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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.
Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 17, 2013
The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa exposes material churned up from inside the moon and also material resulting from matter and energy coming from above.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 15, 2013
"The mission to find, capture and redirect an asteroid robotically, and then visit it with astronauts to study it and return samples takes advantage of expertise...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 11, 2013
Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 9, 2013
NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 5, 2013
The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age,...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 22, 2013
Like archeologists carefully digging for fossils, scientists with the Planck mission are sifting through cosmic clutter to find the most ancient light in the universe...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 21, 2013
Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 18, 2013
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 13, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 12, 2013
If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 6, 2013
The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 4, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 21, 2013
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 14, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 12, 2013
Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 1, 2013
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, one of the twin rovers that bounced to airbag-cushioned safe landings on Mars nine years ago this week, is currently...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 24, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 16, 2013
Eight years ago, the European Space Agency's Huygens bounced, slid, and wobbled its way to rest on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 15, 2013
Look up at the night sky and you'll see stars, sure. But the sky is also filled with planets—billions and billions of them at least.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 4, 2013