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[nh-announce] 21 February 2012 -- Natural Hazards Updates

February 21st 2012 PDT

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODING IN SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA Severe flooding affected multiple communities along Australia's Queensland-New South Wales border in February 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77204&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Feb 18, 2012 (Posted on Feb 20, 2012 2:47 PM) -------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar-Mass Black Hole

February 21st 2012 PDT

Feb. 21, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 12-056 NASA'S CHANDRA FINDS FASTEST WIND FROM STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLE WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type of black h ...Continue Reading

NASA Administrator Announces Senior Leadership Changes

February 21st 2012 PDT

Feb. 21, 2012 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-059 NASA ADMINISTRATOR ANNOUNCES SENIOR LEADERSHIP CHANGES WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Tuesday changes to his senior leadership team. Associate Administrator Chris Scolese was named director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Robert Lightfoot, director of the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will serve as acting associate admi ...Continue Reading

ALERT: Electron 2 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000 pfu

February 21st 2012 PDT

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1862 Issue Time: 2012 Feb 21 1015 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1861 Begin Time: 2012 Feb 20 1905 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1202 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

Solar Region Summary (SRS)

February 21st 2012 PDT

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Feb 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 52 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Feb 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1419 N29W31 196 0020 Cro 02 03 Beta 1420 N11W30 195 0060 Cso 03 02 Beta 1421 N18E32 1 ...Continue Reading

ALERT: Electron 2 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000 pfu

February 20th 2012 PDT

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1861 Issue Time: 2012 Feb 20 1926 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2012 Feb 20 1905 UTC Station: GOES-13 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 Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or u ...Continue Reading

NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon

February 20th 2012 PDT

Feb. 20, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal-Jones / Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 / 5017 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov / william.a.steigerwald@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-055 NASA SPACECRAFT REVEALS RECENT GEOLOGICAL ACTIVITY ON THE MOON WASHINGTON -- New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the luna ...Continue Reading

Solar Region Summary (SRS)

February 20th 2012 PDT

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Feb 20 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 51 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Feb 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1418 S23W84 263 0020 Cso 00 03 Beta 1419 N29W18 197 0020 Cso 02 03 Beta 1420 N11W16 1 ...Continue Reading

Solar Region Summary (SRS)

February 19th 2012 PDT

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Feb 19 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 50 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Feb 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1418 S23W69 261 0030 Cro 05 05 Beta 1419 N29W05 197 0030 Cso 03 04 Beta 1420 N11W04 1 ...Continue Reading

[JSR] Jonathan's Space Report, No. 654

February 18th 2012 PDT

Jonathan's Space Report No. 654 2012 Feb 18 Somerville, MA USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Space Station ------------- Expedition 30 continues with Soyuz TMA-22 docked at Poisk and Soyuz TMA-03M docked to the Rassvet module. At about 0h on Feb 12 a switching unit reset on the truss cut off power to solar array 3B and to one of the Z1 control gyros; the systems were restored later that day. Flight Engineer-3 Kononenko and FE-1 ...Continue Reading
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