The X-ray Solar status monitor downloads data periodically from the NOAA
Space Environment Center
FTP server. The previous
24 hours of 5 minute
Long-wavelength
X-ray
data from each satellite (GOES 8 and GOES 10) is analyzed, and an appropriate
level of activity for the past 24 hours is assigned as follows:
The Geomagnetic Field status monitor downloads data periodically from the NOAA
Space
Environment Center FTP server. The previous 24 hours of 3 hour Planetary
Kp Index data
is analyzed and an appropriate level of activity for the past 24 hours
is assigned as follows: