Want to see how students are building and programming ‘bots to meet a challenge? Check out the Silicon Valley Botball Tournament! We invite you to either stop by the NASA…
Author: RAP
The Imagine Mars project uses the arts and humanities to open the door to scientific discovery for students and teachers who might not otherwise be exposed to the excitement of…
Find out, “What is Space Day?” Participate in the Adventure to Mars! Play a Mars rover game online. Take part in the design challenge. Check out the webcast!
It’s hard enough getting to Mars. But once you get there, you’ve also got to land safely! Engineers at JPL are working hard on landing softly in preparation for the…
Dark Matter, an engineering laboratory in Santa Clarita, CA, has developed a new kind of remote ocean vehicle (ROV) that moves on a tiny fiber-optic cable, allowing increased mobility and…
Mars Odyssey’s MARIE (Martian Radiation Environment Experiment) is turned on and ready to collect data. MARIE will help characterize the radiation environment on Mars and help scientists better understand the…
Robotic Autonomy
Students from four countries had a chance to learn about and control FIDO, the prototype Mars rover in JPL’s Mars Yard as part of the Planetary Society’s Red Rover Goes…
Wednesday, March 13 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m., San Francisco Bay Area teachers have the opportunity to review space-related classroom materials and see demonstrations by NASA’s AstroVenture and Quest. For…
The science instruments on NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which began its mapping mission last week, have sent back some exciting initial data, including possible identification of significant amounts of frozen…
