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Crazy Engineering: Ion Propulsion and the Dawn Mission

Published on Dec 29, 2014

Ion propulsion isn’t something found only in science fiction. JPL engineer Mike Meacham looks at how ion engines are being used to drive NASA's Dawn spacecraft through the solar system. Dawn is approaching dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt with arrival expected in March 2015. Previously, Dawn orbited Vesta, the second-largest body in the asteroid belt. Learn how ion propulsion works and why it's the reason Dawn will be the first spacecraft ever to orbit two solar system bodies beyond Earth. More about Dawn at: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

 

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Crazy Engineering: Mars Helicopter

Published on Jan 22, 2015

JPL engineers are working on a small helicopter that could ‘scout’ a trail for future Mars rovers, but getting a chopper that could fly in the Martian atmosphere is tricky. Episode 2 of Crazy Engineering.

 

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Crazy Engineering: Gecko Gripper

Published on Aug 12, 2015

How geckos inspired a new NASA technology that makes things stick to each other in space.

 

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Crazy Engineering: RoboSimian Robot

Published on Jun 3, 2015

RoboSimian, a four-limbed disaster response robot under development at JPL, is ready to compete in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge on June 5-6, 2015. You go buddy!

 

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Crazy Engineering: The Camera that Fixed Hubble

Published on Apr 23, 2015

In 1990, when the first images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were too blurry to use, JPL scientists and engineers went to work to devise one of the greatest fixes of all time: a camera with corrective vision to bring Hubble images into sharp focus.