May 04, 2015 RELEASE 15-082*NASA Announces New Director of Ames Research Center*  Dr. Eugene L. Tu */Credits: NASA/* NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Monday the selection of Dr. Eugene L. Tu as the next director of the agency’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, effective immediately. Tu most recently served as the director of Exploration Technology at Ames, where he led four technology research and development divisions, including two of NASA’s critical infrastructure assets ...Continue Reading

May 4, 2015 The PO.DAAC would like to remind its users that the OSI SAF/KNMI has officially discontinued production of the MetOp-A ASCAT Level 2 12.5km Ocean Surface Wind Vectors dataset. The official end date for this dataset is 28 April 2015. The last file on record corresponds to orbital revolution number 44218. The historical data record will remain available on FTP and OPeNDAP. For users who wish to continue using the updated, near-real-time 12.5 km ocean surface wind ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CENTRAL AMERICA Smoke streams from fires on the Yucatan Peninsula. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85800&src=nha *** Image from Apr 26, 2015 (Posted on Apr 28, 2015 3:52 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (4 updated events, 4 new images) -- NEPAL EARTHQUAKE A catastrophic earthquake shook Nepal on Apr ...Continue Reading

May 04, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-070*NASA Langley to be Recognized for Advancing Helicopter Research *  NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, has done research on helicopters and other vertical flight aircraft almost since the laboratory was founded in 1917, including this Sikorsky HNS-1 that was tested in the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel in 1944. */Credits: NASA/* NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will be at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, Friday, May 8 to participate in ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #15-18 2015 May 4 at 12:23 a.m. MDT (2015 May 4 0623 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For April 27-May 3 No space weather storms were observed. Outlook For May 4-10 A chance exists for R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) radio blackouts for the forecast period due to flare activity associated with Region 2335 and the return of old Regions 2322 and 2325. Data used to p ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 04 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 124 Issued at 0030Z on 04 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2335 S16E37 194 0170 Dac 10 20 Beta 2336 N13E12 219 0010 Bxo 04 03 Beta 2337 S16E56 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 03 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 123 Issued at 0030Z on 03 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2335 S15E52 192 0220 Dai 08 15 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 02/ ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 02 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 122 Issued at 0030Z on 02 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2335 S15E63 194 0070 Dao 06 03 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 01/ ...Continue Reading

May 1, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius-CAP v3.0 data covering the month of March 2015.  CAP Level 2 and 3 products are described and discoverable via the PO.DAAC data portal http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?search=CAP and are being distributed via PODAAC’s general public ftp site, OPeNDAP, THREDDS and LAS.  Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of March, and will be augment ...Continue Reading

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