2002 Features :
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12/18/02 - The Brains Behind the Bot
This is not the kind of bug you want to squash. The new Spiderbot is the leggy brainchild of JPL's Mobility Systems Concept Development section, including two ambitious engineering students and one recent graduate. Gabe Sibley, Jonathan Wall and Michael Poole spent their summer vacation building and testing this robotic hexapod.
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12/16/02 - Schools' Radio-Telescope Project Goes International
Most students at Hohenfels High School in Germany are from U.S. military families posted overseas. Sometimes America can seem far away.
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12/10/02 - SeaWinds Tracks Antarctic Ice Escapades
The SeaWinds instrument has changed all that. SeaWinds is a scatterometer flying on NASA's QuikScat satellite. A second SeaWinds instrument will launch on Japan's Advanced Earth Observation Satellite 2 on December 13.
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11/18/02 - Where on Earth Is Mars?
Researchers interested in what makes the red planet tick can’t study the planet in person—at least not yet. To help them interpret what they see in Mars images and other remote sensing data--and to test their instruments and procedures--they turn to Earth.
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11/12/02 - Mars Rover Takes Baby Steps
Like any travelers worth their frequent flyer miles, the twin rovers of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission must prepare for a long journey.
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11/4/02 - Building Planets in Cyberspace
Recipe: Take a rocky mass [about 12.8 thousand kilometers (nearly 8 thousand miles) wide], add carbon dioxide, water vapor and methane. Place in stable, circular orbit, the same distance from a sunlike star as the distance between Earth and the Sun.
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10/28/02 - It's Amateur Night in Space
How would you like to discover a near-Earth object without leaving your own backyard? It's possible.
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9/30/02 - When Not Seeing Is Believing
A revolutionary portable infrared video camera developed by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may open new vistas for doctors, pilots, environmental scientists and law enforcement.
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9/16/02 - Fostering the Next Generation of Mars Explorers
The Mars Student Imaging Project allows students from the fifth grade through community college to take their own pictures of Mars using a thermal infrared visible camera system onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
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9/9/02 - Earning Seal of Approval for New Weather Data
There’s no Food and Drug Administration approval for satellite data, no consumer-style rating. So, how do the people who want to use data from a new instrument know they can trust it?
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