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showcasing our efforts to monitor

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earth's climate a spacecraft for an

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asteroid mission is close to its final

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and assembly of our europa clipper

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spacecraft is underway a few of the

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stories to tell you about this week at

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on march 8 u.s special presidential

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envoy for climate john kerry visited our

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ames research center in northern

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california while there he toured the

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national full-scale aerodynamics complex

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the unique facility operated by the u.s

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air force which houses the world's

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largest wind tunnel

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carey was briefed on how the facility

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supports development of new wind turbine

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technologies and other climate-related

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innovations he also learned how the

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agency uses supercomputers at ames

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remote sensing tools and data from earth

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observing aircraft and spacecraft to

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study and monitor our climate

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our psyche spacecraft is a step closer

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to its final configuration ahead of its

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targeted launch this august to a

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metal-rich asteroid of the same name

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engineers at our jet propulsion

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laboratory or jpl in southern california

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recently attached the spacecraft's solar

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arrays they then tested the arrays by

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unfolding and restoring them

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after a three and a half year solar

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powered journey the spacecraft will

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arrive at asteroid psyche in 2026 and

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spend nearly two years making

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increasingly close orbits of the

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asteroid to study it

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assembly of our europa clipper

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spacecraft is also underway at jpl with

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engineering components and science

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instruments being delivered from across

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the country and europe

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most of the flight hardware is expected

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to be complete by year's end the mission

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is targeted for an october 2024 launch

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to jupiter's moon europa to investigate

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whether the icy moon with its subsurface

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ocean is capable of supporting life

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for the first time nasa's neutron star

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interior composition explorer or nicer

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instrument mounted on the outside of the

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international space station has observed

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the merging of multi-million degree

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x-ray spots on the surface of a magnetar

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a super magnetized a stellar core no

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larger than a city

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nicer's unique set of observations could

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help provide a more complete

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understanding of the interplay between

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the crust and magnetic field of these

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extreme objects

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no humans will fly on this year's

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upcoming artemis 1 mission but your name

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could just go to nasa.gov we are going

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to add your name to a list of names

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stored on a flash drive that will make

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the historic trip around the moon and

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back you will also be able to generate

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and download your very own boarding pass

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artemis one will be the first in a

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series of increasingly complex missions

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to build a long-term human presence at

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the moon for decades to come

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that's what's up this week at nasa for