Embrace Mobile Brazilian Study and Monitoring of Space Weather Embrace Mobile, the space weather forecast and monitoring in your hands: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.inpe.climaespacial.mobile The effects of the Space Weather (see definition below) affect society in many ways. Many of this ways are certainly still unknown. Therefore, it is better to know the scales that the effects we know… Continue lendo Embrace Mobile App is free for download at Google Play
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INPE and NASA sign cooperation agreement to promote research on global maps for GPS error
The Brazilian Study and Monitoring of Space Weather (Embrace) has been working with the NOAA and UCAR since 2013 to establish a tracking station for the satellites COSMIC 1 and 2. Last Tuesday (June 30, 2015) the Hon Minister of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, Aldo Rebelo, signed the agreement on behalf of INPE… Continue lendo INPE and NASA sign cooperation agreement to promote research on global maps for GPS error
MINUTE 142th BRIEFING: 15/06/2015, 14H30
SUN Previsor 1: During the period 09th-15th June, in the most of days, DESPITE the six activeregions on the solar disc, only one presented either a complex or relatively complex magnetic configuration, with a moderate potential to generate moderate to intense flares. On 9th June, a partial halo CME – probably associated to the C2… Continue lendo MINUTE 142th BRIEFING: 15/06/2015, 14H30
MINUTE OF 138th BRIEFING: 04/05/2015, 14H30
Space Weather Exhibition Room/INPE-SJC SUN Forecaster 1: During the Last week (April 28th to May 4th) was observed two coronal holes. The first CH665 was geo-effective on May 02nd and the second was located over Southern Hemisphere. We observed a CME directed to Earth on May 2nd. The community estimated that this CME would arrive… Continue lendo MINUTE OF 138th BRIEFING: 04/05/2015, 14H30
Brazilian space weather program signs cooperation agreement with China
November 2013, during the visit of Vice-President of the Republic of China on the occasion of the Third Meeting of the Sino-Brazilian Commission for Coordination and Cooperation High Level (High-level Committee) was signed by the Presidents of the Brazilian Space Agency – AEB and the China National Space Administration – CNSA, the Ten-Year Plan for… Continue lendo Brazilian space weather program signs cooperation agreement with China
Auroral activity in October 2014
Sponsor: PhD Cristiano Wrasse On October 14th, 2014, the Kp index reached level 5, and the auroral AE index ranged 500-1000 nT during, 21:00 to 23:00 UT, considering the disturbed geomagnetic activity, with scale G1. See the details of the variation of Auroral index in Figure 1. On the night of October 14th , between… Continue lendo Auroral activity in October 2014
Magnetometer’s network of EMBRACE recorded intense activity between 13/10 days to 21/10 days
Sponsor: PhD Lívia Alves Geomagnetic field has been more active during October when we compare with the previous months. Kp index reach 3 and 4 during several days on last weeks. Mid and low latitudes regions also shown an increase in activity, for several days Dst reach around – 50 nT.
NanoSatC-Br1 (Brazilian CubeSat Project-1)
NanoSatC-Br1 is the first CubeSat project of Brazil, developed at the Southern Regional Space Research Center (CRS/CCR/INPE-MCT) in collaboration with the Space Science Laboratory of the Federal University of Santa Maria (LACESM/CT – UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. The INPE (Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais) South Regional Center is in fact located on the campus of… Continue lendo NanoSatC-Br1 (Brazilian CubeSat Project-1)
Geomagnetic storm mystery solved: How magnetic energy turns into particle energy
Magnetic reconnection can trigger geomagnetic storms that disrupt cell phone service, damage satellites and black out power grids. But how reconnection, in which the magnetic field lines in plasma snap apart and violently reconnect, transforms magnetic energy into explosive particle energy remains a major unsolved problem in plasma astrophysics. Magnetic field lines represent the direction,… Continue lendo Geomagnetic storm mystery solved: How magnetic energy turns into particle energy