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...
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...
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...
15 February 2019
Let drilling commence! HP3 gets ready for action
... day-night cycle, could add 'noise' to our data,” reiterated InSight Deputy Principal Investigator Sue Smrekar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. And to help ensure that HP3 has the most unhindered opportunity to reach its...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... Space Research Association in Houston. As principal investigator, she would lead the proposed Trident mission, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would manage it. "I've always loved the Voyager 2 images and their tantalising...
19 April 2021
Success for NASA as Ingenuity makes the first ever powered, controlled flight on Mars
... first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet!" NASA tweeted. With an atmosphere around 100 times thinner than ...MiMi Aung, project manager for Ingenuity at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Ingenuity’s initial flight demonstration,...
