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December 23, 2002 Santa's Revealing Home Photos Released by NASA |
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December 19, 2002 Alberto Behar, JPL EngineerIn this video profile 'First Person,' JPL engineer Alberto Behar tests robotic technologies in the remote ice fields of Antarctica. |
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December 18, 2002 Creepy Crawlers May Unravel Web of Planetary Mysteries |
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December 18, 2002 The Brains Behind the BotThis 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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December 18, 2002 Robert Hogg, Engineering Robots of the FutureIn just five years at JPL, Hogg has already worked on some of the latest robotic vehicles to explore our own planet and beyond. |
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December 17, 2002 Galileo Millennium Mission StatusNASA's Galileo spacecraft has begun transmitting high-priority scientific information that was collected and stored on its tape recorder during the orbiter's early-November dash by Jupiter, which brought it closer to the planet than ever before. |
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December 16, 2002 Schools' Radio-Telescope Project Goes InternationalMost 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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December 13, 2002 Launch Gives Weather Forecasters Twin Wind Watchers |
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December 11, 2002 Jason Mission StatusThe joint NASA-French Space Agency oceanography satellite Jason is set to embark on the science phase of its scheduled five-year voyage to study ocean circulation and its effect on climate. |
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December 11, 2002 Researchers Control Love-Hate Relationship Between AtomsResearch that makes ultra-cold atoms extremely attractive to one another may help test current theories of how all matter behaves - a breakthrough that might lead to advanced transportation systems, more efficient energy sources and new tests of astrophysical theories. |
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December 10, 2002 Roving the Red Planet: Current and Future MissionsAs NASA prepares to launch two rovers to the red planet next spring, Dr. Firouz Naderi, will present a pair of free, public lectures about Mars exploration. |
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December 10, 2002 SeaWinds Tracks Antarctic Ice EscapadesThe 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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December 9, 2002 Santa's Revealing Home Photos Released by NASAHe may see us when we're sleeping, know when we're awake, and know if we've been bad or good, but thanks to new images from NASA, we can now catch a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse of some of Santa Claus' summer estates. |
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December 9, 2002 Ridge Catches Sunset, Lava Spreads in Io Views from GalileoIn one newly released image of Jupiter's moon Io from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, a mountain ridge named Mongibello, three-fourths as tall as Mount Everest, gleams from the rays of an otherworldly sunset. |
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December 9, 2002 NASA Twins Plan Martian Ramble |