27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
.... Like everyone else working on NASA’s next robotic mission to Mars, and anxiously awaiting some good news at JPL, Tice won’t know whether the landing succeeded for several minutes after it all goes down, so to speak...
13 May 2020
Debris from China's rocket may have hit African villages
... for Astrophysics, who had been tracking the object for two days. According to tweets by McDowell, Hollywood, JPL and Colorado Springs were all under the reentry path of the rocket. “I’ve never seen a major reentry...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
..., but yet relevantly weird, because of the science we can do there," said Karl Mitchell, Trident project scientist at JPL. "We know the surface has all these features we've never seen before, which motivates us to want to know 'How...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... conclusion,” said Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy project scientist at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California where the rover was built. When is the launch of Perseverance? NASA plans to launch Perseverance in a month...
15 July 2020
Comet Neowise puts on a spectacular show
... a teleconference whereby the public and media can pose their comet conundrums to a panel of experts from NASA, JPL, and the NEOWISE mission. The NASA Science Live episode will air live at 15:00 EDT (19:00 GMT) Wednesday...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... saturation in the ocean and is being incorporated in the crust upon freezing,” says Julie Castillo-Rogez also at JPL. As such, Ceres’ ocean could be nearing the end of its life. Still, there are many unknowns when...
