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  • a technician works on MAVEN magnetometers

    Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for Next Mission to Mars

    05.21.12 - The pair of flux gate magnetometers measures the magnetic field at the location of the spacecraft. This instrument will help understand how the solar wind interacts with the planet’s atmosphere.

  • closeup of ngc 891 showing dark filaments escaping the galactic halo

    Hubble Spies Edge-on Beauty

    05.18.12 - Hubble caught this close up of the northern half of NGC891, approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda.

  • NASA is conducting a series of rocket sled tests in preparation for full tests of the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator Project.

    Days of 'Gizmo' Launches Return

    05.17.12 - NASA technologists will get a chance next summer to relive the good old days when Agency engineers would affix space-age gizmos to rockets just to see if the contraptions worked.

  • Goddard scientists (clockwise) Scott Barthelmy, Gerry Skinner, and Jordan Camp are show here with their prototype Lobster Transient X-ray Detector.

    Measuring Transient X-rays with Lobster Eyes

    05.21.12 - A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International Space Station.

  • Hinode captured this image of the January 6, 2011 solar eclipse.

    Solar Eclipse, May 20, 2012

    05.17.12 - On May 20-21, 2012 an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor along Earth's northern Hemisphere.

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