March 04, 2016 MEDIA ADVISORY M16-023*NASA to Provide Live Coverage, Interviews, and Social Media for March 8 Solar Eclipse* During total solar eclipses — such as this one seen from the northern tip of Australia on Nov. 13, 2012 — the light halo of the sun’s atmosphere, called the corona, can be seen. Not only are such eclipses beautiful, they also provide a unique opportunity for scientists to study the corona. */Credits: NASA/Courtesy of Romeo Durscher /* NASA ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2016 Mar 04 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 64 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Mar 2016 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2506 S07W60 225 0070 Hsx 08 02 Alpha 2510 N05E43 124 0030 Cro 01 03 Beta 2512 N12E13 ...Continue Reading

  March 03, 2016 MEDIA ADVISORY M16-019*NASA Extends Media Credentials Deadlines for Commercial Cargo Mission*  Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers and technicians install a NanoRack on a Cygnus cargo spacecraft. The Cygnus will be launched to the International Space Station on the upcoming Orbital ATK Commercial Resupply Services-6 mission, delivering hardware and supplies to the orbiting outpost. A NanoRack is a lo ...Continue Reading

  March 03, 2016 RELEASE J16-003*Former NASA Astronaut Donald Williams Dies* Former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy Capt. Donald E. Williams, who served as pilot on his first space shuttle flight and commander on his final, died Feb. 23. He was 74 years old. “Don was a member of the astronaut class of 1978, the first class of astronauts chosen to fly the space shuttle,” said Chris Cassidy, chief of the Astronaut Office. “His two flights launched a probe to Jupiter, ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2016 Mar 03 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 63 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Mar 2016 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2506 S07W48 226 0110 Cso 09 05 Beta 2510 N05E51 127 0030 Cro 10 03 Beta 2511 N05E57 1 ...Continue Reading

  March 02, 2016 MEDIA ADVISORY M16-022*Update on NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly’s Return to Houston* Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA rests in a chair outside of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft just minutes after he and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan late Tuesday, March 1 EST. Kelly and Kornienko completed a record year-long International Space Station mission to ...Continue Reading

  March 02, 2016 RELEASE 16-023*NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns Safely to Earth after One-Year Mission* NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko enjoy the cold fresh air back on Earth after their historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA TV/*  NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos review procedures a ...Continue Reading

  March 02, 2016 RELEASE 16-023*NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns Safely to Earth after One-Year Mission* NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko enjoy the cold fresh air back on Earth after their historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA TV/*  NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos review procedures a ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2016 Mar 02 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 62 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Mar 2016 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2506 S07W34 225 0110 Dso 09 06 Beta 2508 N05W20 211 0010 Axx 00 01 Alpha 2509 N08W00 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (01 March 2016) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Field Campaign Will Sample Korean Air http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87596&src=eoa-iotd * California Coastal Current http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87575&src=eoa-iotd * Crimean Peninsula http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87586&src=eoa-iotd * Mona Island http://earthobser ...Continue Reading