July 15, 2015 RELEASE 15-150*NASA's New Horizons ‘Phones Home’ Safe after Pluto Flyby * New Horizons Flight Controllers celebrate after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the flyby of Pluto, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in the Mission Operations Center (MOC) of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Maryland. */Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls /* The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 15 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 196 Issued at 0030Z on 15 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2381 N15W79 077 0320 Fko 16 05 Beta 2384 S18W18 016 0150 Cso 03 03 Beta 2386 N11E43 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (14 July 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * CYGNSS: Gearing Up to Look Down on Hurricanes http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/category/cygnss/?src=eoa-features When launched in 2016, the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) will be a constellation of eight micro-satellites that will make accurate measurements of ocean surface winds in order t ...Continue Reading

July 14, 2015 RELEASE 15-149*NASA's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter* Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto on July 14. The color image has been combined with lower-resolution color informat ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2212 Issue Time: 2015 Jul 14 1330 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2015 Jul 14 1315 UTC Station: GOES13 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 Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or upda ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 14 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 195 Issued at 0030Z on 14 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 13 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 13/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2381 N15W65 076 0360 Fko 16 05 Beta 2384 S18W05 016 0170 Cso 03 08 Beta 2386 N11E57 ...Continue Reading

July 13, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-106*NASA, Agriculture Department Deputies to Sign Interagency Agreement for Earth Science, Agricultural Research* Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Harden and 4-H'ers observe plant growing experiments at NASA's Space Life Science Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Space Life Sciences Lab (SLSL) serves as the primary gateway for payloads bound for the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman and U.S. Department of Agricu ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- NORTHWEST FIRES IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES In 2015, Alberta and Saskatchewan face an unusually severe wildfire season. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86190&src=nha *** Image from Jul 05, 2015 (Posted on Jul 06, 2015 4:15 PM) LAKE FIRE, CALIFORNIA A wildfire burning in the San Bernardino National Forest ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 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=86213&src=nha *** Image from Jul 12, 2015 (Posted on Jul 13, 2015 12:05 PM) ------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

July 13, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-105*Sen. Mikulski, NASA Deputy Administrator Tour NASA’s New Horizons Mission Operations Center Today* Maryland Senator Barbara A. Mikulski will join NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman, John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland today for a briefing on the status of the New Horizons Pluto mission and a tour of the mission operation ...Continue Reading