28 October 2020
Unexpected molecule found in Titan's atmosphere
... trying to figure out if Titan is habitable,” said Rosaly Lopes, a senior research scientist and Titan expert at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “So we want to know what compounds from the atmosphere get to the surface...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
... imaged by the rover's instruments and later confirmed by mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California after receiving the data. “For all of NASA science, this is truly a historic moment,” said Thomas Zurbuchen...
08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... was achieved with experimental technology that cost a fraction of what most space missions do: $18.5 million provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which built the CubeSats. WALL-E was last heard from on Dec. 29; EVE...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on 5 November 2013, carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission This apart, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena in California provided back-up support to track MOM through its deep-space networks at Goldstone...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... on 28 February 2013 and 29 June 2014. Subsequent reimaging and analysis by the Beagle 2 team, HiRISE team and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that the targets discovered are of the correct size, shape, colour and dispersion...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...first spacecraft ever to cautiously approach Mercury was the NASA probe Mariner 10 and, ironically, if the mission...named Giuseppe Colombo, who at the time was visiting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), had noticed that the period of the ...
