28 October 2020
Unexpected molecule found in Titan's atmosphere
... to figure out if Titan is habitable,” said Rosaly Lopes, a senior research scientist and Titan expert at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “So we want to know what compounds from the atmosphere get to the surface, and...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
... Crater. The rock sample was imaged by the rover's instruments and later confirmed by mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California after receiving the data. “For all of NASA science, this is truly a historic...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on 5 November 2013, carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission This apart, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena in California provided back-up support to track MOM through its deep-space networks at Goldstone...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... 2013 and 29 June 2014. Subsequent reimaging and analysis by the Beagle 2 team, HiRISE team and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that the targets discovered are of the correct size, shape, colour and dispersion...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
..., and open Internet resources that monitor and analyse such dangers: the Minor Planet Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; the Small Bodies Node (SBN), part of the Planetary Data System at NASA; and the Near Earth...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... having passed by Venus. However, an Italian scientist named Giuseppe Colombo, who at the time was visiting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had noticed that the period of the spacecraft’s orbit around the Sun, after it flew past...
