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SESDA Staff Help NASA Look to the Stars
Posted On: June 5, 2014Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff contributed to developing and testing the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), one of four instruments that make up the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The 1.4 metric ton ISIM is the science instrument payload of the JWST and will help make the JWST the most powerful space telescope […]
SESDA 3 team contributes to release of April 2014 issue of The Giovanni News
Posted On: May 22, 2014Comments: No Responses
The April edition of The Giovanni News includes several articles by SESDA 3 team members working at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC): Research Highlight: Summer-time lightning activity and its relation with precipitation: Diurnal variation over maritime, coastal and continental areas: The frequency of summertime lightning strikes was examined in […]
Juno’s Journey to the Jovian Giant
Posted On: May 1, 2014Comments: No Responses
July 2016 will mark a milestone in planetary exploration. With support from SESDA staff, the Juno Spacecraft will enter orbit around Jupiter and circle the planet until October 2017 (equivalent to about one Jovian year). The data sent back from this spacecraft will help unravel the origin and evolution of this gas giant. Launched on […]
SESDA Staff Support the Search for Dark Matter
Posted On: April 24, 2014Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff at the Fermi Science Support Center are aiding in the dissemination of data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope – data that are now providing the best evidence yet for the existence of dark matter at the center of our galaxy. Dark matter is believed to make […]
GES DISC/USGS Collaboration Leads to More Effective Hydrological Data Analysis
Posted On: April 17, 2014Comments: No Responses
The NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) is home to North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) as well as Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) hydrological data. These data can be downloaded for analysis using the Giovanni visualization tool developed and maintained in part by SESDA team members at […]
SESDA 3 Contributes to Release of New AIRS CO2 Products
Posted On: March 13, 2014Comments: No Responses
SESDA 3 scientists and engineers working at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center contributed to the release of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Version 5 Infra-Red only (IR-Only) Level 2 and Level 3 CO2 products. These data have taken on special significance after the failed launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory in 2009 […]
SESDA Communications Staff Support Successful GPM Launch
Posted On: March 6, 2014Comments: No Responses
On Thursday, Feb. 27 at 1:37pm EST the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory successfully launched into orbit from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. GPM is a joint NASA/JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) mission to provide next-generation global observations of rain and snowfall using a constellation of satellites united by the GPM Core Observatory. The data […]
SVS wins Best Video in the 2013 Visualization Challenge
Posted On: February 10, 2014Comments: No Responses
A jury appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science magazine has selected “Excerpt from Dynamic Earth” as the winner of the 2013 NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for the Video category. This animation was created by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) and is the available at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011003/Dynamic-Earth-Liam_youtube_hq.mov. It will be highlighted […]
CIRS Propylene Discovery on Titan
Posted On: December 19, 2013Comments: No Responses
The Cassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn and its rings and moons since it arrived in 2004. One of the instruments onboard is the Cassini Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) – an instrument ideally suited to identifying molecular constituents within Saturn’s and Titan’s atmospheres. Recently, using instrument command sequences validated by SESDA 3 operations personnel and science […]
Record-Setting Data Transfer
Posted On: December 9, 2013Comments: No Responses
At the SuperComputing 2013 event in Denver, Colorado, SESDA’s High End Computer Networking (HECN) Team achieved a record network data transfer rate of over 91 Gigabits per second (Gbps) for a disk-to-disk file transfer between a single pair of high performance RAID servers across a 100 Gbps Wide Area Network (WAN), with one server located […]
