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1 week, 3 days ago

NASA mission solves volcanic mystery of Jupiter’s ‘tortured moon’ Io

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. But the moon’s wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979, revealing Io’s dynamic surface that resembled a pepperoni pizza, Bolton said. We knew data from Juno’s two very close flybys could give us some insights on how this tortured moon actually worked.” This …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Perseverance rover is about to see some of the oldest rocks on Mars

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “Perseverance is ‘go’ for everything the science team wants to throw at it during this next science campaign.” Perseverance has already conducted four broad investigations of Jezero Crater’s floor, as well as the river delta that once fed into it, including exploring, observing, and sampling rocks and dust. “It marks our transition …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Nasa's first aircraft investigation outside Earth: What killed Ingenuity on Mars?

India Today

Engineers from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and AeroVironment are finalising an in-depth assessment of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's final flight, which took place on January 18, 2024. The investigation into Ingenuity's final flight suggests that its navigation system's failure to accurately track surface features led to a series of events that culminated in the mission's end. The team concluded that …

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1 month, 1 week ago

JPL to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce

LA Times

People work on the Europa Clipper spacecraft project last year at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees this week, director Laurie Leshin said in a memo to staff sent Tuesday afternoon. “This is a message I had hoped not to have to write.” This is the third …

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2 months, 1 week ago

NASA launches Europa Clipper to see if Jupiter’s icy moon has ingredients for life

LA Times

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying a NASA probe bound for Jupiter lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life. With the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts

LA Times

Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America’s vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In a report commissioned by Congress and released this week, experts said that a number of the agency’s technological resources are suffering, including …

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5 months ago

‘Out of this world’: NASA JPL beams Missy Elliott hit to planet Venus

LA Times

NASA recently beamed Missy Elliott’s hip-hop classic “The Rain ” to Venus ahead of two uncrewed missions to the planet of love. Temperatures on Venus hover around 870 degrees, but the second-closest planet to the sun got a little bit cooler recently when NASA showered it with Missy Elliott’s hit song “The Rain.” The feat took place at 10:05 a.m. …

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5 months ago

Pete Theisinger, who led Mars rover missions for JPL, dies at 78

LA Times

Pete Theisinger on the day the Curiosity rover landed on Mars in August 2012. Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. With JPL colleague Richard Cook, he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2013 …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Danger signs were present before Palos Verdes landslide destroyed homes, new study finds

LA Times

Homes in Rolling Hills Estates continued to slide downhill months after a hillside below them gave way in 2023. “Our findings provide further evidence that satellite remote sensing data can contribute to landslide early warning systems and can also be used to better understand the impacts of climate change on landslide hazards.” An animation showing the land movement at Peartree …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Massive Asteroid 2024 MT1 heading towards earth at 65,000 Km/h, warns NASA

India TV News

NASA has issued a warning about a massive asteroid named 2024 MT1, which is currently barreling towards Earth at a staggering speed of 65,215 km/h. Planetary defense While there is no immediate danger of asteroid 2024 MT1 colliding with Earth, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office proactively develops strategies to mitigate potential asteroid threats. Astronomical interest The impending close approach of …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

NASA JPL team hopes to give greenhouse gas-monitoring satellite ‘unprecedented’ vision

LA Times

It was almost 10 years ago when Andrew Thorpe received a text from the crew flying overhead in a small aircraft: They had spotted a new methane hot spot. “There’s no denying it anymore — once we see a plume, there’s no other potential source,” said Christian Frankenberg, co-principal investigator for Carbon-I and a professor of environmental science and engineering …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission

LA Times

These tubes hold samples of Martian rocks and dust collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover for the Mars Sample Return mission. In the most recent planetary science decadal survey — a report prepared for NASA every 10 years by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — planetary scientists named the Mars Sample Return mission as the “highest scientific priority …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

NASA’s attempt to bring home part of Mars is unprecedented. The mission’s problems are not

LA Times

This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to bring samples of rocks and soil — being collected from the Martian surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover — back to Earth. “A lot of great science will come out of” Mars Sample Return, said Garth Illingworth, an astronomer emeritus at UC Santa Cruz and former deputy …

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9 months ago

Caltech receives $100-million gift to develop new technologies at the speed of SpaceX

LA Times

Thirty-six years ago, Gary Brinson cracked open Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” a bestseller in which the renowned physicist sought to explain the mysteries of the universe in layman’s terms. “We wanted to do something here that gives scientists the complete freedom to take risks, to come up with ideas and applications that they otherwise might feel frustrated …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Budget deal for NASA offers glimmer of hope for JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission

LA Times

Tubes holding samples of rock cores, broken rock and dust collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover sit on the surface of Mars. The space agency’s Mars Sample Return mission aims to bring them to Earth for closer study. This week, the House and Senate appropriations committees finalized a deal that would grant a minimum of $300 million for the Mars Sample …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

The countdown to NASA’s Jupiter mission is on. This JPL engineer is helping it happen

