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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading research institutions and students continue to discover the benefits of Gale's Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), a groundbreaking multi-year global digitization and publishing program that brings together rare materials - newspapers, maps, photographs and more - from the nineteenth century and beyond in an online research environment. NCCO not only offers users a wide-range of historical materials, it also...

MindTap, myNGconnect and Questia Earn Prestigious Industry Recognition STAMFORD, Conn., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cengage Learning, a leading educational content, software and services company, today announced that it was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Education CODiE Awards for five education and content categories. The CODiE awards remain the only peer-recognized program in the content, education, and software industries and Cengage Learning's finalist honors in these...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum announced that the team responsible for the successful landing of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover will receive its 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement on April 24 in Washington DC. “The Current Achievement winner can be summarized in two words: sky crane,” said a museum press release describing the award. “This phrase embodied the audacious plan that the Entry, Descent, and Landing team...

New Name and Brand Capture the Former American Health Assistance Foundation's Emphasis on Breakthrough Research, Education and Advocacy NEW YORK, March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Global strategic branding and customer experience firm Siegel+Gale (www.siegelgale.com), in partnership with BrightFocus Foundation (http://www.brightfocus.org), formerly known as the American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF), is offering insight into its dramatic brand revitalization effort,...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online On February 28, a team of engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California switched their Mars Curiosity rover over to a redundant onboard computer after discovering a memory issue within the main computer system. That swap put Curiosity into “safe mode,” allowing the team to investigate the main computer before returning the rover back to a normal routine. Today, the JPL team announced Curiosity has transitioned...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active. The intentional swap at about 2:30 a.m. PST today (Thursday, Feb. 28) put the rover, as anticipated, into a minimal-activity precautionary status called "safe mode." The team is shifting the rover from safe mode to operational status over the next few days and is troubleshooting the...

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. and WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and the Smithsonian Institution today announced a licensing agreement to distribute Smithsonian assets into the library and academic space. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20070724/NYTU125) "We're elated to be working with the Smithsonian Institution," said Frank Menchaca,...

[Watch Video: Curiosity Drills - Animation]    [Watch Video: Drilling Demonstration] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA released during a teleconference today photos of its Curiosity rover's first-ever sample collected from inside a rock on Mars. Curiosity used its drill to help it collect a sample from inside a Martian rock for the first time earlier this month. During this task, Curiosity drilled about a 0.63-inch wide by 2.5-inch deep hole into a rock...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory A day after NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilled the first sample-collection hole into a rock on Mars, the rover's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument shot laser pulses into the fresh rock powder that the drilling generated. This scene shows a line of pits left by laser hits on the drill tailings. The view is a mosaic of images taken by the remote micro-imager in ChemCam, with color information from Curiosity's Mast Camera. The drilled hole, at...

NASA The bit of the rock-sampling drill on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left its mark on a Martian rock this weekend during brief testing of the tool's percussive action. The successful activity, called a "drill-on-rock checkout" by the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, is part of a series of tests to prepare for the first drilling in history to collect a sample of rock material on Mars. Another preparatory test, called "mini drill," will precede the full...