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NASA Science at AMS Hyperwall Schedule, January 13-16, 2025
Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #401) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below.
MONDAY, JANUARY 13
6:10 – 6:25 PM The Golden Age of Ocean Science: How NASA’s Newest Missions Advance the Study of Oceans in our Earth System Dr. Karen St. Germain 6:25 – 6:40 PM Integration of Vantage Points and Approaches for Earth System Science Dr. Jack Kaye 6:45 – 7:00 PM Helio Big Year Wind-Down and a Look Ahead Dr. Joseph Westlake 7:00 – 7:15 PM Chasing Snowstorms with Airplanes: An Overview of the IMPACTS Field Campaign John Yorks
Lynn McMurdie 7:15 – 7:30 PM NASA Earth Action Empowering Health and Air Quality Communities Dr. John Haynes TUESDAY, JANUARY 14
10:00 – 10:15 AM Inclusive Earthdata Applications for Gender-Sensitive Solutions in Climate Mitigation Hannah Townley 10:15 – 10:30 AM Climate Adaptation Science Investigators (CASI): Enhancing Climate Resilience at NASA Cynthia Rosenzweig 10:30 – 10:45 AM From Orbit to Earth: Exploring the LEO Science Digest Jeremy Goldstein 12:00 – 12:15 PM Visualizaiton of the May 10-11 ‘Gannon’ Geospace Storm Michael Wiltberger 12:15 – 12:30 PM Explore Space Weather Through the Community Coordinated Modeling Center and OpenSpace Elana Resnick 12:30 – 12:45 PM Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG): US Government Agencies’ Source of NASA ESD-wide Earth Observations solutions Natasha Sadoff 12:45 – 1:00 PM Connecting Satellite Data to the One Health Approach Helena Chapman 1:00 – 1:15 PM A Bird’s-Eye View of Pollution in Asian Megacities Laura Judd 1:15 – 1:30 PM Space Weather at Mars Gina DiBraccio Jamie Favors 3:00 – 3:15 PM Open Science: Creating a Culture of Innovation and Collaboration Lauren Perkins 3:15 – 3:30 PM NASA’s Early Career Reseach Program Paving the Way Cynthia Hall
Yaítza Luna-Cruz 3:30 – 3:45 PM SciX: Accelerating Discovery of NASA’s Science through Open Science and Domain Integration Anna Kelbert 6:15 – 6:30 PM Using NASA IMERG to Detect Extreme Rainfall Within Data Deserts Owen Kelley
George Huffman 6:30 – 6:45 PM Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosols Around the World Rob Levy 6:45 – 7:00 PM The Sun, Space Weather, and You Jim Spann
Erin Lynch 7:00 – 7:15 PM Eyes on the Stars: The Building of a 21st-century Solar Observatory Ame Fox
Dr. Elsayed Talaat 7:15 – 7:30 PM NASA ESTO: Launchpad for Novel Earth Science Technologies Michael Seablom WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15
10:00 – 10:15 AM Parker Solar Probe Outreach and the Power of Indigenous Thought Leaders Troy Cline 10:15 – 10:30 AM Forecasting Extreme Weather Events at Local Scales with NASA High-Resolution Models Gary Partyka 10:30 – 10:45 AM North American Land Data Assimilation System: Informing Water and Agricultural Management Applications with NASA Modeling and Remote Sensing Sujay Kumar 12:00 – 12:15 PM Life After Launch: A Snapshot of the First 9 Months of NASA’s PACE Mission Carina Poulin 12:15 – 12:30 PM Space Weather and the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm Antti Pulkkinen 12:30 – 12:45 PM Geospace Dynamics Constellation: The Space Weather Rosetta Stone Dr. Katherine Garcia Gage 12:45 – 1:00 PM Monitoring Sea Level Change using ICESat-2 and other NASA EO Missions Aimee Neeley 1:00 – 1:15 PM Space Weather Center of Excellence CLEAR: All-CLEAR SEP Forecast Lulu Zhao 1:15 – 1:30 PM Harnessing the Power of NASA Earth Observations for a Resilient Water Future Stephanie Granger 3:00 – 3:15 PM From EARTHDATA to Action: Enabling Earth Science Data to Serve Society Jim O’Sullivan
