*NASA History Listserv Readers: * Please join us on today at 12pm EDT for our upcoming history speaker: *Stephen Walker, /Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space/* * * *Microsoft Teams link for the event: *Click here to join the meeting *Abstract:* Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour – ten times faster than a rifle bullet – Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, cros ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Apr 28 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 118 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Apr 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2818 S17W27 204 0010 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2820 S21W32 210 0070 Esi 11 11 Beta 2821 S23W43 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (27 April 2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/image-of-the-day * China's Red Rocks and Rainbow Ridges https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148234/chinas-red-rocks-and-rainbow-ridges/?src=eoa-iotd * Sizing Up Remote Lakes https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148230/sizing-up-remote-lakes/?src=eoa-iotd * Fires in the Far East https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/ ...Continue Reading

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the ECCO Version 4 revision 4 (V4r4) ocean and sea-ice state estimates. Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) ocean and sea-ice state estimates are dynamically and kinematically-consistent reconstructions of the three-dimensional, time-evolving ocean, sea-ice, and surface atmospheric states (ECCO Consortium, 2021). More information regarding the ECCO project is available from PO.DAAC’s mission webpage. The E ...Continue Reading

  April 27, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-050*NASA Updates Live Coverage of Agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 Return to Earth* crew1_collage.jpg Pictured from left are Expedition 64 Flight Engineers and SpaceX Crew-1 members Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi. */Credits: NASA/* NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soi ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Apr 27 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 117 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Apr 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2818 S16W13 204 0040 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2820 S21W18 209 0110 Dsi 08 15 Beta 2821 S21W28 ...Continue Reading

*NASA History Listserv Readers: * Please join us on Wednesday, April 28 @12pm EDT for our upcoming history speaker: *Stephen Walker, /Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space/* * * *Microsoft Teams link for the event: *Click here to join the meeting *Abstract:* Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour – ten times faster than a rifle bullet – Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has be ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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. * Fires in the Far East (Image from Apr 21, 2021; Posted Apr 23, 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148219/f ...Continue Reading

  April 26, 2021 RELEASE 21-043*NASA, NSF Join Forces to Bolster Student Diversity in Engineering* nasa-logo-web-rgb_scaled.jpg *//* NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on an initiative to open new avenues to engineering careers for communities underserved and underrepresented in STEM, through Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). Engineers are essential to America’s goals to send humans back to the Moon and, ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #21-19 2021 April 25 at 9:13 p.m. MDT (2021 April 26 0313 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For April 19-25 G1 (Minor) conditions were observed on 23 Apr due to coronal hole influence and again on 25 Apr due to CME effects. No other space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For April 26-May 2 No space weather storms are expected ...Continue Reading