Tag: NASA
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NASA TESS Science
Diana Dragomir, NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a science briefing at NASA Kennedy for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS.
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Elisa Quintana Launching TESS
Elisa Quintana, an Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard and TESS Support Scientist, can’t contain her enthusiasm talking about exoplanet exploration at NASA Kennedy before the TESS launch.
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Life Beyond Earth
Associate Administrator, NASA Science Mission Directorate Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen talks about the search for life beyond Earth at the Kennedy Space Center before the launch of TESS.
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Boron Found on Mars
Boron was recently discovered in calcium-sulfate veins on Mars using the ChemCam instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover. This is the first Mars mission to detect boron on the Red Planet. Los Alamos Post-Doctoral Student Patrick Gasda explains how this discovery helps us better
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Kepler Science Conference Review
At the Kepler & K2 Science Conference IV held at NASA Ames Research Center Astronomer David Latham gave a review of five days in twenty five minutes. “
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TESS Mission
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite TESS will search for exoplanets orbiting around the brightest stars in our galaxy. Dr. George Ricker is the TESS Principal Investigator and is currently Director of the CCD Laboratory in the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.