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...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
...may have been geologically active in the recent past. When NASA’s robotic spacecraft, Dawn, took a close interest in the...surrounding Occator crater, Raymond, who is based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, found that there is evidence to support an ...
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,...
13 February 2024
Thales Alenia Space to provide comms for planetary defence mission
... than 140 m across that would be capable of causing significant damage should they impact Earth. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NEO Surveyor will journey 1.5 million kilometres to a region of gravitational stability – called the...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... challenges with safely landing were considered prohibitive,” said Ken Farley, project scientist for Mars 2020 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “But what was once out of reach is now conceivable, thanks to the 2020 engineering team and advances...
