V is for Visitor Center! We have a visitor center free and open to the public to explore Goddard's work in Earth science, astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary science, engineering, communications and technology development. Check out how to visit: https://lnkd.in/eYj_pv3P Scopan Lake in Maine, seen here by Landsat 9 in June 2024, is shaped like a V when rotated northeast. The western arm of the lake is shallower than the northern arm, reaching only 10 to 20 feet. https://lnkd.in/eXKGAbQp
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Defense & Space
Greenbelt, MD 198,423 followers
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is a major U.S. laboratory for developing and operating unmanned scientific spacecraft. The center manages many of NASA's Earth observation, astronomy, planetary science and astrophysics missions. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar system and the universe. Just outside Washington, Goddard is home to Hubble operations and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Goddard manages communications between mission control and orbiting astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Goddard scientists stare into the sun, grind up meteorites for signs of life's building blocks, look into the farthest reaches of space, and untangle the mysteries of our own changing world. Goddard engineers construct sensitive instruments, build telescopes that peer into the cosmos, and operate the test chambers that ensure those satellites' survival. Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center was established May 1, 1959, as NASA's first space flight complex. Goddard and its several installations are critical in carrying out NASA's missions of space exploration and scientific discovery. Goddard encompasses several other NASA properties, most significantly: • Wallops Flight Facility near Chincoteague, Virginia • Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia • Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City • White Sands Complex outside Las Cruces, New Mexico • Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas
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https://www.nasa.gov/goddard
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- Defense & Space
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- 5,001-10,000 employees
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- Greenbelt, MD
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- Government Agency
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- 1959
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- earth science, space science, engineering, space operations, spacecraft design and construction, astrophysics, planetary science, heliophysics, satellite servicing, and space communications
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The Hubble control center is here at Goddard, but now you can chart your own path through the stars. With Hubble’s Cosmic Adventure, you choose where to explore. From the planets of our own solar system to other galaxies, check out some of the telescope’s iconic views. Play the game: https://lnkd.in/eZFd5pvh
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The launch window for two sounding rocket missions has opened in Alaska! One mission aims to understand how flickering or pulsing in auroras can affect spacecraft and our astronauts. The second will search out "black aurora," where light from an aurora appears to be missing. https://lnkd.in/gcYg89gS
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I can see your echo echo echo. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured these light echoes in infrared light created from the shockwave of a collapsing star. As the shockwave travels through space, it heats up gas and dust, making it glow in infrared light. https://lnkd.in/enb6dw64
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope examined Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars in our Milky Way galaxy, that create carbon-rich dust shells as they swing past each other. The rings move outward at 1600 miles per second, making them noticeably different from one year to the next. This observation helps scientists understand how carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. https://lnkd.in/ekn76fgA
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NICER is getting even, well ... nicer! This week, Nick Hague will install patches to the NICER X-ray telescope on the space station to repair a “light leak.” Astronauts rehearsed the repair in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab pool at NASA's Johnson Space Center last spring. https://lnkd.in/eS3XvSx3
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We’re sending science to the Moon! Tune in early tomorrow morning to watch as NASA science and tech launches with Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander. Watch live coverage starting at 12:30 a.m. EST (we told you it was early!): https://lnkd.in/eEv7ayK5 Learn about the science: https://lnkd.in/eqWQUjeR
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Location data 🤝 Happy astronauts Goddard’s Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), on the upcoming #CLPS mission, will investigate if signals from GPS satellites can be used on the Moon! This data will help NASA improve navigation for future explorers. https://lnkd.in/e9rRWb-q
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2024 was the hottest year in NASA's record, stretching back to 1880. The past 10 years were the warmest 10 years on record. Human activities, particularly the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, are causing the current long-term warming trend. We keep NASA's record of global temperature at GISS. We're not the only ones. NOAA and other organizations around the world keep their own records of Earth temperature, which align closely with NASA's. They also found that 2024 was the hottest on record. Our record is drawn from millions of measurements taken at thousands of weather stations, ships, ocean buoys, and Antarctic research stations. With all these measurements, we calculate how much Earth’s temperature is changing. We track temperature change, rather than absolute temperature, so we can be sure we’re comparing apples to apples. Rather than comparing temperatures in the Arctic and the tropics and averaging those two numbers, we compare temperatures in the Arctic now to previous temperatures in the Arctic. We can also compare monthly changes in temperature this way. We're not comparing temperatures in December to those in July, but rather looking at how warm previous Decembers were, to see overall warming. In 2024, eight months were the warmest for their respective month on record. Our record is clear: Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate, and we are feeling the effects around the globe. https://lnkd.in/ey8WKTZT
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Before we send Artemis astronauts to the Moon, we need to understand the surface. The Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder flying aboard Firefly's Blue Ghost Lander will measure how easily electricity flows through the Moon’s surface, helping scientists understand its geological makeup. Through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, Southwest Research Institute built the instrument, with Goddard providing the magnetometer it will use to measure magnetic fields. https://lnkd.in/eD_-bzhB