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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 18, 2013
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 13, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 12, 2013
If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 6, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 21, 2013
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 14, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 12, 2013
Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 1, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 16, 2013
Eight years ago, the European Space Agency's Huygens bounced, slid, and wobbled its way to rest on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 15, 2013
Look up at the night sky and you'll see stars, sure. But the sky is also filled with planets—billions and billions of them at least.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 4, 2013
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 3, 2012
For most of the past two decades, the NASA and European Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites have tracked the gradual rise of the world's ocean in response...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 20, 2012
By combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new record for...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 19, 2012
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 25, 2012
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 4, 2012
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 27, 2012
NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 25, 2012
NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 13, 2012
The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | April 10, 2012