Northrop Grumman technician Ricardo Pantoja performs a routine inspection of NASA Webb’s innovative blanketing along the connection point of its deployable primary mirror segments. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

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The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is designed to measure sea-surface height and improve weather predictions. The images in this collage depict (clockwise from top): a heat map showing global changes to sea-surface height over 22 years; an artist's concept of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite in Earth orbit; a pair of images showing and the changing coastline at Cape Point in North Carolina's barrier islands from 2017 (left) to 2018 (right);eye of Hurricane Florence as it churned across the Atlantic on Sept. 12, 2018.

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By Lyle Tavernier  This artist's concept shows the Perseverance Mars rover on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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