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The team hard at work. On the left Doug Huie and Jessica Gaskin work on installing the optics while Colleen Wilson-Hodge, Steven Christe, and Marcello Rodriguez work on wrapping lead around the detectors.
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In Ft. Sumner, N.M., a team of scientists is readying a giant balloon -- and a 5,015-pound telescope – for launch in mid-September 2013. During its flight some 25 miles up in the sky, the balloon, called HEROES, for High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun, will carry a hard X-ray telescope with a two-part job. During the day, the telescope will observe the sun. It will record imagery of giant bursts of radiation and light on the sun called solar flares with 10 times better resolution than the best solar observations to date in these wavelengths. At night, the telescope will turn its focus toward other stars, collecting X-ray data from astrophysical sources such as the crab Nebula. The hard X-ray sky is relatively unexplored, especially at high resolution.
The HEROES mission is funded by NASA's Hands-On Project Experience, or HOPE, Training Opportunity award, an honor designed to promote achievement among America's newest ranks of space scientists and engineers. HEROES is led by Jessica Gaskin, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Steven Christe, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Hollywood actors Seth Green and Clare Grant visit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo
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Outside the Solar System Exploration Exhibit, Building 202: Enceladus model (moon of Saturn)
Danny and I drove in from the desert to visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the second day of the 215 Open House. There were over 19,000 visitors there, exploring the grounds and learning about JPL's contributions to the NASA space effort.
NASA image acquired October 24, 2011
NASA's DC-8 flew over the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf on Oct. 14, 2011 as part of the agency's Operation IceBridge. A large, long-running crack was plainly visible across the ice shelf. The DC-8 took off on Oct. 26, 2011, to collect more data on the ice shelf and the crack. The area beyond the crack that could calve in the coming months covers about 310 square miles (800 square kilometers), IceBridge project scientist Michael Studinger said.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Michael Studinger
NASA's Operation IceBridge returns to a base camp of Punta Arenas, Chile for the third year of flights over Antarctica's changing sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. NASA's DC-8, outfitted with seven remote-sensing instruments, and a Gulfstream 5 operated by the National Science Foundation and National Center for Atmospheric Research and outfitted with a high-altitude laser-ranging mapper, will fly from Chile over Antarctica in October and November. The mission is designed to record changes to Antarctica's ice sheets and give scientists insight into what is driving those changes. Follow the progress of the mission:
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the Veil Nebula - expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. via NASA 1.usa.gov/1L8qDgE
An attendee at a NASA Social tweets on her cell phone at a NASA Social exploring science on the ISS at NASA Headquarters, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)
Ken and Alan standing under the nose of N930NA at Ellington Field.
Retired NASA "Weightless Wonder IV" N930NA
Ex-USAF KC-135A 59-1481, c/n 17969
Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base
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NGC 1512 is a barred spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Horologium; it is 30 million light-years away. This is a view of the center of the galaxy, a composite image produced from seven images taken with three different Hubble cameras: the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
This image shows a ring of clusters of infant stars, 2,400 light-years across, called a "circumnuclear" starburst ring. It was released in 2001.
Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Maoz (Tel-Aviv University and Columbia University) [source]
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus poses above the gas giant's icy rings in this Cassini spacecraft image. The dramatic scene was captured on July 29, while Cassini cruised just below the ring plane, its cameras looking back in a nearly sunward direction about 1 million kilometers from the moon's bright crescent. At 500 kilometers in diameter, Enceladus is a surprisingly active moon though, its remarkable south polar geysers are visible venting beyond a dark southern limb. In fact, data collected during Cassini's flybys and years of images have recently revealed the presence of a global ocean of liquid water beneath this moon's icy crust. Demonstrating the tantalizing liquid layer's global extent, the careful analysis indicates surface and core are not rigidly connected, with Enceladus rocking slightly back and forth in its orbit. via NASA ift.tt/1OIryTg
Hollywood actors Seth Green and Clare Grant visit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo
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This photograph of the Gemini 7 spacecraft was taken from the hatch window of the Gemini 6 spacecraft during rendezvous and station-keeping maneuvers at an altitude of approximately 160 miles above the Earth. The two spacecraft are approximately nine feet apart. Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 launched on December 15, 1965 and December 4, 1965, respectively. Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford on Gemini 6 and Edward H. White II and Michael Collins on Gemini 7 practiced rendezvous and station keeping together for one day in orbit.
