Archives for the 'Exploration' Category
Avalanche on Mars!
Published on 11 Mar 2008 at 3:00 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Mars, Space.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured for the first time ever an avalanche in progress on another world!
These images were taken with the Hi Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) flying on the MRO. This image was taken at 34° latitude and 235.8° longitude, which is in Mars’ north polar region. The geology of this region is that [...]
MESSENGER Flyby of Mercury
Published on 16 Jan 2008 at 11:36 pm.
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The MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) probe is approaching Mercury and is sending back the best images of the planet’s surface ever recorded!
The last spacecraft to visit Merury was Mariner 10 in 1975. The MESSENGER probe will flyby Mercury twice and eventually go into orbit around the planet in 2011. Once in orbit, [...]
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NASA Astrobiology Institute Cooperative Agreement Notice (Cycle-5)
Published on 13 Jan 2008 at 1:20 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Astronomy, Biology, Exploration, Research, Space.
NASA Astrobiology Institute
Cooperative Agreement Notice (Cycle-5)
The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) announces, through the release of this Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN), an opportunity for the submission of team-based proposals for membership in the Institute. Proposals should clearly articulate an innovative, interdisciplinary, astrobiology research program, together with plans to advance the full scope of NAI objectives [...]
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CLARAty Reusable Robotics Software
Published on 10 Jan 2008 at 3:49 am.
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Filed under Computation, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Robotics, Software, Solutions, Space, Technology.
CLARAty (Coupled-Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy) is a framework for reusable robotics software. It was developed in part by my former colleagues at NASA Ames Research Center in collaboration with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Minnesota (my alma matter).
They are in the process of making the framework and several modules publicly available.
Videos of [...]
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Martian Spiders, Lizard Skin and Lacework
Published on 15 Dec 2007 at 3:13 am.
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While much of Mars looks like the deserts of Utah, the Martian South Polar regions have revealed some surprising geology unlike anything we have here on Earth.
At the 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Chris Okubo, Candace Hansen, and Timothy Titus who work with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Camera [...]
