Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11- 13 2011 March 15 at 10:31 a.m. MDT (2011 March 15 1631 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For March 7-13 A category G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm occurred on 11 March due to the mixed effects of a coronal hole high-speed stream and the arrival of a coronal mass ejection. A category S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm was observed from 8-10 March due to solar acti ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Mar 15 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 74 Issued at 0030Z on 15 Mar 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1166 N09W78 091 0450 Dao 10 09 Beta-Gamma 1169 N18W47 060 0360 Dao 09 08 Beta-Gamma 117 ...Continue Reading

March 14, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Donna Weaver/ Adam Riess Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. 410-338-4493/410-516-4474 dweaver@stsci.edu/ariess@stsci.edu RELEASE: 11-073 NASA'S HUBBLE RULES OUT ONE ALTERNATIVE TO DARK ENERGY WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after ...Continue Reading

March 14, 2011 David Weaver Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov Josh Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1130 jbuck@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-013 NASA EXTENDS CREW FLIGHT CONTRACT WITH RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR BOLDEN REPEATS CALL FOR AMERICAN-MADE COMMERCIAL ALTERNATIVE WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a $753 million modification to the current International Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transportation, rescue and related se ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 5 new images) -- EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI NEAR SENDAI, JAPAN On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan, triggering a large tsunami across the Pacific Ocean and inundating Japan's coast. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=49637&src=nha *** MISR(Terra) image from Mar 12, 201 ...Continue Reading

March 14, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta/Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601/1761 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov/sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-054 NASA LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE, CELEBRATES WOMEN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION WASHINGTON -- NASA will debut its new Women@NASA website during a Women's History Month event at the agency's Headquarters in Washington at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 16. Approximately 200 local students from elementary through high school level wi ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1780 Issue Time: 2011 Mar 13 1510 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2011 Mar 13 1455 UTC Station: GOES13 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscalesThank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product Subscription Site. Please do not use the from address for corre ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Mar 13 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 72 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Mar 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1166 N09W52 091 0770 Ekc 13 29 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1169 N19W22 061 0260 Ekc 13 17 Beta-Gamm ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Mar 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 71 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Mar 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1166 N09W39 092 0690 Ekc 13 47 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1169 N20W09 062 0250 Eki 13 26 Beta-Gamm ...Continue Reading

March 10, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-055 NASA'S SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR AT LAUNCH PAD, LIFTOFF PRACTICE SET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 11, space shuttle Endeavour now awaits the next major milestone for its upcoming flight to the International S ...Continue Reading