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NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot

December 16, 2022
In the coming days, NASA’s Perseverance rover is expected to begin building the first sample depot on another world. This will mark a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) Mars Sample Return campaign, which aims to bring Mars samples to Earth for closer study. The depot-building process starts when the rover drops one of its titanium sample tubes carrying a chalk-size core of…
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NASA Launches International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water

December 16, 2022
A satellite built for NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) to observe nearly all the water on our planet’s surface lifted off on its way to low-Earth orbit at 3:46 a.m. PST on Friday. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)…
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NASA Sensors to Help Detect Methane Emitted by Landfills

December 15, 2022
Observations from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) and other NASA science instruments will be part of a global survey of point-source emissions of methane from solid waste sites such as landfills. The multiyear effort is being developed and conducted by the nonprofit Carbon Mapper organization. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, the source of roughly a quarter to a third…
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NASA’s Juno Exploring Jovian Moons During Extended Mission

December 15, 2022
NASA’s Juno mission is scheduled to obtain images of the Jovian moon Io on Dec. 15 as part of its continuing exploration of Jupiter’s inner moons. Now in the second year of its extended mission to investigate the interior of Jupiter, the solar-powered spacecraft…
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Latest International Water Satellite Packs an Engineering Punch

December 13, 2022
Set for a Thursday, Dec. 15 launch, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite promises to provide an extraordinary accounting of water over much of Earth’s surface. Its measurements of fresh water and the ocean will help researchers address some of the most…
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NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Has Launched – Follow the Mission in Real Time

December 11, 2022
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight has communicated with mission controllers and confirmed it is healthy after launching Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2:38 a.m. EST (Saturday, Dec. 10, at 11:38 p.m. PST) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. About 53 minutes after launch, the small satellite, or SmallSat, was released from its dispenser to begin a four-month journey to the Moon to seek out surface…
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Practice Makes Perfect for Student Inventions at JPL Competition

December 10, 2022
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Invention Challenge made a lively return to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Friday. Now in its 23rd year, the long-running tradition brings together students and professional engineers to compete…
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NASA Press Events at 2022 Fall AGU Meeting

December 9, 2022
NASA researchers will present findings on Earth and space sciences Dec.12-16 at the American Geophysical Union’s 2022 Fall meeting, being held both virtually and in Chicago this year. Science topics at the meeting range from climate science to planetary defense to studies of the Martian surface. NASA-related press events at the meeting are as follows. (Access to participating in live briefings…
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