:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Oct 03 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 276 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Oct 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2723 S08W42 357 0030 Cro 07 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 02/ ...Continue Reading

  October 02, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-010*Astronaut Tim Kopra Leaves NASA* After 20 years and two spaceflights, Astronaut Tim Kopra is leaving NASA. His last day was Oct. 1, 2018. Kopra, born in Austin, Texas, and a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, was selected as an astronaut in 2000. He flew on two space shuttles and was a member of two International Space Station expeditions. “I had the pleasure of flying with Tim during STS-128,” said Pat Forrester, chief of the ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- EARTHQUAKES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI IN INDONESIA A magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck near Palu, Indonesia, caused widespread damage in September 2018. * Devastation in Palu After Earthquake, Tsunami (Image from Oct 2, 2018; Posted Oct 3, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92836/devastation-in-palu-after-earthquake-tsunami/?src=nha ...Continue Reading

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is pleased to announce the availability of new Level-2 and 3 datasets from the Combined Active-Passive (CAP) Algorithm applied to the version 5.0, end of mission Aquarius/SAC-D data. The CAP datasets are developed and produced by a principal investigator led team at JPL.  L3 mapped products include both 7-day rolling average and monthly CAP sea surface salinity (SSS), rain corrected SSS and wind speed datasets.  The ...Continue Reading

  October 02, 2018 RELEASE 18-082*NASA, NOAA Convene GOES 17 Mishap Investigation Board* A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Launch was at 5:02 p.m. EST, March 1, 2018. */Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett /* NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have appointed ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Oct 02 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 275 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Oct 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2723 S08W29 357 0030 Dso 06 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 01/ ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- WESTERN PACIFIC TYPHOON SEASON 2018 The Western Pacific sees more tropical storms and typhoons each year than any other ocean basin. * Typhoon Trami Takes Aim at Japan (Image from Sep 28, 2018; Posted Sep 29, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92824/typhoon-trami-takes-aim-at-japan/?src=nha * Super Typhoon Trami ( ...Continue Reading

Listserv Readers: We are very pleased to announce the availability of Asif Siddiqi’s Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration *(*NASA SP-2018-4041).  Humans likely have used tools for more than a million years but for only sixty years, have we been able to send specialized tools, robotic spacecraft, into the heavens and leave our mark on the cosmos.  This book is a chronicle of our attempts to send these robotic travelers beyond Earth orbit, to the Moon, to other planets and their moons, to the S ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-40 2018 September 30 at 8:07 p.m. MDT (2018 October 1 0207 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 24-30 No significant space weather was observed for 24-30 Sep. Outlook For October 1-7 G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels are expected on 7 Oct, due to recurrent CH HSS activity. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Oct 01 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 274 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Oct 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2723 S08W15 356 0030 Dro 05 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 30/ ...Continue Reading