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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Michael Zanetti (ST13), Kyle Miller (EV42), and Chris Whetsel (ES52) conducted a technology demonstration and field work with the NASA JSC 5th Joint EVA Test Team (JETT-3) from 5/17-23/24, near SP Crater, Flagstaff, AZ. JETT5 tested full-up mission operations with communication to JSC-Houston, and included astronauts Kate Rubins and AndreContinue reading “KNaCK LIDAR Technology Demonstration at 5th Joint EVA Test Team (JETT5) Field Compaign, Flagstaff, Arizona”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On 5/22/24, Chinmay Deval, the Water Security Lead at the SERVIR Science Coordination Office, moderated a virtual panel for the ResilienceLinks monthly webinar series. ResilienceLinks is the knowledge platform for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Center for Resilience. The theme for May focused on Water Data and ClimateContinue reading “SERVIR/ResilienceLinks Webinar on “Floods, Drought, and Water Security: How is Water Data Critical to Climate Resilience?””

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Phil Kaaret (ST12) is lead author on the paper which describes Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the galaxy NGC 2366. Escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) emission from galaxies found in the early universe was essential for the reionization of the universe when the intergalactic medium (IGM) changed from being neutralContinue reading “Paper on “X-rays from the Nearby Compact Emission-Line Galaxy NGC 2366” Published in the Astrophysical Journal”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Phil Kaaret (ST12) gave a talk on “Particle acceleration and magnetic field geometry in the eastern jet of the microquasar SS 433” at the session on Black Holes on 6/12/24. At the end of his talk, Kaaret promoted the upcoming IXPE GO cycle 2 and the NICER/IXPE workshop that willContinue reading “Imaging X-ray Polarimetery Explorer (IXPE) Conference Presentation at the 244th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The 2025 RASC-AL Competition is seeking undergraduate and graduate teams to develop new concepts that leverage innovation to improve our ability to operate on the Moon, Mars and beyond.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Alphonse Sterling (ST13) is co-author on a paper describing CMEs that appear to be initiated by a series of recurrent coronal jets.  The paper is entitled:  “Source Region and Launch Characteristics of Magnetic-arch-blowout Solar Coronal Mass Ejections Driven by Homologous Compact-flare Blowout Jets.”  It is led by Binal Patel, aContinue reading “Paper on Coronal Jets and CMEs Published”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Timothy Lang (ST11) is a co-author on an article titled “Effective Visualization of Radar Data for Users Impacted by Color Vision Deficiency”, which was recently accepted for publication in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The article is led by Zachary Sherman of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), and it isContinue reading “Paper on Creating Friendly Color Maps for Color Vision Deficiency Accepted for Publication”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Timothy Lang (ST11) is the Principal Investigator and Aaron Kaulfus (ST11) is a Co-Investigator (Co-I) on a proposal titled “Using CYGNSS with a suite of spaceborne remote sensing datasets to probe tropical maritime cold pool evolution from space”, which was recently selected for funding by NASA. CYGNSS stands for CycloneContinue reading “NASA Ocean Winds Proposal Selected”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) was an invited guest at the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) GeoAI gathering. He presented on the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) based geospatial foundation model and the recent developments in weather and climate foundation model. Following the presentation, Maskey engaged in discussions that led to several agencies expressingContinue reading “Invited Guest Speaker at the Taylor Geospatial Institutes GEOAI Gathering”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Linda Krause and Heidi Haviland (ST13) along with Jeff Apple, Miguel Rodriguez-Otero (ES11), Kurt Dietz (ES52), and Gary Thornton (ES21) contributed to the Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations (PICASSO) proposal LVACCS that was selected for funding. Omar Leon (University of Michigan) is the instrument suiteContinue reading “Lunar Vehicle Active Charge Control System (LVACCS) PICASSO Proposal Awarded”