Archives for the 'Space' Category
MESSENGER Flyby of Mercury
Published on 16 Jan 2008 at 11:36 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Space.
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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Large Asteriod May Collide with Mars
Published on 28 Dec 2007 at 11:37 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Mars, Research, Space.
There is now a 4 percent chance that the large asteriod 2007 WD5 may collide with the planet Mars in January 2008. While there is a 96% chance that the asteriod will miss, these odds are much larger than usual for large asteriod impacts. If the impact is to occur, it will be on 2008 [...]
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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 [...]
