:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Mar 28 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 87 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Mar 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2303 N18W66 065 0050 Cao 05 01 Beta 2305 S09W10 009 0410 Eki 13 17 Beta-Gamma 2307 S19W ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 27, 2015 * Year in Space Starts for One American and One Russian *  The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is seen as it launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 43's NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) onboard Friday, March ...Continue Reading

Folks:             Below and attached is information about the new Ordway Award from our colleague Mike Ciancone.  Thanks,             Steve *From: *<Ciancone>, "Michael L. (JSC-NC211)" Attached is a notice for the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History and an invitation for nominations.  I have captured the contents below for your ease in viewing.   Michael ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- CYCLONE PAM Cyclone Pam reaches Category 5 Strength in the South Pacific * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85582&src=nha *** Image from Jan 28, 2015 (Posted on Mar 26, 2015 3:57 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observ ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2170 Issue Time: 2015 Mar 27 1227 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2169 Begin Time: 2015 Mar 18 1515 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3959 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 Mar 27 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 86 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Mar 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2303 N20W54 066 0070 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 2305 S08E05 007 0390 Cki 14 16 Beta-Gamma 2307 S18 ...Continue Reading

March 26, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius v3.0 data covering the month of February 2015. Aquarius v3.0 data are being distributed via PODAAC’s general public ftp site, OPeNDAP and also THREDDS.  Links to these and also other Aquarius resources (eg. Aquarius v3.0 documentation package) are available at http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/aquarius. Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of February, ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 26, 2015 * NASA Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Data Available to Public *  The NEOWISE spacecraft viewed comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) for a second time on January 30, 2015, as the comet passed through the closest point to our sun along its 14,000-year orbit, at a solar distance of 120 million miles (193 million kilometers).Image Cr ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 26, 2015 * NASA’s Hubble, Chandra Find Clues that May Help Identify Dark Matter *  Here are images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) in a study of how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide. A total of 7 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- A PLUME ADVANCES OVER SHIVELUCH Ash from one of Kamchatka�s most active volcanoes headed toward Alaska. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=85576&src=nha *** Image from Mar 23, 2015 (Posted on Mar 26, 2015 10:41 AM) ...Continue Reading