June 30, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-075 *NASA Science Hosts Public Town Hall to Provide Updates* NASA’s Science Mission Directorate will hold a virtual community town hall with Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen and other members of the Science leadership team at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 9, to discuss updates on the agency’s science activities.   Members of the science community, academia, the media, and the public are invited to participate by j ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Jun 30 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 182 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Jun 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

Monday, June 29, 2020 We are pleased to announce that MetOp-C ASCAT Level 2 Datasets (ASCATC-L2-25km and ASCATC-L2-Coastal) are now available in the PO.DAAC High-Level Tool for Interactive Data Extraction (HiTIDE), allowing you to visualize, subset, and download the orbital swath data based on spatial and temporal boundaries of interest. Begin exploring by going to https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/hitide and look for these datasets under VARIABLE: SURFACE WINDS. For more information on these datasets, ...Continue Reading

  June 29, 2020 RELEASE 20-059 *NASA Plans for More SLS Rocket Boosters to Launch Artemis Moon Missions* Exploration Ground System teams are processing the Artemis I booster segments and preparing to stack them with forward and aft assemblies at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket booster segments arrived on June 15 by trains traveling from Utah near Northrop Grumman’s facility where they were manufactured. Northrop Grumman has already ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2020 ARCTIC AND BOREAL EXTREME WEATHER AND FIRE A warming global climate has brought longer and sometimes more dramatic fire seasons to Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, and Russia. * Heat and Fire Scorches Siberia (Image from Jun 23, 2020; Posted Jun 23, 2020) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146879/heat-and-fire-scorches ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- WATER COLOR (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- BLOOMS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 2020 As hours of sunlight increase in the northern hemisphere, the oceans come alive with blooms of phytoplankton, algae, and seaweed. * Channeling a Bloom (Image from Jun 24, 2020; Posted Jun 26, 2020) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146897/channeling-a-bloom/?src=nha ------------------- ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #20-26 2020 June 28 at 8:19 p.m. MDT (2020 June 29 0219 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For June 22-28 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For June 29-July 5 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, the ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Jun 29 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 181 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Jun 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Jun 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 180 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Jun 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Jun 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 179 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Jun 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading