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This story is from the category Computing Power
Date posted: 29/03/2011 A few hours before a gigantic bubble of electrified gas and charged particles erupted from the Sun, NASA officially released the new Space Weather App making images and other data almost immediately available to users. “The timing was perfect,” said Antti Pulkkinen, a scientist at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The multi-agency organization researches and develops models to help scientists better forecast space weather. Luckily for Earthlings, the fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) that raced through space at 2,200 kilometers (1,242 miles) per second, did not strike Earth directly. It made a glancing blow, sparing satellites, power grids, and electrical-transmission lines from damage and disruption that can happen during particularly severe space-weather events. However, the eruption did trigger a run at the iTunes store. Within just a couple days, 1,500 users had already downloaded the application, making it one of the store’s 20 most popular in the weather category, said Marlo Maddox, CCMC’s Deputy Director for Operations and one of the Goddard computer scientists who helped develop the program. See the full Story via external site: www.nasa.gov Most recent stories in this category (Computing Power): 19/06/2013: Scientists Reach Milestone for Quantum Networks |
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