1 00:00:44,928 --> 00:00:45,161 . 2 00:00:45,161 --> 00:00:48,698 >>> THE SUN IS A MASSIVE DYNAMIC 3 00:00:48,698 --> 00:00:49,866 PLACE. 4 00:00:49,866 --> 00:00:52,435 ITS IMPACT IS FELT ACROSS THE 5 00:00:52,435 --> 00:00:53,870 SOLAR SYSTEM. 6 00:00:53,870 --> 00:00:55,138 THREE NEW MISSIONS ARE GOING TO 7 00:00:55,138 --> 00:00:58,675 HELP US UNDERSTAND OUR STAR LIKE 8 00:00:58,675 --> 00:01:02,145 NEVER BEFORE. 9 00:01:02,145 --> 00:01:03,813 THEY WILL MONITOR THE SUN'S 10 00:01:03,813 --> 00:01:05,181 EFFECT FROM UP CLOSE, OUT TO THE 11 00:01:05,181 --> 00:01:08,852 EDGES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. 12 00:01:08,852 --> 00:01:11,287 >> WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW OUR 13 00:01:11,287 --> 00:01:15,925 OWN GALAXY WAS CREATED. 14 00:01:15,925 --> 00:01:17,527 >> EVERY TIME WE HAVE GONE SOME 15 00:01:17,527 --> 00:01:19,295 PLACE NEW, WE HAVE BEEN 16 00:01:19,295 --> 00:01:19,696 SURPRISED. 17 00:01:19,696 --> 00:01:22,165 >> WE EXPECTED GREAT DISCOVERIES 18 00:01:22,165 --> 00:01:25,535 OF THINGS YOU WE CAN'T EVEN 19 00:01:25,535 --> 00:01:28,571 ENVISION TODAY. 20 00:01:28,571 --> 00:01:36,079 >> HELLO, AND WELCOME TO NASA 21 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:36,880 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER IN FLORIDA. 22 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:37,614 TIME SARAH FRASER WITH NASA'S 23 00:01:37,614 --> 00:01:38,248 OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION. 24 00:01:38,248 --> 00:01:38,982 AND YOU ARE WATCHING THE SCIENCE 25 00:01:38,982 --> 00:01:44,921 NEWS CONFERENCE FOR IMAP, 26 00:01:44,921 --> 00:01:47,290 CURRUTHERS GEOCORONA OBSERVATORY 27 00:01:47,290 --> 00:01:48,525 AND SWFO-L1. 28 00:01:48,525 --> 00:01:51,594 FROM THE LAUNCH COMPLEX 39-A 29 00:01:51,594 --> 00:01:54,430 LAUNCHED TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 AT 30 00:01:54,430 --> 00:01:58,034 7:32 A.M. EASTERN TIME. 31 00:01:58,034 --> 00:01:59,736 IMAP SHORT SUPPORT INTERSTELLAR 32 00:01:59,736 --> 00:02:04,040 MAPPING IS JOINING THE HELIO 33 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:04,774 FLEET. 34 00:02:04,774 --> 00:02:06,476 AN EXCITING LAUNCH BECAUSE ALL 35 00:02:06,476 --> 00:02:10,280 ARE CONNECTED TO HELIO PHYSICS. 36 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:18,922 THE CURRUTHERS WILL JOIN THE 37 00:02:18,922 --> 00:02:19,255 FLEET. 38 00:02:19,255 --> 00:02:20,323 AND FOR NOAA'S SPACE FORECASTS 39 00:02:20,323 --> 00:02:21,191 AND ALERTS. 40 00:02:21,191 --> 00:02:22,292 TO SHARE MORE OF THE 41 00:02:22,292 --> 00:02:23,993 OBSERVATIONS ARE JOE WESTLAKE, 42 00:02:23,993 --> 00:02:27,330 DIRECTOR OF HELIO PHYSICS, 43 00:02:27,330 --> 00:02:31,067 DAVID MAKOMIS, IMAP INVESTIGATOR 44 00:02:31,067 --> 00:02:36,472 PRINCETON. LAURA WALTRIP, 45 00:02:36,472 --> 00:02:37,774 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 46 00:02:37,774 --> 00:02:39,375 JAMIE FAVORS, DIRECTOR OF SPACE 47 00:02:39,375 --> 00:02:44,314 WEATHER PROGRAM HELIO PHYSICS 48 00:02:44,314 --> 00:02:44,714 DIVISION. 49 00:02:44,714 --> 00:02:46,749 CLINTON WALLACE DIRECTOR OF 50 00:02:46,749 --> 00:02:53,489 SPACE PREDICTION AND JIM SPANN, 51 00:02:53,489 --> 00:02:55,558 NOAA'S OFFICE OF SPACE 52 00:02:55,558 --> 00:02:56,292 EX-EMPLOYEE PLACE. 53 00:02:56,292 --> 00:02:57,293 THOSE IN THE ROOM CAN RAISE 54 00:02:57,293 --> 00:02:58,761 THEIR HANDS AND THOSE ON THE 55 00:02:58,761 --> 00:03:00,864 PHONE CAN GET INTO THE QUESTION 56 00:03:00,864 --> 00:03:02,899 CUE BY STAR 1. 57 00:03:02,899 --> 00:03:06,035 WATCHING ONLINE, WE WILL TAKE 58 00:03:06,035 --> 00:03:07,971 QUESTIONS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA WITH 59 00:03:07,971 --> 00:03:09,572 HASH TAG ASK NASA. 60 00:03:09,572 --> 00:03:11,307 TURN TO OVER TO JOE. 61 00:03:11,307 --> 00:03:13,076 >> I AM SO INCREDIBLY EXCITED TO 62 00:03:13,076 --> 00:03:14,043 BE HERE. 63 00:03:14,043 --> 00:03:15,311 NOT ONLY THE JOY OF BEING ABLE 64 00:03:15,311 --> 00:03:16,846 TO LAUNCH THESE AMAZING 65 00:03:16,846 --> 00:03:19,449 SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS OUT INTO 66 00:03:19,449 --> 00:03:19,782 SPACE. 67 00:03:19,782 --> 00:03:23,219 BUT WE AS NASA HELIO PHYSICS HAD 68 00:03:23,219 --> 00:03:25,822 AN AMAZING YEAR THIS YEAR. 69 00:03:25,822 --> 00:03:28,224 WHETHER ENTERING OUR SLANG ERA 70 00:03:28,224 --> 00:03:30,660 AND PUTTING THE 71 00:03:30,660 --> 00:03:32,595 WORD HELIOPHYSICS INTO THE DITCH 72 00:03:32,595 --> 00:03:34,697 THAT ARY AND MOVING TO MOTIVATE 73 00:03:34,697 --> 00:03:36,432 AND PROPEL OUR SPACE WEATHER 74 00:03:36,432 --> 00:03:37,433 EARN DEFERS FORWARD. 75 00:03:37,433 --> 00:03:38,835 IF I CAN HAVE THE FIRST SLIDE 76 00:03:38,835 --> 00:03:39,135 HERE. 77 00:03:39,135 --> 00:03:41,204 IF WE GO AHEAD AND LOOK FORWARD 78 00:03:41,204 --> 00:03:42,338 TO THE MULTITUDE OF LAUNCHES 79 00:03:42,338 --> 00:03:43,907 THAT WE HAD THIS YEAR. 80 00:03:43,907 --> 00:03:47,110 WE LAUNCHED THE INSTRUMENT LEXI 81 00:03:47,110 --> 00:03:49,379 ON BOARD THE BLUE GHOST, SAT 82 00:03:49,379 --> 00:03:51,948 FROM THE LUNAR SURFACE TAKING 83 00:03:51,948 --> 00:03:57,020 MEASUREMENTS OF THE EARTH'S 84 00:03:57,020 --> 00:03:57,854 MAGNETOSPHERE. 85 00:03:57,854 --> 00:03:58,721 FOUR SMALL PUNCH SATELLITES TO 86 00:03:58,721 --> 00:04:01,057 LOOK AT THE SOLAR WIND AS IT 87 00:04:01,057 --> 00:04:02,692 COMES ALL THE WAY FROM THE SUN 88 00:04:02,692 --> 00:04:04,560 BACK TO THE EARTH. 89 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,563 EASY RODE ALONG ON A SPACE X 90 00:04:07,563 --> 00:04:09,933 TRANSPORTER TO LOOK AT THE 91 00:04:09,933 --> 00:04:11,067 AURORA ELECTROJETS. 92 00:04:11,067 --> 00:04:13,336 THE FEATURES OF OUR AURORA AND 93 00:04:13,336 --> 00:04:14,837 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE GOING 94 00:04:14,837 --> 00:04:17,373 ON IN THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS 95 00:04:17,373 --> 00:04:17,974 OF THE REGION. 96 00:04:17,974 --> 00:04:20,143 TWO TWIN CHASER SPACECRAFTS THAT 97 00:04:20,143 --> 00:04:22,679 ARE OUT LOOKING AT HOW OUR 98 00:04:22,679 --> 00:04:24,147 MAGNETIC FIELDS CONNECT OUT INTO 99 00:04:24,147 --> 00:04:24,480 SPACE. 100 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:25,915 NOW WE ARE LAUNCHING 101 00:04:25,915 --> 00:04:28,384 INTERSTELLAR MAPPING AND 102 00:04:28,384 --> 00:04:32,655 ACCELERATION AND THE CURRUTHERS 103 00:04:32,655 --> 00:04:34,924 GEOCORONA OBSERVATORY. 104 00:04:34,924 --> 00:04:35,725 WONDERFUL COMPLEX OF 105 00:04:35,725 --> 00:04:37,593 UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE, BOTH 106 00:04:37,593 --> 00:04:38,828 OF SPACE WEATHER AND LOOKING 107 00:04:38,828 --> 00:04:40,630 BACK ON OUR OWN EARTH AND 108 00:04:40,630 --> 00:04:41,531 UNDERSTANDING ITS UPPER 109 00:04:41,531 --> 00:04:43,266 ATMOSPHERE, UNDERSTANDING HOW 110 00:04:43,266 --> 00:04:44,801 OUR ATMOSPHERE GOES OUT INTO 111 00:04:44,801 --> 00:04:45,335 SPACE. 112 00:04:45,335 --> 00:04:47,136 CURRUTHERS IS EXPECTED TO IT BE 113 00:04:47,136 --> 00:04:50,540 THE FIRST TO OPERATE OUGHT L 1. 114 00:04:50,540 --> 00:04:53,376 STABLE OR BIT BETWEEN THE EARTH 115 00:04:53,376 --> 00:04:55,278 AND THE SUN ONE MILLION. 116 00:04:55,278 --> 00:05:01,584 AND A FAST SATELLITE OF 117 00:05:01,584 --> 00:05:02,352 CONTINUED OBSERVATIONS OF THE 118 00:05:02,352 --> 00:05:02,919 EARTH'S EXOSPHERE. 119 00:05:02,919 --> 00:05:06,856 IMAP WILL LOOK INTO THE 120 00:05:06,856 --> 00:05:08,391 COSMOSPHERE TO LOOK THE BUSHEL 121 00:05:08,391 --> 00:05:11,928 FROM GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS TO THE 122 00:05:11,928 --> 00:05:14,097 FARTHEST REACHES SPACE. 123 00:05:14,097 --> 00:05:15,498 PERSONALLY I HAD A LONG HISTORY 124 00:05:15,498 --> 00:05:15,898 OF IMAP. 125 00:05:15,898 --> 00:05:17,200 I GOT TO WORK ON THIS MISSION 126 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:18,401 FOR QUITE SOME TIME. 127 00:05:18,401 --> 00:05:19,836 I STARTED AS PROJECT SCIENTIST 128 00:05:19,836 --> 00:05:21,738 FOR THIS MISSION BEFORE TAKING 129 00:05:21,738 --> 00:05:22,538 THIS JOB HERE. 130 00:05:22,538 --> 00:05:24,040 AND SPENT SO MUCH TIME WITH THE 131 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,408 ENGINEERING TEAM, WITH THE 132 00:05:25,408 --> 00:05:26,943 SCIENCE TIPSES, AND ALL THE 133 00:05:26,943 --> 00:05:29,212 FOLKS WITH MY COLLEAGUE 134 00:05:29,212 --> 00:05:32,348 DAVE MAKOMIS AND THE WHOLE CREW, 135 00:05:32,348 --> 00:05:34,851 AND SO INCREDIBLY EXCITING TO BE 136 00:05:34,851 --> 00:05:36,352 PART OF A MISSION FROM BEGINNING 137 00:05:36,352 --> 00:05:39,288 FROM CONCEPT NOW ALL THE WAY TO 138 00:05:39,288 --> 00:05:40,857 LAUNCH. 139 00:05:40,857 --> 00:05:42,959 AND SO THIS NEXT SET OF MISSIONS 140 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:45,762 -- IF WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT 141 00:05:45,762 --> 00:05:46,095 VIDEO. 142 00:05:46,095 --> 00:05:48,865 THE ULTIMATE COSMIC CARPOOL. 143 00:05:48,865 --> 00:05:52,101 MISSIONS TO THE L-1. 144 00:05:52,101 --> 00:05:53,536 RIDING A LONG TOGETHER PROVIDES 145 00:05:53,536 --> 00:05:54,704 IMMENSE VALUE FOR THE AMERICAN 146 00:05:54,704 --> 00:05:57,473 TAXPAYER .THESE SPACECRAFT 147 00:05:57,473 --> 00:05:58,541 MISSIONS GOING TOGETHER WOULD 148 00:05:58,541 --> 00:06:01,177 HAVE TAKEN US THREE SEPARATE 149 00:06:01,177 --> 00:06:02,712 LAUNCHES AND TAKEN THREE 150 00:06:02,712 --> 00:06:04,147 SEPARATE MISSION DESIGN. 151 00:06:04,147 --> 00:06:06,015 HAVING THEM FILE TOGETHER AS ONE 152 00:06:06,015 --> 00:06:08,184 PROVIDES AN IMMENSE VALUE FOR 153 00:06:08,184 --> 00:06:11,187 OUR AMERICAN TAXPAYER. 154 00:06:11,187 --> 00:06:11,954 PARTNERSHIP LIKE WE HAVE NEVER 155 00:06:11,954 --> 00:06:13,022 SEEN BEFORE. 156 00:06:13,022 --> 00:06:14,190 INCREDIBLY HAPPY WITH THE WORK 157 00:06:14,190 --> 00:06:16,025 WE HAVE DONE BETWEEN NASA AND 158 00:06:16,025 --> 00:06:18,127 NOAA TO EFFECTIVELY CREATE THE 159 00:06:18,127 --> 00:06:19,729 RESEARCH SIDE OF SPACE WEATHER, 160 00:06:19,729 --> 00:06:21,431 RIGHT, LOOKING AT THE TIP OF 161 00:06:21,431 --> 00:06:25,034 THE SPHERE AND HOW WE PROPEL NEW 162 00:06:25,034 --> 00:06:29,605 SPACE WEATHER ACTIVITIES FORWARD 163 00:06:29,605 --> 00:06:30,973 SWFO-L1 WHICH PROVIDES OUR SPACE 164 00:06:30,973 --> 00:06:32,375 OPERATION AND ALERTS AS WE GO 165 00:06:32,375 --> 00:06:33,910 DOWN TO ALL THE FOLKS HERE ON 166 00:06:33,910 --> 00:06:36,979 THE GROUND AND ALL OF THE 167 00:06:36,979 --> 00:06:38,548 DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES THAT 168 00:06:38,548 --> 00:06:40,950 REQUIRE THIS INFORMATION FOR 169 00:06:40,950 --> 00:06:42,085 THEIR DAILY ACTIVITIES. 170 00:06:42,085 --> 00:06:44,620 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE 171 00:06:44,620 --> 00:06:45,721 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS OF OUR 172 00:06:45,721 --> 00:06:47,023 TWO MISSIONS THAT YOU HAVE UP 173 00:06:47,023 --> 00:06:48,091 HERE. 174 00:06:48,091 --> 00:06:49,192 WE WILL HEAR FROM THEM SOON. 175 00:06:49,192 --> 00:06:54,163 DAVID MAKOMIS AND LAURA WALTRIP 176 00:06:54,163 --> 00:06:58,434 WHO LED AS PRIMARY INVEST 177 00:06:58,434 --> 00:07:00,770 INVESTIGATORS .THEY ARE PURE 178 00:07:00,770 --> 00:07:01,170 SCIENTISTS. 179 00:07:01,170 --> 00:07:03,940 TAKES A VILLAGE. 180 00:07:03,940 --> 00:07:05,842 MULTITUDE OF INSTITUTIONS TO 181 00:07:05,842 --> 00:07:07,510 MAKE THESE MISSION AS SUCCESS. 182 00:07:07,510 --> 00:07:10,179 GO AHEAD TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 183 00:07:10,179 --> 00:07:11,447 THIS IS REALLY A MONUMENTAL 184 00:07:11,447 --> 00:07:12,615 MOMENT FOR SPACE WEATHER. 185 00:07:12,615 --> 00:07:13,883 THESE THREE MISSIONS WORKING 186 00:07:13,883 --> 00:07:15,284 TOGETHER SEPARATELY AND TOGETHER 187 00:07:15,284 --> 00:07:17,019 WITHIN THE REST OF SPACE -- THE 188 00:07:17,019 --> 00:07:18,087 SPACE WEATHER FLEET. 189 00:07:18,087 --> 00:07:20,056 THEY PROVIDE UNPRECEDENTED 190 00:07:20,056 --> 00:07:21,924 INSIGHT INTO THE SPACE WEATHER 191 00:07:21,924 --> 00:07:22,792 WITH REALTIME OBSERVATIONS OF 192 00:07:22,792 --> 00:07:24,293 THE SOLAR WIND. 193 00:07:24,293 --> 00:07:29,599 AND INSIGHT INTO THE EXOSHHERE. 194 00:07:29,599 --> 00:07:31,734 AND THE NEAR SUN MACHINE EARTH 195 00:07:31,734 --> 00:07:32,335 ENVIRONMENT. 196 00:07:32,335 --> 00:07:33,536 VALUE ADD FOR SPACE WEATHER 197 00:07:33,536 --> 00:07:34,804 SCIENCE RESEARCH AND OPERATION 198 00:07:34,804 --> 00:07:36,072 IS HUGE. 199 00:07:36,072 --> 00:07:37,740 EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH AS WELL AS 200 00:07:37,740 --> 00:07:39,842 NEARLY EVERY SYSTEM INVOLVED IN 201 00:07:39,842 --> 00:07:41,377 SPACE EXPLORATION AND HUMAN 202 00:07:41,377 --> 00:07:42,745 NEEDS IS AFFECTED BY SPACE 203 00:07:42,745 --> 00:07:43,112 WEATHER. 204 00:07:43,112 --> 00:07:44,313 MOST COMPANIES OUT THERE, 205 00:07:44,313 --> 00:07:45,748 WHETHER THEY BELIEVE IT OR KNOW 206 00:07:45,748 --> 00:07:48,384 IT OR NOT, ARE SOON TO BE A 207 00:07:48,384 --> 00:07:49,085 SPACE COMPANY. 