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UW Viking “enabling” operations 1979-1982

NASA Deep Space Network - JPL - UW

Modem

ModemReal timeLink,1982

Tape

UW Viking Computer Facility support for Viking Lander 1, Sols ~ 1,000 to 2,245

A First for a non governmental entity

How at UW we keptVL-1 operational, Including real timeFrom Mars for several years

IntelComputer

NASA JPL Mainframes

UW Viking Computer Facility

This is exclusively for the technically inclined! It shows how we replaced functionality of NASA JPL’s two mainframes with a single super-mini computer more cost effective and advanced than their IBM and Univac

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Public Outreach

Hundreds of school interactions, the permanent Viking View of Mars exhibit

is in its 21’st yearat the Smithsonian National Air & SpaceMuseum, WashingtonD.C.

Students will help develop our next MetNet LiveFrom Mars exhibit for Air & Space as Rachel did here

Air & Space is the world’s most visitedMuseum

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Viking Atmospheric Pressure High School Student’s contribution

UW Mission Operations

Keeping VL-1 alive

July 20, 1976 Nov. 12, 1982

Fronts at 48 deg North during winter

Vik Nominal

Pathfinder Lakeside high school student Charlie Strauss wrote the original software that processed and plotted these data, leading to my discovery of the transient Kelvin modesAnd possibly how to predict great dust storms hundreds of sols in the future

His teacher said he was one of “the very best ever”.

Bill Guest rewrote this enhanced version of the plotting software

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Data and Information DistributionMulti-cast distribution and validation

http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/grayskies/nw_weather.html

FinlandUnidata

As in the past, Unidataprovides informationdistribution of all typeswith zero maintenance and 100% reliability usingthrowaway computers

McClure middle schoolGrades 6-9

U Rotary-McClure-WellerWeather Station

Coe Primary school

Grades K-5

Not operational