January 06, 2016 RELEASE 16-003*NASA's CORAL Campaign Will Raise Reef Studies to a New Level*  Part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, one of many reefs that CORAL will study beginning this year. */Credits: NASA/* A new three-year NASA field expedition gets underway this year that will use advanced instruments on airplanes and in the water to survey more of the world’s coral reefs in far greater detail than has ever been assessed before. The COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) will measure the condit ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2306 Issue Time: 2016 Jan 06 1039 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2305 Begin Time: 2016 Jan 01 2035 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 6153 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: 2016 Jan 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 6 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Jan 2016 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2476 S10E06 202 0030 Cro 06 08 Beta 2477 N12E19 189 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Pla ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (05 January 2016) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * El Niño Brought Drought and Fire to Indonesia http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87204&src=eoa-iotd * Unseasonable Flooding on the Mississippi River http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87265&src=eoa-iotd * South Africa and Lesotho—A Panorama http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id ...Continue Reading

January 05, 2016 MEDIA ADVISORY M16-001*NASA TV to Air News Briefing on Upcoming Spacewalk* NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a briefing at 2 p.m. EST (1 p.m. CST) on Tuesday, Jan. 12, to preview the tasks and preparation for a spacewalk by astronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The briefing and spacewalk will air live on NASA Television, and be streamed on NASA’s website. Coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 6:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 15, with the spacewalk scheduled t ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2305 Issue Time: 2016 Jan 05 0501 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2304 Begin Time: 2016 Jan 01 2035 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 7407 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: 2016 Jan 05 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 5 Issued at 0030Z on 05 Jan 2016 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 04/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2476 S10E20 202 0070 Dao 06 12 Beta 2477 N12E33 189 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2478 N07E24 1 ...Continue Reading

January 04, 2016 RELEASE 16-001*NASA Research Could Save Commercial Airlines Billions in New Era of Aviation * Researchers with NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation project coordinated wind-tunnel tests of an Active Flow Control system -- tiny jets installed on a full-size aircraft vertical tail that blow air -- to prove they would provide enough side force and stability that it might someday be possible to design smaller vertical tails that would reduce drag and save fuel. */Credits: NASA/Dominic Hart ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HOLE-PUNCH CLOUDS OVER THE SOUTHEAST In December 2015, rare hole-punch clouds emerged over Louisiana and Mississippi. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=87262&src=nha *** Image from Dec 29, 2015 (Posted on Dec 30, 2015 3:31 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natur ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2304 Issue Time: 2016 Jan 04 0501 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2303 Begin Time: 2016 Jan 01 2035 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 6782 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