Sentences with phrase «space flight center»

You end up with this interesting observation where you get both floods and droughts just by taking the usual precipitation pattern and doing a shift,» said George Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are using already available satellite measurements of sulfur dioxide (SO2), a main components of volcanic emissions, along with the more recent ability to map the location and vertical profiles of volcanic aerosols.

And, as Walt Meier of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center noted here, Antarctic sea ice already covers a huge area — it doesn't take much growth for it to set a new record.

An example of a long - duration robotic asteroid sample return mission is the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security — Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - REx) mission managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which will investigate and return a sample from a NEA named Bennu.

«If you're spending your research time chatting with your friends or trying to impress people just for the sake of trying to impress people, you're probably not helping your career,» Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland in the United States and author of Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

The UCL - led study also involved researchers from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Boston University, Observatoire de Paris, MIT, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), University of Southampton, University of Leicester, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and University of Michigan.

E. Otwell; T. Tibbitts; M. Golombek; USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Goddard Space Flight Center / NASA

Shawn Domagal - Goldman, an astrobiologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said, «Two weeks ago, I would have told you that Webb can do this in theory, but in practice it would have required a nearly perfect target.

Nesvold and her colleague Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented the findings Thursday during the «In the Spirit of Lyot 2015» conference in Montreal, which focuses on the direct detection of planets and disks around distant stars.

«Volcanic islands are some of the simplest landforms to make,» said first author Jim Garvin, chief scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«I think we're almost in violent agreement that this is an interesting minimum,» said David Hathaway of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala..

«In theory, if you know how much energy is coming in from the sun, and how much is reflected or radiated away, the difference is how much is heating or cooling the planet,» says Adam Szabo, a heliophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

James Garvin from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is anticipating a wealth of information about the surface of Mars — «We will be able to make direct comparisons between dramatic Martian landforms, such as Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris, and their terrestrial counterparts.»

THE MOMENT NASA engineer Ernie Wright examines 6 of the 18 segments of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror in preparation for a final round of testing at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

I was delighted with the simplicity of it,» says David Smitherman, technical manager of the advanced projects office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

«If you have an indication of the availability of breeding sites,» says David Grass of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, near Washington DC, who led the study, «that's going to bring you one step closer to predicting...

Debates about the mechanisms driving the shocks will take time to settle, says Chandra project scientist Martin Weisskopf of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

In terms of global climate change, the new studies show that «the actual situation is worse» than policymakers realize, says Peter Griffith, an ecosystems ecologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from more than 100 million years ago, according to a new paper published Jan. 31 in the journal Scientific Reports.

Twelve of the interdisciplinary team of 20 coauthors are from the University of Maryland, with multiple other universities (Northeastern University, Columbia University, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University, and Brown University) and other institutions (Joint Global Change Research Institute, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Institute for Global Environment and Society, Japan's RIKEN research institute, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) also represented.

The complex choreography of the launch is managed by employees of NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, under a contract administered by the Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va..

The Aurorasaurus team, led by Liz MacDonald, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, conferred to determine the identity of this mysterious phenomenon.

Nonetheless, a few years ago, Mauersberger took a two - day workshop from Marc Kuchner, astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and author of Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times.

During its 55 - day flight, Super-TIGER collected just a few thousand of the heavy atoms that Binns seeks, with the help Super-TIGER's collaborators at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota.

«When we ran these calculations, we found that in some cases, there was a significant amount of ozone that built up in the atmosphere, despite there not being any oxygen flowing into the atmosphere,» said Shawn Domagal - Goldman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Corey S. Powell graduated from Harvard with a degree in history and science and performed an early stint as a research assistant at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, building and testing gamma ray telescopes.

«Despite their small size, these interplanetary dust particles may have provided higher quantities and a steadier supply of extraterrestrial organic material to early Earth,» said Michael Callahan of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Unfortunately, there have been limited studies examining their organic composition, especially with regards to biologically relevant molecules that may have been important for the origin of life, due to the miniscule size of these samples.»

This would have been catastrophic not only to the satellite, but would result in thousands of pieces of new debris,» said Harry Solomon, Mission Manager for Suomi NPP at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Glaciologists Waleed Abdalati and Jay Zwally of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, answer two of them.

But «while the Arctic maximum is not as important as the seasonal minimum, the long - term decline is a clear indicator of climate change,» Walt Meier, a sea ice researcher at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement.

«Mercury is the perfect test object for these experiments because it is so sensitive to the gravitational effect and activity of the Sun,» said Antonio Genova, the lead author of the study published in Nature Communications and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Extraordinary times require extraordinary leadership,» says Michael Weiss, deputy manager of the Hubble Space Telescope Program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

«Right now it's too early in the season to say anything definitive about how [the 2001] hole will come out,» atmospheric physicist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center observes.

Astronomer Kimberly Weaver of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, suggests that we look at CXOU J164710.2 - 455216's neighbors: «It's surrounded by Wolf - Rayet stars.»

«There's no guarantee where it would come down,» says Paul Ondrus, project manager for operational missions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

But Thierry Lanz, Sara Heap and Ivan Hubeny of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland now say it is only about 12 million years old.

Enrico Costa of the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictured).

The research, led by Petr Pokorný, Menelaos Sarantos and Diego Janches of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, simulated the variations in meteoroid impacts, revealing surprising patterns in the time of day impacts occur.

New Horizons is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala..

With her are Anne Kinney (left) of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Nancy Grace Roman (right), who had retired from the Goddard center.

As Vice-Chairman of the Space Subcommittee, Rep. Mo Brooks (R - Ala) has said that he is «thrilled» with his new position and looking forward to representing the interests of the Marshall Space Flight Center, located in his congressional district.

New Horizons is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

«Being able to pull that signal out from all the other busy activity that is going on, all the other gamma - ray traffic, is going to take some time,» says project scientist Steve Ritz of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Some of these planets are so hot in their upper atmospheres, they're essentially boiling off into space,» said Avi Mandell, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and a co-author of the study.

Jim Klimchuk, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, explained that the new evidence supports a theory that the sun's corona is heated by tiny explosions called nanoflares.

Using data from 10 satellites, Christopher M. Cox of Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services (ITSS) and Benjamin F. Cho of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center determined that the gravitational forces near the equator have grown since 1998.

James Hansen heads the NASA Institute for Space Studies, a division of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GISS), and is Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

Paul Nandra of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, says that x-rays from the superhot material can reveal «conditions right next to supermassive black holes in the most distant galaxies known.»

Its instrument was built by a consortium including Caltech; JPL; the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; the Danish Technical University in Denmark; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.; ATK Aerospace Systems, Goleta, Calif., and with support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Science Data Center.

Drake Deming of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, agrees that more observations are needed.