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Spitzer Telescope Captures Images of Forming Planet
Image: Artist’s conception of LRLL 31 system, courtesty of NASA/JPL-CatlTech NASA’s Spitzer Telescope spent five months observing LRLL 31, a young star with a ring of materials orbiting it. Astronomers...
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Be A Martian
NASA needs lots of help sorting through the hundreds of thousands of images they’ve collected from the surface of Mars. What do do? Make it into a game! Be A Martian combines the work of analyzing...
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The Valedictorian Lawsuit
Straight A’s and a 4.50 GPA, accepted to Stanford with an engineering internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to boot but that’s not enough for some parents. No, they wanted their daughter to...
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Space Exploration Superstitions
Photo: James Rickman/Los Alamos National Laboratory Rationality be damned! When it comes to space exploration, not even the world’s most brilliant scientific minds are immune to superstitions. Take,...
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Curiosity and Its Big Brothers
When the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, we were all excited. Victory! The engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the many companies that worked with it saw seven years of effort pay off in...
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The Jet Propulsion Lab: Up-Close & Personal
I recently took a trip to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in nearby Pasadena to interview a couple of the rocket scientists who successfully guided the Curiosity Rover to the surface of Mars. One of...
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Gingerbread Mars Rover
Wait — Mars is made out of candy? Let’s go! This Curiosity Rover built by Caltech has given us all the motivation we need: Crafted by Kevin Isacsson, head chef of the Athaneum, the Pasadena...
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