July 23rd 2015 PDT
July 23, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-113*NASA Invites Media to Emergency Locater Transmitters Crash Test* A Cessna 172, outfitted with several Emergency Locator Transmitters, impacts the ground at NASA Langley Research Facility’s Landing and Impact Research Facility on July 1, 2015. */Credits: NASA/David Bowman/* Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will crash test a small plane Wednesday, July 29, to test the performance of five emergency locater transmitters (ELTs) installed onboar ...Continue Reading
July 23rd 2015 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT RAUNG VOLCANO One of the most active volcanoes on the Indonesian island of Java spewed fresh ash and gases in early July 2015. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86283&src=nha *** Image from Jul 21, 2015 (Posted on Jul 22, 2015 2:10 PM) -------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading
July 23rd 2015 PDT
July 23, 2015 RELEASE 15-156*NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth* This artist's concept compares Earth (left) to the new planet, called Kepler-452b, which is about 60 percent larger in diameter. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle/* Read more... This size and scale of the Kepler-452 system compared alongside the Kepler-186 system and the solar system. Kepler-186 is a miniature solar system that would fit entirely inside the orbit of Mercury. */Credits: NASA/JPL-CalTech/R ...Continue Reading
July 22nd 2015 PDT
July 23, 2015 RELEASE 15-155*Launch, Docking Returns International Space Station Crew to Full Strength* The Soyuz TMA-17M rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 EDT (Thursday, July 23, 2015 in Baikonur) carrying Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren of NASA, and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) into orbit to begin their five month mission ...Continue Reading
July 22nd 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 23 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 204 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2386 N10W61 313 0030 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2387 N17W24 276 0060 Csi 09 14 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading
July 22nd 2015 PDT
July 22, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-111*NASA Invites Media to 2015 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Convention* An InstantEye unmanned aircraft system is operated in Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California during Coastal Trident 2015 field experimentation and exercise activities. */Credits: NASA/* NASA and the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International will cosponsor the 2015 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Convention: A New Era in Avi ...Continue Reading
July 21st 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 22 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 203 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2386 N10W48 313 0040 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2387 N16W10 275 0110 Dai 10 16 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading
July 21st 2015 PDT
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (21 July 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * World of Change: Development of Orlando, Florida http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/orlando.php?src=eoa-features Theme parks and other development has turned Central Florida from swampland to the most visited tourist region of the United States. -------------------- Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.na ...Continue Reading
July 21st 2015 PDT
July 21, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-112*NASA Views Complex World: New Horizons Pluto Science Update Set for July 24* A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) and received on Earth on July 20. Features as small as a half-mile ...Continue Reading
July 20th 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 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 202 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2386 N11W34 312 0040 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2387 N17E04 274 0120 Dai 10 18 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading
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