#AskAnExpert The New Horizons mission pushed to the boundaries of our solar system and provided a better understanding its protective bubble, the heliosphere. The mission has been exploring the mystery of the solar wind by traveling through it. New Horizons project scientist Pontus Brandt explains how the spacecraft will provide crucial data on how our heliosphere protects us from cosmic radiation. ☀️✨ https://lnkd.in/dvNDFC6Q #JHUAPL | #NewHorizons | #Heliosphere | #SpaceExploration | #NASA | #Astronomy | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit, university-affiliated research center (UARC) that solves complex research, engineering, and analytical problems that present critical challenges to our nation. Located north of Washington, DC, APL is a division of one of the world's leading research institutions, The Johns Hopkins University.
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In five new Nature Communications papers, the team behind NASA’s successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission sheds new light on the structure and origins of the asteroid system encountered in 2022. https://jhuapl.link/fhk Researchers from Johns Hopkins APL and several international partner institutions provide a detailed overview and interpretation of the geological findings at Didymos and Dimorphos. Analysis suggested that both Didymos and Dimorphos have weak surface characteristics, which led the team to posit that Didymos has a surface age 40-130 times older than Dimorphos, with the former estimated to be 12.5 million years old and the latter less than 300,000 years old. The low surface strength of Dimorphos likely contributed to DART’s significant impact on its orbit. These latest findings form a more robust overview of the origins of the Didymos system and add to the understanding of how such planetary bodies were formed. They also provide new insights into why DART was so effective in shifting Dimorphos’ orbit. #JHUAPL | #DARTMission | #PlanetaryDefense | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Until at least 2037, commercial fishing in the Arctic will be stalled and made exclusively available to researchers to study the ecosystem. 🧬🔬 Johns Hopkins APL has joined the movement with Basestack, a software package for rapid, real-time genomic data analysis of the frigid, untouched waters to collect environmental DNA (eDNA), which consists of biomatter such as bits of skin, tissue and waste. Studying eDNA can reveal a lot about the ecosystem of origin, including the presence of protected and endangered species. Another APL initiative, ‘Walrus,’ proposes monitoring ice formation with radar sounding. This method would combine electromagnetic pulses from satellites and uncrewed aerial systems to measure ice thickness, volume, and strength. This could provide a complete image of the region, building a road map for ships to ensure safe passage. With this data, APL is advancing our understanding of the Arctic Ocean as it is, and as it will be in the near future. Commercial vessels returning to these waters will benefit from APL's comprehensive understanding of this rapidly changing biome. Read the full story: https://jhuapl.link/i8a #JHUAPL | #ArcticResearch | #ArcticOcean | #ClimateChange | #EnvironmentalDNA | #eDNA | #MarineBiology
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Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby visited Johns Hopkins APL on July 24 along with members of his staff. ⚓ jhuapl.link/h99 Kilby met with technical experts and visited several of the Laboratory’s state-of-the-art research facilities. He and his team received technical briefings focused on innovations APL develops for sponsors like the U.S. Navy across a number of critical national security capabilities, including integrated air and missile defense, sea control and long-range fires. US Navy | #JHUAPL | #SeaControl | #AirMissileDefense | #CyberResilience | #USNavy
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Over 250 scientists, practitioners, and policymakers recently gathered on Johns Hopkins APL’s campus for the Third National Workshop on Marine Environmental DNA (eDNA), co-hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, to launch a new federal aquatic eDNA National Strategy, discuss state-of-the-art eDNA science, and identify implementation opportunities that will realize the full potential of eDNA as a tool to monitor aquatic ecosystems. 