04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
...for as long as possible. Hoping to resolve the problem, the Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the situation. Their solution was to hand over the job of manoeuvring...
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...
14 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
... dunes 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
... 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...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
... any potential biosignatures on Europa’s surface. Seeking to find the best places to look is a team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, led by Tom Nordheim, who have calculated the global bombardment pattern of energetic electrons...
