NASA in pictures

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  NASA amps up wicked cool competitive prize program

• Congress looks to kill NASA's plan to capture an asteroid

  By Sharon Gaudin | 19 June, 2013 21:09

  House Republican leaders are shooting to get astronauts on the moon and Mars, but they're trying to nix the president's asteroid plans.

• Say 'cheese', Earthlings! Spacecraft to snap home planet pic from deep space

  By Sharon Gaudin | 19 June, 2013 17:25

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now flying near Saturn, is turning its cameras back toward Earth today so it can grab a photo of its home planet from almost 900 million miles away

• NASA needs help hunting down killer asteroids

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 June, 2013 20:26

  NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them. They want your help doing it.

• NASA's new astronauts could one day blast off to Mars

  By Sharon Gaudin | 17 June, 2013 22:18

  After a year and a half of culling through 6,100 applicants, NASA has chosen four men and four women to train to become astronauts and potentially travel to an asteroid or even Mars.

• NASA spots sledding marks in Martian sand dunes

  By Sharon Gaudin | 12 June, 2013 18:29

  NASA scientists have seen evidence that there's been sledding on Mars.

• After 10 years on Mars, NASA rover begins new mission

  By Sharon Gaudin | 10 June, 2013 19:52

  After nearly 10 years since it left Earth, NASA's rover Opportunity is about to head out on a new mission -- a weeks-long trek to study a new area on Mars.

• NASA's Curiosity rover is about to start a year-long trek to Mount Sharp on Mars

  By Sharon Gaudin | 07 June, 2013 16:39

  NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is about to head out on a long, arduous trek and scientists expect their best scientific discoveries are to come.

• NASA rover Curiosity about to start next phase in Mars exploration

  By Sharon Gaudin | 05 June, 2013 20:36

  NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is approaching its biggest turning point since landing on the Red Planet last August.

• The time is right for an 'IT petting zoo'

  By Lucas Mearian | 05 June, 2013 10:07

  Being a visionary within a corporation lead to playing with a lot of consumer toys, and that's exactly the point. Play, have fun and discover what does or doesn't work in your company.

• 5 tips for avoiding private cloud failures

  By Christine Burns | 03 June, 2013 11:17

  According to Piston Cloud Computing's CTO, the rate at which his customer's pilot projects turn into production private clouds is pretty typical of most OpenStack-based providers – and it's pretty low.

• Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus

  By Christine Burns | 03 June, 2013 11:17

  OpenStack -- co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 -- certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for their private cloud offerings.

• Planck spacecraft offers clues to age, origin of universe

  By Sharon Gaudin | 21 March, 2013 17:21

  The Planck space mission has given scientists new information about the age, content and origin of the universe.

• Cloud computing's big debt to NASA

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 08 March, 2013 11:08

  IBM's decision this week to base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish this open source platform as the standard in enterprises.

• Worst security snafus of 2012

  By Ellen Messmer | 10 December, 2012 17:57

  The first half of 2012 was pretty bad - from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches - and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.

• Startup tech vendors are worth the risk, say IT execs

  By Johanna Ambrosio | 22 October, 2012 10:12

  Working with startup vendors requires a lot of legwork and a plan for managing the risk. But the payoff can be great.

• NASA amps up wicked cool competitive prize program

  By Michael Cooney | 16 July, 2010 11:52

  NASA this month greatly expanded its public prize competition program known as the Centennial Challenges.