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Helioviewer Team Wins Award
Posted On: January 30, 2017Comments: No Responses
The SESDA 3 Helioviewer team won an award for Best Graphic Design at the Sciences and Exploration Directorate 2017 Poster Party. The team’s poster highlighed major new features of the Helioviewer project, including sophisticated tools which enable scientists and members of the public to explore and make movies of data from multiple solar and heliospheric […]
Earth Sciences Monitoring Ozone Hole
Posted On: October 28, 2016Comments: No Responses
The hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September grew to about 8.9 million square miles in 2016 before starting to recover, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who monitor the annual phenomenon. “This year we saw an ozone hole that was just below average […]
Juno’s First Close Approach
Posted On: September 19, 2016Comments: No Responses
Jupiter’s north pole, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21030 After its orbit insertion on July 4, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft performed its first close approach, or perijove, about Jupiter on August 27, passing only 2,600 miles above Jupiter’s atmosphere. The pass represents the first time all science instruments were on and recording data of the planet, including the magnetic fields […]
Juno Successfully Orbiting Jupiter
Posted On: July 5, 2016Comments: No Responses
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn on July 4th, 2016. Team ADNET / SESDA is proud to support this New Frontiers mission, which will help unlock the mysteries of Jupiter’s magnetosphere along with the role the planet played […]
Rare Mercury Transit Event Captured Live
Posted On: May 13, 2016Comments: No Responses
Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Genna Duberstein On May 9th 2016, ADNET scientists and education staff working with over 600 scientists from around the country, the Goddard communications office, and the Goddard Amateur Astronomy Club supported the rare Transit of Mercury. They provided telescope viewing, media interviews, and a social media campaign called “Small […]
SESDA Heliophysics Education Team visits the White House
Posted On: October 22, 2015Comments: No Responses
The SESDA Heliophysics Education team participated in the 2nd White House Astronomy Night on 19 October 2015. The event brought together students, teachers, scientists, astronauts, and members of the public to spend an evening star gazing. Attendees learned about astronomical discoveries and participated in space-related educational activities to help promote the importance of STEM education […]
SESDA System Administrators Lead Data CIG Discussion
Posted On: September 21, 2015Comments: No Responses
Phil Webster presented Goddard’s Notional IT Architecture and Future Plans as part of SESDA’s Data Center Common Interest Group (Data CIG). As part of the recently initiated Data Center Common Interest Group (“Data CIG”), Phil Webster gave a presentation on the center’s Notional Architecture and Future Plans on 6 August 2015 at Building 21, Rm […]
SESDA Scientific Programmer Does Extra Duty as a Severe Weather Photographer
Posted On: July 31, 2015Comments: No Responses
This image was submitted by Jeremy Harbeck, a SESDA scientific programmer. It was taken from downtown Silver Spring during the intense storm that came through on the night of June 30th. The photo is comprised of 19 individual 5 second images taken over a span of 5 minutes and then stacked into a single image. […]
Small Worlds Week Celebrates the Pluto Flyby
Posted On: July 17, 2015Comments: No Responses
Small Worlds Week was developed by the SESDA Heliophysics Education Team to highlight NASA’s small bodies mission discoveries. Small Worlds Week was held July 6-10, just prior to the historic New Horizons encounter with the Pluto system. It was a fully online program, leveraging the infrastructure and notoriety of the popular Sun Earth Days website. […]
ADNET Scientist Supports Operation IceBridge
Posted On: May 6, 2015Comments: No Responses
An ADNET support scientist recently spent time in Greenland as part of NASA’s Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study polar ice and provide data to the Arctic sea ice forecasting community. While there he took this beautiful photograph of a berg frozen in place by sea ice in North Star Bay. It’s a composite […]
