October 21, 2021 RELEASE 21-139*NASA Completes Mega-Moon Rocket Stacking, Invites Media to Learn More* NASA has completed stacking of the agency’s mega-Moon rocket and spacecraft that will launch the next generation of deep space operations, including Artemis missions on and around the Moon. Engineers and technicians successfully secured the Orion spacecraft atop the fully assembled Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida just before midnight Oct. 21.   NASA co ...Continue Reading

October 21, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-134*Coverage Set for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Briefings, Events, Broadcasts* 51584033992_a86f8326d8_o.jpg The astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission pose for a portrait in their spacesuits during a training session. From left are: NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Thomas Marshburn, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer. */Credits: SpaceX/* NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Cre ...Continue Reading

Thursday, October 21, 2021 As detailed in the 12 July 2021 announcement, the PO.DAAC data archive is being migrated to the NASA Earthdata Cloud, hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). In an effort to best support the users as they begin transitioning their workflows or data access points to a cloud-based process, PO.DAAC is making the existing datasets from its archive available from and within the Earthdata Cloud as soon as they are available. Information and tutorials about how to access these datasets can be found o ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- ERUPTION AT LA PALMA Cumbre Vieja, one of two volcanoes on La Palma, is one of the most active volcanoes in the Canaries. * Sulfur Skies over La Palma (Image from Oct 18, 2021; Posted Oct 20, 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148978/sulfur-skies-over-la-palma/?src=nha ------------------------------------------------------ ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Oct 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 294 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Oct 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2886 S19E36 336 0130 Hsx 02 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 20 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- WATER COLOR (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2021 NORTHERN HEMISPHERE OCEAN BLOOMS Increased sunlight, nutrient runoff, and wind-driven upwelling can create ideal conditions for massive blooms of floating plant-like phytoplankton. * Late Bloomers in the Arctic (Image from Oct 14, 2021; Posted Oct 19, 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148974/late-bloomers-in-the-ar ...Continue Reading

October 20, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-133*NASA Shares Webb Telescope Media Briefing Schedule, Resources* webb_mirror_2.14.2021_cgunn.jpg NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful, and most complex space science telescope ever built. */Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn/* NASA will hold a series of virtual media briefings and events leading up to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the premier space science observatory of the next decade. Webb, an international partnership with the Euro ...Continue Reading

October 20, 2021 RELEASE 21-136*NASA Challenges Students to Design Moon-Digging Robots* challenge2000_x_1334.jpg */Credits: NASA/* NASA seeks young engineers to help design a new robot concept for an excavation mission on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest is open to K-12 students in U.S. public and private schools, as well as home-schoolers. The competition, which is a collaboration between NASA and Future Engineers, asks students to design a robot that digs and moves lunar soil, called regolith, from a ...Continue Reading

October 20, 2021 RELEASE 21-135*NASA Announces Winners of Deep Space Food Challenge* 01_iss065e092717.jpeg NASA astronaut Megan McArthur enjoys fresh food on the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* Variety, nutrition, and taste are some considerations when developing food for astronauts. For NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, students, chefs, small businesses, and others whipped up novel food technology designs to bring new solutions to the table. NASA has selected 18 U.S. teams to receive a total ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Oct 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 293 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Oct 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2886 S19E47 338 0185 Hsx 03 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 19 ...Continue Reading