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A satellite image of the Patuxent River.
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A Senator and a Citizen Scientist

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Jun 16, 2017
Senator Bernie Fowler from Maryland, USA has been measuring the clarity of the water in the Patuxent River every June for the last 30 years. His chosen method of measurement? White sneakers. He wades into the river until he cannot see his white sneakers anymore and then records how deep the water is at that point. Some years he can wade in much further than others. What began as a simple test of the health of Maryland's waters has turned into a 30 year long citizen science and public outreach
Satellite view of the Juan de Fuca strait.
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Fog in the Strait of Juan de Fuca

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Jun 14, 2017
The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) aboard NASA's GOES-16 satellite captured multiple images of fog rolling into the Juan de Fuca strait. The high-resolution nature of GEOS-16 allows researchers to see small-scale weather features such as "bow shock waves" within the fog travelling down the strait.
Satellite image of the snowpack in the Sierra mountains
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The Snowpack in the Californian Mountains Quadruples

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 24, 2017
Data from NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory shows that the snowpack in the Tuolumne Basin of the Sierra Nevada mountains is 1.5 cubic kilometers, which is more than the previous 4 years combined. Californians are surely enjoying the extra precipitation, as they have been in a drought for the last 5 years. The Airborne Snow Observatory uses a combination of LIDAR and Imaging Spectrometer fixed to a small plane to measure the snowpack in the mountains of California.
An image of Saturn taken above the north pole, including the rings.
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A Look Back Towards Home...

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
On the 12th of April 2017, the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn took a minute to look back towards its home planet and snap a picture. At the time, the Earth, Moon, and all 7.125 billion humans were about 1.8 billion kilometers away. The fortuitous image catches Earth sitting between the A and F rings of Saturn, with the Keeler and Encke gaps visible as well. Cassini hasn't taken many pics of home, but this is probably my favourite so far. On 22 April 2017, Cassini will take a gravity assist
A satellite view of the Strait of Gibraltar
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Phytoplankton in the Strait of Gibraltar

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
Two NASA Satellites were used to create this image of the straight of Gibraltar: Suomi NPP, and Aqua. The images were processed and combined to highlight the blooms of phytoplankton in the area, which has been caught up in the turbulent ocean currents moving through the strait.
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How Could the Moon Generate a Magnetic Field?

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
The Earth's magnetic field is powered by an internal dynamo at the core of the planet. At the very centre of the Earth is a very hot, solid, iron core that is surrounded by an outer liquid iron region. The heat from the inner core drives convection in the outer core (hot parts of the liquid rise, cool parts fall). All the while, the core is rotating. Since the liquid outer core is a conductor, the motions of rotation and convection generates a magnetic field. The Moon has no such magnetic field
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What to do about Space Junk

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
Human's have been launching satellites into space since 1957, and now the current number of objects in orbit larger than 10 cm is about 23,000. The growing number poses a real threat to the future of space exploration. Humanity will need to solve this problem moving forward, and ideas are currently being discussed.
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Looking at Earth at Night

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
NASA has released new composite images of the Earth at night. The images were all taken with the VIIRS instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite (an imager that orbits around Earth's poles). While the images are breathtaking, I'm more excited for what's coming next: later this year, NASA will be releasing DAILY data dumps from the night lights project. Meaning... scientists/anyone will be able to study the light/energy uses around the globe on a daily basis. I love data.
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