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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of April 16 - April 20, 2018
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NASA Announces Winners of 2018 Rover Challenge
A pair of local schools proved victorious last weeked in the 2018 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. Buckhorn High School of New Market, Alabama, won first place in the high school division, and a team from the University of Alabama in Huntsville won the college/university division. Teams were awarded points based on the successful navigation of obstacles and completion of tasks.
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SLS Liquid Hydrogen Tank Readied to be Primed for Thermal Protection
The liquid hydrogen tank for NASA’s deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, made a move last week for its next step in processing. Technicians at the agency’s rocket factory, the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, placed the tank into Cell P to be primed before its thermal protection systems application.
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NASA, University of Twente Join Forces to Connect Space to Village
Continuous streams of Earth observations and information made possible by NASA form the foundation for critical environmental planning and decisions by people all over the world. A new partnership between NASA and the University of Twente aims to make this information available to resource-challenged organizations and governments.
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Once Upon a Time in a Thunderstorm
An investigation aboard the International Space Station, the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, will enable the study of severe thunderstorms and their role in the Earth’s atmosphere and climate. The collection of optical cameras, photometers and a large X- and gamma-ray detector is mounted on the outside of European Space Agency's Columbus Module.
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NASA Planet Hunter on Its Way to Orbit
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite launched on the first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. TESS will be watching for phenomena called transits -- when a planet passes in front of its star from the observer’s perspective, causing a periodic and regular dip in the star’s brightness.
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