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SESDA Heliophysics Outreach Team Join Historic Journey to Touch the Sun
Posted On: August 27, 2018Comments: No Responses
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The Parker Solar Probe mission successfully launched at 3:31 a.m. EST on August 12 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This ambitious mission will use seven gravity assists from Venus to ultimately travel within 4 million miles of the Sun’s surface to obtain unique observations of the corona. SESDA Heliophysics outreach staff supporting the […]
Goddard Division Awards
Posted On: July 10, 2018Comments: No Responses
Haley Reed received a Goddard Code 100 Peer Award from the Center Director on July 10, 2018. Here is an excerpt from her citation: “Haley is a team player and capable manager, even when she’s faced with new or intensified situations. During the Parker Solar Probe Media Day, Haley’s resourcefulness and can-do attitude ensured a […]
Juno Provides Infrared Tour of Jupiter’s North Pole
Posted On: May 8, 2018Comments: No Responses
Revealed at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, and now featured at NASA’s Juno website, Juno scientists with the magnetometer suite of instruments presented a detailed view of the planetary dynamo responsible for Jupiter’s magnetic field. Supporting the important new findings are ADNET uplink and downlink instrument operators who successfully commanded the […]
Super Blue Blood Moon Outreach
Posted On: February 12, 2018Comments: No Responses
With January providing a rare super blue blood moon eclipse event, a SESDA 4 outreach coordinator made full use of the opportunity to share lunar science with a very curious public. Activities she used for public engagement included news features on Twitter with a twitter feed interaction between @NASAEarth and @NASAMoon and a moderated Facebook […]
Heliophysics Highlights from the American Geophysical Union Meeting
Posted On: February 1, 2018Comments: No Responses
The SESDA Heliophysics group was involved in numerous paper and poster presentations at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in New Orleans Louisiana in December 2017. The meeting was marked by a keynote speech by veteran news anchor Dan Rather. The group’s presentations spanned a diverse range of topics that included: highlights of the 2017 […]
SESDA Science Writers Publicize New Results from OCO-2
Posted On: January 12, 2018Comments: No Responses
SESDA science writers developed and published a feature story that provides an overview of how high-resolution satellite data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 are revealing the subtle ways that carbon links everything on Earth – the ocean, land, firmament, terrestrial ecosystems and human activities. Scientists using the first 2 1/2 years of OCO-2 data have […]
SESDA Team Member Wins Award
Posted On: December 19, 2017Comments: No Responses
Michelle Smith, ADNET’s lead communications specialist for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R team, was a recipient of the U.S. Department of Commerce 2017 Outstanding Support and Employee of the Year award for “dedication and creativity in driving public interest in the mission and supporting media engagement to ensure that the public is well informed […]
WMAP Team Wins Breakthrough Prize
Posted On: December 7, 2017Comments: No Responses
On December 3, 2017, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team was awarded the 2018 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics (https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L3809). The WMAP team, led by Dr. Charles Bennett of Johns Hopkins University, was an international team of 27 scientists and includes the following current or former ADNET employees: Michael Greason, Robert S. Hill, […]
The Total Solar Eclipse of 2017
Posted On: August 28, 2017Comments: No Responses
Over the last three years, SESDA staff comprising the NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium (HEC) has been planning and designing the largest education event that NASA has ever attempted – the August 21st, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. Staff scientists, computer system professionals, web developers, education technology specialists, and educators successfully brought the event to fruition in […]
Early Movies of Cassini’s First Dive
Posted On: May 16, 2017Comments: No Responses
In preparation for its grand finale plunge into Saturn in mid-September, 2017, the Cassini spacecraft has begun a series of orbits which bring it to within 5,000 miles of the planet’s cloud tops. Its new trajectory allows for the collection of exceptionally high resolution science data that hasn’t been possible since Cassini was first inserted […]
