Solar Wx: May 2013

Friday, May 31, 2013

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

05/31/2013 04:30 PM EDT

WW 0262 Status Updates

    STATUS FOR WATCH 0262 HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED YET

SPC PDS Tornado Watch 262

05/31/2013 04:30 PM EDT

WW 262 TORNADO OK 312030Z - 010500Z

    URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 262

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

330 PM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON FROM 330 PM UNTIL

MIDNIGHT CDT.

...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...

NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones

05/31/2013 12:00 AM EDT

The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The testing is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.

NASA Invites Media to Space Weather Enterprise Forum

05/31/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will deliver the keynote address at the annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum Tuesday, June 4, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Auditorium and Science Center, located at 1301 East-West Highway in Silver Spring, Md.

European Space Agency YouTube Update

Earth from Space: Crete

31-05-2013 07:31 PM CEST

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios.

Greece's largest and most populous island is featured in the sixty-seventh edition. See also the following link to download the image: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Earth_from_Space_Crete

Luca Parmitano's Volare begins

31-05-2013 07:23 PM CEST

Highlights of launch preparations to liftoff and weightlessness. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, Russian Soyuz commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 28 May 2013.

All three will be part of the Station's Expedition 36/37 crew. Luca's mission is named 'Volare' -- 'to fly' in Italian -- to symbolise the search for new frontiers and opportunities for discovery.

The spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur spaceport at 20:31:24 GMT and reached orbit nine minutes later. In under six hours while orbiting Earth four times the Soyuz docked with the Rassvet module on the International Space Station.

Huntsville, Alabama From Space

05/31/2013 12:00 AM EDT

The ISS SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System or ISERV - a camera aboard the International Space Station - captures an image of her hometown.

ISERV was designed and built at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.ISERV provides useful images for disaster monitoring and assessment and environmental decision making.

A system like ISERV could aid in delivering imagery and data to help officials in developing nations monitor impacts of disasters such as floods, landslides and forest fires. Its images also could help decision makers address other environmental issues.

Image Credit: NASA/SERVIR/ISERV

Another American High Frontier First: 3-D Manufacturing in Space

05/31/2013 12:00 AM EDT

In preparation for a future where parts and tools can be printed on demand in space, NASA and Made in Space Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., have joined to launch equipment for the first 3-D microgravity printing experiment to the International Space Station.

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC - No watches are valid as of Fri May 31 13:02:02 UTC 2013

05/31/2013 09:01 AM EDT

No watches are valid as of Fri May 31 13:02:02 UTC 2013.

SPC Center Public Severe Weather Outlook (PWO)

05/31/2013 07:31 AM EDT

Public Severe Weather Outlook

  PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK  0507 AM CDT

FRI MAY 31 2013

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED FROM CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

TO PARTS OF  THE OZARKS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING

THE  DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES...

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FROM  CENTRAL OKLAHOMA TO

PARTS OF THE OZARKS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE

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EXTREME NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 
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EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS 
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EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI 
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CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA 
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Copernicus Masters wants your ideas

31-05-2013 11:15 AM CEST

Submit your ideas to this year's competition on how Earth observation data can benefit business and society. Entries will be accepted in all nine categories starting tomorrow.

Week In Images

30-05-2013 09:23 AM CEST

Our week through the lens:
27-31 May 2013

Live Webcast Science Day: Highlights of 10 years of European Mars research

27-05-2013 04:00 PM CEST

We go live on Wednesday, 05 June, from 20 clock to the public "Science Day" at the Central Station in Darmstadt.

Leading experts from ESA, DLR and Astrium present the highlights of Europe's first comprehensive mission to the Red Planet Mars Express. From 23 clock, we show in the web-cast live TV transmission from the start of the ATV space transporter "Albert Einstein" at the International Space Station.

Space interested are also welcome to attend the public meeting in the Central Station in Darmstadt.

Doors open since 19 clock.

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Tornado Watch 258 Status Reports

05/31/2013 04:25 AM EDT

WW 0258 Status Updates

    STATUS REPORT ON WW 258

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 40

SW MEM TO  20 N DEQ TO 30 SE RKR TO 30 NW ARG.

..GOSS..05/31/13    ATTN...WFO...LZK...TSA...MEG...

STATUS REPORT FOR WT 258

 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

ARC021-023-029-031-035-037-045-051-055-063-065-067-075-

077-083-  085-093-095-097-105-111-113-115-117-119-121-

123-125-127-135-137-  141-145-147-149-310940-    AR   .

ARKANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

CLAY                 CLEBURNE            CONWAY

CRAIGHEAD            CRITTENDEN          CROSS

FAULKNER             GARLAND             GREENE

INDEPENDENCE         IZARD               JACKSON

LAWRENCE             LEE                 LOGAN

LONOKE               MISSISSIPPI         MONROE

MONTGOMERY           PERRY               POINSETT

POLK                 POPE                PRAIRIE

PULASKI              RANDOLPH            ST. FRANCIS

SALINE               SCOTT               SHARP

STONE                VAN BUREN           WHITE

WOODRUFF             YELL

MOC069-155-310940-    MO   . MISSOURI

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 259 Status Reports

05/31/2013 03:50 AM EDT

WW 0259 Status Updates

    STATUS FOR WATCH 0259 HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED YET

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 255 Status Reports

05/31/2013 12:31 AM EDT

WW 0255 Status Updates

    STATUS REPORT ON WW 255

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM

15 N DNV TO  20 W VPZ TO 35 NW VPZ.    .

.DIAL..05/31/13    ATTN...WFO...LOT...

STATUS REPORT FOR WS 255

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

INC007-073-089-111-127-310540-    IN   .

INDIANA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

BENTON               JASPER              LAKE

NEWTON               PORTER

LMZ743-744-745-777-779-310540-    CW     .

ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS INCLUDED ARE

CALUMET HARBOR IL TO GARY IN     GARY TO BURNS HARBOR IN

BURNS HARBOR TO MICHIGAN CITY IN

LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WINTHROP HARBOR TO WILMETTE HARBOR

IL 5NM  OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE

LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WILMETTE HARBOR TO MICHIGAN CITY IN 5NM

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 257 Status Reports

05/31/2013 12:30 AM EDT

WW 0257 Status Updates

    STATUS REPORT ON WW 257

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM

15 E SLO TO  15 W DEC TO 25 NNW CMI.    ..DIAL..05/31/13

ATTN...WFO...ILX...

STATUS REPORT FOR WS 257

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

ILC019-023-025-029-033-035-041-045-049-079-101-115-139-

147-159-  173-183-310540-    IL   .

ILLINOIS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

CHAMPAIGN            CLARK               CLAY

COLES                CRAWFORD            CUMBERLAND

DOUGLAS              EDGAR               EFFINGHAM

JASPER               LAWRENCE            MACON

MOULTRIE             PIATT               RICHLAND

SHELBY               VERMILION

THE WATCH STATUS MESSAGE IS FOR GUIDANCE PURPOSES ONLY.

 PLEASE  REFER TO WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION STATEMENTS

FOR OFFICIAL  INFORMATION ON COUNTIES...

INDEPENDENT CITIES AND MARINE ZONES  CLEARED FROM SEVERE

THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCHES.

Image of the week

31-05-2013 09:53 AM CEST

This image shows northwestern Crete, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands

Thursday, May 30, 2013

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 255 Status Reports

05/30/2013 06:51 PM EDT

WW 0255 Status Updates

    STATUS FOR WATCH 0255 HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED YET

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 255

05/30/2013 06:51 PM EDT

WW 255 SEVERE TSTM IL IN LM 302250Z - 310600Z

    URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 255  NWS STORM

PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK  550 PM CDT

THU MAY 30 2013

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS

NORTHWESTERN INDIANA

LAKE MICHIGAN

NASA's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft.

Landsat 8 Satellite Begins Watch

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars has Implications for Future Human Missions

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human explorers from radiation exposure on deep-space expeditions in the future.

Actor Jaden Smith Focuses on Earth Science in a New NASA PSA

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Jaden Smith, star of Columbia Pictures' movie "After Earth," is featured in a new NASA public service announcement that describes the contributions of the agency's Earth science program to environmental awareness and exploration of our home planet.

European Space Agency Flickr Update

Launch fairing placed over ATV-4

30-05-2013 05:31 PM CEST

ATV-4 Albert Einstein is enclosed in it's launcer fairing at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

ATV-4 will travel to space on board an Ariane 5 launcher on 5 June 2013.

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG

Launch fairing placed over ATV-4

30-05-2013 05:31 PM CEST

Mars webcast

29-05-2013 05:06 PM CEST

Watch a live webcast on Monday, 3 June, marking the 10th anniversary of ESA's Mars Express. 11:00 CEST start

Artist's Rendering of an Asteroid Capture

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

This artist's rendering shows what capturing an asteroid could look like. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it.

Performing these elements for the proposed asteroid initiative integrates the best of NASA's science, technology and human exploration capabilities and draws on the innovation of America's brightest scientists and engineers.

It uses current and developing capabilities to find both large asteroids that pose a hazard to Earth and small asteroids that could be candidates for the initiative, accelerates our technology development activities in high-powered solar electric propulsion and takes advantage of our hard work on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, helping to keep NASA on target to reach the President's goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s.

