March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as ...at Europa’s South Pole” 2014. In Science Vol. 343, Issue 6167, pp. 171-174. doi:10.1126/science.124705 W. B. Sparks, B. E. Schmidt,...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... on the surface of Mars. “The deep-space capabilities MarCO is demonstrating will help enable Cubesats to make use of excess launch vehicle capacity and allow NASA and JPL to efficiently add science, data-gathering and technology testbed...
28 March 2018
Woes for Webb as the space telescope is delayed again
... is holding up the launch. “Webb is the highest priority project for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate, and the largest international space science project in U.S. history. All the observatory’s flight hardware is now complete, however, the...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
... Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman, Sagan co-founded The Planetary Society to “empower the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration.” With his celebrity and political status blooming, Sagan hoped the US government would invest...