Yaitza Luna-Cruz 3:15 – 3:30 PM GMAO and GEOS Related Talk TBD Christine Bloecker 3:30 – 3:45 PM Live Heliophysics Kahoot! Quiz Bowl Jimmy Acevedo 3:45 – 4:00 PM Parker Solar Probe Nour Rawaf THURSDAY, JANUARY 16
10:00 – 10:15 AM Sounds of Space: Sonification with CDAWeb Alex Young 10:30 – 10:45 AM Developing the Future of Microwave Sounding Data: Benefits and Opportunities Ed Kim Share
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2024 AGU Fall Meeting Hyperwall Schedule
NASA Science at AGU Fall Meeting Hyperwall Schedule, December 9-12, 2024
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***Copies of the 2025 NASA Science Calendar will be distributed at the NASA Exhibit at the start of each day.***
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9
3:20 – 3:40 PM From Stars to Life: The Power of NASA Science Dr. Nicola Fox 3:40 – 4:00 PM NASA Planetary Science Division: 2024 Highlights Eric Ianson (PSD Deputy Director) 4:00 – 4:20 PM NASA Earth Science Overview Dr. Karen St. Germain 4:20 – 4:40 PM NASA Astrophysics: Looking Forward Dr. Mark Clampin 4:40 – 5:00 PM Helio Big Year Wind-Down and a Look Ahead Dr. Joseph Westlake 5:00 – 5:20 PM NASA Biological & Physical Sciences Overview Dr. Lisa Carnell 5:20 – 5:40 PM Astrobiology: The Science, The Program, and The Work Dr. Becky McCauley Rench TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10
10:15 – 10:30 AM Integration of Vantage Points and Approaches by NASA Earth Science Division Dr. Jack Kaye 10:30 – 10:45 AM Life after launch: A Snapshot of the First 9 Months of NASA’s PACE Mission Jeremy Werdell 10:45 – 11:00 AM Foundation Model in Earth Science: Towards Earth Science to Action Tsengdar Lee 11:15 – 11:30 AM NASA’s Office of the Chief Science Data Officer: Supporting a More Equitable, Impactful, and Efficient Scientific Future Kevin Murphy 11:30- 11:45 AM 30 Years of GLOBE: Advancing Earth System Science, Education, and Public Engagement Amy P. Chen 11:45 – 12:00 PM 2024 NASA Visualization Highlights Mark Subbarao 12:30 – 1:45 PM Grand Prize Winners of 2024 AGU Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition Introductory Remarks from AGU & NASA Steve Platnick Thawing History: Retracing Arctic Expeditions in a Warming World Dylan Wootton Monitoring the Weather in Near Real-Time with Open-Access GOES-R Data Jorge Bravo Mitigating Agricultural Runoff with Tangible Landscape Caitlin Haedrich Earth Observation for Disaster Response: Highlighting Applied Products Patrick Kerwin 2:15 – 2:30 PM Water Science to Water Action John Bolten 2:30 – 2:45 PM Analyzing Space Weather at Mars Gina DiBraccio, Jamie Favors 2:45 – 3:00 PM NASA Airborne in the Arctic: An overview of the NASA Arctic Radiation-Cloud-aerosol-Surface-Interaction eXperiment (ARCSIX) Patrick Taylor 3:00 – 3:15 PM Science Activation and the 2023-24 Eclipses Lin Chambers 3:30 – 3:45 PM Tracking Extreme Fires in 2024 Douglas Morton 3:45 – 4:00 PM BioSCape: A Biodiversity Airborne Campaign in South Africa Anabelle Cardoso 4:00 – 4:15 PM U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Lesley Ott 4:15 – 4:30 PM Data Governance and Space Data Ethics in the Era of AI: NASA Acres at the Leading Edge Alyssa Whitcraft, Todd Janzen 5:00 – 5:15 PM Global GEOS Forecasts of Severe Storms and Tornado Activity Across the United States William Putman 5:15 – 5:30 PM NASA Earth Action Empowering Health and Air Quality Communities John Haynes 5:30 – 5:45 PM The Habitable Worlds Observatory Megan Ansdell WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11
