July 01, 2015 RELEASE 15-143*NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Stays the Course to Pluto * These images show the difference between two sets of 48 combined 10-second exposures with New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera, taken at 8:40 UTC and 10:25 UTC on June 26, 2015, from a range of 21.5 million kilometers (approximately 13 million miles) to Pluto. The known small moons, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx, are visible as adjacent bright and dark pairs of dots, due to their motion in the 105 min ...Continue Reading

July 01, 2015 RELEASE 15-142*NASA Takes to Kansas Skies to Study Nighttime Thunderstorms* NASA has joined a multi-agency field campaign studying summer storm systems in the U.S. Great Plains to find out why they often form after the sun goes down instead of during the heat of the day. The Plains Elevated Convection at Night, or PECAN, project began June 1 and continues through mid-July. Participants from eight research laboratories and 14 universities are collecting storm data to find out how and why they form. ...Continue Reading

July 01, 2015 RELEASE 15-142*NASA Takes to Kansas Skies to Study Nighttime Thunderstorms* NASA has joined a multi-agency field campaign studying summer storm systems in the U.S. Great Plains to find out why they often form after the sun goes down instead of during the heat of the day. The Plains Elevated Convection at Night, or PECAN, project began June 1 and continues through mid-July. Participants from eight research laboratories and 14 universities are collecting storm data to find out how and why they form. ...Continue Reading

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Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2206 Issue Time: 2015 Jul 01 0821 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2205 Begin Time: 2015 Jun 26 1005 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 9668 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 01 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 182 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2373 N15E41 142 0100 Cao 10 05 Beta 2375 S10E56 127 0070 Hax 02 01 Alpha 2376 N13E57 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (30 June 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Canadian Wildfires Produce River of Smoke http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86151&src=eoa-iotd * Eruption of Wolf Volcano Continues http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86129&src=eoa-iotd * Laguna Colorada http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86135&src=eoa-iotd * Mid-Summer Auroras h ...Continue Reading

June 30, 2015 RELEASE 15-141*NASA Signs Scientific and Education Agreements with Brazil* NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) President José Raimundo Braga Coelho have signed agreements to further research into heliophysics and space weather and to enhance global climate study and educational opportunities. “I am delighted to expand our relationship with our long time exploration partner Brazil through these agreements,” Bolden said. “This partnership encompasses critical wo ...Continue Reading

June 30, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-099*NASA Astronaut Preps for First Space Station Mission, Available for Media Interviews* NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, who is making final preparations for his launch next month on his first mission to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 8 to 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7. Lindgren will participate from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The interviews will be preceded at 7:30 a.m. by a video on NASA Telev ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2205 Issue Time: 2015 Jun 30 0501 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2204 Begin Time: 2015 Jun 26 1005 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 7557 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading