The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- ICEBERG TOWERS OVER GREENLAND VILLAGE In July 2018, an iceberg weighing 11 million tons parked just offshore of Innaarsuit, a small island village in northwestern Greenland. * Iceberg Towers over Greenland Village (Image from Jul 5, 2018; Posted Jul 17, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92443/iceberg-towers-over-gree ...Continue Reading

July 18, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-109*NASA Invites Media to Preview Briefing on Spacecraft that will “Touch” Sun* Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. */Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben /* Download high-resolution version. Media are invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a preview briefing on the agency’s Parker Solar Probe at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, July 20. The event will air live on NASA Television, the agency’s website and Facebook Live. NASA now is ta ...Continue Reading

July 18, 2018 RELEASE 18-064*NASA Debuts Online Toolkit to Promote Commercial Use of Satellite Data * Through its constellation of Earth observation satellites, NASA collects petabytes of data each year, including this image of the Chukchi Sea acquired on June 18, 2018, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. Thanks to a new Remote Sensing Toolkit created by NASA’s Technology Transfer program, users will now be able to find, analyze and utilize the most relevant remote sensing data for t ...Continue Reading

July 18, 2018 RELEASE 18-060*NASA, French Aerospace Lab to Collaborate on Sonic Boom Prediction Research* Dr. Jaiwon Shin, NASA’s associate administrator for aeronautics, left, and Bruno Sainjon, president and chief executive officer of France’s Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales, sign a new agreement on sonic boom prediction research in London. */Credits: NASA/Emily Larson/* NASA and France’s Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA), the French national aeros ...Continue Reading

July 18, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-108*NASA Television, Website to Air Critical Conversations on Science in Space * Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA is pictured in the Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station June 11, 2018, with gear from the Bone Marrow Adipose Reaction: Red Or White (MARROW) investigation. */Credits: NASA/* Learn more about the MARROW investigation. NASA will join counterparts from across government, industry, academia and int ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Jul 18 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 199 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jul 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Jul Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (17 July 2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Topic/ImageoftheDay * How Wide are the World's Rivers? https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92432/how-wide-are-the-worlds-rivers/?src=eoa-iotd * Cape Town's Reservoirs Rebound https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92428/cape-towns-reservoirs-rebound/?src=eoa-iotd * One Year Adrift, but Not Far https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Jul 17 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 198 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Jul 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Jul Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

Monday, July 16, 2018 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the GRACE Level-1/Level-2 Release-06 (RL06) datasets from the University of Texas Center of Space Research (CSR) and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).  The RL06 has made several significant improvements and updates from the current RL05, including updated background force models and improved parameterizations. For more detail, please read the following online documents: “CSR Level-2 Processing Standards Document for Product Rele ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- FIRES IN A DRY, HOT COLORADO SUMMER Dry, hot conditions in Colorado helped lead to the state’s third-largest wildfire in history. * Fires in a Dry, Hot Colorado Summer (Image from Jul 6, 2018; Posted Jul 13, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92415/fires-in-a-dry-hot-colorado-summer/?src=nha -- SEVERE STORMS (4 updated events, ...Continue Reading