Clementine -- Focuses on the Deep Space Program Science Experiment. The Clementine Lunar Image Browser (CLIB) allows access to over 170,000 images collected by the satellite.
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the Navy's corporate research and development laboratory, created in 1923 by Congress for the Department of the Navy on the advice of Thomas Edison. The Laboratory has over 4000 personnel (over 1500 full-time scientists, engineers and SES employees - more than half of these PhDs, currently including a Nobel Laureate), who address basic research issues concerning the Navy's environment of sea, sky, and space. Investigations have ranged widely from monitoring the sun's behavior, to analyzing marine atmospheric conditions, to measuring parameters of the deep oceans, to exploring the outermost regions of space. Detection and communication capabilities have benefited by research that has exploited new portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, extended ranges to outer space, and provided means of transferring information reliably and securely, even through massive jamming. Submarine habitability, lubricants, shipbuilding, aircraft materials, and fire fighting along with the study of sound in the sea and the advancement of radar technology have been steadfast concerns. New and emerging areas include the study of biological and chemical processes and nanoelectronics.
The Commanding Officer is Captain Richard M. Cassidy, USN.
The Technical Director is Dr. Timothy Coffey.
The WWW server at NRL provides information to and about the Laboratory as well as providing a front door to WWW servers within the Laboratory.
Clementine -- Focuses on the Deep Space Program Science Experiment. The Clementine Lunar Image Browser (CLIB) allows access to over 170,000 images collected by the satellite.
NRL today has grown to encompass three main sites. NRL DC, the main campus, is located in the Southwest corner of the Nation's Capital on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.; NRL SSC is located on acreage with CNMOC at the Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi close to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, while NRL MRY is located jointly with FNMOC in Monterey, California overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Other NRL sites and stations include the Chesapeake Bay Detachment in Chesapeake Beach, MD and the Underwater Sound Reference Detachment in Orlando, FL. NRL also performs research at the following sites: Maryland Point, Pomonkey, Tilghmare Island, and Waldorf, all in Maryland, and the Marine Corrosion Facility in Key West, FL.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR), the laboratory's parent organization, is responsible for support of academic and systems research and development for work external to the laboratory.
Send comments to webmaster@www.nrl.navy.mil - Last Update August 29, 1994
