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NPP Launch
Posted On: November 3, 2011Comments: No Responses
On October 28, the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft was launched on a Delta vehicle from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Instruments onboard will acquire surroundings and outlook data measurements covering firmament, land and ocean. Several critical measurement objectives are: surroundings change, ozone layer dynamics, disaster monitoring, outlook prediction, vegetation, global ice cover, […]
Training the Next Generation of Scientists
Posted On: October 26, 2011Comments: No Responses
Mr. Huy Lam, a senior at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been selected as a 2011 Siemens Science Competition semi-finalist. His research project was "A Multi-Spacecraft Approach to Studying Auroral Kilometric Radiation Using the Virtual Wave Observatory." The Virtual Wave Observatory (VWO) is an online suite of tools and data that allows […]
Fermi Captures Neutron Star Plunge
Posted On: September 7, 2011Comments: No Responses
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, with comprehensive support provided by SESDA II scientists and software developers, recently yielded an unprecedented set of observations of a fascinating astrophysical binary system consisting of a neutron star and a massive star. Every 3.4 years the incredibly dense neutron star plunges directly through the disk of gas surrounding its […]
Successful Launch to Jupiter
Posted On: August 18, 2011Comments: No Responses
On 5 August 2011, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The collective cheers of many SESDA II staff could be heard throughout the Goddard campus as it lifted off, a result of the many years of preparation and testing our programmers, instrument engineers, data technicians, and even summer interns had spent reaching […]
SESDA II Staff Support Science Proposals
Posted On: March 29, 2011Comments: No Responses
As of March 24, 2011, our Science Proposal Support Office (SPSO) support team organized and implemented 30 proposal reviews (mostly Red Teams) in only 19 working days! Without counting the value of a major Earth system science Senior Review proposal (EO-1), the total request of these proposals exceeded $13M. Most proposals were in response to […]
Scientist utilizes Giovanni to map baby blue shark nursery
Posted On: January 12, 2010Comments: No Responses
A study to be published in the 15 January 2010 issue of Fisheries Research describes characterization of an oceanic region in the southwest Atlantic Ocean, near the coast of southern Brazil, where juvenile blue sharks (Prionace glauca) are found in high numbers. One of the unusual aspects of the region is that mature blues are […]
SESDA II Staff Collaborate on Planetarium Show
Posted On: September 1, 2009Comments: No Responses
The planetarium show “Journey to the Stars” opened in New York City on July 4, 2009 at the Hayden Planetarium of the Rose Center for Earth and Space, part of the American Museum of Natural History. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this show uses NASA imagery and computer simulations to explore the life and death of […]
SESDA II Supports Exploration of the Extreme Universe
Posted On: September 1, 2009Comments: No Responses
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a powerful orbiting observatory designed to examine the universe in the most extreme high-energy regime, revealing new information about black holes, pulsars, and the extraordinary phenomena known as gamma-ray bursts. SESDA II scientists and programmers have been involved in supporting the mission from its early design phase through launch […]
