2016 brought NASA a year of exciting observations.
2016 brought NASA a year of historic discoveries.
2016 brought NASA a year of significant milestones.
NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission, OSIRIS-REx launched into space.
Operation IceBridge measured Antarctic ice for the eighth consecutive year.
A mid-latitude super pressure balloon completed a record-breaking, 46-day test flight.
Hubble helped determine the observable universe contains 10 times more galaxies than previously thought.
NASA supercomputers provided a new view of how carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched Mercury transit the sun.
Scientists used small fluctuations in the orbits of three NASA spacecraft to map the gravity field of Mars.
NASA completed the optical and science segment of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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