Nasa will be monitoring the drama from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
Considering some of the work that gets done at the JPL, that could prove quite worrisome.
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Basically, whoever hacked the JPL could pretty much do anything with what they found there.
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Hit up the source link below for a closer look at JPL's latest endeavor.
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Then the matter would be turned over to governmental agencies, said JPL scientist Alan Harris.
On the night of January 3rd, 2004, the control room in building 264 at JPL was packed.
In the summer, there's horseback riding, arranged through stables located on JPL's grounds, fishing, boating, hiking, tennis, and bicycling.
There's an explanation for the campground aura: JPL started out in 1915 as Tent City, with ten large canvas structures.
If your dream is to conduct scientific experiments outside of the gravitational pull of Earth, check out the JPL site.
The JPL has also released a video with more images from Vesta and some interesting info about the Dawn mission.
His excitement apparently made an impression: He landed an interview at JPL in January 1994, and started his job that June.
Join Jonathan Amos for a special Discovery programme on Curiosity from JPL on the BBC World Service at 19:30 BST, Monday.
"I have to keep reminding myself to keep breathing, " said JPL engineer Steve Sell, who helped develop the mission's complicated landing system.
Cox and JPL colleagues are working with the Mars Exploration Rover missions.
The half-hour broadcast from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.
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Because Marmot, like JPL, is inside park grounds, the journey to the mountain involves pristine vistas and herds of elk and mountain goats.
Controllers are still activating Curiosity's instrument package, and all antennas that will beam back data to JPL "work perfectly, " mission manager Jennifer Trosper said Wednesday.
And then there are asteroids, which JPL describes as "a relatively small, inactive, rocky body orbiting the sun" often in what are called asteroid belts.
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JPL's greatest appeal--its remoteness--may seem like a deterrent to some travelers.
"We've got the black holes cornered, " said Daniel Stern of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), lead author of one of the three studies presented on Wednesday.
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And I just wanted to call and say congratulations to the entire Mars Science Laboratory team, and really all of JPL, on last Monday's incredible success.
Speaking of skiing, JPL is a thirty-minute ride from Marmot Basin, a fantastically beautiful ski mountain with nine lifts, a 3, 000-foot vertical drop and superior snow conditions.
"We effectively use it to rinse our mouth three times and then spit out, " explained Daniel Limonadi, the Curiosity surface sampling phase lead at the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
"These dusty, cataclysmically forming galaxies are so rare Wise had to scan the entire sky to find them, " said Peter Eisenhardt of JPL, lead author of the paper describing Wise's first hot-Dog find.
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After weeks of fruitless attempts to raise the lander by radio, JPL mission controllers appeared resigned to their second major failure on a Mars mission in three months, following the September loss of the Mars Climate Observer.
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To complete the drilling without mishap, the rover's operators on Earth had to devise new procedures to solve a series of computer software problems that affected the craft's motor's control systems, said JPL drill-systems engineer Scott McCloskey.
In a third study published in Nature, Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna and Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, and Bruce Banerdt of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, provide impact evidence from gravitational and topographical signatures on Mars.
"A dust-devil looks essentially like what you would expect from the movies - a tiny tornado that is lifting dust, " explained Manuel de la Torre Juarez of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a scientist on the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (Rems) instrument.
But Fairmont is trying to lure visitors with a new "Cruisin' the Canadian Rockies" package, which kicks off in Banff, an hour-and-a-half drive from the Calgary airport, and includes two nights each at their three luxury Alberta resorts: the JPL, the historic Chateau Lake Louise and the Fairmont Banff Springs .
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