208 00:07:49,085 --> 00:07:50,286 ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU USE THE 209 00:07:50,286 --> 00:07:53,189 PHONES IN YOUR POCKET TO THE 210 00:07:53,189 --> 00:07:54,757 FOOD DELIVERED TO OUR TABLE HAVE 211 00:07:54,757 --> 00:07:56,092 SOMETHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS 212 00:07:56,092 --> 00:07:57,093 GOING ON IN SPACE. 213 00:07:57,093 --> 00:07:59,629 FROM THE SUN TO MUD AND FROM THE 214 00:07:59,629 --> 00:08:01,197 SUN TO INTERSTELLAR SPACE. 215 00:08:01,197 --> 00:08:03,099 THIS MISSION TRAILER ILLUSTRATES 216 00:08:03,099 --> 00:08:03,499 PERFECTLY. 217 00:08:03,499 --> 00:08:05,902 MANY WAYS IN THE LAST YEAR, I 218 00:08:05,902 --> 00:08:07,336 HOPE YOU ALL HAD A OPPORTUNITY 219 00:08:07,336 --> 00:08:08,804 TO SEE SPACE WEATHER HIT HOME. 220 00:08:08,804 --> 00:08:10,606 A LARGE STORM THAT HIT US LAST 221 00:08:10,606 --> 00:08:12,208 MAY, WE CALLED IT THE GANNON 222 00:08:12,208 --> 00:08:12,542 STORM. 223 00:08:12,542 --> 00:08:13,342 ONE IN MAY. 224 00:08:13,342 --> 00:08:14,143 ONE IN OCTOBER. 225 00:08:14,143 --> 00:08:16,979 WE WERE ABLE TO SEE AURORA THE 226 00:08:16,979 --> 00:08:18,614 WAY TO THE SOUTHERN REGIONS OF 227 00:08:18,614 --> 00:08:19,148 THE UNITED STATES. 228 00:08:19,148 --> 00:08:20,716 AND ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING 229 00:08:20,716 --> 00:08:23,019 THING ABOUT THAT STORM IS THAT 230 00:08:23,019 --> 00:08:25,121 IT DIDN'T CAUSE CHAOS AND KNOCK 231 00:08:25,121 --> 00:08:26,322 EVERYTHING TO OUT BECAUSE WE 232 00:08:26,322 --> 00:08:28,291 WERE PREPARED, RIGHT. 233 00:08:28,291 --> 00:08:29,525 WE WERE PREPARED TO BRING 234 00:08:29,525 --> 00:08:30,893 FORWARD OUR KNOWLEDGE OF SPACE 235 00:08:30,893 --> 00:08:31,727 WEATHER MOVING FORWARD. 236 00:08:31,727 --> 00:08:34,030 YOU WILL HEAR FROM OUR SPACE 237 00:08:34,030 --> 00:08:34,764 WEATHER LEAD HERE AT NASA. 238 00:08:34,764 --> 00:08:37,800 FROM JAMIE ON SOME OF THE 239 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,269 ECONOMIC SECTORS SPECIFICALLY 240 00:08:40,269 --> 00:08:45,341 AND NOAA COLLEAGUES WALLACE 241 00:08:45,341 --> 00:08:49,078 AND JIM SPANN SO NOAA WILL HELP 242 00:08:49,078 --> 00:08:51,247 WITH US EARLY ALERTS AND THE 243 00:08:51,247 --> 00:08:52,648 SOCIETAL EFFECT OF ALL THESE 244 00:08:52,648 --> 00:08:53,316 ACTIVITIES. 245 00:08:53,316 --> 00:08:54,517 ACTIVITIES RANGE FROM THE SPACE 246 00:08:54,517 --> 00:08:55,851 INDUSTRY, RIGHT, OUR ASTRONAUTS 247 00:08:55,851 --> 00:08:56,385 OUT IN SPACE. 248 00:08:56,385 --> 00:08:58,921 OPERATING AS WE GO OUT TO THE 249 00:08:58,921 --> 00:09:00,790 MOON AND MARS. 250 00:09:00,790 --> 00:09:02,225 OPERATING FARTHER THAN WE EVER 251 00:09:02,225 --> 00:09:09,966 HAVE OPERATED BEFORE. 252 00:09:09,966 --> 00:09:10,933 AERONAUTICS. 253 00:09:10,933 --> 00:09:11,667 SPACE TRANSPORTATION AND ALL 254 00:09:11,667 --> 00:09:13,069 MODES OF TRANSPORTATION. 255 00:09:13,069 --> 00:09:15,671 SPEAKING OF OUR SIGNALS. 256 00:09:15,671 --> 00:09:18,107 AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION. 257 00:09:18,107 --> 00:09:19,642 PRECISION FARMING AND HOW THAT 258 00:09:19,642 --> 00:09:22,712 HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY GPS 259 00:09:22,712 --> 00:09:23,079 SYSTEMS. 260 00:09:23,079 --> 00:09:24,013 SAFETY OF LIFE 261 00:09:24,013 --> 00:09:26,782 APPLICATIONS, EMS, FIRE FIGHTERS 262 00:09:26,782 --> 00:09:27,950 AND OUR MILITARY AS WELL AS OUR 263 00:09:27,950 --> 00:09:28,784 ENERGY GRADES. 264 00:09:28,784 --> 00:09:30,086 ALL PLAY A TREMENDOUS ROLE IN 265 00:09:30,086 --> 00:09:32,421 OUR ECONOMICS AND EFFECT OUR 266 00:09:32,421 --> 00:09:33,589 OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE. 267 00:09:33,589 --> 00:09:35,858 SO WITH THAT, I AM SO INCREDIBLY 268 00:09:35,858 --> 00:09:37,393 EXCITED FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD. 269 00:09:37,393 --> 00:09:40,263 LET'S GO ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 270 00:09:40,263 --> 00:09:42,164 LET'S GET TO LAUNCH. 271 00:09:42,164 --> 00:09:44,934 I AM SO EXCITED TO FOR THIS 272 00:09:44,934 --> 00:09:46,836 LAUNCH COMING UP ON TUESDAY. 273 00:09:46,836 --> 00:09:49,739 LET'S GO IMAP, GO CURRUTHERS, GO 274 00:09:49,739 --> 00:09:50,840 SWFO-L1, GO FALCON. 275 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,509 WITH THAT DAVID MAKOMIS, 276 00:09:53,509 --> 00:09:55,611 THE P.I. FOR THE IMAP MISSION. 277 00:09:55,611 --> 00:09:57,947 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, JOE. 278 00:09:57,947 --> 00:10:04,220 I AM DAVID, PI FOR THE IMAP 279 00:10:04,220 --> 00:10:07,223 MISSION. 280 00:10:07,223 --> 00:10:07,657 HELIOSPHERE. 281 00:10:07,657 --> 00:10:09,292 A REGION OF SPACE DOMINATED BY 282 00:10:09,292 --> 00:10:11,193 OUR SUN. 283 00:10:11,193 --> 00:10:12,662 THE SUN HAS MILLION MILES PER 284 00:10:12,662 --> 00:10:13,763 HOUR THAT FLOWS IN ALL 285 00:10:13,763 --> 00:10:15,364 DIRECTIONSS SPACE ALL THE TIME 286 00:10:15,364 --> 00:10:18,100 AND BASE INFLATES A BUBBLE IN 287 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:19,602 THIS INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM. 288 00:10:19,602 --> 00:10:20,336 IN THIS GRAPHIC, WHAT IT LOOKS 289 00:10:20,336 --> 00:10:22,305 LIKE. 290 00:10:22,305 --> 00:10:23,739 100 TIMES AWAY FROM THE EARTH TO 291 00:10:23,739 --> 00:10:25,941 THE SUN, A BOUNDARY WHERE THE 292 00:10:25,941 --> 00:10:28,277 SUPERSONIC SOLAR WIND SLOW DO 293 00:10:28,277 --> 00:10:31,881 UNAND GETS BENT BACK TO A HELIO 294 00:10:31,881 --> 00:10:32,181 TILL. 295 00:10:32,181 --> 00:10:35,584 A HELIO BECAUSE BETWEEN THE 296 00:10:35,584 --> 00:10:37,620 STUFF FROM THE SUN AND THE 297 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:37,953 MEDIA. 298 00:10:37,953 --> 00:10:40,823 VERY IMPORTANT PLACE BECAUSE 299 00:10:40,823 --> 00:10:43,159 PROTECTS US AGAINST GALACTIC 300 00:10:43,159 --> 00:10:43,693 RADIATION. 301 00:10:43,693 --> 00:10:45,161 IT IS NOT UNDERSTOOD AND IMAP 302 00:10:45,161 --> 00:10:47,697 WILL GIVE DETAILED PICTURES THAT 303 00:10:47,697 --> 00:10:50,333 EVOLVE OVER TIME WITH THE REGION 304 00:10:50,333 --> 00:10:51,934 AND UNDERSTAND HOW THE SHIELDING 305 00:10:51,934 --> 00:10:53,703 WORKS AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. 306 00:10:53,703 --> 00:10:57,840 AND WE ARE NOT ALONE IN HAVING 307 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:03,112 SOMETHING LIKE A HELIOSPHERE. 308 00:11:03,112 --> 00:11:04,547 THESE BRIGHT INTERACTIONS. 309 00:11:04,547 --> 00:11:06,549 YOU SEE SHOCKS OUT IN FRONT OF 310 00:11:06,549 --> 00:11:06,949 THEM. 311 00:11:06,949 --> 00:11:07,750 ASTRO BECAUSES. 312 00:11:07,750 --> 00:11:10,152 WE CAN'T SEE THAT AROUND OUR OWN 313 00:11:10,152 --> 00:11:11,520 SON, THE INTERACTION IS NOT 314 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,956 ENOUGH FOR OUR OWN SUN AND IS 315 00:11:13,956 --> 00:11:15,424 AROUND SOME OF THESE OTHER 316 00:11:15,424 --> 00:11:17,026 STARS. 317 00:11:17,026 --> 00:11:18,627 ENTIRELY NEW WAY TO MEASURE 318 00:11:18,627 --> 00:11:19,962 THESE PARTICLES TO COME IN TO 319 00:11:19,962 --> 00:11:23,632 MAKE PICTURES OF THE BOUNDARIES 320 00:11:23,632 --> 00:11:27,870 OF OUR HELIO. 321 00:11:27,870 --> 00:11:29,472 INTERGENIC ENGINEERING. 322 00:11:29,472 --> 00:11:30,873 EMA ASTRONOMY. 323 00:11:30,873 --> 00:11:32,174 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 324 00:11:32,174 --> 00:11:33,876 SOME WHAT YOU WILL SEE IS THE 325 00:11:33,876 --> 00:11:34,610 EXPANSION OF THE SOLAR WIND 326 00:11:34,610 --> 00:11:36,412 GOING ALL DIRECTIONS. 327 00:11:36,412 --> 00:11:37,947 THIS IS THE SOLAR WIND FLOWING 328 00:11:37,947 --> 00:11:39,915 OUT PAST ALL OF THE PLANETS. 329 00:11:39,915 --> 00:11:41,484 OUT TO THE BOUNDARIES. 330 00:11:41,484 --> 00:11:44,053 AND AN INDIVIDUAL PARTICLE. 331 00:11:44,053 --> 00:11:45,287 INDIVIDUAL HYDROGEN GOING OUT TO 332 00:11:45,287 --> 00:11:45,821 THE BOUNDARY. 333 00:11:45,821 --> 00:11:47,289 IT GETS OUT THERE. 334 00:11:47,289 --> 00:11:49,658 ONCE IT GETS OUT THERE -- NEXT 335 00:11:49,658 --> 00:11:50,226 SLIDE, PLEASE. 336 00:11:50,226 --> 00:11:51,494 WHAT YOU WILL SEE IT IS POSSIBLE 337 00:11:51,494 --> 00:11:54,597 FOR IT TO GRAB AN ELECTRON FROM 338 00:11:54,597 --> 00:11:56,465 ANOTHER AT TOMORROW FLOATING 339 00:11:56,465 --> 00:12:00,536 THROUGH THE HELIOSPHERE. 340 00:12:00,536 --> 00:12:03,672 START THE NEXT MOVIE, PLEASE. 341 00:12:03,672 --> 00:12:05,975 GYRATING AROUND THE LOCAL 342 00:12:05,975 --> 00:12:07,410 MAGNETIC FIELD AND EVERY NOW AND 343 00:12:07,410 --> 00:12:09,478 THEN A NEUTRAL AT TOMORROW. 344 00:12:09,478 --> 00:12:13,282 IT CAN GRAB AN ELECTRON AND GO 345 00:12:13,282 --> 00:12:14,784 ZIPPING OFF AND GOES IN ALL THE 346 00:12:14,784 --> 00:12:20,089 WAY PAST THE PLANETS AND THE 347 00:12:20,089 --> 00:12:21,056 EARTH AND INTO OUR ESTIMATES 348 00:12:21,056 --> 00:12:21,424 ON L-1. 349 00:12:21,424 --> 00:12:24,860 WHAT I LIKE TO CALL A TEN 350 00:12:24,860 --> 00:12:26,962 BILLION MILE HOLE IN ONE. 351 00:12:26,962 --> 00:12:27,296 THERE. 352 00:12:27,296 --> 00:12:29,732 WHEN THAT HAPPENS, MAKE A MESH 353 00:12:29,732 --> 00:12:33,002 CHUFRMENT OF THE PARTICLE, YOU 354 00:12:33,002 --> 00:12:35,871 MESH ENOUGH, AN INSIDE-OUT IMAGE 355 00:12:35,871 --> 00:12:38,674 AND SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE HOW 356 00:12:38,674 --> 00:12:40,342 MANY OF THESE NEUTRAL ATOMS ARE 357 00:12:40,342 --> 00:12:40,910 COMING IN. 358 00:12:40,910 --> 00:12:44,079 YOU ARE ABLE TO DO PRECISE 359 00:12:44,079 --> 00:12:46,215 IMAGING AND TELL WHAT THE PLASMA 360 00:12:46,215 --> 00:12:47,650 ENVIRONMENT IS A LIKE WITH THAT 361 00:12:47,650 --> 00:12:48,384 INTERACTIVE REGION. 362 00:12:48,384 --> 00:12:52,621 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 363 00:12:52,621 --> 00:12:55,391 WE ALSO DO SPACE WEATHER AND 364 00:12:55,391 --> 00:12:57,092 PARTICLE ACCELERATION. 365 00:12:57,092 --> 00:13:00,362 THIS SHOWS AN EXAMPLE OF A FLARE 366 00:13:00,362 --> 00:13:04,700 AND A CORONA MASS INFLECTION AND 367 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:08,337 PARTICLES AT HIGH ENERGY AND 368 00:13:08,337 --> 00:13:11,707 MEASURE SITSHU. 369 00:13:11,707 --> 00:13:13,075 AND THE SAME PARTICLES THAT 370 00:13:13,075 --> 00:13:15,311 DIDN'T COME INTO OUR SPACECRAFT 371 00:13:15,311 --> 00:13:16,645 AND MEASURED DIRECTLY BUT CLOSE 372 00:13:16,645 --> 00:13:17,813 TO OUR SPACECRAFT. 373 00:13:17,813 --> 00:13:20,015 THEY CONTINUE TO GO OUT TO AND A 374 00:13:20,015 --> 00:13:22,117 COUPLE TWO, THREE YEARS LATER 375 00:13:22,117 --> 00:13:23,586 HAVE THE INTERACTION I JUST 376 00:13:23,586 --> 00:13:25,488 DESCRIBED THROUGH CHARGE 377 00:13:25,488 --> 00:13:27,890 EXCHANGE AND COME BACK AS 378 00:13:27,890 --> 00:13:29,291 NEUTRAL ATOMS. 379 00:13:29,291 --> 00:13:31,961 COMING FROM THE SON, ENERGIZED 380 00:13:31,961 --> 00:13:32,495 LOCALLY. 381 00:13:32,495 --> 00:13:34,430 PASSING BACK IN TO THE 382 00:13:34,430 --> 00:13:38,234 OUTER HELISPHERE BOUNDARIES. 383 00:13:38,234 --> 00:13:40,069 INCREDIBLE EXCITING MISSION TO 384 00:13:40,069 --> 00:13:42,671 DO THE ENTIRE LIFE CYCLE OF 385 00:13:42,671 --> 00:13:44,707 THESE PARTICLES AND THE HOLISTIC 386 00:13:44,707 --> 00:13:46,208 VIEW OF HOW YOU THIS REGION OF 387 00:13:46,208 --> 00:13:47,943 SPACE BEHIND US, OUR SOLAR 388 00:13:47,943 --> 00:13:49,411 NEIGHBORHOOD REALLY WORKS. 389 00:13:49,411 --> 00:13:52,181 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 390 00:13:52,181 --> 00:13:54,049 AND SO THAT'S IT. 391 00:13:54,049 --> 00:13:55,684 THAT IS IMAP IN A NUTSHELL. 392 00:13:55,684 --> 00:13:57,119 GOING TO BE A FABULOUS MISSION. 393 00:13:57,119 --> 00:13:58,587 WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO 394 00:13:58,587 --> 00:13:59,655 LAUNCHING IN TWO DAYS AND 395 00:13:59,655 --> 00:14:01,223 GETTING OUT HERE AND DOING THIS 396 00:14:01,223 --> 00:14:03,926 WONDERFUL SCIENCE IN THIS VERY 397 00:14:03,926 --> 00:14:06,028 IMPORTANT SPACE, WEATHER. 398 00:14:06,028 --> 00:14:06,662 LAURA, OVER TO YOU. 399 00:14:06,662 --> 00:14:07,796 >> THANK YOU. 400 00:14:07,796 --> 00:14:11,867 EYE NAME IS LAURA WITH,ALDRUP, 401 00:14:11,867 --> 00:14:14,870 THE PRINCIPAL VECTOR OF THE 402 00:14:14,870 --> 00:14:17,006 GEOCORONA OBSERVATORY AND NOT 403 00:14:17,006 --> 00:14:19,675 JUST INVESTIGATING A FRONTIER IN 404 00:14:19,675 --> 00:14:20,843 SCIENCE BUT A LITERAL FRONTIER 405 00:14:20,843 --> 00:14:23,712 OF OUR PLANEARNINGST KNOWN AS 406 00:14:23,712 --> 00:14:27,483 THE EX-OSPHERE. 407 00:14:27,483 --> 00:14:29,852 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 408 00:14:29,852 --> 00:14:33,122 MANY OF YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE 409 00:14:33,122 --> 00:14:33,622 LOW ATMOSPHERE. 410 00:14:33,622 --> 00:14:34,857 WHERE THE WEATHER HAPPENS. 411 00:14:34,857 --> 00:14:37,259 ALSO WHERE OUR AIRPLANES FLY. 412 00:14:37,259 --> 00:14:39,762 AND, IN FACT, WHERE MANY OF OUR 413 00:14:39,762 --> 00:14:42,531 LOW EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES 414 00:14:42,531 --> 00:14:42,831 LIVE. 415 00:14:42,831 --> 00:14:44,500 RIGHT IN THAT OR BIT IS WHERE 416 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:48,404 THE EXOSPHERE BEGINS. 417 00:14:48,404 --> 00:14:50,573 UNLIKE THE LAYERS THAT ARE WELL 418 00:14:50,573 --> 00:14:51,807 CONFINED TO OUR PLANET. 