June 30th 2020 PDT
 June 30, 2020 RELEASE 20-070 *NASA Names Joel Montalbano International Space Station Program Manager*  Joel Montalbano */Credits: NASA/* Kathy Lueders, NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, has named Joel Montalbano as manager of the International Space Station Program. The appointment was effective June 29 following the June 26 retirement of Kirk Shireman, who held the position since 2015. “Joel has the experience and leadership ...Continue Reading
June 30th 2020 PDT
NASA History Listserv Readers: Please join us on *Wednesday July 15, 2020, 12:00pm Eastern time*, for our History Brown Bag talk entitled “NASA, the Search for Life and Missions to Europa” by Dr. Michael Neufeld (Senior Curator, NASM)—bio and full abstract below. This talk will take place via Microsoft Teams. Please contact Nadine Andreassen with any logistical questions. *Dr. Michael J. Neufeld – *“NASA, the Search for Life and Missions to Europa” * * *Abstract: ...Continue Reading
June 30th 2020 PDT
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Users of the RSS SMAP-SSS v4.0 data products should be aware that due to an issue with one of the ancillary data inputs, the L2C files with rev# 28540 - 28700 and the upstream 8-day running mean L3 product files for the period June 5 – 15, 2020 needed to be reprocessed. The updated files are now archived and available at the PO.DAAC. We recommend that users of these datasets (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SMAP_RSS_L2_SSS_V4 , https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SMAP_R ...Continue Reading
June 30th 2020 PDT
 June 30, 2020 RELEASE 20-069 *NASA Invests $51 Million in Innovative Ideas from US Small Businesses* NASA has selected 409 technology proposals for the first phase of funding from the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The contracts will provide approximately $51 million to 312 small businesses in 44 states and Washington, D.C. “NASA depends on America’s small businesses for innovative technology ...Continue Reading
June 30th 2020 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST AND HAZE (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- DUST STORM SEASON IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Seasonal changes in wind strength and direction can loft copious amounts of dust into the air and carry it across seas and ocean basins. * A Dust Plume to Remember (Image from Jun 27, 2020; Posted Jun 29, 2020) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146913/a-dust-plume-to-re ...Continue Reading
June 30th 2020 PDT
 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
June 29th 2020 PDT
: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
June 29th 2020 PDT
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 29th 2020 PDT
 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
June 29th 2020 PDT
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
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