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... . ''RELEASE: 12-387 NASA'S CURIOSITY ROVER PROVIDES CLUES TO CHANGES IN MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE'' PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may ... . At this point in the mission we're just excited to be searching for it," said SAM TLS lead Chris Webster of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. "While ...

... the experience of their NASA colleagues." ''RELEASE: 12-315 NASA ORBITER OBSERVATIONS POINT TO 'DRY ICE' SNOWFALL ON MARS'' PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data have given scientists the ... ," co-author David Kass of JPL said. "Another comes from observations when the instrument is pointed toward the horizon, instead of down at the surface. The infrared spectra signature of the ...

... be putting the arm through a range of motions and placing it at important 'teach points' that were established during Earth testing, such as the positions for putting sample material ... for analytical instruments," said Daniel Limonadi of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., lead systems engineer for Curiosity's surface sampling and science system. "These activities are ...

... to consist of the same materials that form terrestrial planets, and seeing evidence of asteroids points to the possibility of Earth-sized planets in the same system. The pulverized material ... John Klein and Cumberland. Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., recently finished upgrading Curiosity's operating software following a four-week break. The rover ...

... that the FCC decision gave ComSatCorp control of "terrestrial facilities" for traffic-processing between interface points and the stations themselves, ComSatCorp replied that it would "look first to the carriers to ... Force Bull Pup missile. ''(Thiokol Release; WSJ, 7/6/65)'' Rep. Burt L. Talcott (R-Calif,) inserted in the Congressional Record a letter from E. J. Stecker, president of Holex, ...

... after air-launch from B-52 aircraft at 45,000-ft altitude west of Rosamond, Calif. Objective of powered flight, 31st in series, was to obtain stability and control data. ''(NASA ... MESA was in the sun at the time and . . . I apparently either pointed it at the sun or pointed it at the MESA, which was in the sun and a pretty bright ... Studies, Dr. S. Ichtiaque Rasool. Measurements had provided refractivity data in Mars atmosphere at four points above its surface. For atmosphere consisting predominantly of carbon dioxide, surface pressures between 6 and ...

... at the Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif, during orbiter tests. (KSC Release 257=75) A new computer-controlled tracking device for telescopes, called VIP (video inertial pointing), had been developed at Ames ... viewing. Automatically stabilized telescopes heretofore had used gyroscopes to keep the telescope aimed at a point in space and counteract the rotation of the earth and other disturbances; gyroscopes had been ...

... " had been a natural consequence of biological evolution. Dr. Mark pointed out that the U.S. giant antenna at Goldstone, Calif., used for spacecraft communications, could pick up emissions only from the ... the earth's own radio emissions. Identical fluctuations of signal recorded simultaneously at widely separated points would be considered to have extraterrestrial origin rather than to result from a local manmade ...

... . Maj. Virgil I. Grissom (USAF) was first astronaut to pilot paraglider in test at Edwards, Calif., in development tests for Gemini manned spacecraft landings. Kite-like paraglider was towed aloft by ... photograph the moon for 16 hours of night; the California station would be a central point in time between the other observatories, making possible the first round-the-clock photographic survey ...

... generation and was gyrostabilized, providing stability for the antenna system which would counter-rotate to point to the earth at all times. All active communications components were redundant, having an identical ... solar energy for heat and hot water supply at 6 space centers from Va. to Calif. NASA would invest $500 000 and ERDA $1.25 million in up to 10 separate ... equipment. Other projects would supply hot water for cafeterias at Dryden Flight Research Center in Calif. and KSC in Fla.; hot water for photo labs at Ames Research Center in ...

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