The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 2 new images) -- 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/14 ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #21-32 2021 July 25 at 7:23 p.m. MDT (2021 July 26 0123 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For July 19-25 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For July 26-August 1 No space weather storms are expected during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, th ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Jul 26 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 207 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Jul 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2846 N25W05 085 0030 Cro 02 03 Beta 2847 S27E13 067 0000 Axx 00 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Jul 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 206 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Jul 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2846 N25E07 085 0030 Cro 04 03 Beta 2847 S27E24 077 0010 Hrx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

: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