The following sections have been updated in the past 1 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, 1 new images) -- TYPHOON NANGKA Typhoon Nangka approached Japan. * http://e ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-109*NASA to Release New Pluto Images, Science Findings at July 17 NASA TV Briefing* This new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature -- a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset. The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. The image was taken at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2015, about 1.5 hours before closest approach ...Continue Reading

July 16, 2015 RELEASE 15-144*Battling Wildfires from Space: NASA Adds to Firefighters’ Toolkit*  The jump in detail provided by the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite 375-meter fire detection product is helping transform how satellite remote sensing is supporting wildfire management. These images of the progression of the September 2014 King Fire in California demonstrate the improved resolution over previous fire detection products. */Credits: University of Maryland/W. Schroeder ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2214 Issue Time: 2015 Jul 16 1059 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2213 Begin Time: 2015 Jul 14 1315 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3157 pfu 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 Ser ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jul 16 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 197 Issued at 0030Z on 16 Jul 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2381 N12W92 077 0090 Eso 14 02 Beta 2384 S18W29 014 0120 Cso 04 05 Beta 2386 N11E30 ...Continue Reading

July 15, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-108*NASA Television Coverage Set for Next International Space Station Crew Launch* The next three crew members bound for the International Space Station are set to launch Wednesday, July 22. NASA Television will provide coverage of the launch and the crew’s arrival at the orbiting laboratory less than six hours later. Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch ...Continue Reading

July 15, 2015 RELEASE 15-152*From Mountains to Moons: Multiple Discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons Pluto Mission * New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise -- a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. */Credits: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI /* Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by the NASA's New Horizons team, just one day ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2213 Issue Time: 2015 Jul 15 0715 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2212 Begin Time: 2015 Jul 14 1315 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1425 pfu 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 Ser ...Continue Reading

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