NASA launches kiosk for astronomy project

PASADENA, Calif. – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the world-renowned NASA research and development center, recently deployed SeePoint's newest M-Kiosk to showcase PlanetQuest, one of the nation's most important programs in astronomy and astrophysics. JPL is SeePoint's first customer to use the M-Kiosk.

The PlanetQuest application looks at JPL's successful completion of eight seemingly impossible technology milestones to develop a space telescope so powerful it can detect and study Earth-like planets around nearby stars. The application demonstrates how JPL scientists and engineers use breakthroughs in technology to survey the Milky Way Galaxy 1,000 times more accurately than has ever been possible.

JPL selected the SeePoint M-Kiosk because the video- and data-intensive PlanetQuest application required a computer with high processing power and graphical capabilities. The M-Kiosk maximizes video performance with up to 1 gigabyte of on-board RAM and a 400 MHz front-side bus.