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<div>November 22, 2005</div>
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<div>A holiday treat from NAIF...</div>
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<div>The NAIF Team is pleased to announce the availability of a new
version of the NAIF Toolkit for all currently supported computing
environments. This is version N0059. The various FORTRAN, C and IDL
"flavors" of this new Toolkit are available from the usual
location in the NAIF web pages:</div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-4"
color="#000000">http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html.</font></div
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color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">The "whats.new" file that
accompanies each Toolkit describes the additions and changes to the
Toolkit. Chief among the additions in this release is the ability for
the C and IDL Toolkits to process non-native text kernels without
requiring user intervention. (Unfortunately this capability is not
possible in FORTRAN versions of the Toolkit.)</font></div>
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<div>The "README" text file provides instructions for
downloading and installing the Toolkit packages.<br>
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The "dscriptn.txt" text file describes the complete contents
and organization of the Toolkit package.</div>
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<div>As always, this Toolkit is freely offered to the worldwide space
science and space mission engineering communities. The few rules
governing its use are posted on the "Rules" page of the NAIF
website: <font face="Lucida Grande" size="-4" color="#000000">
http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/rules.html</font>.</div>
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<div>Please feel free to forward this announcement to any of your
colleagues who could be interested, especially if you are a project
scientist or similar lead person.</div>
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<div>Two SPICE training sessions are expected to be announced shortly:
one near JPL and one at ESTEC. Stay tuned!</div>
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<div>Thanks to Bill Knopf of NASA's Solar System Division for
providing the SPICE development funding. And thanks to the
hundreds of scientists and engineers around the world whose use of
SPICE, and whose suggestions for improving and extending it, has made
this enterprise pretty successful.</div>
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<div>NAIF solicits your feedback on how to further improve the SPICE
system-- capabilities, procedures, training, and new
applications--within the national and international contexts. NAIF is
also interested in knowing more about where and how SPICE is used,
believing such knowledge can help guide the further evolution of
SPICE. And NAIF appreciates whatever efforts you may find appropriate
to garner continuing support for further SPICE development.</div>
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-- The NAIF Team<br>
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<div>The SPICE system has been produced and is maintained by Caltech's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory under contract to the U.S. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.</div>
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Charles.H.Acton@jpl.nasa.gov <span
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Navigation and Ancillary Information Group/JPL
Fax (818) 393-6388<br>
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