:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Mar 08 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 67 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Mar 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2297 S17E66 197 0180 Dsi 09 10 Beta-Gamma IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid a ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Mar 07 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 66 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Mar 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2293 N05W68 344 0010 Axx 03 04 Alpha 2296 S11E24 252 0010 Bxo 02 02 Beta 2297 S17E81 ...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 6, 2015 * NASA Launches 2015 Space Apps Challenge to Spark Innovation *  Image Credit: NASA  NASA and other space agencies around the world are preparing for the fourth annual International Space Apps Challenge, which will be held April 10-12 at more than 135 locations worldwide, including New York, host of the ev ...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 6, 2015 * NASA Media Teleconference Today on First Spacecraft to Successfully Enter Orbit Around a Dwarf Planet *  NASA's Dawn spacecraft took these images of dwarf planet Ceres from about 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) away on Feb. 25, 2015. Ceres appears half in shadow because of the current position of the spacecraft relative ...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 6, 2015 * NASA Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet *  Ceres is seen from NASA's Dawn spacecraft on March 1, just a few days before the mission achieved orbit around the previously unexplored dwarf planet. The image was taken at a distance of about 30,000 miles (about 48,000 kilometers).Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Cal ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Mar 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 65 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Mar 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2293 N05W53 342 0065 Cao 10 09 Beta 2295 S08W53 342 0010 Bxo 02 02 Beta IA. H-alpha Pla ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 709 2015 Mar 5 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 42 continues with commander Barry Wilmore, FE-1 Aleksandr Samokutyaev, FE-2 Elena Serova, FE-3 Anton Shkaplerov, FE-4 Samantha Cristoforetti, and FE-5 Terry Virts. Soyuz TMA-14M is docked at Poisk; Soyuz TMA-15M is docked at Rassvet; Progress M-25M ...Continue Reading

March 5, 2015 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, We plan to discontinue the OSI SAF global Metop-A Hamming window based 12.5 km wind product on Tuesday, 28th of April. The 12.5 km winds have already been replaced by the ASCAT coastal winds for Metop-A and Metop-B in the OSI SAF list of products. The Hamming winds product ...Continue Reading

March 5, 2015 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the newly processed Aquarius-CAP v3.0 data covering the month of January 2015.  CAP Level 2 and 3 products are described and discoverable via the PO.DAAC data portal http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?search=CAP and are being distributed via PODAAC's general public ftp site, OPeNDAP, THREDDS and LAS.  Users should note that Aquarius data are processed through the end of January, and will be augment ...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 5, 2015 * NASA Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean *  NASA scientists have determined that a primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean and that the Red Planet has lost 87 percent of that water to space. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC  A primitive ocean on Mars ...Continue Reading