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- 2023.09.18: Announcing the 2023 Annual NASA POWER Global Community (GloCo) Summit.
The NASA Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project is excited to invite you to the upcoming POWER Annual Virtual Global Community (GloCo) Summit, where the team will explore new horizons, foster meaningful connections, and exchange valuable insights. The POWER GloCo Summit is a two-day, free virtual event with an identical agenda on both days, offering participants to choose between attending one or both days. + Learn More about this event - 2023.09.16: CPF HySICS Environmental Testing Complete.
In 2023, the CLARREO Pathfinder (CPF) team has been conducting comprehensive characterization tests on the Hyperspectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) instrument to ensure that it can meet its rigorous and unprecedented accuracy goal. The HySICS instrument is an imaging spectrometer developed by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and is the heart of the CPF payload as the core subsystem enabling the high-accuracy measurements of reflected sunlight. After characterization testing, HySICS completed vibration testing at National Technical Systems in Santa Clarita, California. The instrument was then shipped back to LASP in Boulder, CO where it completed TVAC (thermal vacuum chamber) testing to verify that the instrument will tolerate the space environment installed on the International Space Station. Following the successful completion of TVAC activities on September 16, 2023, an independent calibration effort will be conducted with the instrument before it’s ready for the start of payload integration in late 2023. - 2023.08.24 : NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument.
FOn Thursday, NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about major air pollutants over North America. President Biden and Vice President Harris believe that all people have a right to breathe clean air. Data from the TEMPO mission will help decision makers across the country achieve that goal and support the Biden Administration’s climate agenda — the most robust climate agenda in history. + Read More - 2023.08.16 : Surf, Turf, Above Earth: Students Participate in NASA Field Research.
Flying over and tromping through watery landscapes along the East Coast, working alongside NASA scientists, and recording measurements about the air that they’re travelling through – these are not the usual experiences for an undergraduate student. For the 2023 participants in NASA’s SARP East program – short for Student Airborne Research Program – it was part of a summer they won't forget. For the first time on the East coast, in June and July, 22 undergraduate students from universities across the United States convened in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia for an eight-week immersive research experience. + Read More - 2023.05.18 : NASA Releases New Solar Eclipse Educational Materials
My NASA Data, in collaboration with the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), has released a new set of resources for educators centered around solar eclipses. My NASA Data allows students in grades 3 through 12 and their teachers to analyze and interpret NASA mission data. My NASA Data allows students in grades 3 through 12 and their teachers to analyze and interpret NASA mission data. It also supports educators in the integration of authentic Earth systems data into their instruction.
+ Read More - 2023.05.12 : The NASA POWER Project releases a POWER knowledge article for its user communities.
The NASA Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project at Langley released a new Earthdata knowledge article about the POWER Project for its users in renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure, and agroclimatology communities. This article informs readers about POWER's current data products, visualization/analytical tools and service offerings, as well as new and future offerings.
Shown above are examples of the tools and charting resources available through POWER’s enhanced Data Access Viewer (DAV). A video from the 2022 POWER Global Community Summit provides a demonstration of the enhanced DAV. Credit: NASA POWER. - 2023.04.25 : NASA Langley Named Home for Disaster Coordination Program Office
Officials at NASA have selected NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to be the home of the program office for the agency’s Disaster Response Coordination System (DRCS). Slated to become active later this year, the DRCS will employ NASA’s science expertise and technological innovation to support operational disaster response organizations both in the U.S. and around the globe.
+ Read More - 2023.03.30 : New Instrument to Track Air Pollution Hourly, Shed Light on Disparities.
NASA is preparing for the launch of an instrument that will provide new insight into air quality in North America, observing air pollution from space more frequently and in greater detail than previous space-based instruments. It will also reveal disparities in pollution exposure. +Read More - 2023.03.01 : NASA Air Pollution Sensor Integrated and Tested with Commercial Satellite Host
The TEMPO air pollution sensor is hosted on Intelsat 40e, seen here at the Maxar Technologies facility in Palo Alto, California, where it was built. The instrument and the entire spacecraft recently passed pre-launch testing at the facility. Credits: Courtesy of Maxar +Read More - 2023.01.06 : Retired NASA Earth Radiation Budget Satellite Reenters Atmosphere.
NASA’s retired Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 11:04 p.m. EST on Sunday, Jan. 8, after almost four decades in space. Launched from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Oct. 5, 1984, the ERBS spacecraft was part of NASA’s three-satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. For 21 of its years in orbit, the ERBS actively investigated how the Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the Sun, and made measurements of stratospheric ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide, and aerosols. + Read More
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