September 21, 2017 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-109*Students at National Air and Space Museum to Speak with Space Station Astronaut * Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA demonstrates the width inside a Soyuz simulator, Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. */Credits: NASA/ Bill Ingalls /* Students at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2668 Issue Time: 2017 Sep 21 0500 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2667 Begin Time: 2017 Sep 15 0830 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 33761 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: 2017 Sep 21 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 264 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Sep 2017 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2680 N08W67 318 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2681 S12E73 178 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- HURRICANE MARIA Evolving from category 1 to category 5 in less than 18 hours, Hurricane Maria brought destruction to several Caribbean islands. * Maria and Jose Menace the Caribbean and North Atlantic (Image from Sep 19, 2017; Posted Sep 20, 2017) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=90998&src=nha ------------ ...Continue Reading

September 20, 2017 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-108*Media Invited to View NASA Spacecraft That Will Touch Our Sun * Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Advanced Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, work on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spacecraft. Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to fly directly through the Sun’s atmosphere. */Credits: JHU/APL/* NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be humanity’s first-ever mission to explore the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Media are invited to see the spacecraft and learn ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2667 Issue Time: 2017 Sep 20 0505 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2666 Begin Time: 2017 Sep 15 0830 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 34880 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

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (19 September 2017) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Maria and Jose Menace the Caribbean and North Atlantic https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=90998&src=eoa-iotd * Preparing for the Moon and Mars at Potrillo https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=90986&src=eoa-iotd * Crop Circles in Sharq El Owainat https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2017 Sep 20 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 263 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Sep 2017 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2680 N08W53 317 0050 Hsx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 19 ...Continue Reading

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Please be informed that the NOAA VIIRS GHRSST datasets (L2P and L3U) have been updated from version 2.40 to 2.41 starting on Sept. 15th, 2017.  The PO.DAAC has ingested the new data streams, but the formal release process may take at least a month to accomplish. We apologies for the inconvenience this may cause to the users.  The new v2.41 data can be found here:   [*]ftp://podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov//allData/ghrsst/data/GDS2/L2P/VIIRS_NPP/OSPO/v2.41/2017  [*]ftp:/ ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2666 Issue Time: 2017 Sep 19 0500 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2665 Begin Time: 2017 Sep 15 0830 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 31067 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