Alexis Rodriguez from NASA’s Heliophysics and Planetary Science Branch and his team have made a groundbreaking discovery on Mercury. They found potential salt glaciers, indicating the presence of volatile-rich environments similar to Earth’s extreme habitats like the Atacama Desert. This …
“Simple Methods for Predicting the Size and Timing of Sunspot Cycle 25” , authored by Robert Wilson, has recently been published online at https://aasjournal.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/13. The paper describes several simple methods for estimating the main features of an ongoing solar cycle …
On Monday, April 8, 2024, the Moon will pass between the Sun and Earth, providing an opportunity for those in the path of the Moon’s shadow to see a total solar eclipse, including the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. With …
Smoothed monthly mean sunspot number R for solar cycle 25, the present ongoing cycle, has now surpassed the maximum amplitude observed for solar cycle 24 (116.4 at t = 64 months into the cycle, April 2014) and it continues increasing …
Heidi Haviland (ST13) takes over in the role of Principal Investigator (PI) for the Neutron Measurements at the Lunar Surface (NMLS) instrument. NMLS was originally selected as a part of the NASA Provided Lunar Payloads (NPLP) Program in 2019 to …
Robert Loper (ST13) participated in the 2023 Solarnet – Sun in Science and Society (Solarnet-S3) workshop in Venice, Italy. Solarnet-S3 is an annual conference intended to create and tighten links between heliophysicists, scientists, engineers, stakeholders and economists. It is organized …
The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) 6U CubeSat, deployed into a 52-degree, 405-km orbit on 12/28/22, is making numerous observations of equatorial plasma bubbles. Ground stations resolved spacecraft tracking issues, the science scheduler is working on auto mode, and …
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Heidi Haviland (ST13) was invited back to speak with amateur radio enthusiasts at the Huntsville Hamfest. This event was run by the Huntsville Amateur Radio Club (HARC) and the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) Southeastern Division and has been an …
The Small Satellite Conference was hosted by the Utah State University in Logan, UT on 8/5-10/23. Heidi Haviland, Linda Krause, Robert Loper, (ST13) and Todd Bradley (UCF) contributed to a presentation at the conference on the SelenITA science overview given …
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Amy Winebarger (ST13) was invited to present a talk entitled Rocket to the Sun and sit on a Principal Investigators panel at the first Principal Investigators Development Workshop on 8/10/23 at Wallops Flight Facility. The talk was attended by undergraduate …
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