Jonathan's Space Report No. 714 2015 Jul 25 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 44 began at 1020 UTC Jun 11 with Commander Gennadiy Padalka and flight engineers Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly. Progress M-28M was launched successfully on Jul 3, carrying critical supplies for the ISS. It docked with the Pirs module at 0711 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 25 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 206 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2386 N09W87 313 0020 Hax 02 01 Alpha 2387 N17W48 274 0010 Bxo 08 05 Beta 2389 S11E62 ...Continue Reading

July 24, 2015 New Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Level 2P and Level 3U v2.4 datasets produced by the NOAA Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite are now available. The L2P v2.4 dataset has number of improvements over L2P v2.3 including destriping, new capability for handling the terrain-corrected geo-location, de-bias against insitu SST and cloud mask ad ...Continue Reading

  July 24, 2015 RELEASE 15-158*NASA’s New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto* Pluto sends a breathtaking farewell to New Horizons. Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on July 15. This global portrait of the atmosphere was captured when the spacecraft was about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Pluto and shows structures as smal ...Continue Reading

  July 24, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-115*Crew of Underwater NASA Mission Available for Interviews * NEEMO 18 crew member ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet wraps up rehearsals and training in his dive helmet off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, July 2014. */Credits: NASA/* NASA currently is working in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to evaluate tools and techniques in preparation for future spacewalks on a variety of surfaces and levels of gravity, ranging from asteroids ...Continue Reading

  July 24, 2015 RELEASE 15-157*NASA Hosts ‘Quest for Quakes’ Data Challenge* The “Quest for Quakes” algorithm challenge seeks to develop new software codes to search through data and identify electromagnetic pulses that may precede an earthquake. */Credits: topcoder /* A new NASA challenge is looking for evidence to support a theory that electromagnetic pulses (EMP) may precede an earthquake, potentially offering a warning to those in the quakeâ ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 24 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 205 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2386 N09W74 313 0020 Hax 01 01 Alpha 2387 N16W35 274 0020 Cro 10 06 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

  July 23, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-113*NASA Invites Media to Emergency Locater Transmitters Crash Test* A Cessna 172, outfitted with several Emergency Locator Transmitters, impacts the ground at NASA Langley Research Facility’s Landing and Impact Research Facility on July 1, 2015. */Credits: NASA/David Bowman/* Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will crash test a small plane Wednesday, July 29, to test the performance of five emergency locater transm ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT RAUNG VOLCANO One of the most active volcanoes on the Indonesian island of Java spewed fresh ash and gases in early July 2015. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86283&src=nha *** Image from Jul 21, 2015 (Posted on Jul 22, 2015 2:10 PM) -------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

  July 23, 2015 RELEASE 15-156*NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth*  This artist's concept compares Earth (left) to the new planet, called Kepler-452b, which is about 60 percent larger in diameter. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle/* Read more...  This size and scale of the Kepler-452 system compared alongside the Kepler-186 system and the solar system. Kepler-186 is a miniature solar system that would fit entirely inside the orbi ...Continue Reading