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Uncovering Dark Energy’s Biggest Secrets
Roman is an infrared telescope named after Nancy Grace Roman that seeks to explore the mysteries of dark energy and image exoplanets. Roman and the James Webb Space Telescope offer broader ranges of sight when compared to the Hubble Space Telescope and are steps NASA and Goddard…
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Monitoring Our Oceans Health
NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is to advance the assessment of ocean health by measuring the distribution of phytoplankton. Phytoplankton is a tiny plant/algae that sustains marine life. An important instrument used to accomplish this is the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), which is a highly advanced spectrometer…
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Letter From The ETD Director
In the Engineering and Technology Directorate, we strive to be the engine that drives innovation, technology, and engineering excellence to deliver transformational science to Goddard, the agency and the nation. Recently, the Polarized Submillimeter…
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Envision Goddard, Modernizing for the Future
When NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was established in 1959 as NASA’s first spaceflight center, we began an era of spaceflight and innovation that has benefited humanity and enhanced daily life on Earth…