A paper entitled “Validation of North American land data assimilation system Phase 2 (NLDAS-2) air temperature forcing and downscaled data with New York State station observations” by Maury Estes (UAH/ST11), Tabassum Insaf and Adeyeye (New York State Health Dept.), Al-Hamdan …
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In December and January, Phil Stahl (ST10), Marshall Optics Expert, has provided numerous presentations and interviews about the Webb Space Telescope (WST). On 12/15/21, he gave a virtual lecture to the Optica Student Chapter at the Okinawa Institute of Science …
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IXPE successfully launched the early morning of 12/09/21. Hundreds of guests traveled to attend launch. Upon check-in at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Visitor Complex, guests received a launch gift bag, which included items such as an IXPE lapel pin, mission …
Chandra issued an image release on 12/02/21, “Planetary Nebula, Misnamed But Not Misunderstood.” A new collection of planetary nebulas, containing X-rays from Chandra and optical light from Hubble, is available. A planetary nebula is a phase that stars like our …
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Chandra issued a press release on 12/09/21, “Mini-Jet Found Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole”. Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges of a blowtorch-like jet dating …
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Efforts to move the aging/primary GBM data server hardware from the National Space Science and Technology Center onto the main campus of Marshall Space Flight Center have come to fruition. The physical move was completed by MITS personnel on 12/07/21. …
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Daniel Kocevski (ST12) has worked with the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC) to release a new database of multi-cadence light curves for over 1500 variable gamma-ray sources. The new Light Curve Repository (LCR) contains flux calibrated light curves on 3-day, …
Michelle Hui, Daniel Kocevski, and Joshua Wood (ST12) proposed to investigate wide-field gamma-ray detector technology to the TIP program and was selected for funding in FY22. The project involves characterizing a phoswich detector that couples CeBr3 and NaI(Tl) crystals and …
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Debra J. Wallace (ST12) gave a virtual presentation to 345 attendees of the Wade County Public Library event celebrating the release of Diana Gabaldon’s Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. The presentation discussed the portrayal of time travel …
Falling Through Stones: The Science of Time Travel in Outlander and Popular Culture Read More »
As a part of the Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG), the Stakeholder Engagement Program (SEP) works to consolidate, curate, and enhance discoverability of general resources and training materials for SNWG products. Recently the team updated the SEP web presence on …
