Universe  ID: 20120

360 Degrees of GLAST

Animations by Chris Meaney Released on September 14, 2007
GLAST will carry two instruments: the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM). The LAT is GLAST's primary instrument and consists of four components: the Tracker, the Calorimeter, the Anticoincidence Detector (ACD), and the Data Acquisition System (DAQ). These instrument components working together will detect gamma rays by using Einstein's famous equation (E=mc(squared) in a technique known as pair production. The GLAST Burst Monitor is a complementary instrument and consists of low-energy detectors, high-energy detectors, and data processing unit. The GBM can see all directions at once, except for the area where Earth blocks its view. When the GBM detects a bright gamma-ray burst, it immediately sends a signal to the LAT to observe that area of the sky.
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Animated fly-around of the Fermi spacecraft against a depiction of the gamma-ray sky. This is a 4k upres of the original frames.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

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This beauty shot provides a 360-degree view of the spacecraft without a simulated gamma ray sky.
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This beauty shot provides a 360-degree view of the spacecraft with a simulated gamma ray sky.

For More Information

http://www.nasa.gov/GLAST

Animation Credits

Chris Meaney (HTSI): Lead Animator
Steven Ritz (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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Missions:
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
GLAST

Data Used:
Fermi/LAT
Event List
Fermi Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT)
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Fermi
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This item is part of these series:
GLAST Pre-Launch
Astrophysics Animations

Goddard TV Tape:
G2007-011HD -- GLAST Pre-Launch Resource Tape

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Satellite
SVS >> Spacecraft
DLESE >> Space science
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Spectral/Engineering >> Gamma Ray
SVS >> Gamma Ray Burst
SVS >> Astrophysics
SVS >> Universe
SVS >> GLAST
SVS >> Space
SVS >> Gamma Ray Observatory
SVS >> Fermi
NASA Science >> Universe

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0