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What is a good public level page about current space weather?	SpaceWeather.com Public oriented page giving images and interpretation of current space weather phenomena
What are the current space weather forecasts?	NOAA/SEC Today's Space Weather The most recent space weather forecasts from the NOAA/Space Environment Center. Has plots and images from the GOES spacecraft. See also their "meteorologist's view."
Have there been any coronal mass ejections recently?	SOHO/LASCO & EIT Real Time Movies Latest movies from SOHO EUV images and white light coronagraphs. Latest CME dections from "CACTUS" based on SOHO.
Have there been any flares recently?	GOES X-ray Flare Plot GOES X-ray line plots for the last three days. What it means SolarSoft Latest Events Solar images, line plots, and tables to help determine flare locations
What active regions are on the Sun?	Front Side: Active Region Monitor Tool showing active regions locations superimposed on solar maps made in many wavebands plus other related resources Back Side: SOHO/MDI Far Side Imaging Page Maps of the Sun's far side made using the SOHO helioseismology instrument
What is the orientation of the interplanetary magnetic field?	LMSAL Solar Wind Model Model movies and plots of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) based on extrapolation of the solar magnetic field. What it means. Also, predictions compared to ACE data GSE Forecasts Model plots of the IMF orientation and shock fronts based on conditions at the Solar surface and the HAF solar wind model. Also, predictions compared to ACE data
What are the predicted solar wind conditions at Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?	CASS Forecasts Space Weather forecasting with Interplanetary Scintillation Data. Includes density and velocity plots and magnetic field maps.
What are the current conditions at the L1 point?	ACE Browse Plots Line plots of ACE parameters from the last 4 days. What it means ACE Real Time Solar Wind Page Access to real time solar wind data for each of the ACE instruments
Where is the magnetopause?	Real Time Magnetopause Model of Magnetopause boundary based on ACE data
What are the current conditions in the Earth's magnetosphere?	GOES Satellite Environment Plot Line plots and bar charts showing proton and electron flux and Hp from GOES spacecraft, and estimated ground-based Kp. What it means
How high are energetic ion and electron fluxes in the radiation belts?	LANL Energetic Particle Plots "Low energy" proton and electron summary plots from spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit What it means
What is strength of the currents flowing into and out of the ionosphere?	UPOS Current flow maps based on Iridium satellite data. What it means
Where are the aurora now?	POES 2D plots of the aurora from space extrapolated from POES spacecraft data
Where are the aurora predicted?	OVATION Predication of auroral oval position based on low altitude particle precipitation data.
How strong is the convection of ionospheric plasma across the polar cap?	SuperDARN Maps based on high frequency radar data Real Time AMIE Real time assimilative mapping of ionospheric ilectrodynamics based on data from ACE and ground based magnetometers
What is the magnetic field at the ground?	Kiruna Magnetogram High-latitude magnetic field measurements What it means Equatorial Dst from WDC-C2 Kyoto Low-latitude magnetic field measurements What it means USGS Data    International Data Current and past magnetic field at many stations.
How are radio communications affected?	Ionospheric foF2 Maps Maps showing the maximum possible broadcast frequency in different locations

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