419 00:14:51,807 --> 00:14:53,509 HELD VERY CLOSE. 420 00:14:53,509 --> 00:14:56,478 GRAVITATIONALRY BOUND. 421 00:14:56,478 --> 00:15:01,216 EXOSPHERE GOES EXACT MOON, I 422 00:15:01,216 --> 00:15:03,319 SAY MAYBE, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW 423 00:15:03,319 --> 00:15:04,219 HOW BIG IT IS. 424 00:15:04,219 --> 00:15:07,256 WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY HYDROGEN 425 00:15:07,256 --> 00:15:09,191 ATOMS POPULATED. 426 00:15:09,191 --> 00:15:11,327 WE KNOW IT IS LIGHT ENOUGH TO 427 00:15:11,327 --> 00:15:14,597 MAKE IT UP TO THOSE AT NEWTS BUT 428 00:15:14,597 --> 00:15:19,335 DON'T KNOW SPHERICAL SYMMETRY OR 429 00:15:19,335 --> 00:15:22,271 LINED LIKE AN OVA. 430 00:15:22,271 --> 00:15:24,773 MAYBE DAWN DUSK ASYMMETRIES. 431 00:15:24,773 --> 00:15:26,041 WE LITERALLY DON'T KNOW. 432 00:15:26,041 --> 00:15:28,143 IT IS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO 433 00:15:28,143 --> 00:15:30,613 MAKE COMPREHENSIVE MEASUREMENTS 434 00:15:30,613 --> 00:15:33,616 OF ITS PROPERTIES. 435 00:15:33,616 --> 00:15:35,551 ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO OBSERVE 436 00:15:35,551 --> 00:15:38,220 THE EXOSPHERE THROUGH REMOTE 437 00:15:38,220 --> 00:15:38,787 SENSING. 438 00:15:38,787 --> 00:15:40,589 INSTEAD OF TAKING A SENSOR AND 439 00:15:40,589 --> 00:15:43,425 TRYING TO DIRECTOR MEASURE THE 440 00:15:43,425 --> 00:15:46,061 HYDROGEN ALBUMS DIRECTLY 441 00:15:46,061 --> 00:15:46,762 MEASURING THEMSELVES, THIS 442 00:15:46,762 --> 00:15:48,063 REGION IS HUGE. 443 00:15:48,063 --> 00:15:50,165 YOU WILL NEED A GIGANTIC 444 00:15:50,165 --> 00:15:51,400 CONSTELLATION OF SENSORS TO DO 445 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:51,967 THAT. 446 00:15:51,967 --> 00:15:53,769 INSTEAD, WE LOOK AT THE LIGHT IT 447 00:15:53,769 --> 00:15:56,005 GIVES OFF WHEN THE SUN SHINES ON 448 00:15:56,005 --> 00:15:56,271 IT. 449 00:15:56,271 --> 00:15:59,074 THIS LIGHT IS IN THE ULTRAVIOLET 450 00:15:59,074 --> 00:16:03,178 AND WHAT GEORGE CURRUTHERS, THE 451 00:16:03,178 --> 00:16:05,114 NAMETAKE OF OUR MISSION 452 00:16:05,114 --> 00:16:07,082 NICKNAMED THE GEOCORONA. 453 00:16:07,082 --> 00:16:09,685 DR. GEORGE CURRUTHERS WAS A 454 00:16:09,685 --> 00:16:11,153 THREE-TIME UNIVERSITY ALUM. 455 00:16:11,153 --> 00:16:15,090 WE ARE PROUD OF THAT HERE IN 456 00:16:15,090 --> 00:16:16,258 ILLINOIS, BUT HE DEVELOPED THE 457 00:16:16,258 --> 00:16:18,293 FIRST CAMERA TO EVER TAKE AN 458 00:16:18,293 --> 00:16:24,967 IMAGE OF THIS EXOSHHERETIC 459 00:16:24,967 --> 00:16:25,300 LIGHT. 460 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:28,137 AND IT WAS DEPLOYED BY THE 461 00:16:28,137 --> 00:16:28,804 APOLLO 16 ASTRONAUTS. 462 00:16:28,804 --> 00:16:31,340 THE CAMERA REMAINS THERE. 463 00:16:31,340 --> 00:16:33,208 WHAT THEY BROUGHT HOME WAS THE 464 00:16:33,208 --> 00:16:34,777 FILM CANISTER. 465 00:16:34,777 --> 00:16:37,312 A PICTURE OF GEORGE CURRUTHERS 466 00:16:37,312 --> 00:16:38,881 HOLDING THAT CANISTER AND HE 467 00:16:38,881 --> 00:16:40,182 ANALYZED THE IMAGES. 468 00:16:40,182 --> 00:16:43,852 IT WAS INCREDIBLE. 469 00:16:43,852 --> 00:16:45,254 EXOSPHERE EXTENDED BEYOND THE 470 00:16:45,254 --> 00:16:48,123 IMAGE MUCH LUNAR SURFACES. 471 00:16:48,123 --> 00:16:51,627 06 EARTH RADIO IO. 472 00:16:51,627 --> 00:16:54,263 YOU NEED TO GET FURTHER TO 473 00:16:54,263 --> 00:16:57,566 SEAT EXOSHNEAR A SINGLE IMAGE 474 00:16:57,566 --> 00:16:58,867 WHAT IT IS GOING TO DO. 475 00:16:58,867 --> 00:17:00,869 ONE IMAGE OR A FEW IMAGES 476 00:17:00,869 --> 00:17:01,570 ACQUIRED OVER THE YEARS. 477 00:17:01,570 --> 00:17:03,639 AS I MENTIONED A SIGNIFICANT 478 00:17:03,639 --> 00:17:04,807 KNOWLEDGE GAP. 479 00:17:04,807 --> 00:17:06,475 IT TURNS OUT THIS KNOWLEDGE GAP 480 00:17:06,475 --> 00:17:08,844 IS ACTUALLY CRITICAL 481 00:17:08,844 --> 00:17:10,746 SIGNIFICANCE FOR OUR ABILITY TO 482 00:17:10,746 --> 00:17:13,348 UNDERSTAND EARTH'S RECOVERY FROM 483 00:17:13,348 --> 00:17:15,918 GEO MAGNETIC STORMS IN 484 00:17:15,918 --> 00:17:16,351 PARTICULAR. 485 00:17:16,351 --> 00:17:24,226 SO THIS EXOSPHERIC REGION, NOT 486 00:17:24,226 --> 00:17:26,261 TOO MANY HYDROGEN ATOMS THROUGH, 487 00:17:26,261 --> 00:17:29,131 THEY WAY THEY INTERACT CONTROLS 488 00:17:29,131 --> 00:17:31,166 HOW FAST EARTH RECOVERS FROM 489 00:17:31,166 --> 00:17:33,435 THESE GEO MAGNETIC STORMS. 490 00:17:33,435 --> 00:17:36,071 BECAUSE THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN 491 00:17:36,071 --> 00:17:40,142 EX-O ATMOSPHERIC HYDROGEN ADAMS, 492 00:17:40,142 --> 00:17:42,945 THEY CAN REDIRECT PLASMA SO IT 493 00:17:42,945 --> 00:17:44,513 REFILLS WHEN THERE IS 494 00:17:44,513 --> 00:17:44,913 DEPLETIONS. 495 00:17:44,913 --> 00:17:46,815 THIS PROCESS SERVES TO REFILL 496 00:17:46,815 --> 00:17:48,383 THOSE DEPLETIONS AND ESSENTIALLY 497 00:17:48,383 --> 00:17:50,385 HELP THE PLANET RECOVER FROM 498 00:17:50,385 --> 00:17:51,220 THESE STORMS. 499 00:17:51,220 --> 00:17:53,355 HAVING THE KNOWLEDGE GAP THAT WE 500 00:17:53,355 --> 00:17:56,625 HAVE -- NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 501 00:17:56,625 --> 00:17:58,827 HAVING THE KNOWLEDGE GAP ABOUT 502 00:17:58,827 --> 00:18:03,632 THESE STORMS AND THE CORE RONAL 503 00:18:03,632 --> 00:18:05,167 MASS INJECTIONS. 504 00:18:05,167 --> 00:18:08,670 THEY COME OFF THE SURFACE OF THE 505 00:18:08,670 --> 00:18:09,371 SUN. 506 00:18:09,371 --> 00:18:11,974 THEY EN GOLF THE PLANET AND HOW 507 00:18:11,974 --> 00:18:14,643 THE CORE RON KNOW CHALLENGE 508 00:18:14,643 --> 00:18:20,582 JENKSES BIG BLOBS OF MAGNETIZED 509 00:18:20,582 --> 00:18:22,918 PLASMAS AND THE HAZARDS TO OUR 510 00:18:22,918 --> 00:18:25,788 TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. 511 00:18:25,788 --> 00:18:26,989 THEY CREATE THE AURORA A 512 00:18:26,989 --> 00:18:28,724 BEAUTIFUL MANIFESTATION OF SPACE 513 00:18:28,724 --> 00:18:32,461 WEATHER EFFECT BE, BUT THE GEO 514 00:18:32,461 --> 00:18:36,498 CORONA INTERACTION. 515 00:18:36,498 --> 00:18:37,533 EXOSTORYIC INTERACTION WITH 516 00:18:37,533 --> 00:18:39,168 THESE PLASMAS IS SOMETHING WE 517 00:18:39,168 --> 00:18:42,571 NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF 518 00:18:42,571 --> 00:18:42,971 MENTIONING. 519 00:18:42,971 --> 00:18:48,510 OUR JOB WITH THE GEOCORONA 520 00:18:48,510 --> 00:18:48,944 OBSERVATORY. 521 00:18:48,944 --> 00:18:50,579 BUILDING ON DR. CURRUTHERS'S 522 00:18:50,579 --> 00:18:52,347 LEGACY, WE DON'T HAVE A SINGLE 523 00:18:52,347 --> 00:18:54,116 CAM THAT THAT ONLY POINTS IN ONE 524 00:18:54,116 --> 00:18:55,417 DIRECTION AND TAKE FEW 525 00:18:55,417 --> 00:18:55,851 PHOTOGRAPHS. 526 00:18:55,851 --> 00:18:57,386 WE HAVE AN ENTIRE OBSERVATORY 527 00:18:57,386 --> 00:19:00,255 THAT IS ABLE TO TAKE A FEW GAMES 528 00:19:00,255 --> 00:19:02,891 EVERY HOUR, HOUR AFTER HOUR, DAY 529 00:19:02,891 --> 00:19:04,259 AFTER DAY, FOR YEARS. 530 00:19:04,259 --> 00:19:05,627 SO YOU CAN SEE THEY IS A PICTURE 531 00:19:05,627 --> 00:19:06,728 YOU HAVE OUR SATELLITE. 532 00:19:06,728 --> 00:19:08,463 WE HAVE A FIXED SOLAR PANEL ON 533 00:19:08,463 --> 00:19:09,064 ONE SIDE. 534 00:19:09,064 --> 00:19:10,866 WE HAVE TWO CAMERAS. 535 00:19:10,866 --> 00:19:13,468 ONE IS A WIDE FIELD CAMERA THAT 536 00:19:13,468 --> 00:19:17,973 CAN CAPTURE THE ENTIRE EX-O 537 00:19:17,973 --> 00:19:20,909 ATMOSPHERE IN ONE IMAGE AND 538 00:19:20,909 --> 00:19:22,945 TARGETING THE CENTER NEAR THE 539 00:19:22,945 --> 00:19:28,183 EARTH WHERE THE EXOSPHERE 540 00:19:28,183 --> 00:19:28,584 ORIGINATES. 541 00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:29,318 NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 542 00:19:29,318 --> 00:19:31,119 WHAT WE WILL BE DOING IS HEADED 543 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,223 OUT AFTER OUR LAUNCH OUT TO L-1. 544 00:19:34,223 --> 00:19:36,225 ONCE WE REACH L-1. 545 00:19:36,225 --> 00:19:37,426 WE ARE ABLE TO TURN AROUND. 546 00:19:37,426 --> 00:19:39,361 YOU CAN SO THEY IS MUCH FURTHER 547 00:19:39,361 --> 00:19:41,129 THAN LUNAR ORBIT. 548 00:19:41,129 --> 00:19:43,165 FOUR TIMES FURTHER THAN LUNAR OR 549 00:19:43,165 --> 00:19:43,498 BIT. 550 00:19:43,498 --> 00:19:44,700 WE WILL BE TURNING AROUND AND 551 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:47,102 LOOK CAN BACK ON EARTH ON A 552 00:19:47,102 --> 00:19:48,470 NEARLY CONTINUAL BASIS. 553 00:19:48,470 --> 00:19:50,339 WITH THESE PICTURES ABLE TO SEE 554 00:19:50,339 --> 00:19:52,274 -- ESSENTIALLY TURN THE PICTURES 555 00:19:52,274 --> 00:19:54,376 INTO MOVIES AND WATCH EXACTLY 556 00:19:54,376 --> 00:19:55,944 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SOLAR STORM 557 00:19:55,944 --> 00:19:57,880 HITS THE EARTH. 558 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:02,417 HOW THE EXOSPHERE EVOLVES OVER 559 00:20:02,417 --> 00:20:04,086 TIME AND HOW ARE WE COVER WITH 560 00:20:04,086 --> 00:20:05,053 THE STORM. 561 00:20:05,053 --> 00:20:06,555 WE WILL BE ABLE TO ADVANCE OUR 562 00:20:06,555 --> 00:20:07,789 SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING WITH 563 00:20:07,789 --> 00:20:09,925 THE NEW KNOWLEDGE WE GAIN 564 00:20:09,925 --> 00:20:10,893 BUILDING ON DR. GEORGE 565 00:20:10,893 --> 00:20:11,693 CURRUTHERS'S LEGACY. 566 00:20:11,693 --> 00:20:13,428 WE ARE SO EXCITED TO DO THAT. 567 00:20:13,428 --> 00:20:13,829 THANK YOU. 568 00:20:13,829 --> 00:20:15,964 WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER 569 00:20:15,964 --> 00:20:16,498 TO JAME. 570 00:20:16,498 --> 00:20:18,000 THANK YOU, LAURA. 571 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:18,500 GOOD AFTERNOON. 572 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:20,769 I WILL SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF 573 00:20:20,769 --> 00:20:22,838 NASA SPACE WEATHER PROGRAM AND 574 00:20:22,838 --> 00:20:25,941 OUR ROLE IN THE INTERAGENCY AND 575 00:20:25,941 --> 00:20:31,880 MY FRIENDS CLINTON AND JIM WILL 576 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:32,648 TALK OF NOAA'S ROLE IN THAT. 577 00:20:32,648 --> 00:20:36,351 YOU WERE WATCHING THE BRIEFING 578 00:20:36,351 --> 00:20:38,487 BEFORE THIS ONE WAS DR. NIKKI 579 00:20:38,487 --> 00:20:40,155 FOX GIVING ME A BOOST WHAT I 580 00:20:40,155 --> 00:20:42,391 WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN THE 581 00:20:42,391 --> 00:20:43,425 NEXT FEW MINUTES. 582 00:20:43,425 --> 00:20:44,259 FIRST CHART, PLEASE. 583 00:20:44,259 --> 00:20:46,094 WHAT WE WILL SEE ON THE CHART A 584 00:20:46,094 --> 00:20:47,362 SIMULATION FROM A FEW MIRACLE 585 00:20:47,362 --> 00:20:50,132 MODEL .WHAT THIS MODEL 586 00:20:50,132 --> 00:20:52,367 REPRESENTS IS THE BEST OF 587 00:20:52,367 --> 00:20:53,802 HUMANITY. 588 00:20:53,802 --> 00:20:55,404 CUTTING EDGE OF SPACE WEATHER 589 00:20:55,404 --> 00:20:56,004 MODELING. 590 00:20:56,004 --> 00:20:56,538 RESEARCH EDGE. 591 00:20:56,538 --> 00:20:58,407 AND GATHER TO UNDERSTAND THE 592 00:20:58,407 --> 00:20:59,608 PHYSICAL SYSTEM MORE AND MORE. 593 00:20:59,608 --> 00:21:01,143 THIS REPRESENTS SOME OF THE 594 00:21:01,143 --> 00:21:02,811 CUTTING EDGE CAPABILITY OF 595 00:21:02,811 --> 00:21:04,579 HUMANITY TO MODEL SPACE WEATHER. 596 00:21:04,579 --> 00:21:05,981 REALLY ON THE OF RESEARCH SIDE 597 00:21:05,981 --> 00:21:07,749 OF THINGS THOUGH. 598 00:21:07,749 --> 00:21:09,384 THIS IS REALLY DRIVEN BY -- AND 599 00:21:09,384 --> 00:21:12,587 THESE KIND OF MODELS ARE THE 600 00:21:12,587 --> 00:21:15,824 TANGIBLE OUTCOME OF SCIENTIFIC 601 00:21:15,824 --> 00:21:17,459 DISCOVERY AND DATA COLLECTION 602 00:21:17,459 --> 00:21:19,294 THAT DRIVES TOWARD. 603 00:21:19,294 --> 00:21:21,296 SAME WAY THROUGH HURRICANES AND 604 00:21:21,296 --> 00:21:21,997 SEVERE WEATHER. 605 00:21:21,997 --> 00:21:23,432 SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR SPACE 606 00:21:23,432 --> 00:21:23,899 WEATHER. 607 00:21:23,899 --> 00:21:25,667 A LOT OF THIS WORK REALLY 608 00:21:25,667 --> 00:21:26,702 CULMINATES IN THIS. 609 00:21:26,702 --> 00:21:28,236 NOT REALLY THE END OF THE STORY 610 00:21:28,236 --> 00:21:31,273 WHEN IT COMES TO NASA SCIENCE. 611 00:21:31,273 --> 00:21:33,675 WE DON'T END AT DISCOVERY MAP 612 00:21:33,675 --> 00:21:36,611 SHAKE SURE THIS IS VALUABLE AND 613 00:21:36,611 --> 00:21:36,945 USEFUL. 614 00:21:36,945 --> 00:21:39,281 AND IS WHETHER: NASA SPACE 615 00:21:39,281 --> 00:21:40,182 WEATHER PROGRAMS COMES IN. 616 00:21:40,182 --> 00:21:43,852 WE UNDERSTAND THE NEED SOCIETY. 617 00:21:43,852 --> 00:21:45,754 AND PULL OF SCIENCE TO DRIVE 618 00:21:45,754 --> 00:21:47,255 MORE ACCURATE FORECAST OF SPACE 619 00:21:47,255 --> 00:21:47,956 WEATHER. 620 00:21:47,956 --> 00:21:50,525 LET'S GO TO THE NEXT CHART, 621 00:21:50,525 --> 00:21:50,859 PLEASE. 622 00:21:50,859 --> 00:21:52,361 AND WITH THAT, I AM GOING TO 623 00:21:52,361 --> 00:21:54,029 TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 624 00:21:54,029 --> 00:21:55,497 WHAT CAN DRIVE THE WORK WE DOE 625 00:21:55,497 --> 00:21:57,232 WITHIN THAT NASA SPACE WEATHER 626 00:21:57,232 --> 00:21:58,467 PROGRAM BY ACTUALLY TAKING A 627 00:21:58,467 --> 00:21:59,935 STEP BACK TO LAST YEAR. 628 00:21:59,935 --> 00:22:02,037 YOU HEARD MENTION OF THE MAY 2/4 629 00:22:02,037 --> 00:22:02,537 SOLAR STORM. 