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This is What Would Happen if Scientists Found an Asteroid Heading to Earth

In support of NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program Office, a team of NAS Division scientists working on the Asteroid Threat Assessment Project presented a hypothetical asteroid impact scenario at the 8th Planetary Defence Conference in Vienna, Austria this week. Science.com's Robert Lea captured their efforts to better calculate the size of the asteroid and build an asteroid impact risk assessment model that considers many factors, from limited observational data.

Video of Lorien Wheeler's presentation at the 8th Planetary Defence Conference

Advanced Modeling and Simulation (AMS) Seminar Series


Hosted by the Computational Aerosciences Branch at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility, this seminar series presents talks on recent achievements, innovative tools, and current problems being faced by members of the modeling and simulation community from NASA, government, industry, and academia.

More about the AMS Seminar Series

The Soul of Music: Meklit Hadero Tells Stories of Migration

In National Geographic’s podcast "The Soul of Music," jazz musician Meklit Hadero explains how she incorporates sounds of nature into her music, including sonifications of starlight data that came in through NASA's Kepler Telescope. The sonifications were created by the NAS Division’s Jon Jenkins, Kepler Mission Analysis Lead. The data was processed through a science data pipeline on the Pleiades supercomputer.

Link to the National Geographic website page featuring the podcast.

A Future Aircraft Design, Supercomputed

No, it’s not hypermodern art. This image from a simulation generated by NASA’s high-performance computers, shows a Transonic Truss Braced Wing (TTBW) aircraft concept, which could consume up to 10% less jet fuel than a standard airliner. Researchers in the NAS Division are simulating the TTBW’s Mach 0.8 cruise configuration to validate and develop their scale-resolving CFD models.

Image from a simulation of the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing aircraft.

New Features in NAS Data Portal Improve Knowledge Sharing

The NAS Data Portal was recently updated to accommodate a growing number of shared datasets. Computer experts in the NAS Division developed a method that enables users and collaborators to incorporate data into their workflow more efficiently.

Read more about the data portal update.

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