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SESDA Scientist Helps Reveal Additional Strange Behavior from Betelgeuse
Posted On: August 20, 2020Comments: No Responses
An image from the Heliospheric Imager aboard NASA’s STEREO spacecraft shows the star Betelgeuse, circled. For several weeks in 2020, STEREO was the only observatory making measurements of Betelgeuse because of the spacecraft’s unique position in space. Credits: NASA/STEREO/HI The red giant star Betelgeuse has intrigued astronomers by showing unusual dimming over the past several […]
SESDA Supports ESA/NASA in First Returns of Solar Orbiter Data
Posted On: July 16, 2020Comments: No Responses
Solar Orbiter spots ‘campfires’ on the Sun. Locations of campfires are annotated with white arrows.Credits: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL Solar Orbiter is a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to obtain detailed observations of the polar regions of the Sun. It was launched […]
SESDA Communications Staff Support Solar Orbiter Launch, a Mission Taking Solar Science to New Heights
Posted On: February 27, 2020Comments: No Responses
More than ten SESDA science writers, outreach and production staff travelled to Kennedy Space Center to help NASA communicate launch events to the public. Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 p.m. EST on Feb. 9, 2020, on a United Launch Alliance […]
SESDA Engineer Receives Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal
Posted On: February 3, 2020Comments: No Responses
Congratulations to Tim Cameron in the Heliophysics Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Physics (ITM) Laboratory on receiving an Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal for his accomplishments in electrical engineering. “This prestigious NASA medal is awarded to both Government and non-Government individuals for exceptional engineering contributions toward achievement of the NASA mission. This award is given for individual efforts […]
SESDA Web Developer Implements Promising New Technology
Posted On: February 3, 2020Comments: No Responses
WebGL is a relatively new cross-platform web standard for enabling low-level 3D graphics functionality directly within a browser. It is supported by all major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox) and allows for dynamic rendering of images. SESDA web developer Kirill Vorobyev recognized the intrinsic value of applying this technology to the Helioviewer visualization tool […]
HECN Work at SC19
Posted On: December 20, 2019Comments: No Responses
SESDA’s HECN team, working with the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the 100-GigE Ciena Testbed, the StarLight national and international optical network exchange facility, CenturyLink, Internet2, and SCinet, created a multi-100-GigE network topology for live demos at SuperComputing 2019 in Denver, CO. This included 4×100-GigE network paths between NASA Goddard and SC19, […]
SESDA Hosts IHDEA
Posted On: December 16, 2019Comments: No Responses
The SESDA team helped host the 3rd International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) meeting at the Goddard Corporate Park facility during October 16-18, 2019. The primary goal of the meeting was to establish the IHDEA, which has the goals of fostering coordinated development of common data standards and services, and promoting their use to enable […]
NASA Scientists Observe the Earth’s Atmosphere Leaking into Space
Posted On: December 10, 2019Comments: No Responses
In the tiny Arctic town of Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway, north of the Arctic Circle, where polar bears outnumber people, winter means three months without sunlight. The unending darkness is ideal for those who seek a strange breed of northern lights, normally obscured by daylight. When these unusual auroras shine, Earth’s atmosphere leaks into space. NASA […]
Parker Solar Probe First Data Release
Posted On: November 21, 2019Comments: No Responses
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission released its first set of data following two close passes of the Sun in 2018 and 2019. SESDA staff in the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) played critical roles in ensuring that available data could be readily accessed and retrieved from its archives via the CDAWeb system. They worked closely […]
The Heliophysics STEM Innovation Lab on TED
Posted On: November 21, 2019Comments: No Responses
A special shout out to SESDA’s Troy Cline for an illuminating invited TED-x talk on Space Science and Education at Chandigarh, India. As the director of the Heliophysics STEM Innovation Lab, Troy highlighted NASA’s involvement in supporting international outreach events such as the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse and in using novel technologies such as Virtual […]
