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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Variations in the stuff that cements grains together in sandstone have shaped the landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and could be a study topic at...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 25, 2014
A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | March 24, 2014
NASA's Seasat satellite became history long ago, but it left a legacy of images of Earth's ocean, volcanoes, forests and other features that were made by the first...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 19, 2014
Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 17, 2014
How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 13, 2014
After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 12, 2014
NASA is partnering with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to develop and apply new technology and products to better manage and monitor the state's...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 26, 2014
One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, finally is being unraveled with the help of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 20, 2014
The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is considering a path across a small sand dune to reach a favorable route to science destinations.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 30, 2014
This spring, NASA will be paying cautious attention to a comet that could put on a barnstorming show at Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 29, 2014
Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt,...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 23, 2014
More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 7, 2014
The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed a software upgrade on the vehicle and is next planning a check of wear and tear on the rover's wheels...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 23, 2013
NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | December 19, 2013
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have enhanced existing GPS technologies...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 11, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 10, 2013