Image Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Lab

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC - No watches are valid as of Thu May 30 11:02:01 UTC 2013

05/30/2013 07:01 AM EDT

No watches are valid as of Thu May 30 11:02:01 UTC 2013.

First new Galileo satellite arrives at ESA for space testing

16-05-2013 03:07 PM CEST

The first satellite of Galileo's next phase has arrived at ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands for a rigorous set of tests to check its readiness for launch.

Atom-trapping laser gratings: a technological quantum leap for space

30-05-2013 10:57 AM CEST

New micro-fabricated grating chips developed through ESA-led research enable the laser-based cooling and capture of atoms on a more compact basis than ever before, potentially delivering laboratory-standard performance for precision environmental sensing and timekeeping from devices portable enough to be flown into space.

Learning in school with XMM-Newton

28-05-2013 02:38 PM CEST

In 1572, the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, saw a star explode in the heavens. It changed his view of the universe forever. Now, the remains of that explosion seen by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope has done the same for a 16-year-old school student from Slovakia.

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 249 Status Reports

05/30/2013 06:23 AM EDT

WW 0249 Status Updates

    STATUS REPORT ON WW 249

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM

35 NE MKO TO  25 E CQB TO 25 N CQB TO 10 SSW PNC TO 5

WSW PNC.    ..BROYLES..05/30/13    ATTN...WFO...OUN...TSA...

STATUS REPORT FOR WS 249

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

OKC035-037-041-097-105-113-117-131-143-147-301140-    OK   .

OKLAHOMA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

CRAIG                CREEK               DELAWARE

MAYES                NOWATA              OSAGE

PAWNEE               ROGERS              TULSA

WASHINGTON

Earth from Space

30-05-2013 10:04 AM CEST

Join us Friday, 31 May, at 10:00 CEST for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images from Earth-observing satellites

NASA Hosts June 4 Media Briefing on Next Solar Mission Launch

05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 4, about the upcoming launch of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission.

NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members

05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

NASA'S Swift Reveals New Phenomenon in a Neutron Star

05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Astronomers using NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use to understand these extremely dense objects.

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Center Public Severe Weather

05/29/2013 02:01 PM EDT

  PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK  0520 AM CDT

WED MAY 29 2013

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE

CENTRAL AND  SOUTHERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH

TONIGHT...

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING

THE  DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING

WINDS OVER  PARTS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS THIS

AFTERNOON THROUGH  TONIGHT.

THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE

WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS

WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

NORTH TEXAS AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

SURROUNDING THE GREATEST RISK AREA...

NASA Hosts News and Social Media Events Around This Week's Asteroid Pass

05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA is inviting members of the media and public to participate in online and television events May 30-31 with NASA officials and experts discussing the agency's asteroid initiative and the Earth flyby of the 1.7-mile-long asteroid 1998 QE2.

Tsunami Seismic Information Statement

05/29/2013 10:39 AM EDT

  000  SEUS71 PAAQ 291439  EQIWOC

TSUNAMI SEISMIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

NWS WEST COAST/ALASKA

TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK  739 AM PDT

WED MAY 29 2013

...THIS IS A TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EVALUATION

* AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED - THERE IS NO TSUNAMI DANGER.

PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS

Luca on ISS

29-05-2013 06:35 AM CEST

N° 18-2013: ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano arrives at Space Station

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Center Public Severe Weather Outlook (PWO)

05/29/2013 06:21 AM EDT

Public Severe Weather Outlook

  PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK

 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK  0520 AM CDT

WED MAY 29 2013

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE

CENTRAL AND  SOUTHERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH

TONIGHT...

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS

FORECASTING THE  DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES...

LARGE HAIL...

AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER  PARTS OF THE CENTRAL AND

SOUTHERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH  TONIGHT.

THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY

INCLUDE

WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS

WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

NORTH TEXAS AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

SURROUNDING THE GREATEST RISK AREA...

NOAA's National Weather Service SPC Tornado/Severe Thunderstorm Watches Update

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 237 Status Reports

05/29/2013 01:48 AM EDT

WW 0237 Status Updates

    STATUS FOR WATCH 0237 HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED YET

92E (Eastern Pacific Ocean)

05/28/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of System 92E as it continues to develop near to southwestern Mexico.

An Inside Look at SNC’s Dream Chaser

An Inside Look at SNC's Dream Chaser

05/28/2013 12:00 PM EDT

NASA Partner Manager for Sierra Nevada Corporation Cheryl McPhillips discusses the uniqueness of the company's Dream Chaser spacecraft and the milestones it will complete during the agency's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative.

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano arrives at Space Station

29-05-2013 04:53 AM CEST

A Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan last night safely docked with the International Space Station this morning, delivering ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and his crewmates to the orbital outpost where they will live and work for five months.

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