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GODDARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945)
Synonyms:
Goddard; Robert Hutchings Goddard
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Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Context examples:
Now, scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have found evidence that Mercury’s inner core is indeed solid and that it is very nearly the same size as Earth’s inner core.
(A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core, NASA)
Simulations and movies like these really help us visualize what Einstein meant when he said that gravity warps the fabric of space and time,” explains Jeremy Schnittman, who generated these gorgeous images using custom software at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.###!!!###
(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)
The team modelled likely conditions on different types of exoplanets using the ROCKE-3-D software, developed by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), to simulate the climates and ocean habitats of different types of exoplanets.
(Some Exoplanets May Have Greater Variety of Life than Exists on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Even though the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of our nearest galactic companions, we expect it should share some uncanny chemical similarity with distant, young galaxies from the early universe, said Marta Sewiło, an astronomer with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
(Stellar Embryos in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Contain Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet’s ancient climate by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)
Curiosity has not determined the source of the organic molecules, said Jen Eigenbrode of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is lead author of one of the two new Science papers.
(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)
Ahuna Mons is a volcanic dome unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system, according to a new analysis led by Ottaviano Ruesch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Universities Space Research Association.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
MAVEN has made the first direct detection of the permanent presence of metal ions in the ionosphere of a planet other than Earth, said Joseph Grebowsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
(Mars Has Metal in Its Atmosphere, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
When team members analyzed those lab products, they detected spectral features that matched up well with the distinctive signature that had been extracted from the Titan data by Carrie Anderson, a Cassini participating scientist at Goddard and a co-author on this study.
(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)
According to Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations confirm the Great Red Spot now is approximately 10,250 miles across, less than half the size of some historical measurements.
(Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking, NASA)