630 00:22:02,537 --> 00:22:04,606 WHAT YOU SEE ON THE CHART THERE 631 00:22:04,606 --> 00:22:06,742 ARE SOME OF THE EXAMPLES OF THE 632 00:22:06,742 --> 00:22:09,311 BEAUTIFUL AURORA ACROSS THE 633 00:22:09,311 --> 00:22:09,644 PLANET. 634 00:22:09,644 --> 00:22:11,613 WE SAW WORLDWIDE IMPACT OF THE 635 00:22:11,613 --> 00:22:11,947 STORM. 636 00:22:11,947 --> 00:22:14,816 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN OF NASA 637 00:22:14,816 --> 00:22:15,183 SCIENCE. 638 00:22:15,183 --> 00:22:16,785 WHAT IT MEANS US TO, WE REALIZE 639 00:22:16,785 --> 00:22:17,953 A LOT WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHEN 640 00:22:17,953 --> 00:22:19,254 IT COMES TO SPACE WEATHER. 641 00:22:19,254 --> 00:22:21,890 HAS TO DRIVE THE SCIENCE WE DO 642 00:22:21,890 --> 00:22:23,892 BY UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS ON 643 00:22:23,892 --> 00:22:25,260 THE REAL WORLD SITUATION. 644 00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:27,162 THINGS ON THE TOP, IN THE MIDDLE 645 00:22:27,162 --> 00:22:29,131 YOU SEE EVIDENCE OF SOME OF THE 646 00:22:29,131 --> 00:22:30,298 COMMERCIAL AVIATION TRACKS HAVE 647 00:22:30,298 --> 00:22:32,100 TO CHANGE BASED ON THAT SOLAR 648 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:32,567 STORM. 649 00:22:32,567 --> 00:22:34,269 ACTUALLY THE DATA COMING OFF OF 650 00:22:34,269 --> 00:22:36,471 IMAP IS REALLY GOING TO BE 651 00:22:36,471 --> 00:22:36,938 REVOLUTIONARY. 652 00:22:36,938 --> 00:22:38,206 AND SOME OF THE MODELS WE BUILT 653 00:22:38,206 --> 00:22:39,741 THAT FEED INTO THE DECISION 654 00:22:39,741 --> 00:22:41,576 MAKING ON THE AVIATION SIDE, 655 00:22:41,576 --> 00:22:43,011 ADVANCING THOSE MODELS IN A 656 00:22:43,011 --> 00:22:44,413 RESEARCH SETTING. 657 00:22:44,413 --> 00:22:46,181 GETTING READY TO TRANSLATE THEM 658 00:22:46,181 --> 00:22:49,551 OVER TO NOAA TO HELP WITH THE 659 00:22:49,551 --> 00:22:51,286 NATION AND AN ACCURATE FORECAST. 660 00:22:51,286 --> 00:22:53,055 AS LAURA WAS JUST MENTIONING ON 661 00:22:53,055 --> 00:22:54,056 THE CURRUTHERS SIDE, THERE ARE 662 00:22:54,056 --> 00:22:56,725 THINGS WE SIMPLY DO NOT KNOW YET 663 00:22:56,725 --> 00:22:58,593 ABOUT THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE WE IS 664 00:22:58,593 --> 00:23:00,662 THE FRONTIER SCIENTIFICALLY AND 665 00:23:00,662 --> 00:23:02,297 INTERACTION WITH THE SUN AND 666 00:23:02,297 --> 00:23:04,566 IMPACT ON SPACE WEATHER. 667 00:23:04,566 --> 00:23:06,902 OUR MODELS RIGHT NOW DON'T 668 00:23:06,902 --> 00:23:07,936 CONTAIN THE PHYSICAL SYSTEM 669 00:23:07,936 --> 00:23:08,370 WITHIN THEM. 670 00:23:08,370 --> 00:23:10,539 THEY ARE NOT ACCURATE BEING ABLE 671 00:23:10,539 --> 00:23:12,974 TO PREDICT THESE THINGS. 672 00:23:12,974 --> 00:23:14,209 YOUR HURRICANE MODEL DID NOT 673 00:23:14,209 --> 00:23:15,811 INCLUDE THE OCEANS IN IT. 674 00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:17,579 NO WAY TO PRODUCE ACCURATE 675 00:23:17,579 --> 00:23:17,946 FORECAST. 676 00:23:17,946 --> 00:23:19,648 KIND OF DISCOVERY WITH THIS 677 00:23:19,648 --> 00:23:21,249 SCIENCE MISSION TO WORK WITH THE 678 00:23:21,249 --> 00:23:22,884 MODE ELSE COMMUNITY TO DRIVE IN 679 00:23:22,884 --> 00:23:24,886 ON THE MORE ACCURATE FORECAST ON 680 00:23:24,886 --> 00:23:25,587 THE SORE SIDE. 681 00:23:25,587 --> 00:23:27,122 WE GO TO THE FINAL CHART, YOU 682 00:23:27,122 --> 00:23:30,425 MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH THE MAY 683 00:23:30,425 --> 00:23:32,828 2024 STOVRP STORM AND AURORA AND 684 00:23:32,828 --> 00:23:34,930 THE IMPACTS ON EARTH. 685 00:23:34,930 --> 00:23:36,264 ING FROM A NASA PERSPECTIVE. 686 00:23:36,264 --> 00:23:38,467 TEN DAYS LATER FROM THE SAME SUN 687 00:23:38,467 --> 00:23:40,502 SPOT REGION SAW THE LARGEST 688 00:23:40,502 --> 00:23:42,537 SOLAR RADIATION STORM WE EVER 689 00:23:42,537 --> 00:23:44,673 OBSERVED AT MARS. 690 00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:46,308 DATA SETS ARE SOME OF THE IMAGES 691 00:23:46,308 --> 00:23:50,846 FROM ONE OF THE ROVERS. 692 00:23:50,846 --> 00:23:52,481 YOU SEE THE SPECKS IN THAT, THAT 693 00:23:52,481 --> 00:23:54,416 IS THE CHARGED PARTICLES HITTING 694 00:23:54,416 --> 00:23:55,517 THE CAMERA. 695 00:23:55,517 --> 00:23:59,187 AND MAVEN, A PLAN FOR REACH 696 00:23:59,187 --> 00:24:02,357 SITUATION ORBITING MARS. 697 00:24:02,357 --> 00:24:05,994 AURORA AT MARS. 698 00:24:05,994 --> 00:24:07,529 PLANETK LIGHT UP NOT JUST HERE 699 00:24:07,529 --> 00:24:08,163 IN EARTH. 700 00:24:08,163 --> 00:24:10,632 WHAT DOES THE MISSIONS MEAN WHEN 701 00:24:10,632 --> 00:24:12,534 THINK OF MARS. 702 00:24:12,534 --> 00:24:14,402 INTERESTING DATA SETS AS WE GO 703 00:24:14,402 --> 00:24:15,637 TO THE MOON. 704 00:24:15,637 --> 00:24:18,940 PATHFINDERS TO USE THIS 705 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:19,307 LOCATION. 706 00:24:19,307 --> 00:24:21,343 >> SPACE, THE LAGRANGE ONE. 707 00:24:21,343 --> 00:24:24,312 AND SAME THING IS TRUE FOR MARS 708 00:24:24,312 --> 00:24:29,084 USING THE L-1. .LEARN THINGS 709 00:24:29,084 --> 00:24:32,821 FROM IMAP, SWFO-L1 AND 710 00:24:32,821 --> 00:24:34,823 CURRUTHERS TO HELP MAKE AN 711 00:24:34,823 --> 00:24:36,324 ACCURATE FROEL TO SEND HUMANS ON 712 00:24:36,324 --> 00:24:37,792 THE NEXT JOURNEY. 713 00:24:37,792 --> 00:24:40,395 THAT DAUNTING TASK MY PARTNER 714 00:24:40,395 --> 00:24:45,066 WITH NOAA OF HOW WE DO SPACE 715 00:24:45,066 --> 00:24:45,433 TRAINING. 716 00:24:45,433 --> 00:24:47,469 >> AT A GRANGE ONE. 717 00:24:47,469 --> 00:24:49,738 IT WILL BE WORLD'S FIRST 718 00:24:49,738 --> 00:24:50,438 DEDICATED OPERATIONAL SPACE 719 00:24:50,438 --> 00:24:51,072 WEATHER SATELLITE. 720 00:24:51,072 --> 00:24:53,208 WE ARE GOING TO PLACE A BUOY IN 721 00:24:53,208 --> 00:24:55,210 SPACE A MILLION MILES FROM EARTH 722 00:24:55,210 --> 00:24:57,646 TO SAFEGUARD OUR WAY OF LIFE. 723 00:24:57,646 --> 00:24:59,648 IT IS GOING TO SPOT SOLAR STORMS 724 00:24:59,648 --> 00:25:00,582 WITHIN MINUTES. 725 00:25:00,582 --> 00:25:03,018 SO WE AT THE SPACE WEATHER 726 00:25:03,018 --> 00:25:05,654 PREDICTION CENTER CAN HELP KEEP 727 00:25:05,654 --> 00:25:08,323 THE LIGHTS ON, PLANES FLYING AND 728 00:25:08,323 --> 00:25:08,823 SATELLITES SAFE. 729 00:25:08,823 --> 00:25:11,626 IF WE CAN HAVE THE FIRST VIDEO. 730 00:25:11,626 --> 00:25:13,328 FIRST VIDEO SHOWS OUR OPERATION 731 00:25:13,328 --> 00:25:14,396 CENTER AT THE SPACE WEATHER 732 00:25:14,396 --> 00:25:17,399 PREDICTION CENTER .AT THE SPACE 733 00:25:17,399 --> 00:25:23,538 WEATHER PREDICTION CENTER OR 734 00:25:23,538 --> 00:25:24,172 SWFO-L1. 735 00:25:24,172 --> 00:25:26,007 TO HAVE PRECIOUS TIME TO ACT 736 00:25:26,007 --> 00:25:28,577 BEFORE BILLION DOLLARS STORMS 737 00:25:28,577 --> 00:25:28,910 STRIKE. 738 00:25:28,910 --> 00:25:33,949 OUR POWER GRIDS CAN'T AIRED FOR 739 00:25:33,949 --> 00:25:34,449 SURPRISE HISSED. 740 00:25:34,449 --> 00:25:36,618 SWFO-L1 WILL GIVE GRID OPERATORS 741 00:25:36,618 --> 00:25:39,721 TIME TO WERE DISTRICT GRID 742 00:25:39,721 --> 00:25:41,656 ATMOSPHERE AND PREVENT BLACKOUT. 743 00:25:41,656 --> 00:25:43,625 SOLAR STORMS CAN DRAG DOWN 744 00:25:43,625 --> 00:25:44,025 SATELLITES. 745 00:25:44,025 --> 00:25:46,528 THEY CAN SHORTEN THEIR LIVES AND 746 00:25:46,528 --> 00:25:48,530 RAISE COLLISION RISKS. 747 00:25:48,530 --> 00:25:50,732 SWFO-L1 WILL ALLOW US TO PROVIDE 748 00:25:50,732 --> 00:25:52,234 THE CRITICAL INFORMATION THAT 749 00:25:52,234 --> 00:25:54,970 THEY NEED TO PROTECT THEM. 750 00:25:54,970 --> 00:25:58,673 SOLAR STORMS CAN DISRUPT GPS 751 00:25:58,673 --> 00:26:01,076 AFFECTING PILOTS NAVIGATING 752 00:26:01,076 --> 00:26:03,011 ACROSS THE GLOBE AS WE SAW IN 753 00:26:03,011 --> 00:26:05,447 THE MAY STORM EVER OF 2024. 754 00:26:05,447 --> 00:26:07,749 SWFO-L1 WILL HELP US KEEP LIFE 755 00:26:07,749 --> 00:26:10,051 -- DAILY LIFE ON TRACK. 756 00:26:10,051 --> 00:26:13,421 SATELLITES THAT RERELIED ON AT 757 00:26:13,421 --> 00:26:16,358 SWIFT-C FOR DECADE IS AGING OUT. 758 00:26:16,358 --> 00:26:19,327 IT IS A MODERATE INVESTMENT THAT 759 00:26:19,327 --> 00:26:20,629 KEEPS WARNINGS FLOWING AND ARMED 760 00:26:20,629 --> 00:26:24,065 WITH THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL 761 00:26:24,065 --> 00:26:24,499 ADVANCEMENTS. 762 00:26:24,499 --> 00:26:26,134 AFTER 30 YEARS OF EXCEPTIONAL 763 00:26:26,134 --> 00:26:28,837 SERVICE, SOHO AND ACES ARE FAR 764 00:26:28,837 --> 00:26:31,139 PAST THEIR DESIGN LIVES. 765 00:26:31,139 --> 00:26:33,842 THEY STILL WORK SUPERBLY, BUT 766 00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:35,744 QUICKLY APPROACHING THEIR 767 00:26:35,744 --> 00:26:36,845 MISSION END. 768 00:26:36,845 --> 00:26:39,881 SWFO-L1 IS THE OPERATIONAL 769 00:26:39,881 --> 00:26:45,520 REPLACEMENT OFFERING THAT SWIPC 770 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,755 HAVE RELIABLE WITHIN MINUTES 771 00:26:46,755 --> 00:26:48,156 INSTEAD OF HOURS THAT WE ARE 772 00:26:48,156 --> 00:26:50,959 ABLE TO DO IN THE WAS. 773 00:26:50,959 --> 00:26:54,195 SWFO-L1 COMBINES THE BEST OF 774 00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:57,966 THESE PILOTS, SOHO. 775 00:26:57,966 --> 00:26:59,401 AND I CAN'T SUPPORT ENOUGH THE 776 00:26:59,401 --> 00:27:02,070 SUPPORT OF MISSIONS LIKE LAMB 777 00:27:02,070 --> 00:27:03,738 AND CURRUTHERS AND THE MISSION 778 00:27:03,738 --> 00:27:05,040 TECHNOLOGIES WE WILL RELY ON 779 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,409 OPERATIONALLY IN THE FUTURE. 780 00:27:07,409 --> 00:27:13,415 SO -- FOR DECADES. 781 00:27:13,415 --> 00:27:15,650 IF I CAN GET ITS NEXT VIDEO 782 00:27:15,650 --> 00:27:16,885 PLEASE. 783 00:27:16,885 --> 00:27:20,689 FOR DECADES REPLIED 784 00:27:20,689 --> 00:27:23,658 ON SOHO'S CO 785 00:27:23,658 --> 00:27:26,394 COROOGRAPH. 786 00:27:26,394 --> 00:27:27,996 WITH IMAP AND CURRUTHERS AND 787 00:27:27,996 --> 00:27:31,866 OTHERS, OUR FIRST CHRONOGRAPH 788 00:27:31,866 --> 00:27:34,402 AND SOME OF THAT IN THIS 789 00:27:34,402 --> 00:27:39,474 ANIMATION. 790 00:27:39,474 --> 00:27:41,676 DID LARGE. 791 00:27:41,676 --> 00:27:43,611 SWFO-L1 WILL OUR INSURANCE 792 00:27:43,611 --> 00:27:44,679 POLICY THAT KEEPS AMERICA SPACE 793 00:27:44,679 --> 00:27:45,747 WEATHER READY. 794 00:27:45,747 --> 00:27:47,716 PROVIDES THE CONTINUITY OFS THAT 795 00:27:47,716 --> 00:27:50,118 ARE CRITICAL FOR THE FORECAST, 796 00:27:50,118 --> 00:27:52,087 WATCHES AND WARNINGS ON 797 00:27:52,087 --> 00:27:57,625 EMPENDING SOLAR STORMS. 798 00:27:57,625 --> 00:27:59,794 SWEFZ SWIFZ, OUR ABILITY TO 799 00:27:59,794 --> 00:28:00,462 WARN WILL QUICKLY FADE. 800 00:28:00,462 --> 00:28:03,398 EVERYTHING WE TO DO PROTECT 801 00:28:03,398 --> 00:28:05,300 TECHNOLOGY WITH SOLAR STORMS 802 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:06,768 STARTS WITH OBSERVATIONS. 803 00:28:06,768 --> 00:28:08,470 SWFO-L1 IN THE FIRST OF A NEW 804 00:28:08,470 --> 00:28:10,438 GENERATION OF ESSENTIAL FELL INS 805 00:28:10,438 --> 00:28:11,840 ENSURE THAT AMERICA'S 806 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,577 TECHNOLOGIES AND AMERICA STAYS 807 00:28:15,577 --> 00:28:15,977 RESILIENT. 808 00:28:15,977 --> 00:28:19,514 NOAA AGENCIES'S FLAG SHIFT IN A 809 00:28:19,514 --> 00:28:23,685 NEW FLEETS OF SPACE WEATHER 810 00:28:23,685 --> 00:28:25,553 SATELLITEP. UNDER THE WATCHLE 811 00:28:25,553 --> 00:28:28,423 DIES OF SWFO-L1, THEY ARE IT 812 00:28:28,423 --> 00:28:29,891 SHOWING NOT ONLY TECHNOLOGY BUT 813 00:28:29,891 --> 00:28:36,197 ECONOMY AND DAILY LIVES. 814 00:28:36,197 --> 00:28:38,233 SWFO-L1 IS OUR LIFELINE FOR 815 00:28:38,233 --> 00:28:39,901 KEEPING PLANES FLYING AND LIGHTS 816 00:28:39,901 --> 00:28:41,703 ON AND AMERICA IS READY FOR 817 00:28:41,703 --> 00:28:42,904 WHATEVER SUN SENDS OUR WAY. 818 00:28:42,904 --> 00:28:46,541 WITH THAT NOTE, I WILL TURN IT 819 00:28:46,541 --> 00:28:47,709 OVER TO MY GOOD FRIEND AND 820 00:28:47,709 --> 00:28:52,180 COLLEAGUE JIM SPANN TO TALK MORE 821 00:28:52,180 --> 00:28:52,847 OF THE INSTRUMENTATIONING. 822 00:28:52,847 --> 00:28:53,815 >> THANK YOU, CLINTON, AND 823 00:28:53,815 --> 00:28:55,617 EVERYBODY SETTING THE STAGE. 824 00:28:55,617 --> 00:28:56,785 I APPRECIATE IT. 825 00:28:56,785 --> 00:28:58,953 I WILL SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF 826 00:28:58,953 --> 00:29:00,455 NOAA'S OFFICE OF SPACE WEATHER 827 00:29:00,455 --> 00:29:00,855 OPERATIONS. 828 00:29:00,855 --> 00:29:02,557 THIS IS THE TEAM THAT BUILDS AND 829 00:29:02,557 --> 00:29:05,794 OPERATES ITS EYES AND EARS IN 830 00:29:05,794 --> 00:29:07,529 SPACE. 831 00:29:07,529 --> 00:29:10,565 BASICALLY, JILL MENTIONED THE 832 00:29:10,565 --> 00:29:12,033 COSMIC CARPOOL. 833 00:29:12,033 --> 00:29:13,568 A GREAT ANALOGY. 834 00:29:13,568 --> 00:29:15,904 ON THAT TRIP, THE SWFO-L1 WILL 835 00:29:15,904 --> 00:29:17,939 BE PHONING BACK TO SAY, 836 00:29:17,939 --> 00:29:19,374 EVERYTHING IS COOL. 837 00:29:19,374 --> 00:29:20,742 BETTER WATCH OUT, BECAUSE THE 838 00:29:20,742 --> 00:29:22,610 SUN IS DOING THIS. 839 00:29:22,610 --> 00:29:24,446 PROVIDING REALTIME DATA BACK US 840 00:29:24,446 --> 00:29:26,414 TO SO AS WE CAN GENERATE THOSE 841 00:29:26,414 --> 00:29:29,984 WARNINGS AND ALERTS. 