September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... strong 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...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
... to understand the processes involving the possible emergence of life around hydrothermal vents is a team of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California who have built their own small-scale seafloors by filling beakers with...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... happening 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...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... and 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...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
... 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 moment,” said Thomas Zurbuchen...
08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... was achieved with experimental technology that cost a fraction of what most space missions do: $18.5 million provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which built the CubeSats. WALL-E was last heard from on Dec. 29; EVE...
