May 14, 2018 RELEASE 18-036*NASA Announces New Director of Johnson Space Center* NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Mark Geyer as the next director of the NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. */Credits: NASA/* NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Monday the selection of Mark Geyer as the next director of the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. He’ll assume the director’s position on May 25, when current Center Director and former astron ...Continue Reading

  May 14, 2018 RELEASE 18-034*Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes* Artist’s illustration of Jupiter and Europa (in the foreground) with the Galileo spacecraft after its pass through a plume erupting from Europa’s surface. A new computer simulation gives us an idea of how the magnetic field interacted with a plume. The magnetic field lines (depicted in blue) show how the plume interacts with the ambient flow of Jovian plasma. The red colors on the lines show more dens ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2786 Issue Time: 2018 May 14 0900 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2785 Begin Time: 2018 May 06 1400 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 12060 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 Su ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-20 2018 May 14 at 12:31 a.m. MDT (2018 May 14 0631 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For May 7-13 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For May 14-20 G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms are expected on 17 May due to the influence of a negative polarity coronal hole/high speed solar wind stream. No other space weather storms ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 14 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 134 Issued at 0030Z on 14 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 13 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 13/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2709 N04W02 034 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 13 ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2785 Issue Time: 2018 May 13 0941 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2784 Begin Time: 2018 May 06 1400 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 14571 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 Su ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 13 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 133 Issued at 0030Z on 13 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2709 N06E11 035 0010 Axx 02 02 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 12 ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2784 Issue Time: 2018 May 12 0859 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2783 Begin Time: 2018 May 06 1400 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 52720 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 Su ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 12 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 132 Issued at 0030Z on 12 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2709 N05E24 035 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 11 ...Continue Reading

  May 11, 2018 RELEASE 18-035*Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA’s Next Red Planet Rover Mission*  NASA's Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency's Mars 2020 rover, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech /* NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel wi ...Continue Reading