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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
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Take a Walk on Mars, in Your Own Living Room
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.
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'mixed Reality' Technology Brings Mars to Earth
Researchers are working to develop a guided tour of an area of Mars in a "mixed-reality" interactive exhibit called "Destination: Mars."
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Jpl's Role in Making 'the Martian' a Reality
When fictional astronaut Mark Watney becomes stranded alone on the Red Planet in the novel and film "The Martian," people and technology from NASA's Jet Propulsion...
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Nine Real Nasa Technologies in 'the Martian'
Mars has held a central place in human imagination and culture for millennia.
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Nasa and Tor-Forge Books Partner in Themed Science Fiction Works
In an effort to introduce, inform, and inspire readers about NASA, the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, has partnered with Tor-Forge Books...
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