nasa 1 and 3 along with 2 dodx tankers and some sort of hardware flat lay unused at nasa's repair facility. I looked for the helium tanks but couldn't find them, i know they still use them for space x launches.
NASA ASTRONAUT JOSEPH ACABA, FLIGHT ENGINEER ON EXPEDITIONS 31/32, VISITS GODDARD in the Bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium. Joseph Acaba, the first astronaut of Puerto Rican descent, shares his extraordinary spaceflight experiences with the Goddard community. Acaba signed autographs after the presentation.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk
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These are some images of Shuttle Atlantis as it was mated to the 747 at Edwards Air Force Base in California on May 31, 2009. This was prior to leaving Edwards on the morning of June 1 on the way to Biggs Army Air Field in El Paso, Texas.
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Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA captured this detailed photograph from the International Space Station during a daytime flyover of Morocco on May 2, 2016. Williams shared the image to social media and asked, "Reptile scales, or incredible and rugged geology in Morocco?" via NASA ift.tt/1SWtCto
A visitor who toured SOFIA takes a selfie at Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California.
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was built into a Boeing 747SP-21, c/n 21441, that was originally delivered to Pan Am in 1977 as N536PA. The aircraft later served United Airlines as N145UA. In NASA service it now carries US civil registration N747NA.
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There was a shower over Monument Valley -- but not water. Meteors. The featured image -- actually a composite of six exposures of about 30 seconds each -- was taken in 2001, a year when there was a very active Leonids shower. At that time, Earth was moving through a particularly dense swarm of sand-sized debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle, so that meteor rates approached one visible streak per second. The meteors appear parallel because they all fall to Earth from the meteor shower radiant -- a point on the sky towards the constellation of the Lion (Leo). The yearly Leonids meteor shower peaks again this week. Although the Moon's glow should not obstruct the visibility of many meteors, this year's shower will peak with perhaps 15 meteors visible in an hour, a rate which is good but not expected to rival the 2001 Leonids. By the way -- how many meteors can you identify in the featured image? via NASA ift.tt/1MPLL5H
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency captured this photograph from the International Space Station on Nov. 25, 2016, and shared it on social media, writing, "Sunrises. We experience 16 sunrises every 24 hours on the International Space Station as it takes us 90 minutes to do a complete orbit of our planet flying at 28,800 km/h." via NASA ift.tt/2htfFoS
A new mosaic made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990's images mosaic taken by NASA Galileo was a robotic NASA spacecraft which studied the planet Jupiter and its moons
This is inside NASA's supersonic wind tunnel. When the tunnel is running the wind going toward my camera is moving 1.5 mach. Models are put into the airstream where our tour guide is standing. Lots of data is collected from inside the tunnel, and on the model, and fed into systems via the patch panel seen here.
