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• How NASA Science Data Defends Earth from Asteroids NASA · 10 Apr 2025 The asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an analysis from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency’s...
• University High Triumphs at JPL-Hosted Ocean Sciences Bowl NASA · 31 Mar 2025 The annual regional event puts students’ knowledge of ocean-related science to the test in a fast-paced academic competition. A team of students from University High School in Irvine earned first place at a fast-paced re...
• SkyServe tests AI models with JPL and D-Orbit SpaceNews · 18 Mar 2025 Indian edge computing startup SkyServe is working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test artificial intelligence models on a D-Orbit satellite.
• Sols 4479-4480: What IS That Lumpy, Bumpy Rock? NASA · 14 Mar 2025 Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 The days are getting shorter and colder for Curiosity as we head into winter. So o...
• Sols 4475-4476: Even the Best-Laid Plans NASA · 12 Mar 2025 Written by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, March 7, 2025 In Curiosity’s last plan, the team decided to drive toward a very interesting nodular rock. The ro...
• NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission NASA · 5 Mar 2025 The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these energy-conserving measures. Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California tu...
• Lunar Cold Electronics Assessment Workshop (Apr 30 – May 1, 2025) NASA · 20 Feb 2025 How to Attend The workshop will be hosted by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Virtual and in-person attendance are available. Registration is required for both. (Link coming soon!)Virtual attendees will receive connection...
• Giving NASA’s CADRE a Hand NASA · 13 Feb 2025 One of three small lunar rovers — part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) — is prepared for shipping in a clean room on Jan. 29, 2025, at NASA’s Jet P...
• NASA’s Mini Rover Team Is Packed for Lunar Journey NASA · 11 Feb 2025 A trio of suitcase-size rovers and their base station have been carefully wrapped up and shipped off to join the lander that will deliver them to the Moon’s surface. Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar su...
• NASA Radar Imagery Reveals Details About Los Angeles-Area Landslides NASA · 31 Jan 2025 Analysis of data from NASA radar aboard an airplane shows that the decades-old active landslide area on the Palos Verdes Peninsula has expanded. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California used...
• Rocket Lab, Orora Technologies contract for “responsive launch” ahead of main 2025 wildfire season Spaceflight Now · 24 Jan 2025 The eight satellites will also fulfill a concept study contract awarded to OroraTech and Spire Global by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in October 2024. A specific launch date hasn't been announced, but Rocket Lab said...
• NASA JPL Prepping for Full Year of Launches, Mission Milestones NASA · 23 Jan 2025 Missions will study everything from water on the Moon to the transformation of our universe after the big bang and ongoing changes to Earth’s surface. With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborator...
• Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Poster NASA · 14 Jan 2025 NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Instrument will greatly advance our ability to directly image exoplanets, or planets and disks around other stars. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, a technology demonstration designed and built...
• PULSAR: Planetary pULSe-tAkeR NASA · 10 Jan 2025 Marco QuadrelliNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory There is a strong coupling mechanism between the lithosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, atmosphere, and the plasmasphere of many planetary bodies. For example, the ionospher...
• TOBIAS: Tethered Observatory for Balloon-based Imaging and Atmospheric Sampling NASA · 10 Jan 2025 Ben HockmanNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory A basketball-sized towbody containing a camera, atmospheric sampling instruments, and support hardware is suspended on a multi-kilometer tether from a high-altitude balloon in th...
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory evacuated due to LA wildfire SpaceNews · 9 Jan 2025 The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been closed down and evacuated as the Eaton Fire continues to burn, at its closest, less than one mile away from the facility.
• Celebrating 20 Years: Night Sky Network NASA · 16 Dec 2024 by Vivan White & Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific NASA’s Night Sky Network is one of the most successful and longstanding grassroots initiatives for public engagement in astronomy education. Started...