842 00:29:29,984 --> 00:29:30,952 AT THE SAME TIME, COMPLIMENT ALL 843 00:29:30,952 --> 00:29:33,288 THE GREAT SCIENCE FROM IMAP AND 844 00:29:33,288 --> 00:29:33,922 CURRUTHERS AND OTHERS. 845 00:29:33,922 --> 00:29:38,059 SO SWO, THE SPACE WEATHER 846 00:29:38,059 --> 00:29:40,895 OBSERVATIONS OFFICE DEVELOPS AND 847 00:29:40,895 --> 00:29:42,363 SUSTAINS SATELLITE THAT PROVIDE 848 00:29:42,363 --> 00:29:44,566 THESE ESSENTIAL DATAS DAY IN AND 849 00:29:44,566 --> 00:29:46,968 DAY OUT FOR OUR NATION'S SPACE 850 00:29:46,968 --> 00:29:47,502 WEATHER SERVICES. 851 00:29:47,502 --> 00:29:50,805 I WILL POINT OUT WHY THIS IS 852 00:29:50,805 --> 00:29:52,807 NOAA PROGRAM, DONE WITH THE 853 00:29:52,807 --> 00:29:54,042 JOINT PROGRAM OFFICE BETWEEN 854 00:29:54,042 --> 00:29:55,577 NASA AND NOAA. 855 00:29:55,577 --> 00:29:57,145 AGAIN, NOT ONLY FLYING TOGETHER 856 00:29:57,145 --> 00:29:59,981 AND CARPOOLING TOGETHER, WE WORK 857 00:29:59,981 --> 00:30:02,817 ON EACH OTHER IN TERMS OF 858 00:30:02,817 --> 00:30:05,186 BUILDING THESE SPACECRAFT. 859 00:30:05,186 --> 00:30:07,055 SO WE DO THIS TO HELP CREATE 860 00:30:07,055 --> 00:30:08,656 SPACE WEATHER READY NATION. 861 00:30:08,656 --> 00:30:10,024 YOU HEARD THAT PHRASE QUITE A 862 00:30:10,024 --> 00:30:10,325 BIT. 863 00:30:10,325 --> 00:30:16,364 IT IS CRUCIAL LONG-TERM 864 00:30:16,364 --> 00:30:18,933 RESPONSIBILITY, ESPECIALLY SINCE 865 00:30:18,933 --> 00:30:19,901 OUR SATURDAYS IS MORE DEPENDENT 866 00:30:19,901 --> 00:30:21,636 INCIDENT ON SPACE AND ON THE 867 00:30:21,636 --> 00:30:23,471 GROUND RESPONSIBLE FOR SOLAR 868 00:30:23,471 --> 00:30:25,340 EVENTS. 869 00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:27,775 DATA CAN HE COLLECT ARE SWIFT 870 00:30:27,775 --> 00:30:29,511 SWIFT-C TO GENERATE THE WARNINGS 871 00:30:29,511 --> 00:30:31,880 AND FORECAST TO PROTECT OUR 872 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,281 VITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AS CLINTON 873 00:30:33,281 --> 00:30:34,516 ALREADY MENTIONED. 874 00:30:34,516 --> 00:30:35,950 WHAT ABOUT SWFO-L1? 875 00:30:35,950 --> 00:30:37,919 AGAIN, I'M JUST GOING TO REPEAT, 876 00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:41,222 OUR NEWEST PURPOSE-BUILT 877 00:30:41,222 --> 00:30:41,623 SATELLITE. 878 00:30:41,623 --> 00:30:44,893 IT IS A CORNERSTONE OF NOAA'S 879 00:30:44,893 --> 00:30:46,594 STRATEGY TO HAVE A CONTINUOUS 880 00:30:46,594 --> 00:30:48,630 FLEE OF SPACE WEATHER DATA. 881 00:30:48,630 --> 00:30:50,965 GOING TO BE GOING TO L-1. 882 00:30:50,965 --> 00:30:53,868 WHERE WE ARE BEGINNING THIS 883 00:30:53,868 --> 00:30:59,073 CORNERSTONE DEVELOPMENT OF A 884 00:30:59,073 --> 00:31:00,708 NETWORK OF SPACE WEATHER 885 00:31:00,708 --> 00:31:01,142 OBSERVATIONS. 886 00:31:01,142 --> 00:31:01,876 IT WILL NOT QUIT THERE AND 887 00:31:01,876 --> 00:31:03,611 CONTINUE TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE 888 00:31:03,611 --> 00:31:06,214 SEATS THERE, BUT ALSO LOOKING AT 889 00:31:06,214 --> 00:31:08,650 OTHER ASPECTS OF SPACE WEATHER. 890 00:31:08,650 --> 00:31:10,885 SWFO-L1 IS AN EARLY MORNING 891 00:31:10,885 --> 00:31:13,121 SYSTEM IN A SENSE THAT IT SENSES 892 00:31:13,121 --> 00:31:15,723 -- IT WILL BE TRACKING AND 893 00:31:15,723 --> 00:31:20,228 LOOKING AT THE SUN WITH THE CORE 894 00:31:20,228 --> 00:31:26,768 CORE CORONAGRAPH OF THE CME ARE 895 00:31:26,768 --> 00:31:31,105 CORE RON KNOW INJECTIONS AND THE 896 00:31:31,105 --> 00:31:34,976 SOLAR WIND IN THAT AS IT LOFS TO 897 00:31:34,976 --> 00:31:37,045 EVERY SWIFTZ AT L 1. 898 00:31:37,045 --> 00:31:39,347 NOT ONLY A WARNING SIGN, BUT 899 00:31:39,347 --> 00:31:40,515 ENSURES THAT DATA CONTINUITY. 900 00:31:40,515 --> 00:31:42,951 WE MENTIONED THE FAB LUGS JOB 901 00:31:42,951 --> 00:31:46,454 THAT ACE, SOHO AND OTHER 902 00:31:46,454 --> 00:31:48,790 INSTRUMENTS TO SET THE STAGE AND 903 00:31:48,790 --> 00:31:52,927 BEING THE POINTY END OF THE 904 00:31:52,927 --> 00:31:57,498 ISU SPHHERE WHAT IS NEEDED TO 905 00:31:57,498 --> 00:31:57,832 ANSWER. 906 00:31:57,832 --> 00:31:59,233 STEPS BACK UP THESE ARE WHAT WE 907 00:31:59,233 --> 00:32:00,034 UNDERSTAND WE NEED. 908 00:32:00,034 --> 00:32:05,306 AND SO IT -- AS WE DEVELOP THIS 909 00:32:05,306 --> 00:32:06,941 CONTINUUM -- CONTINUITY OF 910 00:32:06,941 --> 00:32:08,876 OBSERVATIONS, WE WILL HAVE THESE 911 00:32:08,876 --> 00:32:10,678 OBSERVATIONS 24-7. 912 00:32:10,678 --> 00:32:12,714 AND AS WE LEARN MORE, WHO KNOWS 913 00:32:12,714 --> 00:32:14,582 HOW THESE OBSERVATIONSES ARE 914 00:32:14,582 --> 00:32:17,485 GOING TO EVOLUME LATER ON AND WE 915 00:32:17,485 --> 00:32:20,855 MAY HAVE A DIFFERENT FLEET OF 916 00:32:20,855 --> 00:32:23,024 SPACECRAFT AT L-1 ONCE WE 917 00:32:23,024 --> 00:32:24,525 UNDERSTAND WHAT IS NEEDED FOR 918 00:32:24,525 --> 00:32:25,360 THE OBSERVATIONS. 919 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,295 SO ON SWFO-L1, FOUR INSTRUMENTS 920 00:32:27,295 --> 00:32:29,197 THAT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT. 921 00:32:29,197 --> 00:32:30,932 IF WE COULD HAVE THE IMAGE OF 922 00:32:30,932 --> 00:32:32,433 THE SPACECRAFT. 923 00:32:32,433 --> 00:32:34,702 FIRST WE ALREADY MENTIONED IS 924 00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:40,942 A COMPACT CORONAGRAPH, PICTURES 925 00:32:40,942 --> 00:32:43,077 CAN OF ATMOSPHERE AND SPOT 926 00:32:43,077 --> 00:32:45,113 INJECTIONS THAT ARE A LARGE 927 00:32:45,113 --> 00:32:47,048 EXPLOSIONS AND EXPULSIONS FROM 928 00:32:47,048 --> 00:32:50,084 SOLAR MATERIAL AND THOSE REALLY 929 00:32:50,084 --> 00:32:51,486 DROVE THE IMPRESSIVE SPACE 930 00:32:51,486 --> 00:32:53,921 WEATHER IMPACT WHICH ARE THE GEO 931 00:32:53,921 --> 00:32:54,722 MAGNETIC STORMS. 932 00:32:54,722 --> 00:32:56,124 SECOND INSTRUMENT I WILL 933 00:32:56,124 --> 00:32:58,993 HIGHLIGHT IS THE SOLAR WIND 934 00:32:58,993 --> 00:33:01,329 PLACE MASS CENTER. 935 00:33:01,329 --> 00:33:02,764 MEASURES THE PROPERTY OF THE 936 00:33:02,764 --> 00:33:06,901 SOLAR WIND, ITS VELOCITY, ITS 937 00:33:06,901 --> 00:33:08,670 DESTINY AND HELPS US UNDERSTAND 938 00:33:08,670 --> 00:33:10,471 BETTER IN TERMS OF WHAT THE 939 00:33:10,471 --> 00:33:12,273 CHARACTER AND THE NATURE KRF THE 940 00:33:12,273 --> 00:33:15,109 EVENT THAT IS TAKING PLACE. 941 00:33:15,109 --> 00:33:19,380 THE THIRD IS THE MAGNETOMETER. 942 00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:20,915 SEEMS TO ME THAT EVERY 943 00:33:20,915 --> 00:33:24,619 SPACECRAFT SHOULD HAVE A GOOD 944 00:33:24,619 --> 00:33:25,353 MAGNETOMETER. 945 00:33:25,353 --> 00:33:28,456 BUTTING THAT OUT THERE NOW. 946 00:33:28,456 --> 00:33:31,526 THIS 2001 IN A LARGE BOOM OVER 947 00:33:31,526 --> 00:33:34,896 FIVE METER AWAY, PRISTINE 948 00:33:34,896 --> 00:33:36,164 MAGNETIC FIELD THAT IS CRITICAL 949 00:33:36,164 --> 00:33:37,999 OF UNDERSTANDING HOW EFFECTIVE 950 00:33:37,999 --> 00:33:39,400 THIS SPACE WEATHER EVENT WILL BE 951 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,903 IN TERMS OF GENERATE AGGIE YO 952 00:33:41,903 --> 00:33:43,504 MAGNETIC STORM OR OTHER IMPACTS. 953 00:33:43,504 --> 00:33:46,374 THEN LASTLY, WE WILL HAVE A 954 00:33:46,374 --> 00:33:50,978 SUPER ION THERMAL SENSOR 955 00:33:50,978 --> 00:33:53,181 MEASURES THE HIGH ENERGY 956 00:33:53,181 --> 00:33:54,248 PARTICLES ESSENTIAL TO 957 00:33:54,248 --> 00:33:56,517 ASTRONAUTS AND SPACECRAFT 958 00:33:56,517 --> 00:33:56,951 ELECTRONICS. 959 00:33:56,951 --> 00:33:58,720 COMPLEMENT OF THOSE FOUR 960 00:33:58,720 --> 00:33:59,554 INSTRUMENTS COMBINE THE BEST OF 961 00:33:59,554 --> 00:34:04,092 WHAT ACE AND SOHO HAS AND PUTS 962 00:34:04,092 --> 00:34:05,927 IT ALL IN ONE PACKAGE. 963 00:34:05,927 --> 00:34:09,297 AND WE WILL PROVIDE US THE 964 00:34:09,297 --> 00:34:11,099 CONTINUOUS OBSERVATIONS 965 00:34:11,099 --> 00:34:17,138 PROVIDING TRUTHFUL AND RELIABLE 966 00:34:17,138 --> 00:34:19,841 DATA FOR 24-7 FOR OUR WEATHER 967 00:34:19,841 --> 00:34:20,875 PREDICTIONS AND WARNINGS. 968 00:34:20,875 --> 00:34:22,844 WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT BACK 969 00:34:22,844 --> 00:34:24,178 OVER TO SARAH. 970 00:34:24,178 --> 00:34:24,612 >> GREAT. 971 00:34:24,612 --> 00:34:27,148 THANK YOU, EVERYONE, FOR THOSE 972 00:34:27,148 --> 00:34:28,116 OPENING REMARKS. 973 00:34:28,116 --> 00:34:29,784 IT IS NOW TIME TO TAKE QUESTION. 974 00:34:29,784 --> 00:34:31,319 WHEN YOU ARE ASKING A QUESTION, 975 00:34:31,319 --> 00:34:32,453 PLEASE TAKE IT TO ONE QUESTION 976 00:34:32,453 --> 00:34:33,988 AND TELL US WHO YOU WANT TO 977 00:34:33,988 --> 00:34:35,490 ANSWER THAT QUESTION. 978 00:34:35,490 --> 00:34:37,091 REMINDER, IF YOU WERE ON THE 979 00:34:37,091 --> 00:34:38,659 PHONE, YOU CAN GET IN THE 980 00:34:38,659 --> 00:34:42,063 QUESTION QUEUEU QUEUE BY DIALING 981 00:34:42,063 --> 00:34:42,430 STAR 1. 982 00:34:42,430 --> 00:34:44,432 IF YOU WERE WATCHING ONLINE, USE 983 00:34:44,432 --> 00:34:46,701 THE HASHTAG REQUESTNASA. 984 00:34:46,701 --> 00:34:47,802 ANY QUESTIONS IN THE ROOM NUMBER 985 00:34:47,802 --> 00:34:48,636 RAISE YOUR HAND. 986 00:34:48,636 --> 00:34:52,273 RIGHT HERE IN THE FRONT ROW. 987 00:34:52,273 --> 00:34:57,411 >> HEY, KENT CRAMMER, SPACE UP 988 00:34:57,411 --> 00:34:57,745 CLOSE. 989 00:34:57,745 --> 00:34:59,080 GOOD WILL YOU CAN TO EACH OF 990 00:34:59,080 --> 00:34:59,380 YOU. 991 00:34:59,380 --> 00:35:03,618 IT IS VERY EXCITING. 992 00:35:03,618 --> 00:35:06,754 START WITH PROFESSOR MAKMIS, 993 00:35:06,754 --> 00:35:09,390 TALK OF THE INSTRUMENTS. 994 00:35:09,390 --> 00:35:10,925 YOU HAVE TEN INSTRUMENTS ON 995 00:35:10,925 --> 00:35:11,259 HERE. 996 00:35:11,259 --> 00:35:13,728 TALK OF A FEW OF THEM AND THE 997 00:35:13,728 --> 00:35:15,096 MEASUREMENTS THEY ARE GOING TO 998 00:35:15,096 --> 00:35:15,997 MAKE, THANKS. 999 00:35:15,997 --> 00:35:17,698 >> I CAN TALK FOR HOURS ABOUT 1000 00:35:17,698 --> 00:35:18,733 OUR MEASUREMENTS AND I WILL TRY 1001 00:35:18,733 --> 00:35:19,834 TO KEEP IT SHORT. 1002 00:35:19,834 --> 00:35:21,536 WE HAVE TEN INSTRUMENTS. 1003 00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:23,671 TWO SETS OF THREE. 1004 00:35:23,671 --> 00:35:27,542 WE MEASURE IONS IN THE 1005 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:29,477 SPACECRAFT, LOW ENERGY IONS TO 1006 00:35:29,477 --> 00:35:32,480 SOLAR WIND, SUPER PICK-UP IONS 1007 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,416 AND SUPER THERMAL PARTICLES. 1008 00:35:35,416 --> 00:35:38,119 WE HAVE THREE ENA IMAGEERS. 1009 00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:39,854 THEY MEASURE BASICALLY THE SAME 1010 00:35:39,854 --> 00:35:41,189 SET OF ENERGIES. 1011 00:35:41,189 --> 00:35:41,989 PARTICLES GOING OUT. 1012 00:35:41,989 --> 00:35:43,925 WE MEASURE THEM. 1013 00:35:43,925 --> 00:35:48,763 SOME OF THEM COME BACK AS 1014 00:35:48,763 --> 00:35:49,864 ENERGETIC NEUTRAL EYEONS. 1015 00:35:49,864 --> 00:35:51,232 THERE ARE SIX. 1016 00:35:51,232 --> 00:35:53,434 MAGNETOMETER BECAUSE EVERYBODY 1017 00:35:53,434 --> 00:36:00,141 THIS SHOULD A MEETING THEY 1018 00:36:00,141 --> 00:36:04,979 WE HAVE A DUST DETECTOR. 1019 00:36:04,979 --> 00:36:07,448 VERY LARGE DUST DETECTOR. 1020 00:36:07,448 --> 00:36:08,549 INTERSTELLAR DUST COMES FLOATING 1021 00:36:08,549 --> 00:36:12,353 IN FROM OUTSIDE THE HELIOSPHERE 1022 00:36:12,353 --> 00:36:15,189 AND THE LARGEST DUST DETECTOR 1023 00:36:15,189 --> 00:36:16,424 EVERY FLOWN. 1024 00:36:16,424 --> 00:36:18,125 100 DUST HITS FOR THE FIRST TIME 1025 00:36:18,125 --> 00:36:20,261 MORE THAN HUMANITY HAS MADE SO 1026 00:36:20,261 --> 00:36:21,629 FAR IN THE HISTORY OF SPACE 1027 00:36:21,629 --> 00:36:23,231 FLIGHT. 1028 00:36:23,231 --> 00:36:25,666 AND WE ARE NOT JUST MEASURING 1029 00:36:25,666 --> 00:36:27,168 THE DUST, BUT WE ARE ABLE TO 1030 00:36:27,168 --> 00:36:32,373 BREAK IT UP AND TELL THE 1031 00:36:32,373 --> 00:36:32,974 ELEMENTAL -- EXCELLENT 1032 00:36:32,974 --> 00:36:34,609 MEASUREMENT. 1033 00:36:34,609 --> 00:36:37,211 AND A UV INSTRUMENT. 1034 00:36:37,211 --> 00:36:39,647 THAT HELPS PIECE TOGETHER THE 1035 00:36:39,647 --> 00:36:43,484 PARTICLES COMING OUT ON A 1036 00:36:43,484 --> 00:36:43,951 3-DIMENSIONAL. 1037 00:36:43,951 --> 00:36:47,822 TEN INSTRUMENTS TWO MINUTES. 1038 00:36:47,822 --> 00:36:48,522 >> GREAT. 1039 00:36:48,522 --> 00:36:50,758 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS HERE IN THE 1040 00:36:50,758 --> 00:36:57,765 ROOM? 1041 00:36:57,765 --> 00:36:59,333 >> THANK YOU. 1042 00:36:59,333 --> 00:37:00,935 DAVID, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE 1043 00:37:00,935 --> 00:37:03,537 MISSION IS GOING TO LAST TWO 1044 00:37:03,537 --> 00:37:03,871 YEARS. 1045 00:37:03,871 --> 00:37:06,674 BUT IT IS AND TO BE EXTENDED TO 1046 00:37:06,674 --> 00:37:06,974 FIVE. 1047 00:37:06,974 --> 00:37:08,242 WHAT WOULD BE THE -- WHAT WOULD 1048 00:37:08,242 --> 00:37:11,212 BE THE DECISION TO EXTENDING THE 1049 00:37:11,212 --> 00:37:11,579 MISSION? 