RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — As the April 8 total solar eclipse approaches, Mitzi Adams of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will give a public lecture at Arkansas Tech University.
The free “NASA, Eclipses, and My Life” lecture at ATU will be held at the Doc Bryan Student Services Center, 1605 Coliseum Drive, Russell Building, on Friday, February 23, 2024, at 7:15 p.m. It will start in the lecture hall.
The event will coincide with the Arkansas Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, which ATU is hosting this weekend.
Adams first joined NASA as a graduate student more than 30 years ago in March 1988. After he received his master's degree in January 1991, he became a full-time employee at NASA.
Her primary research early in her career involved the use of ground-based data from the Marshall Space Flight Center's Solar Vector Magnetometer. After the launch of the Hinode mission in 2006, she switched her research focus to data acquired in space.
Apart from her heliophysics research activities, she also works with John in analyzing data obtained from testing the solar X-ray imager, which was built and tested at Marshall Space Flight Center and launched on the GOES-12 spacecraft in 2001.・I have supported Dr. Davis. .
She also served as assistant manager of the Solar Physics and Planetary Sciences Division at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
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