Cross-NASA divisional relevance of an Ice Giant mission

NASA Team Sea Ice Algorithm

In 1985 the NASA Sea Ice Algorithm Working Group (NSAWG) reviewed the state of passive microwave sea ice algorithm development for the purpose of recommending an algorithm for deriving sea ice products from the new DMSP SSM/I. The NSAWG chose three candidate algorithms that had been developed and tested, and selected one of these for processing the SSM/I data. A description of each of the three...

Chips: a Nasa University Explorer Astronomy Mission

On January 12th, 2003, the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer Spacecraft (CHIPSat) launched successfully from Vandenberg Air Force Base as a secondary payload on a Delta II booster. CHIPSat completed commissioning in February 2003, and is now a fully operational observatory. The main science objective is to measure extreme ultraviolet emissions from the interstellar medium. Data on the...

Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous NASA Mission Data Sources

One of the most important and challenging knowledge management problems faced by NASA is the integration of heterogeneous information sources. NASA mission and project personnel access information stored in many different formats from a wide variety of diverse information sources, including databases, web servers, document repositories, ftp servers, special-purpose application servers, and Web ...

Remaking NASA. NASA hopes bigger is better for planned mission to Jupiter.

Aerosol remote sensing with the NASA Glory mission

One of the principal objectives of the NASA Glory mission is to determine the global distribution of detailed aerosol and cloud properties with unprecedented accuracy, thereby facilitating the quantification of the aerosol direct and indirect radiative forcings. This objective will be met by flying the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor which will collect accurate multi-angle photopolarimetric measurem...