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Acronyms
ACE | Advanced Composition Explorer |
ACRIMSAT | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite |
ACS | Advanced Camera for Surveys |
AIM | Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere |
APL | Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory |
ARTEMIS | Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun |
ASD | Astrophysics Division |
ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation |
Caltech | California Institute of Technology |
CHIPS | Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer |
CINDI | Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamic Investigation |
CO | carbon monoxide |
COS | Cosmic Origins Spectrograph |
COSTAR | Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement |
CXC | Chandra X-Ray Center |
DSN | Deep Space Network |
EO-1 | Earth Observing-One Mission |
EOS | Earth Observation System |
EPOXI | Extrasolar Planet Observation and Deep Impact Extended Investigation |
ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESD | Earth Science Division |
ESS | Earth System Science |
EUVE | Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer |
FAST | Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer |
FGS | Fine Guidance Sensor |
FOC | Faint Object Camera |
FOS | Faint Object Spectrograph |
FUSE | Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer |
FY | fiscal year |
GALEX | Galaxy Evolution Explorer |
Geotail | Geomagnetic Tail Lab |
GHRS | Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph |
GPS Science | Global Positioning System Science |
GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
GRACE-FO | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On |
GRAIL | Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
HD | Heliophysics Division |
HiRISE | High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment |
HSO | Heliophysics System Observatory |
HSP | High Speed Photometer |
HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
IBEX | Interstellar Boundary Explorer |
ICE | International Cometary Explorer |
ICESat | Ice, Cloud, and Lade Elevation Satellite |
IMAGE | Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration |
INTEGRAL | International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory |
IRIS | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph |
ISEE-3 | International Earth-Sun Explorer-3 |
IUE | International Ultraviolet Explorer |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
JWST | James Webb Space Telescope |
LAGEOS | Laser Geodynamics Satellites |
LRO | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter |
LROC | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera |
MAVEN | Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution |
MaxWISE | Refers to a proposed Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer mission |
MER | Mars Exploration Rover |
MESSENGER | Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging |
MGS | Mars Global Surveyor |
MIDEX | Medium-class Explorer |
MISR | Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MMS | Magnetospheric Multiscale |
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MOPITT | Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere |
MRO | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter |
MSL | Mars Science Laboratory |
NAC | Narrow-Angle Camera |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NEN | Near Earth Network |
NEO | near Earth object |
NEOWISE | Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer |
NICMOS | Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NPR | NASA Procedural Requirement |
NRC | National Research Council |
NuSTAR | Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array |
O3 | ozone |
OSTM | Ocean Surface Topography Mission |
PI | principal investigator |
PPBE | Planning, Programming, Budget and Execution |
PSD | Planetary Science Division |
QuikSCAT | Quick Scatterometer |
R&A | research and analysis |
RapidScat | Rapid Scatterometer |
RHESSI | Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager |
ROSES | Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences |
RSL | recurring slope lineae |
RXTE | Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer |
SAGE | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
SAMPEX | Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer |
SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory |
SM | Servicing Mission |
SMD | Science Mission Directorate |
SMEX | Small Explorer |
SOHO | Solar and Heliospheric Observatory |
SORCE | Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment |
SSR | Solid State Recorder |
Stardust-NExT | Stardust New Exploration of Tempel 1 |
STEREO | Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory |
STIS | Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph |
Suomi NPP | Suomi National Polar orbiting Partnership, formerly the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project or NPP |
TDE | tidal disruption event |
THEMIS | Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms |
TIM | Total Irradiance Monitor |
TIMED | Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics |
TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping |
TRACE | Transition Region and Coronal Explorer |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
TWINS | Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers |
UARS | Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
WFC | Wide Field Camera |
WFIRST | Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope |
WFPC | Wide Field and Planetary Camera |
WISE | Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer |
WMAP | Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe |
XMM-Newton | X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission-Newton |