NASA@SC21 Digital Swag

We're bringing NASA science and engineering powered by the agency's high-performance computers to you! Join your online meetings from our supercomputer rooms, the International Space Station, or the center of our galaxy with a virtual background. Or get more NASA in your daily routine with high-resolution mobile wallpapers, desktop wallpapers, and ringtones showcasing some of our amazing supercomputer-powered research. There's even some swag for kids.

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Night photo from the ISS over Earth’s northern hemisphere by Expedition 50, taken March 2017. Credit: NASA

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Visualization of the Milky Way from the perspective of a supermassive black hole at its center. Credit: Christopher Russell, UD

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Artist render that illustrates the connection between solar flares and the Earth’s magnetic field. Credit: NASA

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Multiple rows of Pleiades supercomputer racks at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Center. Credit: NASA

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Two rows of Discover supercomputer racks at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA

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Honeywell H-800 Data Processing System at Ames Research Center, taken July 1963. #throwbackthursday
Credit: NASA

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Mobile Wallpapers

Photo of the inside of an archival tape storage system at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility. Credit: NASA

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Simulation of dust density evolution in a patch of gas co-orbiting near the protoplanetary disk of a star. Credit: Stanley Baronett, UNLV

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Simulation of the Orion AA-2 launch abort vehicle in low altitude at supersonic speed. Credit: Francois Cadieux, NASA/Ames

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Artist rendering that illustrates massive solar flares being ejected from the surface of the Sun. Credit: NASA

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False-color image showing surface mineral deposits around Gale Crater made using data from the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Credit: NASA

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Visualization from a model of sea surface speeds in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Chris Henze, NASA/Ames; Dimitris Menemenlis, NASA/JPL

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Simulation of an inflating parachute canopy showing turbulent air and surface pressure during decent. Credit: Jonathan Boustani, NASA/Ames

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A high-resolution simulation of Schlieren flow around two supersonic T-38 aircraft flying in formation. Credit: Marian Nemec, Patrick Moran, NASA/Ames

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Desktop Wallpapers

Visualization of the global distribution of aerosols from the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires, run using NASA’s GEOS-FD data assimilation system from satellite observations. Credit: William Putman, NASA/Goddard

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Snapshot from a black hole simulation run on agency supercomputers showing the X-ray glow of the inner accretion disk. Credit: Jeremy Schnittman, Scott Noble, NASA/Goddard

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Cloud fraction map showing how much of Earth is covered by clouds in the span of one month using data from NASA’s TERRA/MODIS satellite observations. Credit: Reto Stöckli, NASA’s Earth Observatory

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Visualization showing the movement of shadows near the Moon’s South Pole, created from data gathered by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft. Credit: Ernie Wright, NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

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Visualization of a Mars landing vehicle concept with retropulsion generated using a volume rendering technique. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA/Ames; Rajko Yasui-Schoeffel, NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center

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Mars Ringtones

Alert Sound
4 seconds

Flute and Harp, based on Pleiades Supercomputer CPU usage data.

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Mars Ringtone #1
18 seconds

Flute and Harp, based on Mars cloud formation simulation.

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Mars Ringtone #2
16 seconds

Flute and Harp, based on Mars cloud formation simulation.

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Back by Popular Demand:
Music from Mars

Created exclusively for the virtual NASA@SC20 research exhibit, in collaboration with a team of scientists and musicologists, we present some ethereal ringtones to celebrate scientific results from NASA’s Mars Insight mission, enabled by NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer.

Researchers Domenico Vicinanza at Anglia Ruskin University and GEANT, Cambridge, UK, and Genevieve Williams at the University of Exeter, UK, teamed up with professional flutist Alyssa Schwartz at Fairmont State University, West Virginia, to create the ringtones. For the alert tone, the researchers converted the number of available CPUs on Pleiades (224,508 at the time of writing) to a sequence of music intervals (2nd, 2nd, 4th, 5th, unison, octave) to create a melody fragment short enough for an alert. The melody is played on the flute and harp.

The ringtones are based on Mars weather forecasts from detailed computer simulations. The research team used an imaging tracking system, based on work by NASA scientist Melinda Kahre to study the movement of cloud formation on Mars and filtering based on nonlinear dynamics to extract regularities and patterns. Mapping those patterns to music intervals, the team created melodies arranged for flute and harp—playing the shape of Mars clouds in motion, as predicted by results run on Pleiades.

Swag for Kids

NASA@SC21
for Kids

Coloring, word find, and other activities with a NASA supercomputing theme.


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SLS Bookmark

NASAs Space Launch System (SLS), the largest rocket ever built, will take astronauts and science experiments farther into space than ever before! You can build your own SLS rocket: just download and print this file, then cut out the images. Glue them together and let it dry—and you’ve got a bookmark ready for your favorite book.


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NASA Kids' Club

Find lots more fun and educational activities at the NASA Kids' Club website.


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