Friday, April 10, 2020 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the JPL Tellus GRACE/GRACE-FO Level-3 Gridded AOD1B and GLDAS datasets. This release includes three GRACE and GRACE-FO Level-3 monthly gridded ancillary datasets: 1.0-degree grid AOB1B, Mascon (0.5-degree) grid AOD1B, and 1.0-degree grid GLDAS terrestrial water storage (TWS). The Gridded AOD1B data sets contain the monthly mean AOD1B de-aliasing fields in geolocated gridded form, smoothed or spatially aggregated to be consistent with the ...Continue Reading

  April 10, 2020 RELEASE 20-043 *NASA Looks to University Teams to Advance Aviation Technology* Students from a current ULI team discuss results of their research. */Credits: Hans Sati Goertz, University of Tennessee/* NASA has selected five teams led by university faculty and students to examine a range of technical areas in support of the agency’s aeronautics research goals. Known as the University Leadership Initiative (ULI), the project will provide a total of $32.8 million t ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Apr 10 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 101 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Apr 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Apr Nmbr Location Lo 2759 ...Continue Reading

NASA History Listserv Readers:            On Tuesday, April 14, noon Eastern time, Dana Burton will speak about “Anticipating Planetary Encounter and Contamination across Select NASA Missions.”  What happens at the moment of encounter, when robotic spacecraft and extraterrestrial environment come into contact?   She is a Ph.D. student in anthropology and a NASA-Society for the History of Technology Fellow.  All are welcome to tune in for this inte ...Continue Reading

  April 09, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-044 *Maine Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station* NASA astronaut Jessica Meir performs in-flight maintenance on the Major Constituent Analyzer Mass Spectrometer the International Space Station. *//* Students from Maine will have an opportunity next week to talk with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station who have special ties to the Pine Tree State. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 1:20 p.m. EDT Monday, Apri ...Continue Reading

  April 09, 2020 RELEASE 20-042 *NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Crewmates Arrive Safely at Space Station* The Soyuz MS-16 lifts off from Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Thursday, April 9, 2020 sending Expedition 63 crewmembers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos into orbit for a six-hour flight to the International Space Station and the start of a six-and-a-half month mission. */Credits: NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin/* NASA astronaut Chris ...Continue Reading

  April 09, 2020 RELEASE 20-040 *NASA Calls on Gamers, Citizen Scientists to Help Map World’s Corals* A user playing the new NeMO-Net game that helps NASA classify the world's coral from their own home */Credits: NASA/Ames Research Center/Ved Chirayath /* NASA invites video gamers and citizen scientists to embark on virtual ocean research expeditions to help map coral reefs around the world in an effort to better understand these threatened ecosystems. During the past several ye ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Apr 09 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 100 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Apr 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Apr Nmbr Location Lo 2759 ...Continue Reading

  April 08, 2020 RELEASE 20-038 *NASA Awards Contract to Deliver Science, Tech to Moon Ahead of Human Missions* Masten’s XL-1 lunar lander will deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon’s South Pole in 2022. */Credits: Masten Space Systems/* NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads – with nine science and technology instruments – to the Moon’s South Pole in 2022, to help lay the fo ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Apr 08 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 99 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Apr 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Apr Nmbr Location Lo 2759 N ...Continue Reading