NASA 'mixtape' highlights best of 2016 space research

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NASA 'mixtape' highlights best of 2016 space research
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NASA's new "mixtape" is light on music, but heavy on groundbreaking scientific research.

The organization's Goddard Space Flight Center just dropped the tape -- in the form of a YouTube video -- that samples some of its most notable efforts in 2016.

The Maryland-based center is the nation's largest organization of scientists and engineers who build spacecraft and technology to study the Earth, our solar system and the universe.

In 2016, its Hubble operations helped scientists determine that the observable universe has 10 times more galaxies than we previously thought. Goddard's Operation IceBridge measured the volatile Antarctic ice for the eighth year in a row. The center also launched the nation's first asteroid sampling mission into space.

Learn more about Goddard's other achievements last year here.

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Maria Gallucci

Maria Gallucci was a Science Reporter at Mashable. She was previously the energy and environment reporter at International Business Times; features editor of Makeshift magazine; clean economy reporter for InsideClimate News; and a correspondent in Mexico City until 2011. Maria holds degrees in journalism and Spanish from Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College.


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