01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... becomes eroded, and features formed over the previous few billions of years are revealed. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; Diagram adapted from F. Salese et al. (2019).
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... is millions of miles away on Earth. Not one to shy away from a challenge, engineers at NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, set to work over four years ago to come up with a design that can deal with those...
27 May 2019
Third largest water reservoir on Mars found
... sand as darker layers of blue. The tiny bright white flecks are thin patches of frost. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
... a more definitive answer. Topography of Lomonosov crater (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter digital elevation background). Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... the ocean surface," said Pablo Sobron, a SETI Institute physicist, who along with Laurie Barge at NASA JPL, received a NASA Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research (PSTAR) grant to study underwater hydrothermal systems...
13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
... orbiting the Sun at that distance," said Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL. "The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our solar...
