Pell actually worked for almost a decade for the NASA Ames Research Center before starting Powerset.
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The winning team will present their project at NASA's Ames Research Center in California in April 2011.
Today, Solar Impulse's pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, came to NASA's Ames research center to announce their plan to fly across America.
According to Cristina Milesi, a research scientist working at NASA's Ames Research Center, lawns are America's largest irrigated crop, with 63, 240 square miles under cultivation.
Thirty years ago -- well, NASAs elite Ames Research Center, supported by the Department of Defense, could barely assemble one measly mip of computer power.
He had spent three years at NASA's Ames Research Center, where he did the early work on the artificial intelligence that steered the Mars Rover.
Three "mini-monster cams" were built by Jonathan Trent, his colleagues at NASA Ames Research Center in California and Deep Sea Power and Light Inc. in San Diego.
Mr. Tito's concept has been embraced by NASA's leadership, and the proposed Mars voyage is boosted by a formal cooperative agreement with NASA's Ames Research Center in Northern California.
Powder from the drill was a gray-green color, meaning it was not highly oxidized, said David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy investigation at NASA's Ames Research Center.
"I think this is probably the only definitively habitable environment that we have described and recorded, " said David Blake, a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
"We have so many more worlds that could be a locus for life, but so much less information upon which to understand the habitability of that world, " said astrobiologist Tori Hoehler at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
The plane, Solar Impulse, is expected to be ready to leave from the San Francisco Bay Area on May 1, although the actual departure will depend on the weather, the plane's Swiss creators said at a news conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
While this technology still has a long way to go, challenges such as NASA's October 21 First Annual Space Elevator Competition at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are spurring design teams to push the limits of both their robots and the super-strong, carbon nanotube-based ribbons that are key to supporting them.
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