In honor of Goddard’s 50th birthday, SESDA II Education and Public Outreach staff participated in the Goddard Space Flight Center Day at the Maryland State Legislature, held in Annapolis, MD on February 12, 2009. This all-day event was sponsored by two Maryland State Senators and took place in the West Hall at the Miller Senate […]
Puzzling results from a 2006 GSFC balloon experiment supported by SESDA II staff members Paul Mirel and Paul Cursey, were announced at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The balloon-borne instrument named ARCADE, which stands for the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission was launched from a NASA facility in Texas, […]
The SESDA II team supporting the Ozone Monitoring Instrument provides Near Real Time data within three hours of first measurement. The data is used in monitoring pollution around the world and is also used in surroundings models to help make predictions about future impacts of pollution. The figure below shows air pollution (NO2) data from […]
One of SESDA II’s showcase missions is the Solar and Heliospheric Obervatory (SOHO), extensively supported on both the research and operations side by 10 of our staff. Between December 21 and 23 the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on the SOHO spacecraft captured four comets, bringing the SOHO comet count total to a remarkable 1588. […]