09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
...the Sampling and Caching System,” said Jennifer Trosper, project manager for Perseverance at JPL. “Over the next few days, the team will be spending more time analyzing...the "Crater Floor Fractured Rough" area of Jezero Crater. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
...confirmed by mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California after receiving the data. “For all...sent into space,” said Larry D. James, interim director of JPL. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is ...
26 February 2018
Exploring the Planets – A Memoir
... from a British space scientist who served at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the early part of his career and this provides an ... spent the first decade of his esteemed career at JPL as Principal Investigator on the Pioneer Venus orbiter, which...
08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... us," said Andy Klesh, the mission's chief engineer at JPL. "We've put a stake in the ground. Future CubeSats might... small packages," said John Baker, the MarCO program manager at JPL. "CubeSats - part of a larger group of spacecraft called SmallSats...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
...Crater,” said Jennifer Trosper, deputy project manager for the mission at JPL. “No Mars landing is guaranteed, but we have been preparing a ... day,” said MiMi Aung, the Ingenuity project manager at JPL. “We can’t wait until the rover and the helicopter...
23 February 2021
NASA releases first audio recording of Mars and stunning landing video of Perseverance
... the Red Planet.” Later this week, control teams at JPL will command Perseverance to switch to a new software program... weekend. NASA is also releasing raw images from Perseverance on a JPL website. As of Monday evening, more than 4,600 images from ...
