:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2019 Mar 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 68 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Mar 2019 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2734 N08W17 063 0010 Hax 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 08/ ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- EXTREME SUMMER DOWN UNDER Baked by heat and drought, deluged by rain and floods, scorched by wildfire, and blanketed in dust, Australia and New Zealand faced several months of extreme weather in 2018-19. * Fires Rage in Victoria (Image from Mar 7, 2019; Posted Mar 7, 2019) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144630/fires-rage-in-vic ...Continue Reading

March 08, 2019 RELEASE 19-016*SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashdown Marks Success of First NASA Commercial Crew Flight Test* Completing an end-to-end uncrewed flight test, Demo-1, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon departed the International Space Station at 2:32 a.m. EST Friday, March 8, 2019, and splashed down at 8:45 a.m. in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 nautical miles off the Florida coast. */Credits: NASA Television/* NASA passed a major milestone Friday in its goal to restore America’s human spaceflight capability when Space ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2919 Issue Time: 2019 Mar 08 1426 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2918 Begin Time: 2019 Feb 28 1710 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 4472 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Sub ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2019 Mar 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 67 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Mar 2019 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2734 N09W01 060 0020 Cao 05 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 07/2 ...Continue Reading

March 07, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M19-014*NASA Coverage for Next Space Station Crew Launch, Docking*  Expedition 59 crew members Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA during pre-launch training for launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are set to join the crew aboard the In ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2918 Issue Time: 2019 Mar 07 1038 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2917 Begin Time: 2019 Feb 28 1710 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 8797 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Sub ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2019 Mar 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 66 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Mar 2019 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2734 N09E13 060 0030 Cro 04 07 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 06/2 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2018-19 WINTER IN THE UNITED STATES A gallery of notable cold snaps and snow and ice storms for the season. * Flooding on the Russian River (Image from Feb 28, 2019; Posted Mar 5, 2019) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144619/flooding-on-the-russian-river/?src=nha ----------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Local Listserv Readers: Please join us for the following exciting talk next week.  If you are coming from outside NASA HQ, please contact Nadine Andreassen (202-358-0087; nadine.j.andreassen@nasa.gov) ahead of time.  Thanks for your interest. Steve Dr. Andy Bruno, an Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, will examine one of the lingering unsolved scientific mysteries of the twentieth century.  In June 1908, a fragment of an asteroid likely erupted i ...Continue Reading