September 28, 2015 RELEASE 15-190*NASA Announces Appointment of New Agency Chief Information Officer*  NASA Chief Information Officer Renee Wynn */Credits: NASA/* Renee Wynn took the helm Monday in leading the agency's information technology efforts and capabilities as NASA’s new chief information officer (CIO). As NASA's top IT official, Wynn is responsible for ensuring NASA’s information assets are in line with federal policies, procedures and legislation. ...Continue Reading

The Shrinking Aral Sea: Updated for 2015 Over the past 50 years the Aral Sea has been devastated by massive irrigation projects. These images show the decline over the past decade and perhaps even small signs of recovery in 2015. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/aral_sea.php?src=nha-ann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ...Continue Reading

September 28, 2015 RELEASE 15-195*NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars* These dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water. Recently, planetary scientists detected hydrated salts on these slopes at Hale crater, corroborating their original hypothesis that the streaks are indeed formed by liquid water. The blue color seen upslope of the dark streaks are thought not to be related to ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #15-39 2015 September 27 at 11:22 p.m. MDT (2015 September 28 0522 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 21-27 Category R1 (Minor) radio blackouts were observed on 27 September due to flare activity from active sunspot Region 2422. Outlook For September 28-October 4 Category R1 (Minor) radio blackouts are likely through 03 October due to flare poten ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Sep 28 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 271 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Sep 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2420 N11W17 103 0110 Fai 16 11 Beta 2421 N16W35 121 0100 Dai 06 11 Beta 2422 S20W16 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Sep 27 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 270 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Sep 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2420 N10W04 103 0140 Fai 16 15 Beta-Gamma 2421 N17W21 120 0110 Dac 05 12 Beta 2422 S20 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Sep 26 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 269 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Sep 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2418 S15W88 201 0060 Hax 03 02 Alpha 2420 N10E09 102 0150 Fai 16 17 Beta 2421 N17W09 ...Continue Reading

  September 25, 2015 RELEASE 15-193*NASA Selects Science Education Partners for STEM Agreements* NASA has selected 27 organizations from across the United States to begin negotiations for cooperative agreement awards totaling $42 million to implement a new strategic approach to more effectively engage learners of all ages on NASA science education programs and activities. Selections were made by the agency’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) in Washington through the Science Educatio ...Continue Reading

September 25, 2015 On Friday, 18 September 2015, RapidScat echo power spontaneously increased by 20 dB, returning to its pre-anomaly level. Other anomaly signatures, such as scatterometer electronics current, also seem to have returned to their pre-anomaly values. This event corresponded in a return to nominal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which was first noticed on orbital rev number 5601. After subsequent data quality assessment, the RapidScat team commanded the instrum ...Continue Reading

September 25, 2015 Reprocessed Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Level 3 v2014.0 datasets produced by the NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on Aqua and Terra satellites are now available. There are total 48 datasets including daily, 8 day average, monthly average and annual average at 4 km and 9 km spatial resolutions from the mid-IR and thermal bands. The Level 3 v2014.0 datasets have a number of improv ...Continue Reading