10:15 – 10:30 AM From Orbit to Earth: Exploring the LEO Science Digest Jeremy Goldstein 10:30 – 10:45 AM Hello, Hello Again: How Lunar Samples Introduced Us to the Solar System, and What We’ll Learn When We Meet Again Dr. Barbara Cohen 10:45 – 11:00 AM Planetary Defenders: How NASA Safeguards Earth from Asteroids Kelly Fast 11:15 – 11:30 AM Bringing Science Data Home Philip Baldwin 11:30 – 11:45 AM Fast-Tracking Earth System Science into Action: The Vision for the Integrated Earth System Observatory Cecile Rousseaux 11:45 – 12:00 PM A Decade of Monitoring Atmospheric CO2 from Space Junjie Liu 12:30 – 1:45 PM Grand Prize Winners of 2024 AGU Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition Introductory Remarks from AGU & NASA Dr. Jack Kaye Photogrammetric Modeling and Remote Identification of Small Lava Tubes in the 1961 Lava Flow at Askja, Iceland Mya Thomas Monitoring Air Quality Using MODIS and CALIPSO Data in Conjunction with Socioeconomic Data to Map Air Pollution in Hampton Roads Virginia Marilee Karinshak Visualizing UAV-Based Detection and Severity Assessment of Brown Spot Needle Blight in Pine Forests Swati Singh Different Temperatures of a Solar Flare Crisel Suarez 2:15 – 2:30 PM Ancient and Modern Sun Gazing: New view of our star as seen by CODEX and upcoming missions MUSE, PUNCH and SunRISE Dr. Nicholeen Viall, Dr. Jeff Newmark 2:30 – 2:45 PM A Stroll Through The Universe of NASA Citizen Science Sarah Kirn 2:45 – 3:00 PM OSIRIS-REx Returned Samples from the Early Solar System Jason Dworkin 3:00 – 3:15 PM To the Moon, Together: Ensuring Mission Success in an Increasingly Busy Lunar Environment Therese Jones 3:30 – 3:45 PM What Goes Around Comes Around – Repeating Patterns in Global Precipitation George Huffman 3:45 – 4:00 PM Parker Solar Probe: Thriving, Surviving, and Exploring our Sun to Make Paradigm Shifting Discoveries Nour Rawafi, Betsy Congdon 4:00 – 4:15 PM Europa Clipper Curt Niebur 4:15 – 4:30 PM Roman Space Telescope and Exoplanets Rob Zellem 5:00 – 5:15 PM Mars Exploration: Present and Future Dr. Lindsay Hays 5:15 – 5:30 PM Superstorm: The surprise entry into the Helio Big Year celebration of the Sun, and possibly a foreshadowing of what’s to come during Solar Maximum Kelly Korrek 5:30 – 5:45 PM From EARTHDATA to Action: Enabling Earth Science Data to Serve Society Katie Baynes THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12
10:15 – 10:30 AM Geospace Dynamics Constellation: The Space Weather Rosetta Stone Katherine Garcia-Sage, Doug Rowland 10:30 – 10:45 AM Future of Magnetosphere to Ionosphere Coupling Lara Waldrop, Skyler Kleinschmidt, Sam Yee 10:45 – 11:00 AM NASA ESTO: Launchpad for Novel Earth Science Technologies Michael Seablom 11:00 – 11:15 AM From Leaf to Orbit: NASA Research Reveals the Changing Northern Landscape Dr. Liz Hoy 11:30 – 11:45 PM OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management Forrest Melton 11:45 – 12:00 PM Dragonfly: Flights of Exploration Across Saturn’s Moon Titan, an Organic Ocean World Zibi Turtle 12:00 – 12:15 PM Venus and DAVINCI Natasha Johnson 12:15 – 12:30 PM IMAP: The Modern-Day Celestial Cartographer Prof. David J. McComas Share
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NASA/CXC/M.Weiss By using new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers have made important headway in understanding how — and when — a supermassive black hole obtains and then consumes material, as described in our latest press release.
