:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Dec 10 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 344 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Dec 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2729 S05W93 231 0010 Bxo 06 02 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 09/ ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 758 2018 Dec 9 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 57 continues aboard the ISS. Ferry ship Soyuz MS-11 was launched at 1131 UTC Dec 3 and docked with the Poisk module at 1733 UTC the same day. The MS-11 crew of Kononenko (Roskosmos), Saint-Jacques (CSA) and McClain (NASA) joined astronauts Gerst ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Dec 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 343 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Dec 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2729 S05W80 231 0010 Bxo 06 02 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 08/ ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Dec 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 342 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Dec 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2729 S05W67 232 0050 Bxo 07 06 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 07/ ...Continue Reading

December 07, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-183*NASA TV to Air ‘Spirit of Apollo’ Tribute from National Cathedral* Contrasted against the stark, crater-marked lunar surface, the Earth is seen rising above the moon on Dec. 24, 1968. As Apollo 8 orbited the moon, Earth is 240,000 miles away. The sunset terminator is seen crossing Africa. */Credits: NASA/Bill Anders/* This month marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, which was the first to bring humans to another world as they orbited the Moon on Chris ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Dec 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 341 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Dec 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2729 S05W51 229 0050 Cro 06 07 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 06/ ...Continue Reading

December 06, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-184*Coverage Set for Russian Spacewalk at International Space Station* Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev lays cable for the installation of the Icarus animal-tracking experiment on the Zvezda service module during a spacewalk that lasted 7 hours 46 minutes. Fellow cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (out of frame) joined Prokopyev during the spacewalk which also saw the deployment of four nano-satellites and the retrieval of a materials exposure experiment on the Russian segment of the ...Continue Reading

December 06, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-182*NASA Highlights Asteroid Bennu, Earth’s Polar Ice at AGU Meeting* New results from NASA’s ICESat-2 Earth-observing mission (above), the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu and Voyager 2 as it approaches the edge of the solar system are featured in media events at the AGU meeting in Washington. */Credits: NASA/* NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), De ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Dec 06 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 340 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Dec 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2729 S05W38 228 0030 Cro 04 06 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 05/ ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- WESTERN PACIFIC TYPHOON SEASON 2018 The Western Pacific sees more tropical storms and typhoons each year than any other ocean basin. * Cyclone Effects Run Deep (Image from Oct 24, 2018; Posted Dec 4, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144221/cyclone-effects-run-deep/?src=nha -------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading