FPD Mission Updates ESDIS Due to Hurricanes Laura and Marco, seen in this image from August 23 and recent fires in California, Worldview’s traffic has tripled and has been cited in dozens of media articles. Likewise, the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) has seen over a 10x increase in traffic since August 18. Worldview/ FIRMS are information systems operated by the ESDIS project. Also operated by ESDIS, the Socio-Economic Data and Applications Center, one of the NASA Earth science data archives, developed the Hazards mapper for users to investigate natural hazards and how they affect the population. This image depicts the smoke plume from the California fires as seen across the United States, even at GSFC, on September 16. This unprecedented health hazard is represented by aerosol optical thickness data from VIIRS.
ExIS The ExIS team released the ninth episode of the second season of its series, Pass the Torque. The episode covered research and development and featured NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine. The episode was posted to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, and had 830 likes, 160 shares, 4,500 views.
Suomi-NPP FEMA used flood maps derived from NOAA-20 and 44
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Suomi-NPP data for emergency response after Hurricane Laura.
MAVEN The Goddard Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft team helped scientists discover that water vapor on Mars is lifted high into the atmosphere by gigantic dust storms and then escapes the planet. Better understanding the water cycle on Mars is critical to our future exploration efforts there.
Lucy The Lucy instrument pointing platform (IPP) performed the initial mount to the flight forward deck. Lucy successfully completed gimbaled IPP range of motion testing. The Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager Instrument was shipped and received at LMDenver.
L’Ralph L’Ralph completed its first thermal vacuum testing campaign and instrument-level vibration testing. The team is approaching completion of instrument-level EMI tests, to be followed by a second thermal vacuum testing campaign prior to shipment.
