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NASA Flies Drones Autonomously for Air Taxi Research
In work related to advancing self-flying capabilities for air taxis, researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center recently flew multiple drones beyond visual line...
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Snake-Like EELS Slithers into Robotics Terrain
A self-propelled snake-like robot developed by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory can map and navigate previously inaccessible terrain autonomously...
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Interactive Mosaic Uses NASA Imagery to Show Mars in Vivid Detail
The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars is the highest-resolution global image of Mars ever created, at 5.7 trillion pixels (5.7 terapixels).
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NASA Challenges Students to Design Moon-Digging Robots
NASA's Lunabotics Junior Contest offers students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design lunar-excavating robots.
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Teams Develop Code to Coordinate Robots, Win $535,000 in Space Robotics Challenge
Seven teams that competed in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge were awarded a total of $535,000.
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NASA Sends Robots to Study Climate Change in the Arctic
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration dispatched two robots to the Arctic in early July to collect sea surface temperature data.
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Meet ISAAC, Integrating Robots with Space Stations of the Future
Software designed to enable autonomous operations of a spacecraft's operating and robotic systems
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AI Helps Improve NASA's Eyes on the Sun
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists are calibrating images of the sun with artificial intelligence to enhance data for solar research....
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NASA's Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover 'Takes the Wheel'
A new auto-navigation system will allow the Perseverance rover on Mars to drive itself.
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3D View of Methane Tracks Sources, Movement Around the Globe
A new three-dimensional view of methane concentrations worldwide combines datasets from emissions inventories and simulations of wetland sources into a high-resolution...
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NASA's Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes
On its final flyby of Saturn's largest moon in 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gathered radar data revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan's northern hemisphere...
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Curiosity Tastes First Sample in 'Clay-Bearing nit'
Scientists working with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have been excited to explore a region called "the clay-bearing unit" since before the spacecraft launched.
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Europa Clipper High-Gain Antenna ndergoes Testing
It probably goes without saying, but this isn't your everyday satellite dish. In fact, it's not a satellite dish at all.
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Completes Flight Tests
Since the Wright brothers first took to the skies of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Dec. 17, 1903, first flights have been important milestones in the life of...
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Asteroids, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars
A new study reveals asteroid impacts on ancient Mars could have produced key ingredients for life if the Martian atmosphere was rich in hydrogen.
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A Prehistoric Puzzle in the Kuiper Belt
The farthest object ever explored is slowly revealing its secrets, as scientists piece together the puzzles of Ultima Thule—the Kuiper Belt object NASA's New Horizons...
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NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises
A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting...
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Opportunity's Parting Shot Was a Beautiful Panorama
Over 29 days last spring, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity documented this 360-degree panorama from multiple images taken at what would become its final...
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Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies
The Cigar Galaxy (also known as M82) is famous for its extraordinary speed in making new stars, with stars being born 10 times faster than in the Milky Way.
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