The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (11 December 2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * Shrinking Aral Sea https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/videos/shrinking-aral-sea?src=eoa-features Once the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea has been slowly disappearing since the 1960s. View how the lake has shrunk over the past few decades. -------------------- Latest Images: https://earthobservatory. ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2880 Issue Time: 2018 Dec 11 1300 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2879 Begin Time: 2018 Dec 10 2010 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1081 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: 2018 Dec 11 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 345 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Dec 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Dec Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2879 Issue Time: 2018 Dec 10 2026 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2018 Dec 10 2010 UTC Station: GOES-15 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 Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscr ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- 2018-19 WINTER IN THE UNITED STATES A gallery of notable snow and ice storms for the season. * A Wintry Great Lakes Landscape (Image from Dec 9, 2018; Posted Dec 10, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144365/a-wintry-great-lakes-landscape/?src=nha * Winter Arrives in the Sierra Nevada (Image from Dec 2, 2018; Post ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2018-19 WINTER IN THE UNITED STATES A gallery of notable snow and ice storms for the season. * A Wintry Great Lakes Landscape (Image from Dec 9, 2018; Posted Dec 10, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144365/a-wintry-great-lakes-landscape/?src=nha --------------------------------------------------------------------- N ...Continue Reading

December 10, 2018 RELEASE 18-114 *NASA’s Newly Arrived OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Already Discovers Water on Asteroid* This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km). */Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/* Recently analyzed data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up i ...Continue Reading

December 10, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-185*Media Invited to News Conference, Interviews with Next Space Station * NASA astronauts Nick Hague (left) and Christina Hammock Koch (right) will participate in a news conference about their upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Hague, Koch and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos are scheduled to launch Feb. 28, 2019, from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a mission to the International Space Station as members of Expeditions 59 an ...Continue Reading

December 10, 2018 RELEASE 18-115*NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space* This illustration shows the position of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech /* For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields creat ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-50 2018 December 9 at 7:25 p.m. MST (2018 December 10 0225 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For December 3-9 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For December 10-16 No space weather storms are expected during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, U ...Continue Reading