SESDA II at the Fall American Geophysical Meeting
Posted On: January 11, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA II staff members planned and implemented the NASA booth at the Fall American Geophysical meeting in San Francisco. More than 10,000 people viewed booth exhibits and events, including the ‘Dynamic Planet’; an 81” video board showing continuous clips of NASA Science research and results; plus talks by prominent scientists. The SESDA team [...]
Henderson attends Climate Change Conference
Posted On: January 11, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA II staff member, Maurice Henderson, attended and supported the Science on a Sphere exhibit at the 15th Conference of the Parties Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. Several climate scientists presented data using the Sphere. The figure shows Dr. Alexander MacDonald, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]
The 3-D Sun? There’s an App for That!
Posted On: January 11, 2010Comments: No Responses
Dr. Tony Phillips, well-known for penning Spaceweather.com and currently a consultant working with SESDA II staff, has developed a novel freeware application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch that uses real-time observations from the twin STEREO spacecraft to give a 3-D view of the state of the Sun. Views from both the STEREO Ahead [...]
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Twitter
Posted On: December 11, 2009Comments: No Responses
With SDO launch looming in early 2010, SESDA II Education and Public Outreach (EPO) staff are planning the first ever launch Tweetup (http://twitter.com/NASA_SDO) where people who twitter can come together to meet in person at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Twitter has become the preeminent tool for providing timely information to the general public on [...]
Become a Friend of the James Webb Space Telescope
Posted On: December 7, 2009Comments: No Responses
If you’re like most people you keep in touch with your social network via Facebook. Well, now you can make a new friend: the James Webb Space Telescope! A SESDA II staff member who participates in Education and Public Outreach for the JWST project started this page as a way to keep the public interested [...]
SESDA II staff help lead the way with visualization of A-Train data using Giovanni and Google Earth
Posted On: December 7, 2009Comments: No Responses
The combination of Giovanni and Google Earth allows striking visualization of data from the “A-Train” satellite constellation. SESDA II staff helped develop the Giovanni Google Earth visualization capability which uses the A-Train constellation data to provide users with ability to visualize both vertical data curtain plots and surface strips for the same temporal [...]
4th annual SESDA Holiday Open House Occasion (HOHO)
Posted On: November 19, 2009Comments: No Responses
Come celebrate the season at the
4th annual SESDA Holiday Open House Occasion (HOHO)
Thursday, December 10, 2009
4 – 6pm
Goddard Corporate Park (GCP)
7515 Mission Drive
Suite A100
Sandwiches and wraps, salads and dips, desserts and drinks.
Invite your government customers.
For more information contact Angie Martz (301-352-4606 or amartz (at) sesda2 (dot) com)
Will a massive Solar storm cause the world to end on December 21, 2012?
Posted On: October 5, 2009Comments: No Responses
Such was the sobering premise of an interview by SESDA II Scientist Dr. Alex Young in a documentary by Discovery Channel about the myths of the end of the world when the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012. The documentary is timed with the upcoming release of a major science fiction movie about [...]
SESDA II on Amazon
Posted On: August 4, 2009Comments: No Responses
If you are interested in learning all about Solar Image Analysis and Visualization (and have a few spare dollars), then head over to Amazon, where you’ll find a hardcover collection of published papers from a workshop in Baltimore, Maryland held in October 2008.
The workshop brought together experts on image processing and Solar Physics [...]
SESDA II Scientists Help Bring New Life to Hubble
Posted On: June 3, 2009Comments: No Responses
n May 14, 2009, STS-125 astronauts successfully installed the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the Hubble Space Telescope. Among those anxiously monitoring the operation from the ground were two SESDA II scientists, who played a significant role in developing and calibrating the principal detector in WFC3. As part of a team working at [...]
