enclosed in it's launcer fairing at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

ATV-4 will travel to space on board an Ariane 5 launcher on 5 June 2013.

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG

Launch fairing placed over ATV-4

30-05-2013 05:31 PM CEST

ATV-4 Albert Einstein is enclosed in it's launcer fairing at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

ATV-4 will travel to space on board an Ariane 5 launcher on 5 June 2013.

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG

Mars webcast

Mars webcast

29-05-2013 05:06 PM CEST

Watch a live webcast on Monday, 3 June, marking the 10th anniversary of ESA's Mars Express. 11:00 CEST start

Artist's Rendering of an Asteroid Capture

Artist's Rendering of an Asteroid Capture

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

This artist's rendering shows what capturing an asteroid could look like. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it.

Performing these elements for the proposed asteroid initiative integrates the best of NASA's science, technology and human exploration capabilities and draws on the innovation of America's brightest scientists and engineers.

It uses current and developing capabilities to find both large asteroids that pose a hazard to Earth and small asteroids that could be candidates for the initiative, accelerates our technology development activities in high-powered solar electric propulsion and takes advantage of our hard work on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, helping to keep NASA on target to reach the President's goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s.

Image Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Lab

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC - No watches are valid as of Thu May 30 11:02:01 UTC 2013

05/30/2013 07:01 AM EDT

No watches are valid as of Thu May 30 11:02:01 UTC 2013.

First new Galileo satellite arrives at ESA for space testing

First new Galileo satellite arrives at ESA for space testing

16-05-2013 03:07 PM CEST

The first satellite of Galileo's next phase has arrived at ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands for a rigorous set of tests to check its readiness for launch.

Atom-trapping laser gratings: a technological quantum leap for space

Atom-trapping laser gratings: a technological quantum leap for space

30-05-2013 10:57 AM CEST

New micro-fabricated grating chips developed through ESA-led research enable the laser-based cooling and capture of atoms on a more compact basis than ever before, potentially delivering laboratory-standard performance for precision environmental sensing and timekeeping from devices portable enough to be flown into space.

Learning in school with XMM-Newton

Learning in school with XMM-Newton

28-05-2013 02:38 PM CEST

In 1572, the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, saw a star explode in the heavens. It changed his view of the universe forever. Now, the remains of that explosion seen by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope has done the same for a 16-year-old school student from Slovakia.

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 249 Status Reports

05/30/2013 06:23 AM EDT

WW 0249 Status Updates

    STATUS REPORT ON WW 249 

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 

35 NE MKO TO  25 E CQB TO 25 N CQB TO 10 SSW PNC TO 5 

WSW PNC.    ..BROYLES..05/30/13    ATTN...WFO...OUN...TSA... 

STATUS REPORT FOR WS 249 

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS 

OKC035-037-041-097-105-113-117-131-143-147-301140-    OK   . 

OKLAHOMA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE 

CRAIG                CREEK               DELAWARE 

MAYES                NOWATA              OSAGE 

PAWNEE               ROGERS              TULSA 

WASHINGTON 

Earth from Space

Earth from Space

30-05-2013 10:04 AM CEST

Join us Friday, 31 May, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites

NASA Hosts June 4 Media Briefing on Next Solar Mission Launch

NASA Hosts June 4 Media Briefing on Next Solar Mission Launch

05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 4, about the upcoming launch of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission.

NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members

NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members

05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.