September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... radiation doses - they actually thrive there In fact, this type of research was what got me into NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where I worked as a visiting researcher. As soon as I found out that there are researchers there studying...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... human space exploration paradigm. About the author Tibor Balint is a Principal Human Centred Designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His current work...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
...around hydrothermal vents is a team of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California who have built their own small-... Not only that but Cassini has already revealed that jets of icy particles which shoot out at about 800 miles...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... before that deployment time period is up,” says Mark Panning, a co-investigator on the InSight mission based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mobile service tower at SLC-3 is rolled back to reveal the ULA Atlas-V rocket that launched...
13 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
... that turned into rock long ago," said Bethany Ehlmann of the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, California. How do researchers know that these are dunes and not windblown ripples of sand...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... divert to safe ground nearby," said Allen Chen, Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "With this capability, we can now consider landing areas with unsafe zones that previously...