This artist’s impression shows a star that has partially been disrupted by such a black hole in the system known as AT2018fyk. The supermassive black hole in AT2018fyk — with about 50 million times more mass than the sun — is in the center of a galaxy located about 860 million light-years from Earth.
Astronomers have determined that a star is on a highly elliptical orbit around the black hole in AT2018fyk so that its point of farthest approach from the black hole is much larger than its closest. During its closest approach, tidal forces from the black hole pull some material from the star, producing two tidal tails of “stellar debris”.
The illustration shows a point in the orbit soon after the star is partially destroyed, when the tidal tails are still in close proximity to the star. Later in the star’s orbit, the disrupted material returns to the black hole and loses energy, leading to a large increase in X-ray brightness occurring later in the orbit (not shown here). This process repeats each time the star returns to its point of closest approach, which is approximately every 3.5 years. The illustration depicts the star during its second orbit, and the disk of X-ray emitting gas around the black hole that is produced as a byproduct of the first tidal encounter.
Researchers took note of AT2018fyk in 2018 when the optical ground-based survey ASAS-SN detected that the system had become much brighter. After observing it with NASA’s NICER and Chandra, and XMM-Newton, researchers determined that the surge in brightness came from a “tidal disruption event,” or TDE, which signals that a star was completely torn apart and partially ingested after flying too close to a black hole. Chandra data of AT2018fyk is shown in the inset of an optical image of a wider field-of-view.
X-ray: NASA/SAO/Kavli Inst. at MIT/D.R. Pasham; Optical: NSF/Legacy Survey/SDSS When material from the destroyed star approached close to the black hole, it got hotter and produced X-ray and ultraviolet (UV) light. These signals then faded, agreeing with the idea that nothing was left of the star for the black hole to digest.
However, about two years later, the X-ray and UV light from the galaxy got much brighter again. This meant, according to astronomers, that the star likely survived the initial gravitational grab by the black hole and then entered a highly elliptical orbit with the black hole. During its second close approach to the black hole, more material was pulled off and produced more X-ray and UV light.
Based on what they had learned about the star and its orbit, a team of astronomers predicted that the black hole’s second meal would end in August 2023 and applied for Chandra observing time to check. Chandra observations on August 14, 2023, indeed showed the telltale sign of the black hole feeding coming to an end with a sudden drop in X-rays. The researchers also obtained a better estimate of how long it takes the star to complete an orbit, and predicted future mealtimes for the black hole.
A paper describing these results appears in the August 14, 2024 issue of The Astrophysical Journal and is available online. The authors are Dheeraj Passam (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eric Coughlin (Syracuse University), Muryel Guolo (Johns Hopkins University), Thomas Wevers (Space Telescope Science Institute), Chris Nixon (University of Leeds, UK), Jason Hinkle (University of Hawaii at Manoa), and Ananaya Bandopadhyay (Syracuse).
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In this digital illustration, a star sheds stellar debris as it orbits a supermassive black hole. This artist’s impression represents the center of a galaxy about 860 million light-years from Earth.
The supermassive black hole sits at our upper left. It resembles an irregular, pitch-black sphere at the heart of an almond-shaped pocket of swirling sand and dirt. Though gritty in texture, the swirling brown and grey pocket is actually a disk of hot gas.
Near our lower right is the orbiting star. In this illustration, the star is relatively close to us, with the black hole far behind it. The star is a blue-white ball that, from this perspective, appears slightly larger than the distant black hole.
Two tapered streaks peel off of the glowing star like the pulled-back corners of a smile. These streaks represent tidal tails of stellar debris; material pulled from the surface of the star by the gravity of the black hole. This partial destruction of the star occurs every 3.5 years, when the star’s orbit brings it closest to the supermassive black hole.
During the orbit, the stellar debris from the tidal tails is ingested by the black hole. A byproduct of this digestion is the X-ray gas which swirls in a disk around the black hole.
