var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option February 23, 2015 * NASA Briefing to Highlight Early Results from New Earth Science Missions *  Five new Earth science missions have joined NASA’s orbiting fleet since the launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission one year ago.Image Credit: NASA  Over the past 12 months NASA has added five missions to ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #15-8 2015 February 22 at 6:32 p.m. MST (2015 February 23 0132 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For February 16-22 G1 (minor) geomagnetic storms were observed on late on 17 February and again early on 18 February due to high speed solar winds from a negative polarity coronal hole. Outlook For February 23-March 1 No significant space weather is expected throu ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Feb 23 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 54 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Feb 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2287 N15W33 107 0020 Cro 04 03 Beta 2289 S07E17 057 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2290 N20E18 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Feb 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 53 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Feb 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2287 N14W18 105 0030 Dro 07 05 Beta 2288 S08W80 167 0040 Cao 08 05 Beta 2289 S07E29 0 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Feb 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 52 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Feb 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2287 N14W04 104 0030 Cri 08 05 Beta 2288 S08W66 166 0040 Cao 06 04 Beta 2289 S07E43 0 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Feb 20 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 51 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Feb 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2282 N10W76 188 0090 Hsx 06 02 Alpha 2286 S20W80 192 0030 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 2287 N14E08 ...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 February 19, 2015 * Updated Dates Announced for Space Station U.S. Spacewalks *  The mirror like visor of NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman reflects NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore during their Oct. 15, 2014 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. They are in the process of making repairs and preparing for the installation of do ...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 February 19, 2015 * NASA, ESA Telescopes Give Shape to Furious Black Hole Winds *  Supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies blast out radiation and ultra-fast winds, as illustrated in this artist's conception. NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM-Newton telescopes show that these winds, containing highly ionized atoms, blow in a nearly s ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Feb 19 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 50 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Feb 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2282 N11W64 191 0140 Cao 07 06 Beta 2284 N14W09 136 0000 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2286 S18W66 ...Continue Reading

February 18, 2015 Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) L2P and L3 SST datasets from the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI-SAF) at Meteo-France/Centre de Meteorologie Spatiale (CMS) in France are now available.  The L3 datasets are both global and regional (North Atlantic region) from a number of sensors including the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on the European Meteorological Operational-A (MetOp-A) and t ...Continue Reading