:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 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 281 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1305 N11W91 248 0180 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1306 N15W73 230 0010 Axx 06 03 Alpha 1309 N23E02 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUNPHY COMPLEX FIRES, NEVADA Lightning ignited three large wildfires in the sage and grass of northern Nevada on September 30, 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=69320&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 03, 2011 (Posted on Oct 06, 2011 4:47 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURR ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 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 280 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1305 N12W80 250 0220 Cso 03 03 Beta 1306 N14W59 229 0010 Cro 04 03 Beta 1309 N22E14 ...Continue Reading

The PO.DAAC would like to announce the upcoming availability of PO.DAAC OceanESIP Tool, version 2 (POET 2) http://poet.jpl.nasa.gov/. The scheduled release of POET 2.0 will be on Monday, October 10, 2011. As before, POET provides on-line access and subsetting of many of PO.DAAC's data products. Plots and data subsets are generated on-the-fly and returned directly to a browser. This enables a user to interactively view sea surface fields without the need to download entire files. An upgrade to the original applic ...Continue Reading

Oct. 6, 2011 Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4997 stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov Amy Johnson / Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton Roads, Va. 757-864-7022 / 757-864-9886 amy.johnson@nasa.gov / kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-340 NASA INVITES TWITTER FANS TO A TWEETUP AT LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting its Twitter followers to register for a Tweetup and behind-the-scenes tour of the agency's first laboratory, NASA's Langley Research Cent ...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 OVER NORTHEASTERN AFGHANISTAN A dust storm spanning hundreds of kilometers stretched from northern Afghanistan into neighboring countries in early October 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=64489&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Oct 05, 2011 (Posted on Oct 06, 2011 11:52 AM) -- ...Continue Reading

Oct. 6, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-339 NASA DEVELOPING INSTRUMENTS FOR NEW SOLAR ORBITER MISSION WASHINGTON -- NASA will begin development and testing of two science instruments, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), to be placed on ESA's newly selected Solar Orbiter mission. The spacecraft will study the sun from a closer distance than any previous mission. At its closest approach, the European-led project will operate approx ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Oct 06 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 279 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Oct 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1305 N10W65 248 0250 Cho 03 04 Beta 1306 N14W47 230 0015 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1307 N17W13 ...Continue Reading

Oct. 5, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-338 SPACE OBSERVATORY PROVIDES CLUES TO CREATION OF EARTH'S OCEANS WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans. The findings may help explain how Earth's surface ended up covered in water. New measur ...Continue Reading

Oct. 5, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-208 NASA ANNOUNCES NEWS BRIEFING ON NEXT EARTH SCIENCE LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news briefing on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m. EDT, on the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP), scheduled to launch on Oct. 27 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. NPP is the first of a new gener ...Continue Reading