The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is pleased to announce the release of the version 5.0 SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) data from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). The major changes in Version 5.0 from Version 4 are: (1) …
Chandra’s Deputy Project Scientist, Steven Ehlert (ST14), participated in an astrophysics panel at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on 11/8/22. The panel was in conjunction with the Smithsonian Journeys Space Camp and featured a high-end camp experience. Ehlert was …
NASA’s assessment of Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) 2022 surveys is well underway, and the assessment team members are preparing for interviews with the agencies who submitted each survey. These interviews include the agency SME who submitted the survey, NASA-NOAA-USGS …
The most recent Chandra press and image release “NASA’s Chandra Finds Galaxy Cluster Collision on a “Whim” was release on 10/13/22. Astronomers taking inventory of the material in the local universe keep coming up short. A new result from NASA’s …
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Chandra released an image titled “NASA’s Chandra Adds X-ray Vision to Webb Images” on 10/4/22. X-rays from Chandra have been combined with infrared data from early publicly released James Webb Space Telescope images. These four objects were among the first …
The Chandra image release titled “Setting the Clock on a Stellar Explosion” was featured as the “NASA Image of the Day” on 9/12/22. A new image of SNR 0519-69.0 shows the debris of a star that exploded several hundred years …
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The Brazilian Technical Institute for Aeronautics (ITA) Team successfully performed the RF field test (VHF, UHF and X-Band) at Cuiabá, to verify the end-to-end link between the new ground station and SPORT engineering unit (EM). ITA collected data from the …
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Chandra’s virtual field trip registration is featured in the 9/29/22 issue of the NASA Express STEM weekly newsletter. Chandra, in conjunction with SAO, invites educators of all grade levels to take their students on a virtual field trip with astrophysics …
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Chandra’s Education and Outreach group supported the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s week long SciVis SPACE CAMP with education and outreach materials 9/18-23/22. Roughly 100 non-visual campers/students participated in the weeklong session. Chandra was able to provide models, tactile plates, …
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Chandra has successfully completed all data collection activities needed to assess the potential future use of the High Resolution Camera (HRC) for science observing using the HRC A-Side Central Electronics Assembly (CEA). Real-time HRC operational procedures were executed on 7/5/22, …
