ARE YOU MISSING THE SUNSPOTS?

NASA Reschedules Teleconference To Explain Missing Sunspots NASA has rescheduled a media teleconference for 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 2, to discuss the first computer model that explains the recent period of decreased solar activity during the sun's 11-year cycle. The recent solar minimum, a period characterized by a lower frequency of sunspots and solar storms, ended in 2008 and was the deepest observed in almost 100 years.

The teleconference panelists are:

-- Richard Fisher, director, Heliophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Dibyendu Nandi, assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India
-- Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, visiting research fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
-- Delores Knipp, visiting scientist, University of Colorado at Boulder

Supporting information for the briefing will be posted at:

http://www.nasa.gov/sunearth

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on the Web at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio