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,...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... other planets too. With that in mind, a team of researchers headed by Jesse Tarnas, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, started analysing martian meteorites see if the ingredients for radiolysis-driven habitats could exist...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
...June 2018. After more than a thousand commands to restore contact, engineers in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made their last attempt to revive Opportunity Tuesday, to no avail. The solar-powered rover...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... we attempted to do – to dig so deep with a device so small – is unprecedented,” said Troy Hudson, a scientist and engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California who has led efforts to get the mole deeper into the Martian crust...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... than 48 hours away from attempting to land the agency’s fifth rover on the Red Planet. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the mission is managed, have confirmed that the spacecraft is healthy and on target...
07 April 2021
Ingenuity survives first cold martian night on its own
... that Ingenuity has been on its own on the surface of Mars,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “But we now have confirmation that we have the right insulation, the right heaters, and...
