With the Mars Curiosity rover's science instruments working well, NASA engineers are getting ready for two big tests of their robotic rover -- blasting a rock with a laser beam and getting the rover moving. Curiosity's first drive will be ...
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A year after NASA's Mars rover Curiosity blasted off on its 352-million-mile journey to the Red Planet,the nuclear-powered super rover has discovered evidence of ancient water flows and is studying the planet's atmosphere and surface. ...
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US Nuclear Regulatory Commission gives go-ahead for GE-Hitachi venture to build a first-of-a-kind facility. The General Electric/Hitachi venture Global Laser Enrichment(GLE)has received official assent to build what would become the ...
Winner:LANL's George Kyrala Six high-energy laser researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory(LLNL)and a seventh from Los Alamos National Laboratory(LANL)have won the American Physical Society's 2012 John Dawson Award for ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity powers up its laser and examines the neighborhood. ChemCam in action After nearly two weeks on the Martian surface,the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover has used its ChemCam laser characterization ...
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Computerworld - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took its first, albeit short, drive on the Martian surface today and now scientists say it's just about ready to head out on its first real trek. "I'm pleased to report that Curiosity today had ...
A multinational team of scientists has developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce light in the ultraviolet range. The work, reported this week in the online Nature Communications, is a ...
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A multinational team of scientists has developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce light in the ultraviolet range. The work, reported this week in the online Nature Communications, is a ...