Heidi Haviland, Paul Bremner, Mike Zanetti (ST13), Aiden Woo (USRA) and Juan Lorenzo (LSU) participated in a joint geophysical instrument test at the Lunar Regolith Terrain Facility, 2/12-15/24, and is funded by a MSFC CAN-162 White Paper for technology development. …
HI-C Flare is part of a planned campaign that includes three solar physics payloads. The Hi-C instrument is optimized for detecting high temperature flare lines. In February, the Hi-C Flare White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) integration and testing was completed. …
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In January, the Science Test Branch (ST15) enabled a test of a LiDAR Engineering Unit for the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1). As perhaps the longest vacuum chamber available for use by experimenters, the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility’s …
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Robert Loper (ST13) delivered a guest lecture, “Solar Storms and Flying to Mars: Space Weather Research at MSFC,” to Space Weather Laboratory class at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), in Dayton, OH, on 2/21/24. Loper also met with …
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The conference was held in Ahmedabad, India from 2/5-9/24. Alka Rani (ST13) delivered an oral presentation during the conference, elucidating the evolutionary dynamics of the Martian interior through surficial geochemical analyses of secular volcanism. The presentation, “Evolution of Martian Volcanism …
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The AGU Fall Meeting was held in San Francisco, CA, on 12/11-15/23. Heidi Haviland (ST13) contributed to a presentation at the conference on probing the lunar interior given in person by ST13 Summer intern Zack Carter (Univ. of Utah): “Identifying …
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In Uvalde and Eagle Pass, Texas, Mitzi Adams presented materials to prepare students, teachers, and the local community for the April 8 total solar eclipse. On February 9, Ms. Adams spoke to middle-school students in the morning and to the …
Robert Loper (ST13) participated in the 21st Conference on Space Weather at the American Meteorological Society 104th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, 28 January – 1 February. Robert Loper co-chaired with Yaireska Collado-Vega (GSFC/M2M) the session, “Space Weather and Human …
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Dennis Gallagher (ST13) was contacted late in the effort by his Des Moines high school alma mater to encourage their NASA Challenge team and to answer questions in support of their preparation to submit an entry to a lunar NASA …
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Robert Loper, Mitzi Adams, and Adam Kobelski (ST13) and Joseph Matus (LP03) were interviewed on 1/23/24 by Arkansas PBS for a program on the upcoming 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. The interviews were conducted at the MSFC TV studio, the X-Ray …
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