1050 00:37:11,579 --> 00:37:14,115 LIKE -- BECAUSE FUEL IS GOING TO 1051 00:37:14,115 --> 00:37:14,515 HAVE FUEL. 1052 00:37:14,515 --> 00:37:17,818 BECAUSE PREPARED FOR FIVE. 1053 00:37:17,818 --> 00:37:20,788 AND A BAD SITUATION OR A KEY 1054 00:37:20,788 --> 00:37:22,690 METRIC SUCCESS PERFORMER THAT 1055 00:37:22,690 --> 00:37:25,993 YOU ARE GOING TO MESH SDMUR. 1056 00:37:25,993 --> 00:37:27,161 >> TYPICAL THAT NASA MISSIONS 1057 00:37:27,161 --> 00:37:29,797 HAVE A SHORT GUARANTEED LIFETIME 1058 00:37:29,797 --> 00:37:31,799 OF A CUP CUP CONSULTANT OF 1059 00:37:31,799 --> 00:37:32,466 YEARS. 1060 00:37:32,466 --> 00:37:35,202 WE LOAD IT UP WITH FIVE YEARS. 1061 00:37:35,202 --> 00:37:36,737 CLOSE IN NOMINAL LAUNCH, EXTRA 1062 00:37:36,737 --> 00:37:37,939 FUEL INSIDE. 1063 00:37:37,939 --> 00:37:39,707 MOST OF IT INCLUDING IMAP WILL 1064 00:37:39,707 --> 00:37:42,610 LAST FOR MANY DECADES TO COME. 1065 00:37:42,610 --> 00:37:45,346 IT IS OUR -- ONUS IS ON US TO 1066 00:37:45,346 --> 00:37:46,514 DEMONSTRATE THAT THE SCIENCE IS 1067 00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:48,015 EXCELLENT AND IS NECESSARY. 1068 00:37:48,015 --> 00:37:49,283 AND AFTER THE FIRST TWO YEARS, 1069 00:37:49,283 --> 00:37:51,585 YOU GO INTO A PROCESS CALLED THE 1070 00:37:51,585 --> 00:37:54,822 SENIOR REVIEW PROS ZES THEY ARE 1071 00:37:54,822 --> 00:37:56,324 PROPOSALS THAT ARE MADE TO NASA 1072 00:37:56,324 --> 00:37:57,525 HEADQUARTERS WHERE YOU SHOW WHAT 1073 00:37:57,525 --> 00:38:00,194 YOU HAVE DONE AND BASICALLY BID 1074 00:38:00,194 --> 00:38:14,608 LOWER APPLES OF MONEY FOR 1075 00:38:14,608 --> 00:38:18,412 MEASUREMENTS AT A LOWER PRICE. 1076 00:38:18,412 --> 00:38:19,146 YOU CAN DO THAT THROUGH MANY HE 1077 00:38:19,146 --> 00:38:19,880 THOSE CYCLES AND HOPEFULLY LAST 1078 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:20,481 A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. 1079 00:38:20,481 --> 00:38:21,215 EXCITED THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO 1080 00:38:21,215 --> 00:38:21,983 -- I HOPE -- TO DO THAT AND VERY 1081 00:38:21,983 --> 00:38:23,417 IMPORTANT FOR PARTNERSES WITH 1082 00:38:23,417 --> 00:38:24,418 THE SPACE WEATHER SIZE 37 1083 00:38:24,418 --> 00:38:26,053 MISSIONS LIKE ICE. 1084 00:38:26,053 --> 00:38:31,759 I AM A P.I. FOR ONE OF THE 1085 00:38:31,759 --> 00:38:32,193 INSTRUMENTS. 1086 00:38:32,193 --> 00:38:32,994 THEY DO GREAT SPACE WEATHER FOR 1087 00:38:32,994 --> 00:38:34,228 A LONG TIME. 1088 00:38:34,228 --> 00:38:36,797 WE HOPE TO BE PART OF THAT 1089 00:38:36,797 --> 00:38:37,131 FLEET. 1090 00:38:37,131 --> 00:38:38,532 >> ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE A 1091 00:38:38,532 --> 00:38:39,800 QUESTION ON THE PHONE. 1092 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,870 JEFF FAUST WITH SPACE NEWS. 1093 00:38:42,870 --> 00:38:44,538 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. 1094 00:38:44,538 --> 00:38:47,675 WE HEARD FROM THE BRIEFING 1095 00:38:47,675 --> 00:38:48,743 EARLIER TODAY ABOUT HOW THESE 1096 00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:52,279 MISSION ALSO HELP SUPPORT THE 1097 00:38:52,279 --> 00:38:53,581 UPCOMING ARTEMIS MISSIONS AND 1098 00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:54,882 MAKE SURE THAT THE ASTRONAUTS ON 1099 00:38:54,882 --> 00:38:56,017 THEM ARE SAFE. 1100 00:38:56,017 --> 00:38:57,918 WONDER IF YOU CAN DESCRIBE ANY 1101 00:38:57,918 --> 00:39:00,621 DETAIL OF HOW THE MEASUREMENT 1102 00:39:00,621 --> 00:39:03,624 COME FROM IMAP, CURRUTHERS AND 1103 00:39:03,624 --> 00:39:04,792 SWFO-L1 WILL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT 1104 00:39:04,792 --> 00:39:06,327 THAT IN WEIGHS THAT ARE NOT 1105 00:39:06,327 --> 00:39:08,896 POSSIBLE WITH EXISTING MISSION 1106 00:39:08,896 --> 00:39:11,532 AS SOON AS THANK YOU. 1107 00:39:11,532 --> 00:39:12,633 >> I WILL BE HA ESPECIALLY TO 1108 00:39:12,633 --> 00:39:13,467 TAKE THAT ONE. 1109 00:39:13,467 --> 00:39:16,704 WHEN WE TALK OF HOW THIS MISSION 1110 00:39:16,704 --> 00:39:18,105 SUPPORTS ARTEMIS AN OTHER 1111 00:39:18,105 --> 00:39:18,706 MISSIONS. 1112 00:39:18,706 --> 00:39:20,641 ONE OF THE KEY WEATHERS THROUGH 1113 00:39:20,641 --> 00:39:22,676 NASA'S PERSPECTIVE AND I LET MY 1114 00:39:22,676 --> 00:39:24,245 COLLEAGUE FROM NOAA SPEAK A 1115 00:39:24,245 --> 00:39:25,046 LITTLE BIT AS WELL. 1116 00:39:25,046 --> 00:39:26,914 FROM OUR MOON TO MARS OFFICE. 1117 00:39:26,914 --> 00:39:29,650 OUR MOON TO MARS OFFICE MAKES 1118 00:39:29,650 --> 00:39:32,620 DATA, INFORMATION, AND DELIVERS 1119 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:34,088 ACTIONABLE INFORMATIONING THAT 1120 00:39:34,088 --> 00:39:35,689 HELPS US INFORM OUR ASTRONAUTS 1121 00:39:35,689 --> 00:39:36,957 OUT IN SPACE AND ALLOW US TO 1122 00:39:36,957 --> 00:39:38,626 MAKE GOOD DECISIONS. 1123 00:39:38,626 --> 00:39:40,961 THAT INFORMATION COMES FORWARD, 1124 00:39:40,961 --> 00:39:43,130 YOU KNOW, FROM OUR AGENDAING 1125 00:39:43,130 --> 00:39:46,000 FLEET TODAY. 1126 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,302 BUT THESE REALLY SURVIVE NEW AND 1127 00:39:48,302 --> 00:39:50,805 UPDATED MERV CHURMENTS. 1128 00:39:50,805 --> 00:39:53,674 AND A BET PER INFORMATION TO 1129 00:39:53,674 --> 00:39:54,742 ALLOW US TO MAKE BETTER 1130 00:39:54,742 --> 00:39:55,976 DECISIONS WHEN MOVING FORWARD. 1131 00:39:55,976 --> 00:39:58,212 >> YEAH, AND JUST TO ADD A 1132 00:39:58,212 --> 00:40:00,047 LITTLE BIT FROM JOE'S COMMENTS 1133 00:40:00,047 --> 00:40:00,381 THERE. 1134 00:40:00,381 --> 00:40:02,249 AS I SAID, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO 1135 00:40:02,249 --> 00:40:04,418 AT THE SPACE WEATHER PREDICTION 1136 00:40:04,418 --> 00:40:06,954 CENTER STARTS WITH OBSERVATIONS. 1137 00:40:06,954 --> 00:40:08,089 THESE OBSERVATIONSES FROM 1138 00:40:08,089 --> 00:40:09,256 SWFO-L1 FROM IMAP, WHICH WE WILL 1139 00:40:09,256 --> 00:40:12,059 BE USING ALSO FOR REDUNDANCY. 1140 00:40:12,059 --> 00:40:14,462 THEY ARE JUST REALLY CRITICAL IN 1141 00:40:14,462 --> 00:40:16,497 OUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE NASA WITH 1142 00:40:16,497 --> 00:40:22,002 THE THE INFORMATION THAT THEY 1143 00:40:22,002 --> 00:40:23,637 NEED AND THE PRODUCTS AND MODELS 1144 00:40:23,637 --> 00:40:24,305 AND SUCH. 1145 00:40:24,305 --> 00:40:25,806 WE WORK VERY, VERY CLOSELY 1146 00:40:25,806 --> 00:40:28,642 TOGETHER ON A DAILY BASIS 1147 00:40:28,642 --> 00:40:29,110 OPERATIONALLY. 1148 00:40:29,110 --> 00:40:32,847 OUR FORECASTERS ARE TALKING OFS. 1149 00:40:32,847 --> 00:40:33,180 >> I. 1150 00:40:33,180 --> 00:40:35,349 AND THE MOON TO MARS OFFICE. 1151 00:40:35,349 --> 00:40:37,551 A CLOSE TIGHT COLLABORATION. 1152 00:40:37,551 --> 00:40:40,721 AND JIM AND MYSELF AND JAMIE AND 1153 00:40:40,721 --> 00:40:44,158 JOE WERE WORKING TOGETHER TO 1154 00:40:44,158 --> 00:40:47,428 ENSURE THAT THE SUCCESS OF THE 1155 00:40:47,428 --> 00:40:49,597 ARTEMIS MISSIONS AND IN FACT WE 1156 00:40:49,597 --> 00:40:53,267 HAD A JOINT EXERCISE THIS LAST 1157 00:40:53,267 --> 00:40:54,201 SPRING WHERE WE TESTED TO OUT 1158 00:40:54,201 --> 00:40:57,605 AND EXERCISED THE CONCEPT DURING 1159 00:40:57,605 --> 00:41:00,207 THE ARTEMIS 2 AND THE FUTURE 1160 00:41:00,207 --> 00:41:01,842 ARTEMIS MISSIONS TOGETHER WERE A 1161 00:41:01,842 --> 00:41:03,010 TREMENDOUS, VERY SUCCESS. 1162 00:41:03,010 --> 00:41:04,111 >> I WILL JUST MAKE ONE QUICK 1163 00:41:04,111 --> 00:41:06,680 COMMENT TO THAN IS ONE OF THE 1164 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,517 THINGS THAT SWFO-L1 WILL PROVIDE 1165 00:41:09,517 --> 00:41:12,987 IS A -- A MUCH BETTER CADENCE OF 1166 00:41:12,987 --> 00:41:14,922 OBSERVATIONS OF A CONTINUOUS 1167 00:41:14,922 --> 00:41:15,256 BASIS. 1168 00:41:15,256 --> 00:41:16,190 AND SO THAT WILL. 1169 00:41:16,190 --> 00:41:19,293 THAT WILL PROVIDE A MUCH MORE 1170 00:41:19,293 --> 00:41:21,929 RELIABLE PICTURE OF WHAT THE 1171 00:41:21,929 --> 00:41:22,630 ENVIRONMENT IS. 1172 00:41:22,630 --> 00:41:25,466 SO THAT WILL DEFINITELY HELP 1173 00:41:25,466 --> 00:41:26,934 PROTECT OUR ASTRONAUTS AS WE GET 1174 00:41:26,934 --> 00:41:28,769 A VERY REGULAR CADENCE OF 1175 00:41:28,769 --> 00:41:30,237 INFORMATION THAT IS RELIABLE 1176 00:41:30,237 --> 00:41:31,338 THAT WE CAN USE. 1177 00:41:31,338 --> 00:41:32,673 WE KNOW THAT WE WILL BE COMING 1178 00:41:32,673 --> 00:41:33,440 ALL THE TIME. 1179 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,644 AND WE DID NOT HAVE THAT 1180 00:41:36,644 --> 00:41:38,812 UNNECESSARILY WITH THE 1181 00:41:38,812 --> 00:41:42,183 SCIENCE-BASED MISSIONS. 1182 00:41:42,183 --> 00:41:43,951 AND OH, BY THE WAY, I WILL JUST 1183 00:41:43,951 --> 00:41:47,121 SAY THAT EXERCISE WITH ARTEMIS, 1184 00:41:47,121 --> 00:41:48,722 IT WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED 15 1185 00:41:48,722 --> 00:41:50,391 OR 10 YEARS AGO. 1186 00:41:50,391 --> 00:41:52,893 THE GROUP THAT WE HAVE NOW IS 1187 00:41:52,893 --> 00:41:54,695 REALLY WORKING WELL TOGETHER ON 1188 00:41:54,695 --> 00:41:55,262 SPACE WEATHER. 1189 00:41:55,262 --> 00:41:57,431 AND A TESTAMENT OF THE AGENCIES 1190 00:41:57,431 --> 00:41:59,633 AND THE SCIENCE COMMUNITIES OF 1191 00:41:59,633 --> 00:42:01,902 RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF 1192 00:42:01,902 --> 00:42:02,236 THAT. 1193 00:42:02,236 --> 00:42:03,938 >> JUST TO KIND OF ADD IN, JEFF, 1194 00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:05,639 IT IS AS GREAT QUESTION. 1195 00:42:05,639 --> 00:42:07,041 ARTEMIS IS A BIG CHALLENGE FOR 1196 00:42:07,041 --> 00:42:07,808 THE WHOLE AGENCY. 1197 00:42:07,808 --> 00:42:09,543 WE KIND OF GET READY FOR THE 1198 00:42:09,543 --> 00:42:10,878 MOON. 1199 00:42:10,878 --> 00:42:13,113 I THINK IT HAS BEEN CONTINUE 1200 00:42:13,113 --> 00:42:13,847 DEEP COLLABORATION OF THE TWO 1201 00:42:13,847 --> 00:42:15,616 AGENCIES GETTING READY FOR THE 1202 00:42:15,616 --> 00:42:18,285 DAY TO DAY, SPANNED I REALLY -- 1203 00:42:18,285 --> 00:42:20,054 SETTING UP NEW CAPE SHLTS THAT 1204 00:42:20,054 --> 00:42:22,289 WE ARE LACKING FOR QUITE A FEW 1205 00:42:22,289 --> 00:42:25,092 YEARS AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM WIDE 1206 00:42:25,092 --> 00:42:26,327 EXPERT. 1207 00:42:26,327 --> 00:42:28,229 ARTEMIS IS A YOU DAUNTING 1208 00:42:28,229 --> 00:42:28,629 CHALLENGE. 1209 00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:30,998 THINK OF MARS, JUPITER AND 1210 00:42:30,998 --> 00:42:33,701 MISSIONS TO UR,NUS. 1211 00:42:33,701 --> 00:42:37,972 HOW DO WE GET READY TO SAVE THEM 1212 00:42:37,972 --> 00:42:38,272 WELL. 1213 00:42:38,272 --> 00:42:39,607 AND AS COMMERCIAL RULE GOES OUT 1214 00:42:39,607 --> 00:42:41,141 TO YOU SOME OF THE VENTURES AS 1215 00:42:41,141 --> 00:42:41,442 WELL. 1216 00:42:41,442 --> 00:42:43,210 WE TRANSLATE THAT TO THE NOSE 1217 00:42:43,210 --> 00:42:44,645 SIDE AS THEY SERVE THE 1218 00:42:44,645 --> 00:42:46,947 COMMERCIAL SECTOR ON THESE 1219 00:42:46,947 --> 00:42:47,281 THINGS. 1220 00:42:47,281 --> 00:42:49,283 >> ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE SOME 1221 00:42:49,283 --> 00:42:50,184 CONGRESS SOCIAL MEDIA. 1222 00:42:50,184 --> 00:42:52,786 SO LAURIE G. ON FACEBOOK ASKS, 1223 00:42:52,786 --> 00:42:55,556 HOW MANY EARTH -- SORRY, HOW 1224 00:42:55,556 --> 00:42:56,857 DOES IMAP CREATE A MAP OF 1225 00:42:56,857 --> 00:43:00,227 THE HELIOSHHERE. 1226 00:43:00,227 --> 00:43:01,962 WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION DOES 1227 00:43:01,962 --> 00:43:03,664 THIS MAP SHOW. 1228 00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:05,733 JOE, I THINK YOU HAD SOMETHING. 1229 00:43:05,733 --> 00:43:06,500 >> I WILL HAVE ONE THOUGHT ON 1230 00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:08,202 THAT AND PASS IT OVER TO DAVE. 1231 00:43:08,202 --> 00:43:11,438 ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS -- WE 1232 00:43:11,438 --> 00:43:13,207 TALK OF THIS GALACTIC HOLE IN 1233 00:43:13,207 --> 00:43:15,309 ONE OF THESE PAR CALLS. 1234 00:43:15,309 --> 00:43:17,378 AMAZING THING SO MANY OF THESE 1235 00:43:17,378 --> 00:43:18,912 PARTICLES OUT IN SPACE. 1236 00:43:18,912 --> 00:43:21,248 SUN SECONDING SOLAR WINDS, VAST 1237 00:43:21,248 --> 00:43:22,583 AMOUNTS OF SOLAR WIND INTO THE 1238 00:43:22,583 --> 00:43:24,184 SPACE IN THE LARGER ARENA. 1239 00:43:24,184 --> 00:43:26,253 WE GET MANY OF THESE PARTICLES 1240 00:43:26,253 --> 00:43:29,290 AND TAKEN THESE MEASUREMENTS 1241 00:43:29,290 --> 00:43:31,258 PREVIOUSLY AT A CURSE SEE GLANCE 1242 00:43:31,258 --> 00:43:33,227 FROM THE IBEX MISSION. 1243 00:43:33,227 --> 00:43:34,728 WE KNOW HOW MANY CAN COME 1244 00:43:34,728 --> 00:43:35,929 FORWARD TO US. 1245 00:43:35,929 --> 00:43:37,831 AND WE ARE ABLE FROM THAT EARLY 1246 00:43:37,831 --> 00:43:39,967 PREDICTION AND EARLY 1247 00:43:39,967 --> 00:43:41,302 UNDERSTANDING, SIZE AND 1248 00:43:41,302 --> 00:43:43,971 INSTRUMENTATION TO GET THE MOST 1249 00:43:43,971 --> 00:43:45,939 DETAILED MAP EVER THE KEYWAYS TO 1250 00:43:45,939 --> 00:43:48,242 DO THAT HOW THE MISSION ACTUALLY 1251 00:43:48,242 --> 00:43:49,143 EXECUTES THE MAP. 1252 00:43:49,143 --> 00:43:51,178 AND TOSS IT OVER TO DAVE SO WE 1253 00:43:51,178 --> 00:43:53,414 CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW 1254 00:43:53,414 --> 00:43:54,682 THE MISSION ACTUALLY TREATS A 1255 00:43:54,682 --> 00:43:54,982 MAP. 1256 00:43:54,982 --> 00:43:55,983 >> SURE, THANKS, JOE. 1257 00:43:55,983 --> 00:43:57,651 WE ARE A SPINNING SPACECRAFT. 