The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON SOUDELOR Typhoon Soudelor became the strongest typhoon of 2015. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86374&src=nha *** Image from Aug 05, 2015 (Posted on Aug 07, 2015 10:39 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observa ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2223 Issue Time: 2015 Aug 07 1556 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2015 Aug 07 1540 UTC Station: GOES13 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 Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscri ...Continue Reading

  August 07, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-118*Veteran Russian Cosmonauts Set for Spacewalk on NASA TV* International Space Station Expedition 36 Flight Engineers Alexander Misurkin and Fyodor Yurchikhin (out of frame), both of the Russian Federal Space Agency, conducted a five-hour, 58-minute spacewalk on Aug. 22, 2013 to replace a laser communications experiment, install new spacewalk aids and inspect antenna covers on the station's exterior. */Credits: NASA/* NASA Television will broadcast l ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Aug 07 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 219 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Aug 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2393 N18W46 100 0020 Hax 01 01 Alpha 2394 N11W25 079 0100 Cao 04 06 Beta 2395 N12E25 ...Continue Reading

  August 06, 2015 RELEASE 15-161*NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Crew Members for Missions in 2017* Expedition 51/52 crew member Mark Vande Hei during ISS Joint AL Hardware training with instructors Michael Dino, Eryn Beisner. */Credits: NASA/Lauren Harnett /* NASA and its International Space Station (ISS) partners have announced the crew members for missions to the orbiting laboratory in 2017. The selection includes first-time space flyers NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Jack F ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Aug 06 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 218 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Aug 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2393 N18W33 100 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2394 N11W12 079 0120 Cao 07 12 Beta-Gamma 2395 N1 ...Continue Reading

  August 05, 2015 RELEASE 15-166*NASA Names New Manager of International Space Station Program*  Kirk Shireman has been named manager of NASA's International Space Station Program. */Credits: NASA/* NASA’s springboard for discovery, innovation and deep space exploration has a new chief. The agency has named Kirk Shireman as the new manager of its International Space Station (ISS) Program, based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where Shireman has serve ...Continue Reading

  August 05, 2015 RELEASE RELEASE: 15-164*New Online Tools Bring NASA’s Journey to Mars to New Generation of Explorers* A screen capture from NASA's new Experience Curiosity website shows the rover in the process of taking its own self-portrait. Users can view Mars through the eyes of the rover, using the window in the lower, right corner. The control panel at left helps users navigate the rover itself, and relive some of its actual expeditions on Mars. Visit the website online at: ht ...Continue Reading

  August 05, 2015 RELEASE 15-163*NASA Notifies Congress About Space Station Contract Modification with Russia* NASA Administrator Charles Bolden sent a letter to Congress Wednesday informing members that, due to continued reductions in the president’s funding requests for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program over the past several years, NASA was forced to extend its existing contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) to transport American astronauts to the Inte ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA In summer 2015, fires charred tens of thousands of acres in California. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86348&src=nha *** Image from Aug 03, 2015 (Posted on Aug 04, 2015 3:29 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Ea ...Continue Reading