LA Times

Think of meticulously handcrafted objects, and certain things come immediately to mind: fine art, exotic cars, luxury timepieces. The Europa Clipper’s tall silvery core stands in JPL’s Space Assembly Facility in the High Bay 1 clean room surrounded by temporary scaffolding. “It’s trying to get everything organized so that we can provide very clear direction when we meet with the …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Budget cuts to Mars Sample Return mission prompt hundreds of layoffs at JPL

LA Times

The mission control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. Despite pleas to NASA and the White House from California lawmakers hoping to preserve jobs at the La Cañada Flintridge research institution, the lab let go 530 employees — approximately 8% of its workforce — and 40 additional contractors, JPL Director Laurie Leshin said in a memo …

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11 months ago

NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars

Hindustan Times

NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end. NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter Ingenuity, a drone about 1.6 feet tall, arrived on Mars in 2021 aboard the rover Perseverance and became the first motorized craft to fly autonomously …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Even NASA is facing a tough time, starts layoffs following major budget cuts

Firstpost

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been hit hard by recent federal budget cuts, resulting in the reported layoff of 100 contractors last week. Director Leshin acknowledged in an internal email that adjusting to such a significant budget cut in a single year would be painful, and potential layoffs at JPL could have broader impacts beyond the MSR mission. Lawmakers, including …

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1 year ago

WATCH: NASA sends cat video from spacecraft 31 million Km away from Earth

Live Mint

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the US space agency, Monday said had used a breakthrough laser communication system on a spaceship 31 million kilometres away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video. The 15-second video featuring an orange cat, named Tabby, is the first to be streamed from deep space and demonstrates the transmission of high-data-rate communications in …

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1 year, 1 month ago

India-US space project NISAR trial done at Isro facility, launch likely in 2024

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: Indian-US partnered NASA-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar, which is likely to be launched early next year, completed a key trial at Isro’s compact antenna test facility, NASA’s said in a statement on Wednesday. It added, “The test was followed by a 21-day trial in a thermal vacuum chamber that showed the spacecraft can function in the extreme temperatures and …

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1 year, 1 month ago

NASA, ISRO complete key tests ahead of NISAR’s launch early next year

The Hindu

Scientists and engineers involved in the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission have completed key tests including the thermal vacuum testing ahead of its launch which is scheduled to take place in the first quarter of 2024. Phil Barela, NASA NISAR project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that crucial thermal vacuum testing was completed in Bengaluru. NISAR is a Low Earth …

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1 year, 1 month ago

All you need to know about NISAR, the awe-inducing joint mission between NASA and ISRO

Firstpost

NASA and ISRO will come together for a joint mission called NISAR or NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar. The mission’s objective is to launch an Earth observation satellite, which offer insights into forests and wetlands, ecosystems which have massive impact on the global carbon cycle A collaborative effort between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation has given rise to the …

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1 year, 4 months ago

NASA scientist refutes theories about sighting of UFOs

Hindustan Times

Unidentified Flying Objects have been a matter of intrigue for hundreds of researchers, explorers and people. Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Dr. Laurie Leshin interacted with FOX10 Phoenix recently and was asked if she had “seen spacecraft made from outside of this world.” Responding to the question, Leshin outrightly said “Absolutely not.” “I mean, look, there’s clearly a lot of interest. …

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NASA mission solves volcanic mystery of Jupiter’s ‘tortured moon’ Io

Perseverance rover is about to see some of the oldest rocks on Mars

Nasa's first aircraft investigation outside Earth: What killed Ingenuity on Mars?

JPL to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce

NASA launches Europa Clipper to see if Jupiter’s icy moon has ingredients for life

Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts

‘Out of this world’: NASA JPL beams Missy Elliott hit to planet Venus

Pete Theisinger, who led Mars rover missions for JPL, dies at 78

Danger signs were present before Palos Verdes landslide destroyed homes, new study finds

Massive Asteroid 2024 MT1 heading towards earth at 65,000 Km/h, warns NASA

NASA JPL team hopes to give greenhouse gas-monitoring satellite ‘unprecedented’ vision

Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission

NASA’s attempt to bring home part of Mars is unprecedented. The mission’s problems are not

Caltech receives $100-million gift to develop new technologies at the speed of SpaceX

Budget deal for NASA offers glimmer of hope for JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission

The countdown to NASA’s Jupiter mission is on. This JPL engineer is helping it happen

Budget cuts to Mars Sample Return mission prompt hundreds of layoffs at JPL

NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars

Even NASA is facing a tough time, starts layoffs following major budget cuts

WATCH: NASA sends cat video from spacecraft 31 million Km away from Earth

India-US space project NISAR trial done at Isro facility, launch likely in 2024

NASA, ISRO complete key tests ahead of NISAR’s launch early next year

All you need to know about NISAR, the awe-inducing joint mission between NASA and ISRO

NASA scientist refutes theories about sighting of UFOs