11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
... have both operated long enough to make it past this milestone,” said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “This is what we've all been waiting for. Now we’re looking forward to what...
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,...
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...
