:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2026 Jun 11 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 162 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Jun 2026 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 4456 N18W87 062 0060 Eso 11 03 Beta 4459 N14W56 031 0010 Hrx 0 ...Continue Reading

NASA News   CONTRACT RELEASE C26-006 JUNE 10, 2026 NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California   Credit: NASA NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s ...Continue Reading

Jun 9, 2026 NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is pleased to announce the public release of the Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Sea Surface Height (SSH) Version 6.1 dataset, which is produced by NASA Sea Surface Height (NASA-SSH) project contributors at Goddard Space Flight Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. More information regarding NASA-SSH is available from the NASA-SSH project page. The dataset in this release provides a coherent and consistent SSH time ser ...Continue Reading

Jun 9, 2026 NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is pleased to announce the public release of the NASA-SSH Sea Surface Height from Standardized Reference Missions Version 1.1 produced by NASA. This is an update from the previous Version 1. The datasets are produced from observations of sea surface height from the radar altimeter satellites in the reference mission orbits, including TOPEX/Poseidon, the Jason series, and Sentinel-6. All missions have been referenced to a common base ...Continue Reading

New puzzler plus the latest from NASA Earth Science   June 9, 2026 Weekly News   Latest Images of the Day View the Image of the Day archive San Francisco’s Metropolitan Mosaic Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city. Digging Back in Time in the UAE Once below a shallow sea, Jabal al Fāyah now stands above the desert in the United Arab Emirates as a reminder of a watery past and ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-048 JUNE 09, 2026 MISSIONS NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027, Names Crew Members The Artemis III crew poses for an official portrait (from left: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio). Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford Taking another step toward one of the most complex human spaceflight missions in recent history, NASA on Tuesday provided new Artemis III details and announced the four prime crew ...Continue Reading

Fires and Typhoons   June 5, 2026 Natural Events   This Week's Natural Event Images View the natural events archive Fighting Fire With Fire In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia's Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the season. Typhoon Jangmi The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan. Fire’s Footprint on ...Continue Reading

Fighting Fire With Fire   June 5, 2026 Natural Events   Latest Natural Event Images View the natural events archive Fighting Fire With Fire In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia's Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the season.     NASA Earth Observatory Where every day is Earth day Visit science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory Follow NASAEarth       ...Continue Reading

Typhoon Jangmi   June 3, 2026 Natural Events   Latest Natural Event Images View the natural events archive Typhoon Jangmi The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan.     NASA Earth Observatory Where every day is Earth day Visit science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory Follow NASAEarth       NASA Earth Science Division ...Continue Reading

NASA News   RELEASE 26-047 JUNE 3, 2026 SCIENCE NASA Says Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission, Hosts Media Call Today Artist’s concept of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft at Mars. The spacecraft entered orbit around the planet in 2014 and has completed over eleven years of observing the Martian upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the Sun and solar wind to explore the loss of the Red Planet's atmosphere to space. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Colorado/Laboratory for ...Continue Reading