:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Mar 08 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 68 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Mar 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1428 S17W05 319 0300 Dko 07 16 Beta 1429 N17E15 299 1270 Dkc 10 28 Beta-Gamma-Delta 143 ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 240-684-0821 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov John Leslie National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Md. 301-713-0214 john.leslie@noaa.gov RELEASE: 12-079 MULTI-AGENCY SATELLITE BEGINS CLIMATE AND WEATHER STUDIES GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National P ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2012 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Keith Koehler Wallops Flight Facility, Va. 757-824-1579 keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-074 NASA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH BERMUDA FOR TRACKING STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA and the government of Bermuda signed an agreement today to establish a temporary mobile tracking station on Cooper's Island to support launches from the agency's Wallo ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1868 Issue Time: 2012 Mar 07 2145 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1867 Begin Time: 2012 Mar 02 1425 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1228 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

Mar. 7, 2012 Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 bob.jacobs@nasa.gov John Yembrick Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-2065 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-073 NASA TWEETUPS ARE EVOLVING. IT'S TIME TO BE MORE SOCIAL WASHINGTON -- NASA is expanding its successful program of Tweetups to include more social media platforms, broadening the agency's use of social media to engage audiences about the agency's mission of e ...Continue Reading

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=77325&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 05, 2012 (Posted on Mar 06, 2012 4:03 PM) -------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

March 7, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov Caroline McCall Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 617-253-1682 cmcall5@mit.edu RELEASE: 12-070 NASA'S TWIN GRAIL SPACECRAFT BEGIN COLLECTING LUNAR SCIENCE DATA WASHINGTON -- NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Mar 07 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 67 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Mar 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1423 N18W90 058 0030 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1428 S16E09 319 0250 Dai 07 17 Beta 1429 N17E29 ...Continue Reading

March 6, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-6162 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Sami Habchi CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, Ala. 256-726-4832 sdh@cfrdc.com MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-038 NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST, SPACE TECH HEAD TO VISIT HUNTSVILLE'S CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION WASHINGTON -- NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck and Space Technology Program Director Michael Gazarik will visit C ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- DUST OVER THE ARABIAN PENINSULA A dust plume stretched from Yemen to the Persian Gulf in late February 2012. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77316&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Mar 04, 2012 (Posted on Mar 06, 2012 9:29 AM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=773 ...Continue Reading