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'Borg' Computer Collective Designs NASA Space Antenna
Like a friendly, non-biological form of the Borg Collective of science fiction fame, 80 personal computers, using artificial intelligence (AI), have combined their silicon brains to quickly design a tiny, advanced space antenna.
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Aerogel Helps Scientists Unravel Mysteries of Comets
Strange stuff called 'aerogel' that looks like a semi-transparent, blue cloud, but that is solid, is carrying captured comet dust to Earth for a Jan. 15, 2006, landing in a Utah desert.
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The Fiery Return of NASA's Space Dust Cargo
This story was originally released on Nov. 11, 2005, before the Stardust capsule successfully returned to Earth on Jan. 15, 2006. In search of clues about the origin of life on Earth and other secrets, a crew flying on a NASA DC-8 aircraft studied the small, speeding Stardust capsule returning from space.
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NASA Research Finds Green Sand Crystals Are in Comet Tempel 1
Green sand found on the big island of Hawaii resembles olivine crystals in the icy interior of comet Tempel 1, according to a NASA astrophysicist.
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NASA Finds Evidence Some Comets May Have Become Asteroids
Some asteroids that have comet-like orbits may actually be comets that have lost gases and other easily vaporized substances, according to a NASA research team.
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NASA Study Shows Water Could Create Gullies on Mars
A NASA-led team will present its Mars gully findings at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences annual meeting in Cambridge, England, Sept. 5, 2005.
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NASA Field-Tests the First System Designed to Drill for Subsurface Martian Life
Drilling deep below the martian surface offers the best opportunity to find evidence of current, living organisms on Mars because liquid water may exist there today.
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Team Discovers Smallest Extra-solar Planet Yet
A team of researchers recently revealed it has discovered the smallest planet yet found orbiting a normal star outside the solar system.
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NASA Developing Robots with Human Traits
Will robots that help astronauts in space be as friendly and likeable as the fictional "R2-D2" android portrayed in the original "Stars Wars" motion picture?
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Micro Spacecraft to Pave the Way for Future Space Exploration
Years ago, space visionaries dreamt that swarms of small spacecraft someday would travel to other worlds to explore them in preparation for future landings by human beings.
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Beyond Science Fiction -- NASA Tests Human-Robot Cooperation in Utah Desert
NASA scientists and robots have boldly moved out onto the barren landscape with the goal of advancing robotics, so human-robot teams one day can explore the moon and Mars more effectively.
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NASA Artificial Intelligence Could Help Astronauts Work More Efficiently in Space
NASA is developing ever more potent artificial intelligence planning software to make distant missions more practical.
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NASA Simulates Small Martian 'Dust Devils'
Befitting the powerful Roman god of war for which Mars was named, the red planet's 'dust devils' can be as lofty as five miles (eight kilometers) tall.
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New NASA Technology Supports Enhanced Robotic Exploration
NASA K9 rover robot recently showed it could complete tasks 10 times faster than the robots now exploring Mars.
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Robot with legs instead of wheels.
Scientists say descendants of the dog-sized Scorpion robot may help explore Mars.
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NAS Altix System Off To Promising Start
The NAS Division contributes to this pool of mission-critical resources by developing and supporting some of the largest global shared memory, SSI computers in the world. The most recent addition is a 512-processor SGI Altix 3000.
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PDARS
PDARS is a joint FAA-NASA effort that is an element of that ASMM Project to develop the technologies that enable a system-wide capability to monitor day-to-day operations of the NAS and to measure ATC's delivery of services to ensure that they are safe efficient, and meet the needs of its customers.
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PSRS
Even before the release of the 1999 Institute of Medicine report, "To Err is Human," the NASA and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were collaborating to create a system for patient safety reporting.
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CSD - NASA SCIENTISTS DELEVOPING A COCKPIT SITUATION DISPLAY
A group of researchers in the NASA Ames Human Factors Research and Technology Division, the Ames Flight Deck Display Research Group, is developing an integrated interface that could support flight crew activities in a future free flight environment.
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The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Coffee Project
The coffee mission is part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, a long-term research effort aimed at understanding how human-induced and natural changes affect our global environment, while providing practical societal benefits to America today.