1258 00:43:57,651 --> 00:43:59,987 WE'VE SOLAR ARRAY ON THE FRONT 1259 00:43:59,987 --> 00:44:00,354 SERVICE. 1260 00:44:00,354 --> 00:44:01,588 WE HAVE INSTRUMENTS THAT LOOK 1261 00:44:01,588 --> 00:44:02,189 OUTED SIDES. 1262 00:44:02,189 --> 00:44:04,858 SO EVERY TIME WE SPIN AROUND, WE 1263 00:44:04,858 --> 00:44:06,760 SEE A SWATH OF THE SKY. 1264 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,296 EVERY ROTATION. 1265 00:44:09,296 --> 00:44:10,631 FOUR TIMES A MINUTE, SEE A SWATH 1266 00:44:10,631 --> 00:44:13,400 OF THE SKY, THE EARTH GOES 1267 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:14,635 AROUND SUN. 1268 00:44:14,635 --> 00:44:15,836 L-1 GOES AROUND THE SUN AND 1269 00:44:15,836 --> 00:44:17,171 REPOINT OUR SPACECRAFT ONE 1270 00:44:17,171 --> 00:44:18,772 DEGREE PER DAY. 1271 00:44:18,772 --> 00:44:20,407 THE SWATH OF THE SKY WE ARE 1272 00:44:20,407 --> 00:44:21,175 SEEING MOVES. 1273 00:44:21,175 --> 00:44:23,444 AND MOVESES FROM HERE TO HERE TO 1274 00:44:23,444 --> 00:44:25,713 HERE TO HERE. 1275 00:44:25,713 --> 00:44:27,047 OVER THE COURSE OF SIX MONTHS, 1276 00:44:27,047 --> 00:44:32,052 WE GO HALFWAY AROUND AND THE 1277 00:44:32,052 --> 00:44:34,388 ENTIRE UHERE. 1278 00:44:34,388 --> 00:44:36,423 WE GET A COMPLETE MAP OF 1279 00:44:36,423 --> 00:44:40,160 THE HELIOSPHERE OF THE NEUTRAL 1280 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:41,261 PARTICLES COMING IN. 1281 00:44:41,261 --> 00:44:42,830 >> OUR NEXT QUESTION IS FROM 1282 00:44:42,830 --> 00:44:44,965 MIKE ON X. 1283 00:44:44,965 --> 00:44:46,600 HE ASKED WHY DO THESE MISSIONS 1284 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,736 NEED TO GO WITH L-1. 1285 00:44:48,736 --> 00:44:51,338 AND START WITH LAURA AND WHY 1286 00:44:51,338 --> 00:44:52,339 EVERYBODY AT EACH MISSION CAN 1287 00:44:52,339 --> 00:44:53,040 ANSWER THIS. 1288 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:54,375 >> SURE, ANTICIPATE TO ANSWER. 1289 00:44:54,375 --> 00:44:55,576 CURRUTHERS IS A MISSION OF 1290 00:44:55,576 --> 00:44:56,043 OPPORTUNITY. 1291 00:44:56,043 --> 00:44:57,244 THAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY WE TACK 1292 00:44:57,244 --> 00:44:59,246 ADVANTAGE OF TO GET TO THE IDEAL 1293 00:44:59,246 --> 00:45:03,684 POINT IN SPACE FOR EXOSPHERETIC 1294 00:45:03,684 --> 00:45:04,785 REMOTE SETTING WHICH IS 1295 00:45:04,785 --> 00:45:07,221 THE L-17B LAGRANGE REPORT. 1296 00:45:07,221 --> 00:45:09,189 IN OUR CASE, WE WANTED TO BE FAR 1297 00:45:09,189 --> 00:45:11,024 ENOUGH FROM EARTH AS I MINUTED 1298 00:45:11,024 --> 00:45:13,327 EARLIER IN ORDER TO GET THE 1299 00:45:13,327 --> 00:45:15,329 ENTIRE VAST UPPER ATMOSPHERE, 1300 00:45:15,329 --> 00:45:23,003 IN EXOSH FEAR. 1301 00:45:23,003 --> 00:45:26,507 IT REQUIRES US AND THE VIEWING 1302 00:45:26,507 --> 00:45:27,708 GEOMETRY REQUIRES US THAT WE 1303 00:45:27,708 --> 00:45:30,077 ACHIEVE THAT DISTANCE. 1304 00:45:30,077 --> 00:45:33,247 ANOTHER.J L-1 AND NOT OTHER 1305 00:45:33,247 --> 00:45:35,115 DISTANCE EQUALLY FAR. 1306 00:45:35,115 --> 00:45:38,719 BECAUSE THIS POINT IN SPACE IS 1307 00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:43,624 THE GRAVITATIONAL EQUILIB DRUM. 1308 00:45:43,624 --> 00:45:45,959 IT DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF 1309 00:45:45,959 --> 00:45:47,895 PROPORTION TO STAY NEAR THAT 1310 00:45:47,895 --> 00:45:48,228 POINT. 1311 00:45:48,228 --> 00:45:50,030 SO IT MAKES SMALL SATELLITE 1312 00:45:50,030 --> 00:45:51,598 MISSIONS LIKE CURRUTHERS, FOR 1313 00:45:51,598 --> 00:45:52,800 EXAMPLE, MUCH MORE FEASIBLE. 1314 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,168 WE ARE ABLE TO PAIN IN TAINE A 1315 00:45:54,168 --> 00:45:56,603 POSITION THERE AND TAKE PICTURES 1316 00:45:56,603 --> 00:45:59,606 FOR PICTURES FOR YEARS WITH A 1317 00:45:59,606 --> 00:46:00,707 REASONABLY SIZED PROPULSION 1318 00:46:00,707 --> 00:46:01,041 TANKS. 1319 00:46:01,041 --> 00:46:02,075 I AM SURE OTHER REASONS FOR THE 1320 00:46:02,075 --> 00:46:03,110 OTHER MISSIONS AS WELL. 1321 00:46:03,110 --> 00:46:04,645 >> ONE OF THE REASONS FOR IMAP 1322 00:46:04,645 --> 00:46:07,481 WANTING TO GO TO L-1. 1323 00:46:07,481 --> 00:46:09,750 ANOTHER ONE FROM THE IBEX 1324 00:46:09,750 --> 00:46:11,852 MISSION, SOME OF THE BIGGEST 1325 00:46:11,852 --> 00:46:19,059 BACKGROUNDS FROM THE DELICATE 1326 00:46:19,059 --> 00:46:19,760 MEASUREMENTS FROM THE EARTH 1327 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,695 ITSELF, THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC 1328 00:46:21,695 --> 00:46:22,095 ATMOSPHERE. 1329 00:46:22,095 --> 00:46:24,198 OF THOSE ENERGETIC. 1330 00:46:24,198 --> 00:46:32,773 GETTING OUT OF EITHER 1331 00:46:32,773 --> 00:46:34,808 MAGNETOSPHERE TO BRING IT DOWN 1332 00:46:34,808 --> 00:46:36,677 TO WHERE WE CAN MAKE MUCH BETTER 1333 00:46:36,677 --> 00:46:37,044 MAP IS. 1334 00:46:37,044 --> 00:46:38,846 >> SWFO-L1, THE REASON WE WANT 1335 00:46:38,846 --> 00:46:41,849 TO GO IS WE CAN LOOK AT THE SUN 1336 00:46:41,849 --> 00:46:42,149 24-7. 1337 00:46:42,149 --> 00:46:43,450 WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY OF THE 1338 00:46:43,450 --> 00:46:45,152 MOON GETTING IN THE WAY. 1339 00:46:45,152 --> 00:46:47,454 WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE 1340 00:46:47,454 --> 00:46:50,691 SUN -- WE HAVE TO WORRY OF THE 1341 00:46:50,691 --> 00:46:50,991 SUN. 1342 00:46:50,991 --> 00:46:51,992 DON'T WORE OF THEY EARTH GETTING 1343 00:46:51,992 --> 00:46:53,227 IN THE WAY AS WE OR BIT. 1344 00:46:53,227 --> 00:46:57,798 AS WE POINTED OUT, GOOD FROM A 1345 00:46:57,798 --> 00:47:01,502 PROPULSION PERSPECTIVE AND WHEN 1346 00:47:01,502 --> 00:47:03,270 WE SIT THERE AND STARE ALL DAY 1347 00:47:03,270 --> 00:47:05,606 LONG WHICH IS WHAT WE WANTED TO 1348 00:47:05,606 --> 00:47:05,873 DO. 1349 00:47:05,873 --> 00:47:09,042 >> THE UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW. 1350 00:47:09,042 --> 00:47:12,713 WE'LL ONE ON GHOST. 1351 00:47:12,713 --> 00:47:16,316 A GREAT LITTLE INSTRUMENTS. 1352 00:47:16,316 --> 00:47:18,385 EQUINOX, THE EARTH PASSES IN ITS 1353 00:47:18,385 --> 00:47:20,020 VIEW, BLOCKING IMIMAGINE MA 1354 00:47:20,020 --> 00:47:22,589 AGREE FOR SEVERAL HOURS AT 1355 00:47:22,589 --> 00:47:23,323 NIGHT. 1356 00:47:23,323 --> 00:47:26,193 AND YOU STRAY LIGHT THAT COMES 1357 00:47:26,193 --> 00:47:27,628 IN THE SENSOR. 1358 00:47:27,628 --> 00:47:34,201 WE ARE WELL OUTSIDE THAT 1359 00:47:34,201 --> 00:47:34,668 MAGNETICSPHERE. 1360 00:47:34,668 --> 00:47:36,570 WONDERFUL VIEW AND IT IS GOING 1361 00:47:36,570 --> 00:47:38,305 TO WONDERFUL SPRINKLE FACEBOOK 1362 00:47:38,305 --> 00:47:39,806 ASKS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THESE 1363 00:47:39,806 --> 00:47:41,708 MISSIONS LAUNCHING DURING SOLAR 1364 00:47:41,708 --> 00:47:42,075 MAXIMUM. 1365 00:47:42,075 --> 00:47:43,377 ANYONE WHO WANTS TO START WITH 1366 00:47:43,377 --> 00:47:43,677 THAT. 1367 00:47:43,677 --> 00:47:44,978 >> I WILL BE HAPPY TO TAKE THAT 1368 00:47:44,978 --> 00:47:45,379 ONE. 1369 00:47:45,379 --> 00:47:47,014 WHENEVER WE PLAN OUR MISSIONS, 1370 00:47:47,014 --> 00:47:54,221 THE SOLAR MAXIMUM IS AN 11-YEAR 1371 00:47:54,221 --> 00:47:54,988 CYCLE WHERE THE SOLAR ACTIVITY 1372 00:47:54,988 --> 00:47:55,489 RISES AND WANES. 1373 00:47:55,489 --> 00:47:57,758 AS THE MAGNETIC NEELDZ OF THE 1374 00:47:57,758 --> 00:47:59,927 SUN GETS WOUND UP A VERY LARGE 1375 00:47:59,927 --> 00:48:01,695 ROTATING BALL YOU HAVE GAS. 1376 00:48:01,695 --> 00:48:03,363 AS IT GOES, YOU SEE MORE AND 1377 00:48:03,363 --> 00:48:04,731 MORE SUN SPOTS AND MORE 1378 00:48:04,731 --> 00:48:05,132 ACTIVITY. 1379 00:48:05,132 --> 00:48:06,533 IN THE DECLINING PHASE WHICH IS 1380 00:48:06,533 --> 00:48:08,435 WHERE WE ARE AT TODAY, THE 1381 00:48:08,435 --> 00:48:13,340 DECLINING PHASE OF THE SOLAR 1382 00:48:13,340 --> 00:48:15,475 CYCLE IS ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE 1383 00:48:15,475 --> 00:48:15,943 TIMES. 1384 00:48:15,943 --> 00:48:18,011 NOT BY COINCIDENCE PUTTING IT UP 1385 00:48:18,011 --> 00:48:20,280 WITH SOLAR MAXIMUM BUT ONE OF 1386 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,016 THOSE COINCIDENCES PUTTING THE 1387 00:48:23,016 --> 00:48:25,786 MISSIONS UP ALLOW US TO SEE THIS 1388 00:48:25,786 --> 00:48:26,153 ACTIVITY. 1389 00:48:26,153 --> 00:48:28,722 SOLAR MAXIMUM OR MINIMUM, SOME 1390 00:48:28,722 --> 00:48:30,357 OF THE KEY SCIENTIFIC 1391 00:48:30,357 --> 00:48:33,360 MEASUREMENTS FROM THIS PRODUCED 1392 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,228 INFORMATION THAT WE DES IFFY PER 1393 00:48:35,228 --> 00:48:36,797 RATLEY NEED HERE ON EARTH. 1394 00:48:36,797 --> 00:48:38,298 MANY WAY, FINDING THAT WHETHER 1395 00:48:38,298 --> 00:48:40,100 IT BE ITS MOST POWERFUL STORM WE 1396 00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:41,969 HAVE SEEN IN YEARS AND YEARS AND 1397 00:48:41,969 --> 00:48:44,137 YEARS AND FINDING THE STEADY 1398 00:48:44,137 --> 00:48:45,672 STATE OF THE SUN AND FIGURING 1399 00:48:45,672 --> 00:48:47,507 OUT HOW IT AFFECTS OUR EVERYDAY 1400 00:48:47,507 --> 00:48:47,841 LIVES. 1401 00:48:47,841 --> 00:48:49,009 BOTH OF TO HE WAS ARE IMPORTANT 1402 00:48:49,009 --> 00:48:51,278 TO US AND BOTH THINGS THAT WE 1403 00:48:51,278 --> 00:48:56,650 WILL SEE AS THESE MISSIONS MOVE 1404 00:48:56,650 --> 00:48:57,017 FORWARD. 1405 00:48:57,017 --> 00:49:00,287 >> ONE OF THE AMAZING THING 1406 00:49:00,287 --> 00:49:03,457 IN HIGH PRESSURE,ELIOSIS PICKS. 1407 00:49:03,457 --> 00:49:04,725 HOW THE PARTICLES CHANGE OVER 1408 00:49:04,725 --> 00:49:06,827 THE SOLAR CYCLE AND THE 1409 00:49:06,827 --> 00:49:10,030 OUTER SPHERE AND ATOMS CHANGE 1410 00:49:10,030 --> 00:49:15,168 OVER THE HELISPHERE. 1411 00:49:15,168 --> 00:49:18,405 A VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT OVER A 1412 00:49:18,405 --> 00:49:20,007 SOLAR CYCLE SCALE. 1413 00:49:20,007 --> 00:49:21,808 VERY INTERESTING SCIENTIFICALLY 1414 00:49:21,808 --> 00:49:23,777 AND IMPORTANT PRAGMATICALLY TOO. 1415 00:49:23,777 --> 00:49:26,113 >> ALL RIGHT, ANY MORE QUESTIONS 1416 00:49:26,113 --> 00:49:27,948 HERE IN THE ROOM? 1417 00:49:27,948 --> 00:49:30,083 >> I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. 1418 00:49:30,083 --> 00:49:33,520 >> ONE IN THE BACK THERE. 1419 00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:38,158 >> HI, JOEL OCKEBACK, FREELANCE. 1420 00:49:38,158 --> 00:49:41,261 TO FOLLOW UP DR. MAKOMIS, 1421 00:49:41,261 --> 00:49:42,963 EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE OF HOW 1422 00:49:42,963 --> 00:49:45,966 YOU GET INFORMATION OUT OF THESE 1423 00:49:45,966 --> 00:49:48,235 ENERGETIC NEUTRAL PARTICLES WHEN 1424 00:49:48,235 --> 00:49:50,404 THEY HIT THE INSTRUMENT, THE 1425 00:49:50,404 --> 00:49:52,773 SPACECRAFT, AND MAKING THAT MAP. 1426 00:49:52,773 --> 00:49:54,608 AND I APOLOGIZE. 1427 00:49:54,608 --> 00:49:56,510 DON'T INTUITIVELY GRASP IT, IT 1428 00:49:56,510 --> 00:49:59,613 IS LOOKING AT THE WHOLE UNIVERSE 1429 00:49:59,613 --> 00:50:00,213 OVER TIME. 1430 00:50:00,213 --> 00:50:02,015 HOW CAN YOU GET INFORMATION ON 1431 00:50:02,015 --> 00:50:03,417 WHETHER DOES IT COME FROM. 1432 00:50:03,417 --> 00:50:06,920 HOW FAR AWAY IS THE HELIO PAUSE. 1433 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:08,655 AND WHAT IS IT TELLING YOU? 1434 00:50:08,655 --> 00:50:09,656 >> GREAT QUESTIONS. 1435 00:50:09,656 --> 00:50:11,491 AND LET ME JUST SAY IT TOOK US A 1436 00:50:11,491 --> 00:50:14,428 LONG TIME TO FIGURE IN THIS OUT 1437 00:50:14,428 --> 00:50:15,395 TOO. 1438 00:50:15,395 --> 00:50:18,899 IT WASN'T EASY AND OBVIOUS TO US 1439 00:50:18,899 --> 00:50:19,232 EITHER. 1440 00:50:19,232 --> 00:50:21,401 BECAUSE BECAUSE WE MEASURE THE 1441 00:50:21,401 --> 00:50:22,836 ENERGY OF THE PARTICLES COMING 1442 00:50:22,836 --> 00:50:24,104 BACK IN. 1443 00:50:24,104 --> 00:50:26,306 LIKE HAVING MULTISPECTRAL 1444 00:50:26,306 --> 00:50:26,673 PICTURES. 1445 00:50:26,673 --> 00:50:28,842 NOT JUST REGULAR LIGHT BUT 1446 00:50:28,842 --> 00:50:31,478 ULTRAVIOLET AND X-RAYS. 1447 00:50:31,478 --> 00:50:34,014 YOU ARE ABLE TO TELL THE ENERGY 1448 00:50:34,014 --> 00:50:35,348 SPECTRUM AT A DISTANCE. 1449 00:50:35,348 --> 00:50:37,551 YOU ARE LOOKING AT AND SAYING 1450 00:50:37,551 --> 00:50:38,618 THAT DIRECTION RIGHT THERE. 1451 00:50:38,618 --> 00:50:40,387 PARTICLES THAT HAVE A VARIABLE 1452 00:50:40,387 --> 00:50:42,155 SHAPE OF THEIR ENERGIES. 1453 00:50:42,155 --> 00:50:43,223 AND DIFFERENT SHAPE. 1454 00:50:43,223 --> 00:50:45,425 AND THAT ONE THERE IS A 1455 00:50:45,425 --> 00:50:46,259 DIFFERENT SHAPE. 1456 00:50:46,259 --> 00:50:47,627 YOU GET TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE 1457 00:50:47,627 --> 00:50:49,663 PLACE MASS PHYSICS ARE LIKE. 1458 00:50:49,663 --> 00:50:51,898 AND THEN WATCH TIME VARIATIONS. 1459 00:50:51,898 --> 00:50:54,901 WITH THE SOLAR OUTPUT INCREASES 1460 00:50:54,901 --> 00:50:56,903 LIKE SDB IN 2014. 