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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 4, 2017
A new NASA tool links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice, such as southern Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 22, 2017
Dark features on Mars previously considered evidence for subsurface flowing of water are interpreted by new research as granular flows, where grains of sand and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 21, 2017
One of the most spectacular achievements in physics so far this century has been the observation of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that result from...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 17, 2017
Surface features on Ceres—the largest world between Mars and Jupiter—and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 10, 2017
Heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus for billions of years if the moon has a highly porous core, according to a new modeling...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 8, 2017
When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three on NASA's first rover, Sojourner....Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 1, 2017
Black holes are famous for being ravenous eaters, but they do not eat everything that falls toward them.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 31, 2017
A small, recently discovered asteroid—or perhaps a comet&mdsah;appears to have originated from outside the solar system, coming from somewhere else in our galaxy...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 30, 2017
When NASA scientists want to follow the path of the Curiosity rover on Mars, they can don a mixed-reality headset and virtually explore the Martian landscape.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 23, 2017
A spacecraft destined to explore a unique asteroid will also test new communication hardware that uses lasers instead of radio waves.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 20, 2017
NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its journey on Sept. 15 with an intentional plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, but analysis continues on the mountain of data...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 18, 2017
For the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993, located...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 16, 2017
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into the upper atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, the spacecraft was live-streaming data from eight of its science...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 12, 2017
The discovery of evidence for ancient sea-floor hydrothermal deposits on Mars identifies an area on the planet that may offer clues about the origin of life on...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 10, 2017
NASA's longest-lived mission to Mars has gained its first look at the Martian moon Phobos, pursuing a deeper understanding by examining it in infrared wavelengths...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 6, 2017
It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 5, 2017
A NASA-produced map showing areas of eastern Puerto Rico that were likely damaged by Hurricane Maria has been provided to responding agencies, including the Federal...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 28, 2017
A NASA study has located the Antarctic glaciers that accelerated the fastest between 2008 and 2014 and finds that the most likely cause of their speedup is an observed...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 19, 2017