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NASA Exploration Center

Visitors are welcome to view exhibits from NASA Ames Research Center.

NASA Research Park

Building 19

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70th Anniversary Website

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Ames Features and News

Exploration Day at NASA Ames

Summer of Innovation
07.30.10

The photographers at NASA Ames captured many of the activities happening on Exploration Day.

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Ames Thrills Students with Science and Math

At a space shuttle exhibit, students learned to give the module operator a “thumbs up” to start the engine.
07.29.10

We all remember a moment in which a teacher or mentor made a difference in our lives. It could be a nod of encouragement, a helping hand, a lesson that inspired wonder or discovery, and ultimately ...

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Supercomputer Reproduces a Cyclone's Birth

screen capture of video showing cyclone Nargis formation in 2008
07.21.10

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has helped develop a simulation of tropical cyclone Nargis, which devastated Myanmar in 2008. The result is the first model to replicate the formation of the tropical ...

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More Features and News

  • artist concept of Kepler in space

    Earth-size is not Earth-like

    07.27.10 - The TED Talk by Dimitar Sasselov

  • K-10 Rover uses its ground-penetrating radar in a polar desert environment.

    NASA Opens Online Vote for Next Desert Exploration Site

    07.27.10 - NASA is inviting the public to choose an area in northern Arizona where explorers will conduct part of the annual Desert Research and Technology Studies, known as Desert RATS.

  • Photo credit: NASA/Matt Dean

    NASA Simulates Space Exploration at Remote Arctic Crater Site

    07.26.10 - NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for future planetary exploration as part of the Haughton-Mars Project, or HMP-2010.

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    NASA Awards Modeling and Simulation Contract

    07.22.10 - NASA has selected Science and Technology Corp., Hampton, Va., to receive a contract for Aeronautics and Exploration Mission Modeling and Simulation at NASA's Ames Research Center.

  • Photo credit: Dominic Hart/NASA

    NASA Honors Lunar Science Trailblazer

    07.21.10 - Don Edward Wilhelms received the Shoemaker Distinguished Lunar Scientist Award last night during a ceremony of the Lunar Science Forum at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.

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    Ames Research Center Celebrates NASA's SOI

    07.21.10 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- To celebrate NASA’s Summer of Innovation initiative to promote excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will host an Exploration Day featuring NASA’s out-of-this-world missions and technology programs.

  • A six percent model of the Orion spacecraft being calibrated in the 9x7 foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames.

    NASA Tests Launch Abort System At Supersonic Speeds

    07.19.10 - Aerospace engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center are conducting a series of wind tunnel tests to develop technology for future human space exploration.

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    NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Technology To Play Key Role In New Open Source Initiative

    07.19.10 - The core technology developed for NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open source cloud computing initiative. It will pull together more than 25 companies to play a key role in driving cloud computing standards for interoperability and portability.

Spotlight on Ames

  • Image of Hangar One.

    Hangar One

    Latest information about Hanger One.

  • Kepler spacecraft

    Kepler

    NASA's search for habitable planets.

  • Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

    SOFIA

    The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a joint venture of the U.S. and German aerospace agencies, NASA and the DLR.

  • Green Algae

    Greenspace

    Leveraging NASA for a greener Earth.

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