A view of the moon and a winter sunset over the main building complex at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Brooke Boen
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The Nili Fossae region, located on the northwest rim of Isidis impact basin, is one of the most colorful regions of Mars. This region is ancient and has had a complicated geologic history, leading to interesting structures like layered bedrock, as well as other compositions. via NASA ift.tt/1W7TdTm
Taken on March 20 from the top of Haleakala on the isle of Maui, planet Earth, the first sunrise of northern spring is pictured in this vacation snapshot. The telephoto view from the volcanic caldera above a sea of clouds also captures an elusive green flash near the Sun's upper limb. Atmospheric layers with sharp temperature changes cause the colorful flash as the Sun rises behind a distant cloud bank. Refraction along sight lines through the layers creates multiple distorted images of the Sun, and for a moment, can visibly deflect shorter wavelength green light. via NASA ift.tt/1RKyvGz
On Nov. 6, 2015, NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren spent 7 hours and 48 minutes working outside the International Space Station on the 190th spacewalk in support of station assembly and maintenance. The astronauts restored the port truss (P6) ammonia cooling system to its original configuration, the main task for the spacewalk. via NASA ift.tt/1kK3Z2c
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Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across a mountainous region informally known as Tartarus Dorsa. This scene sprawls some 300 kilometers (about 180 miles) across the Plutonian landscape. The color anaglyph creates a stereo view by combining parts of two images taken about 14 minutes apart during the New Horizons historic flyby of Pluto last July. Along with shadows near the terminator, or line between Pluto's dim day and night, the 3D perspective emphasizes the alignment of narrow, steep ridges. The region's remarkable bladed landforms typically extend 500 meters high and are 3 to 5 kilometers apart. Referring to a part of Hades in ancient Greek mythology, Tartarus Dorsa borders Tombaugh Regio to the east. via NASA ift.tt/1UKB9yC
Radar imagery such as this will help the EVEX team decide when to launch. The radar here shows clear skies over Kwajalein – the atoll is the "florida-shaped" coral atoll in the top left of the display.
The window for the EVEX launch is from April 27 to May 10, 2013. The research goal is to study whether turbulence at sunset in the E-region (60 miles up above the ground) of the ionosphere could serve as a warning sign of the storms that happen in the higher F-region (120 to 240 miles up) an hour or two later. So the team will wait for an evening when ground based radars show the necessary turbulence in the E-region.
Doug Rowland, an EVEX team member at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Reported on April 22, 2013:
“The Illinois radar (IRIS) is showing very nice examples of the precursor ‘sunset layer’ that is a signature of the circulation pattern we are trying to study, as well as the full-blown instability that develops over the hour and a half following sunset. We continue to have cloudy skies and elevated winds, which are problematic for a launch, but we still have three weeks for the weather to shape up for the EVEX launch.”
IRIS and the ARPA Long-Range Tracking and Instrumentation Radar (ALTAIR) will provide simultaneous measurements of the ionosphere during the EVEX launch to better characterize the region.
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A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific this spring. The mission will help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere that can negatively affect satellite communication and global positioning signals.
The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch into a crucial layer of charged particles surrounding our planet. Called the ionosphere, this layer serves as the medium through which high frequency radio waves – such as those sent down to the ground by global positioning system (GPS) satellites or, indeed, any satellite communicating with Earth – travel. The ionosphere begins about 60 miles above the ground and is filled with electrons and ions, alongside the more familiar extension of our electrically neutral atmosphere. Governed by Earth’s magnetic field, high-altitude winds, and incoming material and energy from the sun, the ionosphere can be calm in certain places or times of day, and quite turbulent at others.
EVEX will launch two rockets for a twelve-minute journey through the equatorial ionosphere above the South Pacific. This area of the ionosphere is known for calm days and tempestuous evenings, times when the ionosphere becomes rippled like a funhouse mirror, disturbing radio signals, and introducing GPS errors of a half mile or more. The two rockets will measure events in two separate regions of the ionosphere to see how they work together to drive the ionosphere from placid and smooth to violently disturbed. Such information could ultimately lead to the ability to accurately forecast this important aspect of space weather.
The launch window for EVEX is from April 27 to May 10. The team will decide when to fly based on conditions in the ionosphere on any given night.
Read more at www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/evex.html
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Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill created this image of Jupiter using data from the Juno spacecraft's JunoCam imager. via NASA July 02, 2018
Andy Freeberg, Maria Frostic, Stefanie Misztal, Sarah DeWitt (L-R)
Released September 22, 2008
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Many filmmakers work with the stars, but in the case of a growing number of Montana State University film students the reference has a literal meaning.
