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Outreach Staff Create New Earth Science Videos
Posted On: August 3, 2012Comments: No Responses
Our SESDA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Outreach Team played key roles in creating two new six-minute data animations entitled, "Earth's Water Cycle" and "The Ocean – a Driving Force for Weather and Climate" . Both animations represent a joint endeavor between NASA JPL's Solar System Visualization Project and NASA GSFC, and are […]
Build It Yourself: Satellite!
Posted On: July 30, 2012Comments: No Responses
A fun and educational new computer game for students and adults, created by a SESDA II web developer working with the James Webb Space Telescope project, was recently released on the JWST website. The Flash-based game has players choose what science their satellite will study, and then decide what wavelengths, instruments, and optics will help […]
SESDA Staff Support Major Science and Engineering Festival
Posted On: June 11, 2012Comments: No Responses
Also in the EPO arena, a dozen SESDA science and outreach staff planned and operated exhibitions demonstrating NASA science at the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival, held April 27-29 at the Washington DC Convention Center. More than 150,000 visitors attended over the 3 days; including the Exhibitors, volunteers, and staff, the headcount came to […]
TRANSIT of VENUS was 5-6 June 2012; the next is December 2117
Posted On: June 11, 2012Comments: No Responses
Our SESDA Sun Earth Day team joined with NASA Edge to broadcast the event live from Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Thanks in part to our Heliophysics system administrators and our HECN network groups, their website drew about 150 million hits without a single crash; likely more people watched the NASA Edge video live feed than watched […]
Comet Lovejoy Survives Passage Through The Corona
Posted On: June 7, 2012Comments: No Responses
SESDA II science and operations personnel played vital roles in planning special observations of the dramatic plunge and survival of Comet Lovejoy through the hot multi-million degree solar corona during 15-16 December 2011. By swiftly disseminating last minute changes in ephemeris predictions, staff assured successful observations of the comet’s passage by an armada of spacecraft […]
SpaceMath@NASA Enters the Classroom
Posted On: April 24, 2012Comments: No Responses
We have all heard that mathematics is the language of science, but we rarely get to see how it is actually spoken. SpaceMath@NASA is a program for students and teachers that goes behind the scenes of NASA press releases to reveal the often simple mathematics that scientists and engineers use to make major discoveries or […]
“The Sun as Art” Exhibit Hits the Road
Posted On: February 9, 2012Comments: No Responses
SESDA II media specialist Steele Hill has produced a traveling exhibit called “The Sun as Art” which opens at the Maryland Science Center on February 9, 2012. The exhibit uses stunning images of the Sun captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and presents them in a variety of colors and formats for a unique […]
Superfast Networks on Display
Posted On: December 28, 2011Comments: No Responses
Network researchers, including ADNET HECN staff, troubleshoot the high-bandwidth connection between Seattle and Greenbelt. SESDA's High End Computing Network (HECN) group continues to break new ground in network speeds. The group operates out of GSFC Code 606.1, the Networks and IT Security branch, and their project was cited as one of the top exhibits at […]
SESDA Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Team Helps Confirm SO2 Reduction
Posted On: December 5, 2011Comments: No Responses
SESDA II’s Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) team processes and archives critical ozone data from this spaceborne instrument aboard NASA’s Aura satellite. The group has helped confirm that the introduction of the Clean Air Interstate Rule in 2005 has led to a big reduction in pollution from eastern US coal power plants. Scientists have previously used […]
NPP Launch
Posted On: November 3, 2011Comments: No Responses
On October 28, the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft was launched on a Delta vehicle from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Instruments onboard will acquire climate and weather data measurements covering atmosphere, land and ocean. Several critical measurement objectives are: climate change, ozone layer dynamics, disaster monitoring, weather prediction, vegetation, global ice cover, […]
