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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.
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
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
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
It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 4, 2013
NASA has released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 12, 2013
Throughout our universe, tucked inside galaxies far, far away, giant black holes are pairing up and merging.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 7, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 26, 2013
Now approaching its 10th anniversary, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has evolved into a premier observatory for an endeavor not envisioned in its original design...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 25, 2013
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 19, 2013
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 12, 2013
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 23, 2013
A NASA spacecraft that discovered and characterized tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar system before being placed in hibernation will return to...jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 22, 2013
The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 19, 2013
Most of what scientists know of Jupiter's moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA's Galileo...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2013