Research
The acronym for the organization that our articles are written for is SVS.
What is the Scientific Visualization Studio?
This is the date of the most recent article on the NASA Viz app.
What is February 14th, 2020?
This is your secondary audience.
Who are Professor Alexandra Calloway and the NASA Viz team?
These are the two concepts a good caption must connect.
What is the most important, first thing that a reader will see in your article?
What is the title?
This is how often new stories are added to NASA Viz.
What is biweekly/every two weeks?
This is the social media platform that many NASA Viz stories are shared on.
What is Twitter?
This is the main focus of the article: what it is built around.
What are NASA SVS assets?
What is the SVS Image Server?
These abbreviated descriptions are used for article promotion by NASA.
What are the tweet and the teaser?
This category of NASA Viz stories relates to the Sun.
What is Heliophysics?
This is how UMD students are credited on NASA Viz articles.
What is Experiential Learning Program, UMD?
This is something that should tie together the stills and videos you use in your article.
These organizations partner with NASA, so you do not need to gain special permissions to use their images.
What are JPL and the Hubble Space Telescope?
This is where the article template can be found.
What is the ELMS page "NASA Viz Topic Choice"?
The acronym for the people that will be providing feedback on our NASA Viz articles is SME.
What are Subject Matter Experts?
This is the last line of every NASA Viz story.
What is "Watch the videos to learn more"?
The template we are given to organize our articles is an example of this type of organizational technique used for developing narratives.
What is a storyboard?
This is the aspect ratio expected for visual elements.
What is 16:9?
This is the last person to review your article before submission.
Who is Professor Alexandra Calloway?
This is the research laboratory whose "team of writers, producers, scientists and animators" help develop and write stories for the NASA Viz app.
What is the Goddard Space Flight Center?
This is the audience of the SVS Image Server, as stated on their website.
Who are students and teachers in grades 5-12?
This is the number of stills and video assets you must have in your article.
This is the minimum picture size, in pixels.
What is 1024x576?
This is the procedure for using images that NASA does not have the rights to.
What are: obtaining written permission from the source and crediting them in the Credits section?