11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
... both operated long enough to make it past this milestone,” said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “This is what we've all been waiting for. Now we’re looking forward to what...
21 December 2018
InSight deploys its first instrument on Mars
...after a dry run was first completed here on Earth at NASA’s test bed facility based at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Like one of NASA's other famous rovers – Curiosity – which is currently drilling holes on the...
15 February 2019
Let drilling commence! HP3 gets ready for action
... cycle, could add 'noise' to our data,” reiterated InSight Deputy Principal Investigator Sue Smrekar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. And to help ensure that HP3 has the most unhindered opportunity to reach its desired...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
.... Shortly after confirmation of 2006 QV89, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced what everyone wanted to hear: the asteroid won’t be hitting Earth anytime in the next 100...
18 November 2019
First global geological map of Titan unveiled
... planet in the earliest stages of its existence. This comparison is now even more apt, as Rosaly Lopes at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, and colleagues have now been able to identify six major geological forms and determine their...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... Association in Houston. As principal investigator, she would lead the proposed Trident mission, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would manage it. "I've always loved the Voyager 2 images and their tantalising glimpses...
