July 22, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-111*NASA Invites Media to 2015 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Convention* An InstantEye unmanned aircraft system is operated in Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California during Coastal Trident 2015 field experimentation and exercise activities. */Credits: NASA/* NASA and the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International will cosponsor the 2015 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Convention: A New Era in Avi ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 22 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 203 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2386 N10W48 313 0040 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2387 N16W10 275 0110 Dai 10 16 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (21 July 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * World of Change: Development of Orlando, Florida http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/orlando.php?src=eoa-features Theme parks and other development has turned Central Florida from swampland to the most visited tourist region of the United States. -------------------- Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.na ...Continue Reading

July 21, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-112*NASA Views Complex World: New Horizons Pluto Science Update Set for July 24* A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) and received on Earth on July 20. Features as small as a half-mile ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 21 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 202 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2386 N11W34 312 0040 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2387 N17E04 274 0120 Dai 10 18 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 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, 2 new images) -- TYPHOON NANGKA Typhoon Nangka approached Japan. * http://e ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SEA ICE IN THE GREENLAND SEA Summer brought melting swirls of sea ice to the eastern coast of Greenland. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86254&src=nha *** Image from Jul 16, 2015 (Posted on Jul 17, 2015 4:16 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is ...Continue Reading

July 20, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-110*NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discoveries* NASA will host a news teleconference at noon EDT Thursday, July 23 to announce new discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope. The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995. Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are ...Continue Reading

July 20, 2015 RELEASE 15-151*NASA Satellite Camera Provides “EPIC” View of Earth * Earth as seen on July 6, 2015 from a distance of one million miles by a NASA scientific camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft. */Credits: NASA/* A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. The color images of Earth from NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) are generated by co ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #15-29 2015 July 19 at 11:11 p.m. MDT (2015 July 20 0511 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For July 13-19 Category G1-Minor geomagnetic storms were observed on 13 July due to effects from a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream. Outlook For July 20-26 No space weather storms are expected. Data used to provide space weather services are contribut ...Continue Reading