04 August 2016
Experts to Discuss Mars Sample Return at IAC 2016
...Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration, ESA, Mr. Charles Whetsel, Manager of Mars Program Formulation Office, NASA JPL, Mr. Masaki Fujimoto, Director, Department of Solar Systems Sciences, JAXA, and Dr. Jean-Pierre Bibring, Astrophysicist. Further...
04 February 2018
Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
... makes it much more of a considered purchase than an impulse buy. That said, its author – as a senior research scientist at JPL – has plenty of expertise in the subject (and even has an asteroid named after her), so there are unlikely...
13 April 2019
Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn
... and possible exploration of Enceladus. Why is Enceladus worthy of so much attention? Linda Spilker, Cassini Project Scientist at JPL, sums it up well: “With organic molecules, and tidal heating producing a global subsurface liquid water ocean and...
25 September 2020
Alien Oceans - The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
... and other familiar concepts, and laces them together with his personal experience as a deputy chief scientist at JPL. The text is backed up by chapter notes, an index and a small colour photo insert. The literary chapter titles...
07 April 2021
Ingenuity survives first cold martian night on its own
... is frontloaded with exciting milestones,” said Teddy Tzanetos, deputy operations lead for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at JPL. “Whatever the future holds, we will acquire all the flight data we can within that timeframe.”
25 November 2021
European scientists bounced first ever LoRa message off the Moon
... time we were able to calculate the distance to the moon, matching very well the predicted values of NASA's JPL Horizons ephemeris system. We even used the echo to see the shape of the moon, which we didn’t imagine...
