NASA has published the hyperwall schedule for its Booth #648 at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union's FFA 2026 conference on Tuesday, October 20. Four presentations are slotted across two time blocks — two in the morning, two in the afternoon — each running roughly 15 minutes. The morning block opens with Paul Rosen and Marco Lavelle presenting NISAR mission updates one year after launch. NISAR — the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite — is a joint U.S.-India mission designed to map Earth's surface changes with unprecedented detail. The second morning slot goes to NOAA's Dan Lindsey on geostationary satellite data and its dual use in research and operations. The afternoon block features Robert O. Green on discovering mineral resources using NASA imaging spectroscopy, followed by NOAA's Paul Chang on the importance of satellite ocean observations. The cross-agency pairing is notable: two of the four talks are NOAA presentations hosted inside NASA's booth, reflecting the agencies' overlapping Earth-observation mandates. This is a conference schedule, not a policy announcement. There are no new missions, no funding figures, no programmatic decisions. What it does reveal is the current emphasis areas NASA considers worth showcasing to the scientific community: SAR-based surface monitoring, mineral mapping via spectroscopy, and ocean-atmosphere observation. The NISAR update is the most substantive entry. One year post-launch puts the mission squarely in its calibration-to-science transition, and any early results from Rosen and Lavelle would be the first public airing of operational data quality. Green's mineral spectroscopy talk likely draws on EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) data from the ISS. For the broader Earth-science community, the hyperwall format — large-scale data visualizations narrated by principal investigators — remains one of the more effective public-communication tools NASA deploys at conferences. It is outreach infrastructure, not policy infrastructure.
