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NASA Launches Second Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles
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Celebrate one of the world’s most famous numbers with a set of math problems involving real space missions, courtesy of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. .
March 7, 2024
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. .
Working together without direct human input, three rovers each the size of a carry-on bag will map the lunar surface in 3D, using cameras and ground-penetrating radar. .
Aug. 2, 2023
NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) project is developing small robots programmed to work autonomously as a team to explore the lunar surface. .
Nov. 4, 2021
Space Images, the mobile image application from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that puts visuals direct from space missions at users' fingertips, has reached 1 million downloads. .
Dec. 20, 2012
NASA scientists are observing Jupiter's appearance - its clouds, belts, hotspots, fireballs - change in unprecedented ways. .
Oct. 17, 2012
Our planet Earth is not expanding, as some scientists had previously speculated. .
Aug. 16, 2011
The Kepler spacecraft is measuring "starquakes" to learn more about the evolution of stars. .
Oct. 26, 2010
Every year, from June 1 to November 30, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a meteorological mixing bowl, replete with all the needed ingredients for a hurricane recipe. .
Sept. 10, 2003
An international cadre of astronauts will support JPL's next Earth radar-mapping mission when NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour in September 1999. .
Oct. 27, 1998
NASA scientists are developing and using a variety of airborne and spaceborne remote-sensing tools to study potentially dangerous volcanoes that could one day threaten populated areas in the United States and around the world. .
Feb. 7, 1997
Students from around the country will have the opportunity to study the solar system, galaxies and quasars with a radio telescope which NASA will operate in collaboration with a California school district. .
Oct. 23, 1996