:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Jul 24 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 205 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Jul 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2846 N22E21 084 0040 Cro 03 03 Beta 2847 S38E28 078 0020 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 2848 N21W10 ...Continue Reading

July 23, 2021 RELEASE 21-098*NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Europa Clipper Mission* pia24321_large.jpeg This illustration, updated in December 2020, depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. With an internal global ocean twice the size of Earth's oceans combined, Jupiter's moon Europa may have the potential to harbor life. The Europa Clipper orbiter will swoop around Jupiter on an elliptical path, dipping close to the moon on each flyby to collect data. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/* NASA has ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Jul 23 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 204 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Jul 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2842 N25W80 200 0080 Cso 07 04 Beta 2845 S16W75 195 0040 Cro 04 04 Beta 2846 N26E35 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2021 FIRE SEASON IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Whether sparked by lightning, intentional land-clearing, or human-caused accidents, wildfires are burning longer and more often in some northern latitudes as the world warms. * Smoke Across North America (Image from Jul 21, 2021; Posted Jul 21, 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/1486 ...Continue Reading

Thursday, July 22, 2021 It has come to our attention that a large number of netCDF granules in the most recent version 2019.0 Terra L2P SST dataset (https://doi.org/10.5067/GHMDT-2PJ19) have an incorrect value in the file-level global metadata for the version. For the erroneous granules, the global metadata attribute “product_version” has a value of “2014.0” instead of “2019.0”. We have investigated the source of this error and discovered an improper set ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 795 2021 Jul 22 Somerville, MA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 65 continues. On Jun 30 the Canadarm-2 removed the IROSA FSE carrier from the POA (Payload ORU Accomodation) storage point on the ISS truss Mobile Base System and stowed it in the trunk of Dragon CRS-22, wrapping up the operations to insta ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Jul 22 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 203 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Jul 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2842 N25W66 200 0080 Dsi 08 07 Beta-Gamma 2845 S15W61 195 0060 Dso 04 04 Beta 2846 N25 ...Continue Reading

July 21, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-087*Media Invited to Learn About NASA Mission to Study Intense Storms* er2.jpg Scientists are using NASA's ER-2 high altitude research aircraft to study the atmospheric effects of powerful summer thunderstorms that erupt over the U.S. */Credits: NASA/* NASA is inviting media to learn more about an upcoming airborne science campaign to study intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States, which will aid scientists in their understanding of how such storms affec ...Continue Reading

July 21, 2021 RELEASE 21-097*NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to Acquire First Sample* 1-pia24746-1041.jpg A light-colored “paver stone,” like the ones seen in this mosaic image, will be the likely target for first sampling by the Perseverance rover. This image was taken July 8, 2021, in the “Cratered Floor Fractured Rough” geologic unit at Jezero Crater. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/* NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, w ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Jul 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 202 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Jul 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2842 N25W54 201 0140 Dai 07 10 Beta 2845 S15W50 196 0000 Axx 00 01 Alpha 2846 N25E63 ...Continue Reading