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November 27, 2009 6:00 AM PST
Housed in a 10-story building at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., is one of the world's most unique machines. The Vertical Motion Simulator is a massive installation that gives pilots and engineers the opportunity to test aircraft design and explore flight characteristics with an incredibly high level of realism and accuracy.
Last week CNET visited the facility as NASA was testing out Altair, the design for the next generation of lunar landers. As they test the current design, pilots and engineers make recommendations, enhancements, and alterations.
October 28, 2009 10:09 AM PDT
The HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this incredible image of dust churned up by wind vortices, or dust devils, on the Martian surface.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures incredible martian storm
(Credit: NASA, HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona)) October 26, 2009 4:00 AM PDT
At NASA's Marscape at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., scientists are busy playing around with the hardware and software that will one day become our eyes and ears in space. It's part lab, part playground, and the idea is to simulate the challenging conditions which NASA robots will encounter while exploring moons and planets. Terry Fong, director of the Intelligent Robotics Group at the NASA Ames Research Center, takes us behind the scenes and gives us an up close look at the research and development his team is doing in embedded systems, human-computer interaction, robotics and software development.
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