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JPL Invites Public to Annual Open House
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., welcomes the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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NASA's Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
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Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season
Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.
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Testing the Parachute for Mars Science Laboratory
The parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory passed flight-qualification testing in March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Spirit Healthy but Computer Reboots Raise Concerns
The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is examining data received from Spirit in recent days to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over the April 11-12 weekend.
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NASA Test May Help Forecast Deadly Cyclones
A new NASA-developed approach for modeling tropical cyclones that uses JPL satellite data shows promise for better forecasting the world's deadliest storms.
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Balloon Experiment Catches Half the Universe's Starlight
Jamie Bock of JPL is part of a team that used a balloon-borne experiment called Blast and NASA's Spitzer telescope to hunt for faraway galaxies.
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Dust Cover Jettisoned From NASA's Kepler Telescope
Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth.
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On the JPL Blog: Oceans Up Close - From Space
JPL oceanographer Jorge Vazquez explains how satellites help monitor changes in Earth's oceans.
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Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals
Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars?
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Satellites Show Arctic Literally on Thin Ice
The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing.
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Spirit Churns Up Bright Soil
NASA's Mars rover Spirit exposed bright Martian soil on a recent drive heading southwest.
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Deep-Space Images Released for Astronomy Webcast
New NASA/JPL images from two missions and a Hubble camera are being released today as part of an International Year of Astronomy event.
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NASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes'
A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run.
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Radar Data Show Role of Topography in Fargo Floods
The Red River in Fargo, North Dakota, flows through flat troughs carved by ancient glaciers, contributing to its flooding history, as seen in this February 2000 image.
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NASA Continues to Advance International Polar Year Science →
Although the International Polar Year officially came to a close in February, NASA is continuing to push the frontiers of polar science from space, the air and the surface of ice.
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NASA Team Finds Riches in Asteroid Treasure Hunt →
Scientists are studying recovered meteorites that link directly with a tracked asteroid. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced the "treasure map" that gave the recovery team its search grid and specific target area.
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Researchers Pump Up Artificial Muscles →
Engineers from JPL and around the world are exploring the field of artificial muscles to invent "smart" devices that can grab and move objects.
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JPL and Caltech Partner on Keck Institute for Space Studies →
JPL and Caltech are collaborating to address the science and technology needs of future space missions through the W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies.
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Cassini Provides Virtual Flyover of Saturn's Moon Titan
"Fly me to the moon"-to Saturn's moon Titan, that is. New Titan movies and images are providing a bird's-eye view of the moon's Earth-like landscapes.