July 17th 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 18 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 199 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2384 S17W57 015 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2386 N11E04 314 0070 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 2387 N17E47 ...Continue Reading
July 17th 2015 PDT
July 17, 2015 RELEASE 15-153*NASA Aircraft Assists in FAA-Approved Drone Medical Supply Delivery Research* Although a pilot will be on board for safety purposes, Langley’s SR-22 unmanned aircraft system will be controlled from a portable ground station during its 30 mile flight to deliver 10 pounds of medicine. */Credits: NASA/LARC /* Some underserved Virginia patients were among the first to be officially helped by an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), more commonly known as a drone, during research flights t ...Continue Reading
July 17th 2015 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON NANGKA Typhoon Nangka approached Japan. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86235&src=nha *** Image from Jul 16, 2015 (Posted on Jul 16, 2015 2:41 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhaza ...Continue Reading
July 17th 2015 PDT
July 17, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the version 4.0 Aquarius/SAC-D data. This is the official NASA/Aquarius Project end-of-prime-mission dataset spanning the complete 3 year, 9 nine month period of Aquarius science data availability, from August 25, 2011 through June 7, 2015 when an unrecoverable hardware failure caused the end of the mission. This end-of-prime mission dataset does not preclude future reprocessings. An updated versi ...Continue Reading
July 17th 2015 PDT
July 17, 2015 RELEASE 15-154*NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’ * In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” - lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains and has been informally named Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), after Earth’s first artificial satellite. The surface appe ...Continue Reading
July 17th 2015 PDT
Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2215 Issue Time: 2015 Jul 17 0718 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2214 Begin Time: 2015 Jul 14 1315 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 4278 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Sub ...Continue Reading
July 16th 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 17 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 198 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2384 S18W43 014 0090 Hsx 04 04 Alpha 2386 N11E18 313 0070 Hsx 04 02 Alpha 2387 N17E61 ...Continue Reading
July 16th 2015 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN ALASKA Dry and windy conditions fanned the flames of a damaging fires in Alaska. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86228&src=nha *** Image from Jul 12, 2015 (Posted on Jul 15, 2015 3:29 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON NANGKA Typhoon Nangka approached Japan. * http://e ...Continue Reading
July 16th 2015 PDT
July 16, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-109*NASA to Release New Pluto Images, Science Findings at July 17 NASA TV Briefing* This new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature -- a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset. The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. The image was taken at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2015, about 1.5 hours before closest approach ...Continue Reading
July 16th 2015 PDT
July 16, 2015 RELEASE 15-144*Battling Wildfires from Space: NASA Adds to Firefighters’ Toolkit* The jump in detail provided by the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite 375-meter fire detection product is helping transform how satellite remote sensing is supporting wildfire management. These images of the progression of the September 2014 King Fire in California demonstrate the improved resolution over previous fire detection products. */Credits: University of Maryland/W. Schroeder ...Continue Reading
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