June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...first spacecraft ever to cautiously approach Mercury was the NASA probe Mariner 10 and, ironically, if the mission...named Giuseppe Colombo, who at the time was visiting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had noticed that the period of the ...
01 April 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
... near-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, in June. Media were on hand at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, on March 31 to witness one of the final tests that a LDSD test vehicle will undergo...
18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
...Cassini's legacy of discoveries in the Saturn system is profound," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "We won't get this close to Enceladus again with Cassini, but our travels have...
23 November 2016
Massive ice deposits found under the surface of Mars
... distribution and quantity of Martian water," said Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Deputy Project Scientist Leslie Tamppari, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "We know early Mars had enough liquid water on the surface for rivers...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... this gap between the rings and Saturn would be like," said Cassini Project Manager Earl Maize of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "I am delighted to report that Cassini shot through the gap just as we planned and has come...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
...seen something repeatable in the methane story, so it offers us a handle in understanding it," said Chris Webster of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, lead author of the second paper. "This is all possible because of Curiosity...
