Challenge

Creative Data Display with the Parker Solar Probe

  • NASA Resources

    • Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

      The high-definition television of solar cameras, SDO takes movies of the Sun in different wavelengths of light (colors) and continuously sends them to the ground.

    • Science @ NASA: The Sun

      Main science page for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Heliophysics Division, which studies the Sun and how it influences the very nature of space — and, in turn, the atmospheres of planets.

    • NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS)

      Parker Solar Probe animation and graphics created by the SVS, based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in coordination with the Parker Solar Probe science team.

    • NASA Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)

      The CCMC is a multi-agency partnership to enable, support, and perform the research and development for next-generation space science and space weather models. The CCMC provides the international research community with access to modern space science simulations.

    • iSWA

      Among CCMC resources is the iNTEGRATED SPACE WEATHER ANALYSIS SYSTEM (iSWA), a flexible, turnkey, web-based dissemination system for NASA-relevant space weather information that combines forecasts based on the most advanced space weather models with concurrent space environment information. iSWA is customer-configurable and adaptable for use as a powerful decision-making tool. The system offers an unprecedented ability to analyze the present and expected future space weather impacts on NASA's human and robotic missions.

  • Other Example Resources

    • Parker Solar Probe Science Gateway

      Parker Solar Probe mission science team website; includes access to actual instrument data and images, as well as orbit and instrument plans, schedules, and visualizations.

    • The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)

      Data from one of the oldest space weather stations; ACE still provides data that we receive within minutes of when it is collected in space.

  • Canadian Space Agency (CSA)

  • Brazilian Space Agency (AEB)

    • Complementary Datasets Embrace/INPE (Brazilian Studies and Monitoring of Space Weather)

      INPE, developed among other activities also, has been researching the spatial phenomena, from the Sun, interplanetary space, and magnetosphere to the ionosphere, the upper and middle atmosphere, and geomagnetism since its inception in 1964. In addition to the constant and essential scientific research activity of geospatial phenomena is growing need for information on the Space Weather from the technological and socio-economic communities.

  • South African National Space Agency (SANSA)

    • Neutron Monitor

      A neutron monitor is a ground-based detector designed to measure the number of high-energy charged particles striking the Earth's atmosphere from outer space based at Hermanus.