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...
28 October 2020
Unexpected molecule found in Titan's atmosphere
... trying 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...
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...
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
... on 28 February 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...
