July 17, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the version 4.0 Aquarius/SAC-D data.  This is the official NASA/Aquarius Project end-of-prime-mission dataset spanning the complete 3 year, 9 nine month period of Aquarius science data availability, from August 25, 2011 through June 7, 2015 when an unrecoverable hardware failure caused the end of the mission. This end-of-prime mission dataset does not preclude future reprocessings.  An updated versi ...Continue Reading

  July 17, 2015 RELEASE 15-154*NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’ * In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” - lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains and has been informal ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2215 Issue Time: 2015 Jul 17 0718 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2214 Begin Time: 2015 Jul 14 1315 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 4278 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 Sub ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 17 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 198 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2384 S18W43 014 0090 Hsx 04 04 Alpha 2386 N11E18 313 0070 Hsx 04 02 Alpha 2387 N17E61 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN ALASKA Dry and windy conditions fanned the flames of a damaging fires in Alaska. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86228&src=nha *** Image from Jul 12, 2015 (Posted on Jul 15, 2015 3:29 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON NANGKA Typhoon Nangka approached Japan. * http://e ...Continue Reading

  July 16, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-109*NASA to Release New Pluto Images, Science Findings at July 17 NASA TV Briefing* This new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature -- a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset. The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. The image was taken at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2015, about 1.5 hours b ...Continue Reading

  July 16, 2015 RELEASE 15-144*Battling Wildfires from Space: NASA Adds to Firefighters’ Toolkit*  The jump in detail provided by the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite 375-meter fire detection product is helping transform how satellite remote sensing is supporting wildfire management. These images of the progression of the September 2014 King Fire in California demonstrate the improved resolution over previous fire detection products. */Credits ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2214 Issue Time: 2015 Jul 16 1059 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2213 Begin Time: 2015 Jul 14 1315 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3157 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 16 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 197 Issued at 0030Z on 16 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2381 N12W92 077 0090 Eso 14 02 Beta 2384 S18W29 014 0120 Cso 04 05 Beta 2386 N11E30 ...Continue Reading

  July 15, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-108*NASA Television Coverage Set for Next International Space Station Crew Launch* The next three crew members bound for the International Space Station are set to launch Wednesday, July 22. NASA Television will provide coverage of the launch and the crew’s arrival at the orbiting laboratory less than six hours later. Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Explorat ...Continue Reading