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New images from JPL's UAVSAR, the radar that sees through trees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may be most famous for sending Curiosity to Mars and Voyager to the edge of the solar system, but some of its coolest technology is being used right here on Earth. For the last month, a manned C-20A aircraft owned by...
Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Volcanoes, Glaciers, Google Inc.
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Curiosity takes summer break
For the first time since it landed on Mars last year, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory can’t send commands to the rover Curiosity. The one-ton rover and its fellow Martian probes are on a “summer break” until May 1....
Tags: NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Music
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JPL scientist: Jupiter's moon Europa may hold ingredients for life
Hydrogen peroxide is used to clean counter tops here on Earth, but Jupiter’s moon Europa may use it for a more important endeavor — to supply energy to simple life forms. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech...
Tags: NASA, Science and Technology
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NASA Mars Curiosity rover gets to work on 'spring break' chores
Hear that? That’s the sound of silence from NASA’s Curiosity rover -- and possibly the sound of separation anxiety at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as the intrepid Martian robot takes nearly a month-long break from exploring the Red Planet....
Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Separation Anxiety, Science and Technology
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Curiosity uncovers clues suggesting Mars was once habitable
NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence that Mars could have once held life, scientists said Tuesday. The one-ton rover drilled into a rock last month and collected a sample that contained essential ingredients for life on Earth, including hydrogen,...
Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science, Science and Technology
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Wind shakes up NASA rover Curiosity's landing parachute
The supersonic parachute that helped the NASA rover Curiosity land safely on Mars eight months ago has become part of an accidental science experiment. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped photos of the 100-pound parachute between August and...
Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science, Science and Technology
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Future space explorers tour JPL
Thirty-two students in aerospace, engineering and science programs in 11 different countries descended on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week as part of a Caltech competition to design a mission to one of Mars' two moons, Phobos or Deimos. "Watching...
Tags: Engineering, Students, Space Programs, Stanford University, Travel
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Student teams ace Mars plan at Caltech
It could take several months for aerospace experts to design a manned mission to a Martian moon. Students pulled off the feat in five days. Caltech hosted a competition on its Pasadena campus this week that divided 32 students from 21 different...
Tags: Students, Space Programs, Stanford University, NASA, Buzz Aldrin
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NASA sends fleet of small drones to inspect noxious volcano plumes
Getting information on volcanic plumes can be perilous work. The unbearable heat. The noxious gas. The jagged terrain. So NASA found a new way to carry out the mission without putting its researchers in danger: drones. PHOTOS: America's drone fleet...
Tags: NASA, Volcanoes, Military Equipment, Federal Aviation Administration, Landforms
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Toll students go to Washington, D.C.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) met on March 20 in Washington D.C. with a group of 70 seventh- and eighth-grade students and their chaperons from Glendale's Toll Middle School. The students were visiting during their spring break, and Schiff took time to...
Tags: Teachers, Adam Schiff, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Students
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Planck: Big Bang's afterglow reveals older universe, more matter
The universe has hidden its age well. The European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope has scanned the skies for the Big Bang’s fingerprint and discovered that the universe is about 100 million years older than thought, and that there’...Tags: NASA, University of Cambridge, Space Programs, Cosmology, Science and Technology
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