November 13, 2015 RELEASE 15-221*Todd May Named Marshall Space Flight Center Acting Director*  Todd May */Credits: NASA/MSFC /* NASA has named Todd May acting director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as the agency continues the process of looking for a permanent director. Patrick Scheuermann, who served as the Marshall director since September 2012, is retiring from the agency, effective Friday. His retirement caps a 27-year career with NASA that began in 1988 as a propu ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2275 Issue Time: 2015 Nov 13 0500 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2274 Begin Time: 2015 Nov 04 1405 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 30201 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: 2015 Nov 13 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 317 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Nov 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2448 N07W26 225 0010 Bxo 03 03 Beta 2449 S13W09 208 0030 Cao 09 06 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS WAVE CLOUDS Islands in the southern Indian Ocean disrupted the atmosphere flowing around them in ways that left distinctive banded patterns in the clouds. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86978&src=nha *** Image from Nov 05, 2015 (Posted on Nov 11, 2015 5:13 PM) FOG OVER EUROPE ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 718 2015 Nov 12 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 45 continues under the command of Scott Kelly, with flight engineers Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Volkov, Kimiya Yui, and Kjell Lindgren. Following US EVA-32 describedin JSR 717, Kelly and Lindgren performed spacewalk US EVA-33 on Nov 6. ...Continue Reading

Listserv readers:          We are pleased to announce the availability of Joe and Mark Chambers’ /Emblems of Exploration:  Logos of the NACA and NASA/ (NASA SP-2015-4556) in both hard copy and electronic versions.   Hard copies may be obtained from the NASA Information Center (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/ic/ic2.htm) and a free e-book version is available from http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/emblems_of_exploration_detail.html online. More details a ...Continue Reading

November 12, 2015 RELEASE 15-219*As Earth Warms, NASA Targets ‘Other Half’ of Carbon, Climate Equation* During a noon EST media teleconference today, NASA and university scientists will discuss new insights, tools and agency research into key carbon and climate change questions, as the agency ramps up its efforts to understand how Earth’s ocean, forest, and land ecosystems absorb nearly half of emitted carbon dioxide today. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite is providing NASA’s first detailed, global m ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2274 Issue Time: 2015 Nov 12 0501 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2273 Begin Time: 2015 Nov 04 1405 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 59508 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: 2015 Nov 12 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 316 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Nov 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2448 N04W15 227 0030 Cao 04 07 Beta 2449 S12E05 206 0060 Dai 10 14 Beta 2450 S22E03 ...Continue Reading

November 11, 2015 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the Surface Water & Ocean Topography (SWOT) Applications Working Group. Please direct all related inquiries to https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/feedback/index.cfm?space=holder&. Dear Colleague, The Surface Water & Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission brings together the hydrology and oceanography communities focused on a better understanding of the world's oceans and its ter ...Continue Reading