:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Jun 20 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 172 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Jun 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

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. * Dust Traverses the Atlantic Ocean (Image from Jun 18, 2020; Posted Jun 19, 2020) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146871/dust-trave ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Jun 19 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 171 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Jun 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

NASA History Listserv Readers:           On Wednesday, June 24, the Computer History Museum (CHM) will host an online presentation featuring retired NASA Astronaut and former NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan. See below for more details. Brian C. Odom, PhD NASA History Division (Detail) Office of Communications NASA Headquarters 256-541-8974 (cell) http://history.nasa.gov/ CHM Live | Virtual Event Maintenance and Invention: Lessons From Hubble  As ...Continue Reading

  June 18, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-073 *NASA, Partner Space Agencies to Release Global View of COVID-19 Impacts* A unique collection of data from Earth-observing spacecraft managed by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will track the environmental and socioeconomic impacts caused by the global response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. */Credits: NASA/* NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) will unveil ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Jun 18 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 170 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jun 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

NASA History Listserv Readers:           Please join us on Wednesday June 24, 2020, Noon Eastern time, for a brown bag talk entitled “Gateway to the Stars: Fundamentalism, Space Tourism, and the Cape Canaveral Bible Conference” by Kari Edwards, a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Mississippi—bio and full abstract below.  This brown bag talk will take place via Microsoft Teams. Please contact Nadine Andreassen with any logistical ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2020 FIRE SEASON IN THE WESTERN U.S. Fire season in the Western United States can stretch from late spring until the winter rains arrive near the end of the calendar year. Climate change has made the past few years warmer and drier, intensifying some natural fire cycles. * Bush Fire Scorches Lands Near Phoenix (Image from Jun 14, 2020; Posted ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Jun 17 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 169 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Jun 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Jun Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

June 16, 2020 RELEASE 20-066 *NASA Names Acting International Space Station Program Manager*  Kirk Shireman */Credits: NASA/*  Joel Montalbano */Credits: NASA/* Kathy Lueders, NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, has named Joel Montalbano as acting manager of the International Space Station Program. The appointment is effective Friday, June 26, the date Kirk Shireman, who has been in the position since 2015, is retiring from the agency to take a position in private industr ...Continue Reading