:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Mar 21 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 81 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Mar 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Mar Nmbr Location Lo None I ...Continue Reading

  March 20, 2020 RELEASE 20-031 *NASA Leadership Assessing Mission Impacts of Coronavirus* To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway across all missions, projects, and programs. The goal was to identify tasks that can be done remotely by employees at home, mission-essential work that must be performed on-site, and on-site work that will be pause ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- FIRES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA IN 2020 Large numbers of agricultural fires and wildfires are creating clouds of smoke during the summertime. * Smoke Blankets Thailand and Burma (Myanmar) (Image from Mar 18, 2020; Posted Mar 19, 2020) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146460/smoke-blankets-thailand-and-burma-myanmar/?src=nha -- SEA AND LA ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Mar 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 80 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Mar 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Mar 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 Mar Nmbr Location Lo None I ...Continue Reading

  March 19, 2020 RELEASE 20-030 *March 19 Administrator Statement on Agency Response to Coronavirus* The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine: “NASA leadership is determined to make the health and safety of its workforce its top priority as we navigate the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. To that end, the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility and Stennis Space Center are moving to Stage 4 of the NASA Response Frame ...Continue Reading

NASA History Listserv Readers:            We hope all is well with you and that you and yours are staying healthy.  Given the recent shifts to telework and remote learning, the American Historical Association has extended the deadline for applicants for the NASA history fellowships from April 1 to April 20.  Please see https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/grants-and-fellowships/fellowships-in-aerospace-history for more information.  Please feel ...Continue Reading

Wednesday, March 18, 2020 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the PI-produced JPL V4.3 SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) and extreme winds data, which includes Level-2B (L2B) and Level 3 (L3) standard datasets based on the JPL Combined Active-Passive (CAP) algorithm applied to data from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory.  An associated near real-time L2B dataset is also available as a rolling store with a latency of about 4.3 hours.  For science applicat ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Mar 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 79 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Mar 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Mar 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 Mar Nmbr Location Lo None I ...Continue Reading

  March 18, 2020 RELEASE 20-025 *New Spinoff Publication Shares How NASA Innovations Benefit Life on Earth* NASA’s annual Spinoff publication highlights ways space technology makes life better on Earth. */Credits: NASA/* As NASA pushes the frontiers of science and human exploration, the agency also advances technology to modernize life on Earth, including drones, self-driving cars and other innovations. NASA’s diverse missions spur the creation and improvement of thousand ...Continue Reading

  March 18, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-041 *NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to First Crew Launch to Station from America Since 2011* NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarize themselves with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, the spacecraft that will transport them to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Their upcoming flight test is known as Demo-2, short for Demonstration Mission 2. The Crew Dragon will launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ...Continue Reading