May 31st 2018 PDT
May 31, 2018 RELEASE 18-045*NASA Selects US Companies to Advance Space Resource Collection* *//* NASA has selected 10 companies to conduct studies and advance technologies to collect, process and use space-based resources for missions to the Moon and Mars. NASA placed a special emphasis on encouraging the responders to find new applications for existing, terrestrial capabilities that could result in future space exploration capabilities at lower costs. The practice of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) could ...Continue Reading
May 31st 2018 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST AND HAZE (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- POWERFUL DUST STORMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST In May 2018, powerful winds ripped through parts of the Middle East. Satellites acquired imagery of wind-blown dust from the Gulf of Oman to the Caspian Sea. * Powerful Dust Storms in Western Asia (Image from May 28, 2018; Posted May 30, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazard ...Continue Reading
May 31st 2018 PDT
Thursday, May 31, 2018 Please be informed that the following PO.DAAC public services may experience intermittent downtime during the scheduled upgrade window on 6/4/2018 from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST. Service Impacted: [*]Live Access Server (LAS) (L3 Subsetter): https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/las/ [*]State of the Ocean: https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/soto/ [*]Metadata Compliance Checker: https://podaac-uat.jpl.nasa.gov/mcc/ Start Time: Monday, June 4, 2018 at 4:00 pm End Time: Monday, J ...Continue Reading
May 31st 2018 PDT
May 31, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-088*Media Invited to See Latest NASA Drone Traffic Management Technologies* A Phantom 3 multi-copter is flown during a Technology Capability Level mission at Reno-Stead Airport in Reno, Nevada. */Credits: NASA/Dominic Hart/* NASA invites media to learn the latest about its national campaign to test and refine its Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) technologies at 10 a.m. PDT Wednesday, June 6, at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, ...Continue Reading
May 30th 2018 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 31 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 151 Issued at 0030Z on 31 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2712 N16W09 177 0030 Cro 08 08 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 30/ ...Continue Reading
May 29th 2018 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 30 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 150 Issued at 0030Z on 30 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2712 N16E05 176 0070 Csi 08 12 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 29/ ...Continue Reading
May 29th 2018 PDT
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (29 May 2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Fire Marches Across the Okavango Delta https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=92206&src=eoa-iotd1 * An Eye-Catching Circle of Cloud https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=92203&src=eoa-iotd2 * A Cubic View of Earth https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=92209&src=eoa-iotd3 * A Transformed La ...Continue Reading
May 29th 2018 PDT
May 29, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-087*NASA Previews Mission to Study Frontier of Space* Processes in Earth’s ionosphere create bright swaths of color in the sky, known as airglow, as seen here in an image taken from the International Space Station. NASA’s Ionospheric Connection (ICON) mission will track airglow to observe how interactions between Earth's weather and the ionosphere create changes in our space environment. */Credits: NASA/* NASA will host a media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, June 4, on the age ...Continue Reading
May 29th 2018 PDT
May 29, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-086*NASA Television to Air Return of One Space Station Crew, Launch of Another* After 168 days on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Scott Tingle returns to Earth June 3, 2018, with Expedition 55 crewmates Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The International Space Station Expedition 54 crew returns in the Soyuz MS-06 from their mission Feb. 27, 2018 (left). Tingle, Shkaplerov and Kanai la ...Continue Reading
May 29th 2018 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2018 FIRE SEASON IN CANADA A series of fires spread through parts of Manitoba in late May 2018, as satellites began acquiring data and imagery of the blazes. * Fires in Manitoba (Image from May 21, 2018; Posted May 23, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=92186&src=nha -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated event, 1 n ...Continue Reading
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