Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #12-52 2012 November 11 at 9:17 p.m. MST (2012 November 12 0417 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For November 5-11 Category R1 (Minor) radio blackouts were observed on 08 and 11 November due to solar flare activity. Outlook For November 12-18 Category R1 (Minor) radio blackouts are possible through 18 November due to solar flare activity. Category G1 (Min ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Nov 12 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 317 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Nov 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1609 S15E01 264 0010 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1610 S25E02 263 0150 Dai 09 18 Beta 1611 N12E27 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Nov 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 316 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Nov 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1608 S20W03 282 0010 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1609 S15E16 263 0010 Hax 01 01 Alpha 1610 S23E15 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Nov 10 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 315 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Nov 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1608 S21E10 282 0010 Hrx 01 02 Alpha 1609 S15E32 260 0010 Cro 06 02 Beta 1610 S23E32 ...Continue Reading

Nov. 9, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Geoff Brown Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-5618/443-778-5618 geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 12-392 NASA RENAMES RADIATION BELT MISSION TO HONOR PIONEERING SCIENTIST WASHINGTON -- NASA has renamed a recently launched mission that studies Earth's radiation belts as the Van Allen Probes in honor of the late James Van Allen. Van Allen was the head of the physics d ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN WESTERN CHINA Dust blew eastward out of the Taklimakan Desert in early November 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79656&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 09, 2012 (Posted on Nov 09, 2012 12:32 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natu ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Nov 09 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 314 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Nov 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1607 N12W87 032 0090 Dso 06 02 Beta 1608 S20E23 282 0010 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1609 S15E45 ...Continue Reading

Nov. 8, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-390 NEW SPACE SENSOR AS A HOSTED PAYLOAD TO TRACK AIR POLLUTION ACROSS NORTH AMERICA WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected a proposal from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., to build the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent hourly during daytime. The instrument, to be completed in 2017 at a cost of not mor ...Continue Reading

Nov. 08, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-388 NASA SELECTS AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES FOR CONTINUATION OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 39 small business proposals to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The SBIR program partners with small businesses to catalyze efforts to develop new technologies to support NASA's tec ...Continue Reading

Nov. 8, 2012 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-391 NASA, ESA USE EXPERIMENTAL INTERPLANETARY INTERNET TO TEST ROBOT FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment used NASA's Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to tran ...Continue Reading