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Exploring Mars with Java

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Friday, James Gosling, Sun Microsystems vice president and fellow, talks to Arizona State University geological sciences professor Phil Christensen about the school's geospatial software, JMARS. The open-source project is available to the public and used by NASA to find and gather scientific data...

Tags: Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mars, NASA, JMARS

Videos 2008-05-09

Photos: Hi-res camera spots visitor on Mars

NASA's high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes photos of one of the Martian rovers.

Tags: Mars, camera, NASA, photograph

Image galleries 2006-10-06

Photos: Zooming in on the 'Face on Mars'

A 1976 image from NASA's Viking 1 showed a rock formation on Mars that resembled a human face and triggered 30 years of speculation.

Tags: photograph, NASA, image, Mars

Image galleries 2006-09-22

Images: A moon shot on the way to Mars

NASA hands out assignments for the man-on-the-moon Constellation project, to be followed by a mission to Mars.

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Image galleries 2006-06-07

Images: A moon shot on the way to Mars

NASA hands out assignments for the man-on-the-moon Constellation project, to be followed by a mission to Mars.

Tags: Mars, NASA

Image galleries 2006-06-07

Photos: Mars in full color

A high-res camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back infrared color images of the Red Planet.

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Image galleries 2006-04-10

Photos: Mars in full color

A high-res camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back infrared color images of the Red Planet.

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Image galleries 2006-04-10

Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image

NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.

Tags: Mars, smile, NASA, scientist, image

Image galleries 2006-03-24

Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image

NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.

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Image galleries 2006-03-24

Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image

NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.

Tags: Mars, smile, NASA, scientist, image

Image galleries 2006-03-24

Exploring Mars will be a risky business

Are humans ready to stay on Mars for several months? Can we deal with all the risks that its environment may cause to astronauts and space missions? Red Nova says that some answers are contained in a report from NASA. According to this report, the #1 risk is Martian dust...

Tags: Mars

Blog posts 2005-10-31

Photo: As the Orbiter turns

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an important next step in fulfilling NASA's vision of space exploration and ultimately sending human explorers to Mars and beyond.

Tags: vision, Mars, NASA, photograph

Image galleries 2005-07-21

Photo: As the Orbiter turns

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an important next step in fulfilling NASA's vision of space exploration and ultimately sending human explorers to Mars and beyond.

Tags: vision, Mars, NASA, photograph

Image galleries 2005-07-21

Additional Resources

Voyager 4.5.5 (Mac)

Voyager 4 gives you a photorealistic textured horizon display - create a digital panorama of your own horizon, and show a realistic sky as it appears from your back yard!Stars are drawn with photo quality using a model based on real CCD star images. You can adjust the size and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Photograph, Horizon, Carina Software

Software downloads 2009-10-28

FCC unanimously approves next steps toward Net Neutrality

Gov't fix, oh joyUh yeah, the internet is undecidely broken. This has a strong possibility of leading to usage limits. Comcast already has walked that line because they are behind the curve on their backbone upgrades. Why would a company who is being paid not provide better...

Tags: INTERNET, FCC, Net Neutrality, socialist, Nazi, Godwin, leader, Microsoft Windows NT, government

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

NASA aiming to shoot the moon

Great...man has screwed up this planet...now we're going to do it again?Just what the moon needs...MORE space trash on its surface. :-(This fits exactly....with the Sally Ride report. I feel her assessment of how we are going to get to Mars, is the best plan. And no, it will not...

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Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Nasa News 1.2 (Mobile)

Stay up to date with all of the current news from National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This includes information regarding live NASA public TV, breaking NASA news, NASA image of the day, the latest shuttle mission, the international space station, the constellation program, the Moon and Mars exploration, the shuttle...

Tags: NASA, Mobile, RIV Creations

Software downloads 2009-09-08

'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions

EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...

Tags: Earth, Soup, Computer, EvoGrid, Life Form, Productivity, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-04

NASA Provides Interactive, 3-D Views of the Next Mars Rover to the Public

A charter of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is to educate the public and inspire students. NASA hosts a Web site for the purpose of generating public awareness about the Mars Science Laboratory rover known as Curiosity. The Mars team wanted to add even greater interactivity to let...

Tags: 3D, NASA, Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Team Management, Web Technology, Internet, Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Obama picks Bolden for NASA

So, it looks like manned spaceflight may yet have a future at NASA, with the selection this weekend of former astronaut Charlie Bolden to head the troubled agency. Bolden would be the agency's first black Administrator. The LA Times talked to NASA insiders, who said Bolden wouldn't...

Tags: NASA, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-24