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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
On Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST (12:04 p.m. EST, 17:04 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 9, 2016
NASA has released its Spinoff 2017 publication, which takes a close look at 50 different companies that are using NASA technology—innovations developed by NASA,...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 7, 2016
NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft has made its first close dive past the outer edges of Saturn's rings since beginning its penultimate mission phase on...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 5, 2016
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 22, 2016
The brightest area on Ceres stands out amid shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, taken as it looked off to the side of...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 18, 2016
Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 10, 2016
NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 29 and 30, 2016.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 7, 2016
On Nov. 1, 2016, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed the impact site of Europe's Schiaparelli...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 3, 2016
New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 1, 2016
The most powerful telescope orbiting Mars is providing new details of the scene near the Martian equator where Europe's Schiaparelli test lander hit the surface...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 27, 2016
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to Europe's Schiaparelli test lander...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 21, 2016
The next target for NASA's New Horizons mission—which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015—apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 20, 2016
Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it's all the same stuff: carbon atoms connected to hydrogen...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 13, 2016
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 11, 2016
Hurricane Matthew, currently an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, continues to bear down on the southeastern United...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 7, 2016
Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable—which would be a boon for future astronauts there—if the next one follows a pattern suggested by those...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 6, 2016
After collecting drilled rock powder in arguably the most scenic landscape yet visited by a Mars rover, NASA's Curiosity mobile laboratory is driving toward uphill...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 4, 2016
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission will come to a dramatic end on Friday,Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 29, 2016