Source: NASAThe following is a news release from NASA.
GREENBELT, MD (NASA) - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
is pleased to announce that its Space Weather App, previously only
available for iPhone users, is now available for users of Android
smartphone and tablet users. The Space Weather App, which was developed
jointly by Goddard's engineering and science directorates, with support
from NASA's Heliophysics Division and the National Science Foundation,
is capable of giving users real-time access to solar-event images, model
simulations, data, and forecasts as they evolve and affect the
near-Earth space environment.
The Space Weather App allows users to view Solar Coronal Mass Ejections,
or CMEs, minutes after an event occurs. The CME events are observed
from satellites such as the European Space Agency and NASA jointly
developed Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), NASA's Solar
Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and NASA's Solar Dynamics
Observatory (SDO).
The possible effects of these solar storms can also be visualized by
accessing one of the many space weather model data products that use
observational data to forecast potentially hazardous space environment
effects.
"Our folks heard the cry," said Michael Hesse, Heliophysics Science
Division Chief at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and former chief of
the Space Weather Laboratory. "We started with a space weather app for
the iPhone. Now Android phone users can access space weather on the go –
anyplace and anytime – downloading the same world-class,
state-of-the-art information used by professionals in the space science
community."
In addition to the NASA provided observational and simulation data
products, the Space Weather App uses space weather resources from a host
of collaborators, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) and their Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellites (GOES).
All the data products used in the NASA Space Weather application are
selectable, allowing for user customization of display configurations
based on the products of interest to each user.
To download NASA's Space Weather App for your Android device, please visit:
https://market.android.com/details?id=gov.nasa.gsfc.iswa.NASASpaceWeather
For more information about Goddard's Space Weather Laboratory, visit:
http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/index.cfm?fuseAction=home.main&&navOrgCode=674