1461 00:50:56,903 --> 00:50:59,873 SECOND HALF OF TO 2014, 1462 00:50:59,873 --> 00:51:01,775 ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOMS COME 1463 00:51:01,775 --> 00:51:03,677 FROM A PLACE SOUTH OF THE NOSE 1464 00:51:03,677 --> 00:51:05,746 AND THE UPSTREAM DIRECTION AND 1465 00:51:05,746 --> 00:51:07,481 SPREADS OUT OVER TIME AND 1466 00:51:07,481 --> 00:51:08,949 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE AND ABLE 1467 00:51:08,949 --> 00:51:10,817 TO SOUND THE DISTANCE. 1468 00:51:10,817 --> 00:51:13,320 LIKE YOU SENT WAVES OUT THAT 1469 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,254 BOUNCED OFF SOMETHING AND THEY 1470 00:51:14,254 --> 00:51:16,389 COME BACK. 1471 00:51:16,389 --> 00:51:18,492 A WHOLE PROCESS WRSH YOU TAKE 1472 00:51:18,492 --> 00:51:20,393 THESE MULTIENERGY MEASUREMENTS 1473 00:51:20,393 --> 00:51:23,730 AND THE TIMING AND PIECE FORGET 1474 00:51:23,730 --> 00:51:24,731 DISTANCE AND THICKNESS AND 1475 00:51:24,731 --> 00:51:25,465 THINGS LIKE THAT. 1476 00:51:25,465 --> 00:51:27,334 BUT IT IS NOT EASY. 1477 00:51:27,334 --> 00:51:29,069 >> CAN I ADD ON TO THAT ONE? 1478 00:51:29,069 --> 00:51:31,838 I WANT TO ADD ON THAT ONE OF THE 1479 00:51:31,838 --> 00:51:33,640 GREAT THING THAT NASA SCIENCE 1480 00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:34,975 DOES IS BUILDINGS UPON THESE 1481 00:51:34,975 --> 00:51:36,510 DECADE OF INFORMATION THAT WE 1482 00:51:36,510 --> 00:51:37,611 BRING FORWARD. 1483 00:51:37,611 --> 00:51:39,179 BUILD UPON THE MEASUREMENTS THAT 1484 00:51:39,179 --> 00:51:40,614 GEORGE CURRUTHERS MADE FROM THE 1485 00:51:40,614 --> 00:51:41,748 SURFACE OF THE MONDAY. 1486 00:51:41,748 --> 00:51:42,048 MOON. 1487 00:51:42,048 --> 00:51:43,884 AND BUILDING ON THE DISCOVERIES 1488 00:51:43,884 --> 00:51:45,619 FROM IBEX BEFORE. 1489 00:51:45,619 --> 00:51:49,623 THAT WEALTH AND FONT OF 1490 00:51:49,623 --> 00:51:51,057 SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION WE BUILT 1491 00:51:51,057 --> 00:51:53,460 OVER THE YEARS CREATED THE 1492 00:51:53,460 --> 00:51:55,729 ABILITY FOR OUR HEDGE 1493 00:51:55,729 --> 00:51:56,429 TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 1494 00:51:56,429 --> 00:51:58,865 THAT DRIVES HOME OUR ABILITY FOR 1495 00:51:58,865 --> 00:52:00,934 ALL OF OUR -- ALL OF THINGS WE 1496 00:52:00,934 --> 00:52:02,903 HOLD DEER AND USE ON A REGULAR 1497 00:52:02,903 --> 00:52:05,906 BASIS TO REALLY THRIVE. 1498 00:52:05,906 --> 00:52:08,041 SO WE ARE CONTINUING TO BUILD ON 1499 00:52:08,041 --> 00:52:11,044 THAT AND WITH THESE MISSIONS WE 1500 00:52:11,044 --> 00:52:13,280 WILL PUSH IT INTO THE FUTURE. 1501 00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,016 >> ALL RIGHT, GOING BACK TO OUR 1502 00:52:16,016 --> 00:52:19,119 SOCIAL MEDIA QUESTIONS ARMETESH 1503 00:52:19,119 --> 00:52:21,521 ON X ASKS, MISSIONS HELP PROTECT 1504 00:52:21,521 --> 00:52:22,622 SATELLITE AND COMMUNICATION 1505 00:52:22,622 --> 00:52:23,557 SYSTEMS ON EARTH? 1506 00:52:23,557 --> 00:52:26,493 >> OH, ABSOLUTELY. 1507 00:52:26,493 --> 00:52:27,427 ABSOLUTELY. 1508 00:52:27,427 --> 00:52:31,064 RIGHT NOW WE HAVE DATA THAT WE 1509 00:52:31,064 --> 00:52:33,567 COLLECT AND USE TO BEGIN RATE 1510 00:52:33,567 --> 00:52:35,135 THESE FORECASTS. 1511 00:52:35,135 --> 00:52:37,204 AND THIS WILL JUST BE A 1512 00:52:37,204 --> 00:52:38,872 CONTINUITY OF THAT. 1513 00:52:38,872 --> 00:52:42,108 BUT AT AN ELEVATED LEVEL. 1514 00:52:42,108 --> 00:52:42,976 WE ALREADY TALK ABOUT WE WILL BE 1515 00:52:42,976 --> 00:52:45,579 GETTING THE DATA MORE FREQUENTLY 1516 00:52:45,579 --> 00:52:47,080 AND MORE CONSISTENTLY AND IT 1517 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,283 WILL ALLOW USES TO IMPROVE THESE 1518 00:52:50,283 --> 00:52:52,652 MODELS THAT ARE USED FOR 1519 00:52:52,652 --> 00:52:53,153 FORECASTING. 1520 00:52:53,153 --> 00:52:54,588 TAKING ADVANTAGE AS WE HAVE 1521 00:52:54,588 --> 00:52:56,289 ALREADY MENTIONED HERE ALL OF 1522 00:52:56,289 --> 00:52:57,824 THE ADVANCEMENTS IN 1523 00:52:57,824 --> 00:52:59,326 UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE WEATHER. 1524 00:52:59,326 --> 00:53:02,329 AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF 1525 00:53:02,329 --> 00:53:04,531 WHERE OUR TWO AGENCIES PLAY 1526 00:53:04,531 --> 00:53:07,000 VERY, VERY REAL TOGETHER. 1527 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,169 NASA IS OUT THERE TO UNDERSTAND 1528 00:53:09,169 --> 00:53:11,605 KNOW T AND NOAA TAKING THE DATA 1529 00:53:11,605 --> 00:53:14,641 THAT REALLY IMPACTS OUR ABILITY 1530 00:53:14,641 --> 00:53:18,712 TO PREDICT AND FORECAST THE -- 1531 00:53:18,712 --> 00:53:21,248 FROM THE ADVANCEMENT OF NONLS 1532 00:53:21,248 --> 00:53:25,085 AND TAMPA EVOLVES TOGETHER OUR 1533 00:53:25,085 --> 00:53:26,152 UNDERSTANDING AND ABILITY TO 1534 00:53:26,152 --> 00:53:27,554 PROVIDE THE SERVICES THAT ARE 1535 00:53:27,554 --> 00:53:30,023 NEEDED FOR THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR 1536 00:53:30,023 --> 00:53:31,524 IN THE SATELLITES. 1537 00:53:31,524 --> 00:53:34,394 IT IS GOING TO IMPACT THE 1538 00:53:34,394 --> 00:53:36,463 ARTEMIS PROGRAM AS WELL. 1539 00:53:36,463 --> 00:53:37,664 AND THEN THE GROUND SYSTEMS THAT 1540 00:53:37,664 --> 00:53:39,432 WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THAT ARE 1541 00:53:39,432 --> 00:53:42,135 IMPACT BY SPACE WEATHER. 1542 00:53:42,135 --> 00:53:44,971 >> MAYBE -- JUST A LITTLE BIT 1543 00:53:44,971 --> 00:53:45,305 MORE. 1544 00:53:45,305 --> 00:53:47,173 SOMETHING IS INTERESTING IMAP 1545 00:53:47,173 --> 00:53:50,477 THAT CAUSED NASA HELIOPHYSICS TO 1546 00:53:50,477 --> 00:53:52,178 TALK OF OUR FUTURE MISSIONS AS 1547 00:53:52,178 --> 00:53:54,547 WELL AND IDENTIFIED A SUBSET OF 1548 00:53:54,547 --> 00:53:57,284 THESE DATA THAT IS TYPICAL TO 1549 00:53:57,284 --> 00:53:58,151 FORECASTING. 1550 00:53:58,151 --> 00:54:01,154 WE LAUNCH ONE OUR NASA SCIENCE 1551 00:54:01,154 --> 00:54:02,956 MISSIONS FEEDING INTO THANK 1552 00:54:02,956 --> 00:54:05,659 ECONOMIC VISION, TAKES A PROCESS 1553 00:54:05,659 --> 00:54:08,261 OF WEEKS AND MONTHS TO CURAT TEX 1554 00:54:08,261 --> 00:54:10,664 AND READY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC, IF 1555 00:54:10,664 --> 00:54:12,999 YOU WERE CLINTON AND IN CHARGE 1556 00:54:12,999 --> 00:54:13,967 EVER FORECASTING, MONTHS IS NOT 1557 00:54:13,967 --> 00:54:14,734 GOOD ENOUGH. 1558 00:54:14,734 --> 00:54:18,371 HOW TO GET CERTAIN DATA SETS NOW 1559 00:54:18,371 --> 00:54:20,373 THAT WE IDENTIFIED THEM IN OUR 1560 00:54:20,373 --> 00:54:21,641 SCIENCE MISSION INTO THE HANDS 1561 00:54:21,641 --> 00:54:22,642 OF THE FORECASTERS. 1562 00:54:22,642 --> 00:54:24,511 IMAP WILL BE DOING A LITTLE BIT 1563 00:54:24,511 --> 00:54:25,478 OF THAT BUT SOMETHING TO LEARN 1564 00:54:25,478 --> 00:54:29,015 OF THE A LOT OF THE HELIOPHYSICS 1565 00:54:29,015 --> 00:54:30,650 MISSION, WHICH IS CRITICAL TO 1566 00:54:30,650 --> 00:54:31,751 FORECASTING, HOW TO GET THEM 1567 00:54:31,751 --> 00:54:33,620 QUICKER INTO THE HAND OF THE 1568 00:54:33,620 --> 00:54:35,188 FORECASTER AND PUT THUPT PUBLIC 1569 00:54:35,188 --> 00:54:37,390 FORECAST DAY IN AND DAY UP TO. 1570 00:54:37,390 --> 00:54:38,124 >> ALL RIGHT. 1571 00:54:38,124 --> 00:54:39,759 OPENING WE HAVE TIME FOR ONE 1572 00:54:39,759 --> 00:54:41,127 MORE QUESTION IN THE ROOM. 1573 00:54:41,127 --> 00:54:43,730 SO ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? 1574 00:54:43,730 --> 00:54:45,699 ALL RIGHT, RIGHT HERE IN THE 1575 00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:46,032 FRONT. 1576 00:54:46,032 --> 00:54:47,567 >> HI, KEN KRAMER, SPACE UP 1577 00:54:47,567 --> 00:54:48,335 CLOSE AGAIN. 1578 00:54:48,335 --> 00:54:52,238 I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE 1579 00:54:52,238 --> 00:54:52,639 CURIOSITY. 1580 00:54:52,639 --> 00:54:55,175 THE CHARGED PARTICLES HITTING 1581 00:54:55,175 --> 00:54:55,575 CURIOSITY. 1582 00:54:55,575 --> 00:54:59,179 LOVE THE ROVERS. 1583 00:54:59,179 --> 00:55:00,880 WAS THERE A WARNING FOR 1584 00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,983 CURIOSITY AHEAD OF TIME THAT WAS 1585 00:55:02,983 --> 00:55:05,185 COMING? HOW DID THAT ALL HAPPEN 1586 00:55:05,185 --> 00:55:06,686 THAT YOU LOOKED AT THOSE 1587 00:55:06,686 --> 00:55:09,956 PICTURES AND SAW THAT THOSE WERE 1588 00:55:09,956 --> 00:55:11,057 CHARGED PARTICLES. 1589 00:55:11,057 --> 00:55:13,293 REALTIME DATA AHEAD HE TIME AND 1590 00:55:13,293 --> 00:55:15,261 HOW IT WORKS OUT. 1591 00:55:15,261 --> 00:55:17,831 >> YES, A GREAT QUESTION. 1592 00:55:17,831 --> 00:55:21,868 SOME FOR YOU TOO US THINGS. 1593 00:55:21,868 --> 00:55:23,937 AND WE ARE SPURRED OUT ACROSS 1594 00:55:23,937 --> 00:55:24,537 THE SOLAR SYSTEM. 1595 00:55:24,537 --> 00:55:27,240 IN A VERY FORTUNATE WAY, 1596 00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:28,174 OBSERVATIONSES THAT WE DON'T 1597 00:55:28,174 --> 00:55:29,876 TYPICALLY HAVE. 1598 00:55:29,876 --> 00:55:33,747 MARS WAS ROUGHLY 079 DEGREES 1599 00:55:33,747 --> 00:55:35,548 AWAY FROM NEWS OR BIT FROM THE 1600 00:55:35,548 --> 00:55:35,982 SUN. 1601 00:55:35,982 --> 00:55:37,283 WE WERE ABLE TO TRACK THE SUN 1602 00:55:37,283 --> 00:55:39,386 SPOT REGION THAT GAVE US THE BIG 1603 00:55:39,386 --> 00:55:40,286 STORM HERE. 1604 00:55:40,286 --> 00:55:41,588 AND KEEP TRACKING IT BECAUSE 1605 00:55:41,588 --> 00:55:42,922 SPACEKRA OF THE IN DIFFERENT 1606 00:55:42,922 --> 00:55:43,323 LOCATIONS. 1607 00:55:43,323 --> 00:55:44,657 WE KNEW IT WAS REMAINING VERY 1608 00:55:44,657 --> 00:55:48,094 ACTIVE AND SEEING SOME OF THESE 1609 00:55:48,094 --> 00:55:48,428 FLARES. 1610 00:55:48,428 --> 00:55:50,030 SOME EVIDENCE FROM SOME OF THE 1611 00:55:50,030 --> 00:55:51,464 OBSERVATIONS ON THE FAR SIDE OF 1612 00:55:51,464 --> 00:55:54,100 THE SUN. 1613 00:55:54,100 --> 00:55:54,834 SOME OF THE LARGEST FLARES WE 1614 00:55:54,834 --> 00:55:58,071 EVER MEASURED WERE OFF OF THAT 1615 00:55:58,071 --> 00:55:58,405 REGION. 1616 00:55:58,405 --> 00:56:01,941 AND. 1617 00:56:01,941 --> 00:56:02,809 FORTUNATELY WE WERE GATHERING 1618 00:56:02,809 --> 00:56:04,978 SOME DATA HELPING US DO THAT. 1619 00:56:04,978 --> 00:56:05,979 SOME FOLKS IN THE SCIENCE 1620 00:56:05,979 --> 00:56:09,649 COMMUNITY THAT DO KIND OF ADHOC 1621 00:56:09,649 --> 00:56:10,750 FORECASTING ON. 1622 00:56:10,750 --> 00:56:12,685 ON THE MARS SIDE OF THING. 1623 00:56:12,685 --> 00:56:15,321 NOT MANY PEOPLE AT MARS WHO CARE 1624 00:56:15,321 --> 00:56:16,990 WHAT GOING ON RECEIPT NOW. 1625 00:56:16,990 --> 00:56:20,493 FEW PEOPLE THAT PAY ATTENTION. 1626 00:56:20,493 --> 00:56:26,232 ONE DAY WE WILL CARE 1627 00:56:26,232 --> 00:56:27,000 TREMENDOUSLY OF THOSE DEEP OF 1628 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:27,333 THINGS. 1629 00:56:27,333 --> 00:56:28,068 LUCKILY WE HAVE ALONG WITH THE 1630 00:56:28,068 --> 00:56:28,802 CAMERA ON SOME OF THE ROVERS, ON 1631 00:56:28,802 --> 00:56:29,803 CURIOSITY IN PARTICULAR, A 1632 00:56:29,803 --> 00:56:32,872 SENSOR AND AN INSTRUMENT THAT 1633 00:56:32,872 --> 00:56:34,040 MEASURES THOSE RADIATION 1634 00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:37,143 PARTICLES ON THE SURFACE OF 1635 00:56:37,143 --> 00:56:37,477 MARS. 1636 00:56:37,477 --> 00:56:37,944 REAL DATA. 1637 00:56:37,944 --> 00:56:41,948 THE LARGEST EVENT WE EVER SEEN 1638 00:56:41,948 --> 00:56:43,083 WAS THAT INCIDENT FROM THAT 1639 00:56:43,083 --> 00:56:46,052 ROVER AT MARS. 1640 00:56:46,052 --> 00:56:49,589 >> THAT WE RECORDED. 1641 00:56:49,589 --> 00:56:51,758 >> IT IS R.A.D. 1642 00:56:51,758 --> 00:56:54,861 CALLED R.A.D. THE NAME -- TO 1643 00:56:54,861 --> 00:56:57,397 THE R.A.D. INSTRUMENT ON THAT 1644 00:56:57,397 --> 00:56:57,730 ROVER. 1645 00:56:57,730 --> 00:56:58,865 >> THANK YOU. 1646 00:56:58,865 --> 00:56:59,599 >> ALL RIGHT. 1647 00:56:59,599 --> 00:57:00,667 THAT BRINGS TOUTS END OF THIS 1648 00:57:00,667 --> 00:57:01,768 NEWS CONFERENCE. 1649 00:57:01,768 --> 00:57:04,671 SO THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO 1650 00:57:04,671 --> 00:57:05,105 PARTICIPATED. 1651 00:57:05,105 --> 00:57:07,006 FOR MISSION UPDATES AND TO LEARN 1652 00:57:07,006 --> 00:57:08,374 MORE OF EACH OF THESE MISSIONS, 1653 00:57:08,374 --> 00:57:11,211 YOU CAN VITTING VISIT 1654 00:57:11,211 --> 00:57:11,644 NASA.GOV/SUN. 1655 00:57:11,644 --> 00:57:13,746 AND, AGAIN, TUESDAY'S LAUNCH IS 1656 00:57:13,746 --> 00:57:16,116 SLATED FOR 7:32 A.M. EASTERN 1657 00:57:16,116 --> 00:57:16,416 TIME. 1658 00:57:16,416 --> 00:57:18,384 WE HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US FOR LIVE 1659 00:57:18,384 --> 00:57:20,854 COVERAGE ON NASA PLUS AND THE 1660 00:57:20,854 --> 00:57:22,288 AGENCY'S SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS 1661 00:57:22,288 --> 00:57:23,990 AT 6:40 A.M. EASTERN. 1662 00:57:23,990 --> 00:57:27,160 FIND WAYS TO WATCH AT THE URL ON 1663 00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:28,161 YOUR SCREEN. 1664 00:57:28,161 --> 00:57:30,430 THANK YOU FOR GOING TODAY. 1665 00:57:30,430 --> 00:57:32,198 GO IMAP GO CURRUTHERS. 1666 00:57:32,198 --> 00:57:33,933 AND GO SWFO-L1.