Joe Westlake
@jdubspace
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Husband, Father, Heliophysicist, Cyclist. Views are my own.
Maryland, USA
Joined April 2014
I’m so very excited about this opportunity and all of the amazing science happening in heliophysics!
I am delighted to announce the selection of Dr. Joseph Westlake as our new @NASASun Division Director! After years of experience as a leader and developing key heliophysics instruments and spacecraft, Joe has a wealth of experience that will help us further our understanding of the Sun and its connection to our planet. Welcome aboard!
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RT @NASASun: This just in! 🆕 🚨 New research finds that the momentous May 2024 solar storms, which pushed aurora borealis as far south as…
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RT @NASA_LSP: 🚀A new opportunity to stamp your space passport! Registration is open for virtual guests to catch the launch of NASA’s next…
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RT @NASAScienceAA: Every second, over 300,000 tons of material leave the Sun and streak into space, affecting everything in the solar syste…
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Love exploring our data in new ways! Very cool!
Listen to SPACE!👂 🛰️ Explore heliophysics data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe, MMS, and Wind spacecraft that has been transformed into sound to empower data analysis. More about data audification with NASA’s Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb):
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Go PUNCH!!!
💼An on-time arrival for four suitcase-sized satellites! PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) is a bit like a carry-on for the SPHEREx launch coming up in late February. PUNCH will study how the mass and energy of the Sun’s corona become the solar wind.
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Can’t wait to see IMAP on the launchpad and even better to see the beautiful data that will come! Let’s explore our solar neighborhood!
All 10 instruments on NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) have been fully integrated on the spacecraft. Once launched, IMAP will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble of solar material surrounding our solar system:
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RT @NASASun: Media accreditation is now open for the launch of SPHEREx and PUNCH, two new NASA missions launching in late February from Van…
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RT @MtWilsonObs: As you may have seen on the news, the Eaton fire is approaching Mount Wilson. There are firefighters on the grounds but th…
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RT @NASA_Marshall: Meet the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), one of 10 payloads that will travel to the @NASAMoon aboard…
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RT @NASA_LSP: 3… 2… 1… LIFTOFF of 2025! 🎉🚀 New Year? New Missions! PUNCH is hitching a ride with SPHEREx on a SpaceX Falcon 9! These four…
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RT @NASAVoyager: President Jimmy Carter’s legacy lives on among the stars. In 1977, the then-president penned this three-paragraph letter…
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@swmcintosh @leamonrj @LynkerSpace Those are excellent displays. Excited to see if this cycle has any surprises in store!
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And a huge thank you to the DSN and especially Canberra! The dish must have needed a pair of sunglasses to grab that signal from so close to the sun 😉😎! Excellent work!
Deep Space Station 34 received a clear beacon tone from the #ParkerSolarProbe after its close encounter with the Sun on 24th December.📡🛰️☀️ Congratulations to the mission science team & engineers @jhuapl and @NASA on this historic achievement. #DSS34
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What a historic moment! Huge congratulations to the Parker Solar Probe team! Can’t wait to see the data!
Parker Solar Probe has phoned home! After passing just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface on Dec. 24 — the closest solar flyby in history — we have received Parker Solar Probe’s beacon tone confirming the spacecraft is safe.
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