:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Oct 25 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 298 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Oct 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2886 S19W15 334 0110 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2887 S25E40 278 0440 Dki 09 14 Beta 2888 S15E66 ...Continue Reading

October 22, 2021 RELEASE 21-137*NASA Commits $28 Million to Underfunded US Jurisdictions* edu_epscor-r3-80nssc19m0085_2021.jpeg Dr. Maria Katzarova (left), associate scientist in the chemical and biomolecular engineering department at University of Delaware, and Jennifer Mills, a fourth-year PhD chemical engineering student, perform compression testing of cast Martian regolith cubes. Funded through NASA’s EPSCoR, the project assessed the capabilities of lunar and Martian regolith simulants when mixed with geo ...Continue Reading

October 22, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-135 *NASA Invites Media to Launch of IXPE Mission to Study X-rays in Space* casa_elements.jpg Cassiopeia A (Cas A), a supernova remnant, is one object that NASA’s IXPE mission will study. */Credits: NASA/CXC/SAO/* Media accreditation is open for the upcoming launch of NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which will measure polarized X-rays from exotic cosmic objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, to better understand these types of phenomena and e ...Continue Reading

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