The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2019 FIRE SEASON IN ALASKA AND CANADA Warming global climate has brought longer and sometimes more dramatic fire seasons to the forests of Alaska and Canada. * Smoke Spreads Across Ontario (Image from Jul 7, 2019; Posted Jul 8, 2019) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145289/smoke-spreads-across-ontario/?src=nha ------------------- ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2019 Jul 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 190 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Jul 2019 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Jul 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 Jul Nmbr Location Lo 2744 ...Continue Reading

Monday, July 8, 2019 DOI:    [*]10.5067/TELND-3AJ06 [*]10.5067/TEOCN-3AJ06 [*]10.5067/TELND-3AC06 [*]10.5067/TEOCN-3AC06 [*]10.5067/TELND-3AG06 [*]10.5067/TEOCN-3AG06 PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the MEaSUREs Tellus JPL/GFZ/CSR GRACE Level-3 Monthly Ocean/Land Water-Equivalent-Thickness Surface-Mass Anomaly Release 6.0 (RL06) datasets in netCDF, ASCII, and GeoTIFF formats. The GRACE mission, a joint partnership between NASA (USA) and the DLR (G ...Continue Reading

  July 08, 2019 CONTRACT RELEASE C19-018*NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Groundbreaking Astrophysics Mission* *//* NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which will allow astronomers to discover, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most exotic astronomical objects in our universe.   The total cost for NASA to launch IXPE is app ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- FLOODING IN THE MISSISSIPPI WATERSHED 2019 Several seasons of heavy rain and snowfall set the stage for widespread flooding along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. * Long View of the Mississippi River Delta (Image from Apr 26, 2019; Posted Jul 5, 2019) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145286/long-view-of-the-mississippi ...Continue Reading

  July 08, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M19-067*Media Invited to News Conference, Interviews with Next Space Station Crew* NASA’s Jessica Meir during astronaut candidate extravehicular activity skills training. */Credits: NASA/* NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, along with crewmates Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates, a Roscosmos spaceflight participant, will discuss the upcoming Expeditions 60 and 61 crew increments aboar ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #19-27 2019 July 7 at 8:05 p.m. MDT (2019 July 8 0205 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For July 1-7 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For July 8-14 No space weather storms are anticipated during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the Intern ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2019 Jul 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 189 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Jul 2019 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2744 S27E38 209 0020 Bxo 04 02 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 07/ ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 766 2019 Jul 7 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Cargo ship Dragon CRS-17 returned to Earth on Jun 3. The 9-tonne CRS-17 was unberthed from the Harmony module at 1235 UTC, released by Canadarm-2 at 1601 UTC, and fired its engines to deorbit at about 2056 UTC. The trunk, containing the old CATS and SCAN exp ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2019 Jul 07 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 188 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Jul 2019 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Jul Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading