In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

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  February 17, 2017 
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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

Week of Feb. 13 - Feb. 17, 2017


 

Michoud Assembly Facility Re-opens to Designated Employees

NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility recovery team made significant progress this week and the facility reopened for business following the Feb.7 tornado strike. Teams for NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft are back on-site with some restarting regular work and others assessing the status of tooling and hardware in areas of buildings that experienced tornado damage.


 

NASA to Launch Sequel to Successful Lightning Study Mission

NASA is set to reboot a successful study of Earth’s lightning from space -- this time from the unique vantage point of the International Space Station. Scientists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Alabama in Huntsville have high hopes for the agency’s Lightning Imaging Sensor, that will provide real-time lightning data, including amount, rate and optical characteristics.


 

Final Work Platform Installed in Vehicle Assembly Building for SLS

NASA reached a key milestone at the Kennedy Space Center in January. After a year of platform installations, the final topmost level was completed in Vehicle Assembly Building, the facility that will surround NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft and allow access during processing for missions.


 

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Takes Closer Image of Jupiter

During Earth-Trojan asteroid search operations, the PolyCam imager aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has captured an image of Jupiter and three of its moons, Callisto, Io and Ganymede. The image, which shows the bands of Jupiter, was taken Feb. 12, when the spacecraft was 76 million miles from Earth and 418 million miles from Jupiter.


 

January 2017 Was Third-Warmest January On Record

January 2017 was the third warmest January in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Last month's temperature was 0.20 degrees Celsius cooler than the warmest January in 2016. However, it was 0.92 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean January temperature from 1951-1980.


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