🧬 https://jhuapl.link/i5i With its noninvasive and easy collection, eDNA, the genetic material that organisms shed into their environment, could revolutionize how we detect, protect and manage aquatic life while also supporting national environmental priorities. The new strategy calls on federal agencies and their partners to establish a national consensus, build infrastructure and tools, and then put it all to work so the community can characterize the nation’s aquatic life. eDNA instrument innovation is experiencing a renaissance. Beyond technology, new emerging applications of eDNA and other genetic material are coming to the forefront. Among the most promising are autonomous eDNA samplers, instruments that can be either mounted on autonomous water vehicles or built as land-based systems. They automatically collect biomaterials (including DNA) from water, and the strategy envisions distributing these platforms across the nation for a biomonitoring capability akin to modern weather observation and forecasting systems. “Today, we take one step closer to converting the possibility of eDNA into routine reality — not just an idea, not just things that we have tested and are using, but at scale,” said the Honorable Jane Lubchenco, deputy director for climate and environment with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, who announced the new strategy. “We are really on the precipice of being able to do some amazing things.” #JHUAPL | #MarineScience | #EnvironmentalScience | #EnvironmentalDNA | #eDNA | #ClimateChange
Unveiling the Nation's Bold Strategy to Advance Environmental DNA: Key Workshop Takeaways
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To celebrate National Intern Day, our interns at Johns Hopkins APL share their thoughts 💭, experiences 🎓, and valuable tips 💡 for future interns. Interested in joining the Lab? Explore our internships and career opportunities to find out if an APL internship is right for you! And don't forget to check back in September for next year's internship openings: https://lnkd.in/eGmCvf5 #JHUAPL | #NationalInternDay | #APLInterns | #FutureLeaders | #LifeAtAPL | #STEMCareers
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A new Johns Hopkins APL-led study using NASA's James Webb Telescope suggests carbon dioxide and similar molecules on Uranus’ moon Ariel may be emerging from the inside, raising questions about the moon’s geologic activity and potential as an ocean world. 🌊 https://jhuapl.link/sm8 This fact presents a surprise because even at the frigid reaches of the Uranian system, 20 times farther from the Sun than Earth, carbon dioxide readily turns to gas and is lost to space. Some scientists favor the idea that interactions between the moon’s surface and charged particles in Uranus' magnetosphere create carbon dioxide through a process called radiolysis, in which molecules are broken down by ionizing radiation. A research team led by APL's Richard Cartwright found that Ariel has some of the most carbon dioxide-rich deposits in the solar system. Among those deposits was another puzzling finding: the first clear signals of carbon monoxide. The new spectral observations hint that Ariel’s surface may also harbor carbonate minerals — salts that can be made only through the interaction of liquid water with rocks. Cartwright sees that as an opportunity to collect valuable data about the solar system’s ice giants and their potentially ocean-bearing moons, both of which have applications to the worlds being discovered in other stellar systems. #JHUAPL | #SpaceResearch | #PlanetaryScience | #OceanWorld | #Geology | #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Carbon Oxides on Uranus' Moon Ariel Hint at Hidden Ocean, Webb Telescope Reveals
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John's Hopkins APL computational physicist and aerospace engineer Paul Burke will join some of the country’s most promising early-career engineers to discuss pioneering research and technical advancements at the National Academy of Engineering's National Academies Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. 🚀 https://jhuapl.link/ip1 The symposium will explore topics such as digital twin technology, human health and artificial intelligence, advanced materials and the future of computing. One of Burke’s projects is the development of an aortic digital twin. Collaborating with researchers from the The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he is studying blood flow and aortic shape in pediatric patients with connective tissue disorders. Burke is also working on computational models to optimize the use of resources on the lunar surface, essential for long-term human and robotic exploration on the Moon. #JHUAPL | #EngineeringInnovation | #FrontiersOfEngineering | #AIinHealthcare | #LunarExploration
Johns Hopkins APL's Burke Selected for Prestigious Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
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#NationalMoonDay On this day in 1969, humans landed on the moon for the first time. Fifty-four years later, the Moon is a cornerstone of solar system science and the closest world beyond our own on which humans may establish a sustainable presence. 🌒 Today, easier access to space has opened new possibilities for government and commercial organizations to use cislunar space and the lunar surface for a variety of purposes. This has driven the need for additional capabilities to enhance safety and security for operating in cislunar space. Learn more about APL’s efforts in the Cislunar domain: jhuapl.link/cislunar #JHUAPL | #OnThisDay | #SpaceExploration | #Cislunar | #LunarScience | #SpaceSecurity | #MoonLanding