Event details
PD WEBINAR SERIES, February 15, 2022, 6:00 pm CT
The Sun and Space Weather
The Sun, a star at the center of our solar system, supplies Earth with the necessary energy to create and sustain life. However, the Sun produces energy that can be harmful to space vehicles and humans. As our species creates more highly technical instrumentation and ventures away from the protection of Earth’s magnetic field, space weather becomes more of an issue. This talk will give an overview of the Sun and its anatomy and will track solar “storms” and their effects from Sun to Earth. We will end our discussion with a preview of two solar eclipses: the October 2023 annular and the April 2024 total.
Meet Mitzi Adams:
Mitzi is the Assistant Manager of the Heliophysics and Planetary ScienceBranch. Mitzi Adams joined the NASA workforce in March, 1988 as a graduate co-op student and was made a permanent employee in January 1991, upon completion of the Master’s Degree. Ms. Adams primary research work until approximately 2006 involved the use of ground-based data from MSFC’s solar vector magnetograph. With the launch of Hinode in 2006, Ms. Adams switched the research emphasis to data acquired in space and she continues to use data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched in 2010. In addition to the research work, Ms. Adams supported Dr. John Davis with analysis from testing of the Solar X-ray Imager, built and tested at MSFC and launched in 2001 on the GOES-12 spacecraft, and she has supported and written webpages for the office.
Topic: PD Webinar Series-February 2022
Time: Feb 15, 2022 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81755421233?pwd=NlRHS2xPdVlLS3M5dzczd1h4REVLdz09
Meeting ID: 817 5542 1233 Passcode: 124901
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