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A Flawless MMS Mission Launch
Posted On: March 26, 2015Comments: No Responses
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft launched successfully on an Atlas 5 rocket on March 12, 2015. During the last several years leading up to launch, our SESDA 3 EPO team worked tirelessly to develop a comprehensive outreach program that combined extensive social media campaigns, national educator workshops, and 3D spacecraft models to effectively communicate news […]
Team ADNET SESDA Contributes to AGU
Posted On: January 27, 2015Comments: No Responses
A large contingent of Team ADNET SESDA 3 scientists and engineers participated in the 2014 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, which took place December 15-19, 2014 in San Francisco, California. The AGU Fall Meeting is one of the largest annual scientific meetings in the world with approximately 24,000 attendees this year in more than […]
Record-Setting Disk-to-Disk Network Data Transfer by HECN work at SC14
Posted On: December 15, 2014Comments: No Responses
SESDA’s High End Computer Networking (HECN) Team worked with the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), and StarLight network R&D partners to establish a 100 GigE wide area network (WAN) path between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the SuperComputing 2014 (SC14) event in New Orleans (for details of SC14 see: http://sc14.supercomputing.org/). […]
A New Tool for Interactive Comparative Analysis of Aerosol Data
Posted On: December 10, 2014Comments: No Responses
Critical data on atmospheric aerosols is constantly being collected from space (by instruments like MODIS, OMI, and VIIRS) as well as from ground stations like AERONET: the Aerosol Robotic Network. A system called “MAPSS” (Multi-sensor Aerosol Products Sampling System) enables scientists to perform comparative analyses of collocated spaceborne and ground-based observations. However, exploring and reporting […]
MAVEN Ready To Sample the Martian Atmosphere
Posted On: October 21, 2014Comments: No Responses
MAVEN (Image credit: NASA/GSFC) On September 21, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered orbit about Mars with a goal to investigate the planet’s atmosphere and ionosphere. SESDA engineers were core to the design and fabrication of components for two of the instruments, the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) […]
SESDA Staff Expose “Jack-o’-Lantern” Sun
Posted On: October 17, 2014Comments: No Responses
An image taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 8 bears an eerie resemblance to a familiar Halloween sight. “Active regions on the Sun combined to look something like a solar jack-o’-lantern’s face,” said Joe Witte of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “The active regions in this image appear brighter because those are areas […]
Heliophysicists Blaze a CubeSat Trail
Posted On: September 29, 2014Comments: No Responses
SESDA 3 engineers are supporting NASA/GSFC in developing micro-electronics for a new-generation miniaturized mass spectrometer payload to be launched on a CubeSat. The spectrometer will measure the composition and density of ions and neutral elements in Earth’s lower exosphere and upper ionosphere. The objective is to fly many of these instruments to gather simultaneous multipoint […]
Big solar storm hitting Earth (so CNN says)
Posted On: September 16, 2014Comments: No Responses
SESDA 3 staff braced for the possible next “big” one – a significant X-class flare erupted on September 10, 2014 and produced two Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s) directed towards Earth. By combining real-time imagery from three spacecraft – SOHO, STEREO, and SDO, staff helped provide accurate space weather forecasts of the speed and intensity of […]
GES DISC Data Products Show Record Rain in the Florida Panhandle
Posted On: August 4, 2014Comments: No Responses
Between April 29 and May 1, 2014, a powerful cold front triggered storms that dropped 10-20 inches of rain over the Florida Panhandle near the city of Pensacola. Areas around the city received almost 24 inches of rain from the intense storms, and the official rain gauge at Pensacola’s airport measured an astonishing 5.68 inches […]
Dusting Off GES DISC Data
Posted On: June 26, 2014Comments: No Responses
A massive dust storm covered much of China this past April, turning the air brown and creating health hazards. Much of the data about this monster storm were provided by SESDA 3 scientists and engineers working at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), who support numerous missions that provide […]