At the upper left of the grid is an image of the distant galaxy cluster known as MACS J0416. Here, the blackness of space is packed with glowing dots and tiny shapes, in whites, purples, oranges, golds, and reds, each a distinct galaxy. Upon close inspection (and with a great deal of zooming in!) the spiraling arms of some of the seemingly tiny galaxies are revealed in this highly detailed image. Gently arched across the middle of the frame is a soft band of purple; a reservoir of superheated gas detected by Chandra.
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
NAS visualization & data sciences lead Chris Henze demonstrates the newly upgraded hyperwall visualization system to Ames center director Eugene Tu, deputy center director David Korsmeyer, and High-End Computing Capability manager William Thigpen.NASA/Brandon Torres Navarette In May, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, celebrated the newest generation of its hyperwall system, a wall of LCD screens that display supercomputer-scale visualizations of the very large datasets produced by NASA supercomputers and instruments.
The upgrade is the fourth generation of hyperwall clusters at NAS. The LCD panels provide four times the resolution of the previous system, now spanning across a 300-square foot display with over a billion pixels. The hyperwall is one of the largest and most powerful visualization systems in the world.
Systems like the NAS hyperwall can help researchers visualize their data at large scale, across different viewpoints or using different parameters for new ways of analysis. The improved resolution of the new system will help researchers “zoom in” with greater detail.
The hyperwall is just one way researchers can utilize NASA’s high-end computing technology to better understand their data. The NAS facility offers world-class supercomputing resources and services customized to meet the needs of about 1,500 users from NASA centers, academia and industry.
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From the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system to Earth science missions closer to home, NASA shared its goals for the next decades of exploration at this year’s Goddard Space Science Symposium, held March 20-22, 2024, at the University of Maryland in College Park.
“We wanted to help bring focus to this long-term vision by gathering people from all areas of the industry to discuss the plan, the associated opportunities and challenges, and how we will all work together to succeed,” said Jim Way, executive director at the American Astronautical Society (AAS), which co-hosted the symposium with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
NASA Goddard and AAS collaborated to develop this year’s theme, “Space 2040: Pathways to the Future.” About 340 in-person attendees participated in panels featuring NASA scientists, researchers, and experts, as well as government and industry partners.
Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup kicked off the symposium by emphasizing the role partnerships have to play in science and space exploration.
“The world is changing, and the space industry in particular; we’ve got to adapt to that,” Lystrup said. “Goddard needs to adapt to that, NASA needs to adapt, and I think that that can be scary. But also, this is the time when innovation can really come out. And so, I think that the sharing of ideas, and the willingness to try new things, is more important now than it ever has been.”
Makenzie Lystrup, center director at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., gives opening remarks at the 61st Goddard Space Science Symposium sponsored by the American Astronautical Society on March 20, 2024, at the University of Maryland in College Park.NASA/Tabatha Luskey During the symposium, Goddard employees, students, and members of the industry and government workforce listened to discussions on space weather, climate science, interplanetary missions, and more. Nicola Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, gave the opening keynote address on March 20. Fox spoke about NASA’s current and future missions, highlighting the intersections between NASA sciences.
“I love to think about the interconnections in the science that we do,” Fox said. “Everybody knows that all the really interesting stuff – it’s not even just science – interesting stuff happens on the boundaries.”
NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Nicola Fox speaks about NASA’s operating and future science fleet during her keynote address at the symposium on March 20.NASA/Tabatha Luskey The symposium concluded with early science results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which returned a sample from the asteroid Bennu in September 2023. Mission scientists brought a small piece of the sample for attendees to view.
“That smudge you see is a pristine sample of the early solar system that we took 200 million miles away, and they’re finding some little preliminary results already,” said Michelle Thaller, co-chair of the 2024 planning committee and assistant director for science communication at Goddard.
This year marked the 61st symposium, making it the longest running event hosted by AAS. Formerly known as the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium, the event demonstrates the longstanding relationship between Goddard and AAS.
By Julia Tilton
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
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