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Remembering our fallen heroes …

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A milestone for our InSight lander on Mars
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And, data released on our global temperature
… a few of the stories to tell you about

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– This Week at NASA!

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On Feb. 7, our administrator, Jim Bridenstine
was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and

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other senior NASA officials, for the annual
observance at Arlington National Cemetery

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in Virginia held as part of the agency’s
Day of Remembrance.

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The annual event pays tribute to the fallen
astronauts of Apollo 1, space shuttles Challenger

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and Columbia, and other members of the NASA
family who lost their lives supporting the

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agency’s mission of exploration and discovery.

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“Today on this NASA Day of Remembrance,
we make one more installment in a debt of

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honor to heroes whose contributions not just
to the United States but to mankind are incalculable,

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and we will be remembered forever.”

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“Today we remember these incidents and yes
people are somber, but it is also true that

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we are absolutely committed for the cause
in which they died.”

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On Feb. 2, our Mars InSight lander deployed
its Wind and Thermal Shield.

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The domed shield is designed to cover and
protect the lander’s seismometer from winds

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and temperature fluctuations so it can collect
accurate data.

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The supersensitive seismometer, which was
placed on the Martian surface in December,

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will provide the first look at the deep interior
of the Red Planet, to help us better understand

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how it and other rocky planets are formed.

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On Feb. 6, NASA and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration provided the annual

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release of global temperature data and discussed
the most important climate trends of 2018.

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According to independent analyses by both
agencies, global surface temperatures in 2018

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were the fourth warmest since 1880, the year
modern global surface temperature record keeping

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began.

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The past five years are, collectively, the
warmest years in the modern record.

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Our Kepler mission has released the final
record of that spacecraft’s full field of

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view, before it ran out of fuel late last
year and was retired to a safe orbit.

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The telescope was pointed toward the constellation
Aquarius for this “last light” image,

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and captured glimpses of the TRAPPIST-1 and
GJ 9827 systems.

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The blackened gaps in the image were caused
by earlier random part-failures of Kepler’s

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camera and did not impact the rest of the
instrument.

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Kepler opened its eyes to the skies more than
nine years ago and went on to discover more

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than 2,600 worlds beyond our solar system,
and statistically proved that our galaxy has

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even more planets than stars.

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After about three months attached to the International
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Cygnus cargo spacecraft left the complex Feb.
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The Cygnus – named after late astronaut
John Young – delivered nearly 7,400 pounds

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of research and supplies to the station.

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That’s what’s up this week @NASA …