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

	September 07, 2018  MEDIA ADVISORY In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Week of Sept. 3-7, 2018   New NASA Competition Aims to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Exploration Sweet Success When future astronauts begin exploring Mars, they’ll need to make use of local resources, freeing up cargo space for other mission-critical supplies. Carbon dioxide is one such resource that is readily abundant within the Martian atmosphere. NASA’s new CO2 Conversion Challenge, conducted under the Centennial Challenges program, which is managed at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is a public competition seeking novel ways to convert carbon dioxide into useful compounds.   'Big Voice Test' Prepares New Support Center for First SLS Launch A recent big voice test at the Space Launch System (SLS) Engineering Support Center in the Huntsville Operations Support Center at Marshall verified that all systems are “go” when it comes to voice communications for the first integrated flight of the SLS deep space rocket and the Orion spacecraft: Exploration Mission-1. During the test, participants connected with 13 locations across America.   NASA-funded Sounding Rocket to View Sun with X-Ray Vision Finding traces of nanoflares — small but intense eruptions in the Sun's atmosphere — requires X-ray vision and scientists have been hard at work developing the best tools for the job. The latest advance in this project is represented by NASA’s Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI mission, soon to take its third flight from the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico.   Cosmic Collision Forges Galactic One Ring -- in X-rays Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or neutron stars in a galaxy 300 million light years from Earth. This ring, while not wielding power over Middle Earth, may help scientists better understand what happens when galaxies smash into one another in catastrophic impacts.   NASA Satellites Track Rainfall from Tropical Depression Gordon While Tropical Storm Gordon tracked toward the Southeast, NASA satellites passed over the Gulf of Mexico and collected temperature information on the storm as it made landfall Sept. 4. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-East satellite provided an infrared look at clouds associated with Gordon and found its center over Mississippi. For more information or to learn about other happenings at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, visit NASA Marshall. For past issues of the ICYMI newsletter, click here.
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