• NASA-DOD Study: Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100 NASA · 11 Dec 2024 Intrusion of saltwater into coastal groundwater can make water there unusable, damage ecosystems, and corrode infrastructure. Seawater will infiltrate underground freshwater supplies in about three of every four coastal...
• NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World NASA · 11 Dec 2024 The review takes a close look the final flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which was the first aircraft to fly on another world. Engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and A...
• Sols 4386-4388: Powers of Ten NASA · 10 Dec 2024 Earth planning date: Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 We successfully arrived in our new exploration quadrangle — the Altadena quad — which is named after a town on Earth very near our own Jet Propulsion Laboratory! The names from t...
• Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award NASA · 9 Dec 2024 Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award. Suzanne Smrekar, a senior research scientist at NASA’s J...
• Students Aim High at NASA JPL ‘Candy Toss’ Competition NASA · 7 Dec 2024 Treats went flying through the air by the dozens at the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The 25th Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which welco...
• Students Aim High at NASA JPL ‘Candy Toss’ Competition Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 7 Dec 2024 Treats went flying through the air by the dozens at the annual Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
• NASA JPL Unveils the Dr. Edward Stone Exploration Trail NASA · 6 Dec 2024 A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the Voyager mission he led. Family members, colleagues, and local dignitarie...
• NASA JPL Unveils the Dr. Edward Stone Exploration Trail Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 6 Dec 2024 A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the Voyager mission he led.
• Aaron Yazzie: Bridging Indigenous Heritage and Space Exploration NASA · 27 Nov 2024 Aaron Yazzie’s dream of being part of humanity’s exploration of space took him on a journey from his childhood home on the Navajo Nation to working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. His jo...
• Mini NASA Robot Takes a SWIM NASA · 25 Nov 2024 A 16.5-inch-long prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water’s surface during a test in a competition swimming pool in September 2024. Conducted by NASA’s Jet Propuls...
• JPL announces new round of layoffs SpaceNews · 13 Nov 2024 NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 5% of its staff this week because of budget cuts, the second such major layoff at the center in less than a year.
• First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument NASA · 10 Oct 2024 The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and internationally. Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Je...
• Does Distant Planet Host Volcanic Moon Like Jupiter’s Io? NASA · 10 Oct 2024 The existence of a moon located outside our solar system has never been confirmed but a new NASA-led study may provide indirect evidence for one. New research done at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential si...
• Smallsats offer lessons for big science missions SpaceNews · 8 Oct 2024 SAN FRANCISCO – As a group, NASA’s low-cost science missions have improved significantly. “There were lessons learned over the years that helped,” said Charles Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory deputy
• NASA to Preview Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter Moon NASA · 11 Sep 2024 NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The briefin...
• NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice NASA · 29 Aug 2024 Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves. On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA’s Jet Pr...
• Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter NASA · 28 Aug 2024 The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s...
• Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander begins pre-launch environmental tests SpaceNews · 26 Aug 2024 Firefly Aerospace has completed its first lunar lander and shipped the spacecraft to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for testing ahead of a launch late this year.
• NASA-Designed Greenhouse Gas-Detection Instrument Launches Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 16 Aug 2024 Developed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the imaging spectrometer will provide actionable data to help reduce emissions that contribute to global warming.
• NASA-Designed Greenhouse Gas-Detection Instrument Launches NASA · 16 Aug 2024 Developed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the imaging spectrometer will provide actionable data to help reduce emissions that contribute to global warming. Tanager-1, the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s first satell...
• AstroViz: Iconic Pillars of Creation Star in NASA’s New 3D Visualization NASA · 5 Aug 2024 NASA’s Universe of Learning – a partnership among the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Caltech/IPAC, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and part of the NASA S...
• Visit with NASA SCaN NASA · 29 Jul 2024 Interested in having a NASA SCaN expert speak to your class or group? The SCaN program is accepting requests for visits (both virtual and in-person) during the coming calendar year. Request a virtual visit below. Request...
• NASA’s Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 24 Jul 2024 Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument also revealed jets of gas flowing into space from the twin stars.