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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission ...
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NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars

The scientists were especially intrigued by strong signals of carbonate minerals detected by Mars orbiters. On Earth, carbonates frequently form in shallow ocean and lake environments capable of ...
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Rover Operations Center

Meet the ROC. A center of excellence for current and future rover, aerial, and other surface missions, the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory leverages JPL’s decades of ...
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Mars in a Minute: How Do Rovers Drive on Mars?

First of all, there's no joystick for driving a Mars rover! Before a rover "hits the road," engineers send computer commands overnight, telling it where to go the next day. Depending on how tricky the ...
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Make a Paper Mars Helicopter

In this project, you will build a paper helicopter. Then, just as NASA engineers had to try out different versions of the Mars helicopter before coming up with a final design, you will experiment with ...
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Lecture Series

JPL’s Theodore von Kármán Lecture Series, presented by the Communications and Education Directorate, aimed to bring the excitement of JPL’s missions, instruments and other technologies to an audience ...
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Understanding Weather

An overview of weather missions and research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
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JPL Summer High School Internship Program

The JPL Summer High School Internship Program, or JPL SpaceSHIP, will not be offering an open call for applicants this summer. If a program will be offered in the future, it will be announced here in ...
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Modeling & Simulations

John von Neumann 'Method in the Physical Sciences', in John von Neumann and L. Leary (ed.), The Unity of Knowledge, 1955. Physics-based modeling & simulations (M&S) play an indispensable role in ...
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Kepler Exoplanet Mission

Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a ...
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Moon Mineralogy Mapper

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3, instrument flew aboard Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the moon, and provided the first mineralogical map of the lunar suface. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or ...