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- NASA facility is charged with the mission of assisting with better life quality on earth, human exploration, space travel and the search for life on other planets. Includes news, virtual tour of the Mars exhibits, research projects, educational resources and staff.

Asteroid Comet Impact Hazards - - NASA Ames Research Center brings you reports, a Torino impact hazard scale, the latest news, and an image gallery.

Astrobiology and Space Research Directorate - - Conducts research, develops products, and serves the space community in astrobiology and related areas of earth, space, and life science. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and destiny of life in the universe.

Center for Mars Exploration - - Various resources on Mars Exploration.

Earth Observing System - - EOS consists of a science component and a data system supporting a coordinated series of polar-orbiting and low inclination satellites for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans.

How Snakebots Will Work - - Five photos and a movie describe a new type of robotic, interplanetary probe, called a snakebot, being developed by engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Human Resources - - Basic departmental information: jobs, benefits, compensation, training.

NASA Astrobiology Institute - - A partnership between NASA and other research organizations to conduct and lead integrated multidisciplinary research in astrobiology, the study of life in the universe.

NASA Center for Astrobiology - - Aims to advance the understanding of the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the Universe, using theoretical and computational tools.

NASA Intelligent Systems - - NASA's largest AI research division. Specializes in robotics, autonomous reasoning, machine learning, automatic programming, and novel human/machine interfaces and interactions.

NASA Simulation Laboratories - - Provides a state of the art suite of Aircraft and ATC simulators.

NASA Vision Group - - A team of scientists and engineers who conduct research on human vision and visual technology for NASA missions.

Numerical Aerospace Simulation (NAS) - - Our mission is to develop, demonstrate, and deliver innovative, distributed heterogeneous computing capabilities to enable NASA projects and missions.

The Operations Scheduling Project at NASA Ames - - Researches and investigates applications of automated and interactive planning and scheduling technology to NASA missions.

The Planetary Rings Node - - Devoted to archiving and distributing scientific data sets relevant to planetary ring systems. A large fraction of our data sets are from the Voyager missions to the outer planets, but Earth-based and HST data sets are also represented.

Space Science Division - - Dedicated to research in astrophysics, exobiology, advanced life support technologies, and planetary science.