Seven graduates or former students in MSU's Science and Natural History filmmaking program students are working at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
"In recent years, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has been particularly interested in producers with strong science and writing backgrounds, and all MSU Science and Natural History Filmmaking graduate students have that," says Sarah DeWitt, who graduated with her M.F.A. in 2006 and is NASA's lead producer for Earth Science multimedia and special events.
DeWitt was the first MSU film grad to make the Montana-Maryland leap. Since her arrival at Goddard six years ago, she has been joined by Liz Smith, a 2007 graduate, Stefanie Misztal, who will finish her degree this year, Maria Frostic, also a 2007 graduate, and student Andy Freeberg, who is still working on his thesis. This summer Ryan Fitzgibbons, a 2007 graduate, and student Jefferson Beck, also still working on his thesis, joined the team.
Smith, who recently left Goddard to take a job with the Waitt Institute for Discovery in San Diego, said while the large number of MSU grads in Goddard's media departments is unusual, it is also understandable.
"I would definitely attribute the abundance of MFA students and alumni at Goddard to the quality level and professionalism of our students and to the unique set of talents and interests that they bring with them," said Smith. "I think the science and film combination background is only going to become more highly sought after as time goes on."
At Goddard, DeWitt has done everything from producing live interviews with Larry King, to a high-definition production on the IMAX screen at the National Air and Space Museum, to hosting a 50-person Bollywood cast and crew from India. She has specialized in the topic of climate change and is an expert at helping scientists translate complicated work into meaningful information for the public. Currently, DeWitt is working with the producers of the highly praised "Planet Earth" on "Frozen Planet," which will showcase the Earth's polar regions.
"The MSU program has helped my work tremendously," DeWitt said. "The skill of storytelling, in particular, has proved invaluable in the work that I do supporting the agency's Earth Science program. Plus, the program taught me how to work with scientists who want to communicate their work with nuance, care and accuracy, while still engaging the audience. "
Smith also said that DeWitt's talent and professionalism set the stage for NASA's production team to want more MFA students from MSU. "I was lucky to follow in her footsteps," she said.
Smith, who had an undergraduate degree in astronomy before coming to MSU, said among the highpoints of her time at NASA was the opportunity to work with John Mather, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics. Mather used the COBE satellite to directly measure the remnants of the Big Bang for the first time, setting the stage for the field of cosmology, one of Smith's scientific interests. Smith also produced a short promotional film for NASA called Destination Earth, working with Misztal, Freeberg, and DeWitt. The film received the Best of Category in Advertising, Promo and PSA award at the 2008 International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula.
At Waitt, Smith will travel the world to work with some of the top researchers in archaeology and underwater exploration. Smith says that her new position at Waitt came because of her MSU background.
"The Waitt Institute went to the (MSU) MFA program specifically looking to hire an alumnus because of the quality and reputation of our work as well as the theory behind the instruction and bridging the science-film gap," Smith said. She said plans are already in the works to collaborate with MSU students and alumni on several upcoming Waitt expeditions.
Other MSU MFA students at Goddard include Misztal, a producer and editor who post-produced and edited a vodcast series for Goddard's most recent space mission, the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), that launched June 11.
Frostic works on a Goddard Earth Science and Technology fellowship at the University of Maryland, which includes a post as a research associate/faculty member in which she supervises four non-faculty members of the Goddard media team. She is currently producing multimedia content for the Glory mission, an upcoming Earth science mission that will investigate various climate forces, including the role of aerosols and total solar irradiance in climate change.
Freeberg, who has worked at Goddard for two years, produced the first-ever NASA Goddard Film Festival, which debuted June 19. It was shown in high-definition on the IMAX screen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He is also a producer for the Landsat mission.
Fitzgibbons and Beck will produce videos for NASA-TV and NASA.gov on topics ranging from gamma ray bursts to climate change. They will help continue NASA's launch into new media, including vodcasts, streaming video, mobile video and interactive Web content. The work of the MSU Goddard team can be found on iTunes, YouTube, and at www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/multimedia/
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