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7/11/08 - New Nano-Device to See Invisible Light
JPL physicist Boris S. Karasik co-leads a research team that will help astronomers see invisible light.
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11/30/07 - Students Hit High Note in JPL Invention Challenge
JPL held its 10th annual Invention Challenge, an engineering and science contest for students and JPL employees, on Friday, Nov. 30.
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10/31/07 - NASA Selects Partnerships to Advance Key Technologies
JPL will help advance key technologies to meet critical needs for NASA's mission, through several newly-announced partnerships selected by NASA.
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6/21/07 - Test Drive in Enlarged Mars Yard
A mobility-testing prototype for the rover that NASA will launch to Mars in 2009 climbs over a rock during a June 19, 2007, event to mark the opening of a newly expanded Mars Yard at JPL.
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5/29/07 - Future Mission to Mars
The 2009 Mars Science Laboratory, the mammoth grandchild of the 1997 Sojourner rover, is less than one year from the assembly, test and launch operations phase.
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3/10/07 - Student-Built Robots 'Rack 'N' Roll'
High school teams from around California are competing this weekend in a Los Angeles regional robotics competition. This year's robotic challenge, to hang tubes on tall racks.
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10/20/06 - JPL Innovation Honored
JPL has been honored for a research and development innovation -- an untethered, self-powered robotic system to visually inspect gas pipelines.
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9/15/06 - JPL Rover Stretches Its Legs
JPL engineers test Athlete, an All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer vehicle, in the Arizona desert. The robotic vehicle is capable of "walking" over extremely rough or steep terrain.
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7/19/06 - JPL and Partners Study Device to Help Spinal Cord Injuries
Technology developed to help build better batteries for space missions is also being used to create a device that might one day help people living with spinal cord injuries.
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5/11/06 - Limber Robot Might Hitchhike to Space
Lemurs, those wide-eyed, active, monkey-like animals running around the island in the movie "Madagascar," are known for their ability to leap. A robotic lemur being tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory moves more slowly, but might someday take its own giant leap - by going into space with astronauts.
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