SOHO’s 2000th Comet Discovery
Posted On: January 10, 2011Comments: No Responses
SESDA II staff achieved another milestone in supporting the discovery of SOHO’s 2000th comet on December 26, 2010. The event was reported in a NASA press release. The actual discovery was made by amateur astronomy student Michal Kusiak of Poland using images from the SOHO Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) that were processed by [...]
SESDA staff organized and supported the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2010 Meeting NASA Science exhibit
Posted On: January 3, 2011Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff organized and supported the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2010 Meeting NASA Science exhibit. The exhibit encompassed a 2000 sq. ft. footprint that included a new exhibit, a 414 square inch video wall, and a presentation/demo area. The exhibit included the Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics divisions within the Science Mission [...]
NASA’s STEREO Mission Sees the Entire Sun
Posted On: December 10, 2010Comments: No Responses
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Mark your calendars for February 2011 when, for the first time ever, the entire front and far side of the Sun will be simultaneously visible by the twin STEREO spacecraft. This momentous event when the two [...]
SESDA II staff help with the studies of sulfur dioxide and ash from Mount Merapi, Java, Indonesia
Posted On: December 10, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA II staff working at the GES DISC have developed a visualization tool named Giovanni (GES DISC Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure). Giovanni provides data from several NASA satellites that allow monitoring of the atmospheric effects of the Merapi eruption. The Ozone Monitoring Instrument Level 2 Gridded (OMIL2G) interface provides daily SO2 data, which [...]
Live from New Orleans: SESDA II Staff Implement One of the World’s Fastest Networks
Posted On: November 18, 2010Comments: No Responses
For part of November, with the help of SESDA II’s High End Computing Network (HECN) staff, New Orleans is home to one of the fastest computer networks anywhere in the world. Called SCinet, the network is created each year exclusively for “SC”, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. This year’s [...]
SDO is Go for Launch!
Posted On: November 2, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA II staff organized multiple events to celebrate and support the successful launch on 11 February 2010 of the much anticipated Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) – the first mission in NASA’s Living with a Star Program. The team held a workshop at Kennedy Space Center for 80 teachers and ran activity tables during two days [...]
GES DISC provides CO2 data from Japanese GOSAT
Posted On: November 2, 2010Comments: No Responses
Atmospheric CO2 Observations from Space (ACOS) Project data set archived at GES DISC SESDA II staff working at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) helped stand up the CO2 column-averaged dry air mole fraction data generated from measurements obtained by the Japanese Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) platform. These data [...]
Study the Sun during Solar Week
Posted On: November 2, 2010Comments: No Responses
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Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Meeting
Posted On: November 1, 2010Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff are supporting the international Group on Earth Observations (GEO) meeting in Bejing, China, in October. More than eighty countries will be represented. Presentations by the group include the Dynamic Planet exhibit. A poster developed for the US Health Showcase is shown in the figure.
SESDA II Visits Saturn
Posted On: September 14, 2010Comments: No Responses
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } SESDA II staff were involved in yet another exciting discovery by the Cassini spacecraft's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS). A special flyby of Saturn's moon, Mimas, revealed an unexpected thermal heating pattern that scientists are scrambling to [...]
