NASA's Earth Observatory Group is proud to announce the release of   *EONET: The Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker* http://eonet.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ More and more NASA imagery is being made available via web services (WMS, WMTS, etc.) and a significant percentage of it is being produced and published in near real time (within a few hours after acquisition). This ability means that NASA imagery can be used more routinely to examine current natural events as they happen.   The public can currently browse ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Oct 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 295 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Oct 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2434 S10W36 166 0180 Cao 04 06 Beta 2435 S15E03 127 0020 Cro 01 02 Beta 2436 N08E16 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Oct 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 294 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Oct 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2434 S10W22 165 0210 Dai 06 14 Beta 2435 S15E17 126 0020 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 2436 N09E30 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (20 October 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/sierra_nevada.php?src=eoa-features Wet and dry years cause the snow cover to fluctuate, but the overall trend has been downward for nearly a decade. -------------------- Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Sierra Nevada ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FOREST FIRES IN SUMATRA Early September brought seasonal agricultural fires to Sumatra. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86847&src=nha *** Image from Oct 19, 2015 (Posted on Oct 19, 2015 2:38 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth ...Continue Reading

Space Weather News for Oct. 20, 2015 http://spaceweather.com METEORS FROM HALLEY'S COMET: Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak tonight, Oct. 20-21, with as many as 20 meteors per hour. No matter where you live, the best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise on Wednesday the 21st.  Visit Spaceweather.com for sky maps and more information. MIN ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2265 Issue Time: 2015 Oct 20 1440 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2015 Oct 20 1425 UTC Station: GOES13 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 Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscri ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Oct 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 293 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Oct 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2431 S19W44 200 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2434 S10W08 164 0230 Dac 08 16 Beta 2435 S15E31 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED A new mosaic shows a drainage system that spans parts of six states and 64,000 square miles. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86815&src=nha *** Image from (Posted on Oct 15, 2015 3:00 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #15-42 2015 October 18 at 6:51 p.m. MDT (2015 October 19 0051 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For October 12-18 G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms were observed on 12, 14 and 18 October due to effects from positive polarity coronal hole high speed streams. R1 (Minor) radio blackouts were observed on 15-17 October from flare activity from Regions 2434 and 2437. N ...Continue Reading