October 22, 2020 RELEASE 20-104*NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Crewmates Land Safely Back on Earth* Chris Cassidy NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is all smiles after returning from his third space mission Oct. 21, 2020, landing in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 10:54 p.m. EDT with his International Space Station crewmates Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. */Credits: NASA Television/*  The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Expedition 63 crewmate ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Oct 22 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 296 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Oct 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2776 S14W31 166 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 21 ...Continue Reading

October 21, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-114*NASA to Announce New Science Results About Moon* NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 26. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website. This new discovery contributes to NASA’s efforts to learn about the Moon in support of deep space exploration. Under NASA’s Artemis program, the agency will send the first w ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Oct 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 295 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Oct 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2776 S13W16 164 0060 Hsx 03 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 20 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (20 October 2020) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Features: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features * Picturing Earth: Astronaut Photography In Focus https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/videos/picturing-earth?src=eoa-features    For 20 years, astronauts have been shooting photos of Earth from the space station. Like everything the astronauts do, they are trained for this job. And like ever ...Continue Reading

October 20, 2020 RELEASE 20-103*NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid* o-rex_approach.png NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. */Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/* NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery t ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Oct 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 294 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Oct 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2776 S13W03 165 0080 Cso 01 02 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 19/ ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- 2020 FIRE SEASON IN THE WESTERN U.S. Fire season in the West can stretch from late spring until seasonal winter rains and snow arrive. * Assessing California Fire Scars (Image from Sep 26, 2020; Posted Oct 14, 2020) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147374/assessing-california-fire-scars/?src=nha SOUTH AMERICAN FIRES IN 2020 Th ...Continue Reading

*NASA History Listserv Readers:* Please join us on October 28, 2020 at 12:00pm ET for our Virtual History Brown Bag talk: Bill Ayrey,* * /Lunar Outfitters: Making the Apollo Space Suit/ / / *Abstract:* When President John. F. Kennedy proposed that this county land a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade in 1961, it challenged NASA and industry since many of the advanced technologies had yet to be invented. This included the space suits we would need to walk ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #20-42 2020 October 18 at 7:17 p.m. MDT (2020 October 19 0117 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For October 12-18 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For October 19-25 G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms are likely on 22-25 October due to recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream influence. Data used to provide space weather s ...Continue Reading