Heliophysics Science Division - NASA's GSFC
Introduction to HSD
This is the home page for NASA's Heliophysics Science Division (HSD). The Division is located at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD, USA. It is a component of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate.
The Heliophysics Science Division (HSD) provides scientific leadership and expertise necessary to achieve NASA’s strategic science goals in solar physics, heliospheric physics, geospace physics and space weather. It leads the definition and development of missions in support of these goals and performs fundamental research into solar structure and magnetic activity, the origins and acceleration of the solar wind, the effects of solar outbursts on the heliosphere, the response of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere system at the Earth and other planets to solar variability including solar irradiance.
Read more about the HSD.
The Division's Four Laboratories are:
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Solar Physics Laboratory
(671) - Leads in the exploration and understanding of the Sun as a star and the complex dynamics of the solar corona. Also develops new instruments and mission concepts, theoretical models, and innovative techniques to access and analyze data.
- Heliospheric Physics Laboratory (672)
- Leads in the exploration of the heliosphere through the development of instruments and models designed to determine the origin and evolution of the solar wind, low energy cosmic rays, and the interaction of the Sun’s heliosphere with the local interstellar medium.
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Geospace Physics Laboratory
(673) - Advances knowledge of the coupled solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere system. Leads in the development and implementation of plasma analyzers and low energy neutral atom imagers as well Geospace theory and modeling.
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Space Weather Laboratory
(674) - Performs fundamental research and modeling of the coupled Sun-Earth system. Undertakes spaceflight-based, ground-based, and theoretical and modeling studies of the space weather effects important to NASA and the nation.
Heliophysics Science Division
(670)
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Top Stories
- Eclipses Yield Images of Solar Corona's Elusive Iron Line
05 January 2010- Mystery Source of Solar Wind Heating Identified
17 July 2009- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) delivered to Florida, getting ready for launch...
09 July 2009 -
Thomas E Moore elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
23 January 2009 -
Triana/DSCOVR Spacecraft Successfully Revived from Mothballs
7 January 2009 -
MMS Fast Plasma Instrument Preliminary Design Review
2-4 December 2008 -
IBEX Launch
19 October 2008 -
Coronagraph Prototype Tested at Chinese Eclipse
01 August 2008 -
ST5 First To Demonstrate Gradiometer Capabilities
01 July 2008 -
EUNIS-07 Results Presented at 2008 AGU Joint Assembly
26-30 May 2008 -
C/NOFs Launch
16 April 2008 -
Dr. Leonard Burlaga Wins Arctowski Medal
22 February 2008 -
THEMIS Launch
17 February 2008 -
MMS Phase B Kickoff
5 January 2008 -
STEREO Snaps Images of Solar Wind Sweeping Past Earth
10 December 2007 -
NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories mission, known as STEREO, successfully launched
October 25, 2006 -
EUNIS Solar Physics Sounding Rocket flight successful
April 12, 2006 -
Melvyn Goldstein elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
April 3, 2006 -
Keith Ogilvie (612.2) appointed the first LSSP Senior Scientist
April 3, 2006 -
IHY 2006 Eclipse Trip to Libya
March 29, 2006 -
ST5 Successful Launch
March 22, 2006 - ST5 Mission
