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Marsforming in the Lab
To practice how InSight will place its instruments on Mars, engineers built a Martian rock garden modeled on images from the spacecraft's cameras for the full-scale working model ("ForeSight") at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
North American Bird Maps Enter the Space Age
Birders, researchers and the general public now have a new way to monitor bird species across North America in unprecedented detail, thanks to a collaboration between NASA and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge
NASA OPSPARC has just launched three missions for students. Explore the world of NASA Spinoff technology through scavenger hunts, solve problems by creating using web-based tools, or join engineering students in a 3D virtual world.
Jezero Crater, Here we Come!
NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five year search, during which every available detail of more than 60 candidate locations on the Red Planet was scrutinized and debated by the mission team and the planetary science community.
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