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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of Jan. 16 - Jan. 20, 2017
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NASA, NOAA Data Show 2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally
Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the mid-20th century mean, making 2016 the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures.
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I am Building SLS: Renee Horton
Renee Horton, an engineer building at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, is in her own words, "making history every day." From her days growing up as a child in Baton Rouge, Louisiana gazing up at the stars to building the rocket that will power NASA's Journey to Mars, she tells her story in "I am Building SLS."
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NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System
NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system -- a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun. The missions, known as Lucy and Psyche, were chosen from five finalists and will proceed to mission formulation, with the goal of launching in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
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(Video 1:40) Hidden Figures to Modern Figures: Students See SLS at Michoud
New Orleans teacher Katherine Michelle Sanders of St. Peter Claver School, takes her 7th grade science on a tour of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility to see where the Space Launch System is being built. Sanders is the granddaughter of famed NASA scientist Katherine Johnson who was featured in the book and movie, Hidden Figures.
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Chandra Images Show That Geometry Solves a Pulsar Puzzle
NASA'S Chandra X-ray Observatory has taken deep exposures of two nearby energetic pulsars flying through the Milky Way galaxy. The shape of their X-ray emission suggests there is a geometrical explanation for puzzling differences in behavior shown by some pulsars.
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