Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top of a once-remote mesa in northern New Mexico with the Jemez mountains as a backdrop to research and innovation covering multi-disciplines from bioscience, sustainable energy sources, to plasma physics and new materials.
Los Alamos trackers will use state-of-the-art technology to mark the course taken by St. Nick and his eight tiny and highly efficient reindeer. LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, December 21, 2011—Los Alamos trackers will use state-of-the-art technology to mark the course taken by St. Nick and his eight tiny and highly efficient reindeer. Visit http://santa.lanl.gov beginning at 6 a.m. December 24 to see his whirlwind journey. "We expect Santa and his team to arrive in Northern New Mexico about midnight on Christmas Eve,” said scientist Diane Roussel-Dupré of the Lab's Space Data Systems group. Roussel-Dupré was interviewed on this topic last year for The White House Blog. Los Alamos supports Santa trackers at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which has been following Santa's Christmas runs since the 1950s. The Santa tracking program began in 1955 when a Sears, Roebuck ad included a misprinted phone number for Santa.
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