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Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Being a mentor

Jess, I have mentored students during summer internships, when I provided a project, and helped the student complete the project. At other times, ...

3/26/2021

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Work from home?

Hello Chris, I too have been working from home for a year. Initially, I brought home my Linux work station. Later, I returned it to the office for ...

3/26/2021

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: 2024 eclipse in US

What Dr. Pat said! Yes, I will indeed be watching, but I have not yet made plans to watch from a specific place. But I intend to view both the annul...

3/26/2021

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Would you want to go close to sun?

Hello Talia, I have a couple of answers for you, beginning with what is going on now. There are two missions that are/will be observing the Sun fr...

3/24/2021

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: most exciting sun research today?

I would have to say that because we have multiple observatories watching the Sun from different distances and with different filters so that we can se...

3/24/2021

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: name meaning

So, you are a morning person? My name has no association with the Sun, but after hiking one of the Inca trails in Peru, my guide referred to me as ...

3/24/2021

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Space agencies from other countries

I echo what Christina said, and would add that during the Apollo era, Australia played a role, providing a two radio telescopes that helped monitor co...

3/24/2021

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: career current status

Hello Laurie, I work at the same NASA center as Sabrina, so have been working from home for two weeks now. Last week, I was allowed to return to t...

3/27/2020

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: infrared radation and effect on magnetic field

The Sun produces a wide range of radiation, from long radio to visible to X ray to Gamma Ray, and that includes infrared. This range of types is call...

3/27/2020

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Are solar storms dangerous

Hello, Mostly no, as long as you are on Earth, the Earth's magnetic field protects us. However, solar storms can cause currents to flow in the grou...

3/27/2020

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Does the sun make noise?

Yes, the Sun does make noise. As far back as 1949, Ruby Payne-Scott published a paper in the Australian Journal of Scientific Research A, about radio...

3/23/2020

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Croissant-Shaped Bubble

Good morning! I assume you are referring to the measurements made by the Voyagers as they traverse through the solar system's magnetic field and int...

3/23/2020

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Black holes

No, I am afraid not, since no information can get out of the black hole.

10/25/2019

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: temperature of sun

One way that we know is by looking at the spectrum of light coming from the Sun. We know from the laboratory, what temperatures are required to produ...

10/25/2019

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Sun fuel?

Any star, including our Sun, begins its life with hydrogen as a fuel. The mass of all that gas pushing in on the center (core) of the star causes the...

10/25/2019

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Sunspots - what's new and interesting

At the moment, no. We are in the midst of solar minimum, when there are few to no sunspots. More broadly, there were large solar cycles from the fif...

10/25/2019

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: women in solar science

Being a scientist is like being a detective, you follow clues to solve a mystery. So what I love about my job is the thrill of discovery, knowing tha...

10/25/2019

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Aurora on Mars?

Probably not. Mars does have residual magnetic field, but not a global one, and its atmosphere is pretty thin. There might be some sky glow, but it ...

10/24/2019

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Why study the sun?

I have always been interested in astronomy and also geology. While in high school, I chose astronomy as a focus because I thought I had a better chan...

10/24/2019

Mitzi Adamsreplied to: RE: Does the sun spin?

Yes, the sun does rotate on its axis, just like Earth does, but the rate is different. One day on Earth takes 24 hours. One day on the sun takes an ...

10/23/2019