New research makes hypotheses that NASA’s Europa Clipper can test: Any plumes or volcanic activity at the Jovian moon’s surface are caused by shallow lakes in its icy crust.
In the search for life beyond Earth, subsurface bodies of water in our outer solar system are some of the most important targets. That’s why NASA is sending the Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon…
NASA’s S-MODE Field Campaign Deploys to the Pacific Ocean
October 12, 2022
The mission’s fleet of ship, aircraft, and marine robotics will study ocean eddies and other elusive features near the surface that have a big influence on climate.
When the research vessel Bold Horizon sailed from Newport, Oregon, in early October, it joined a small…
NASA’s InSight Waits Out Dust Storm
October 8, 2022
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NASA’s InSight Waits Out Dust Storm
InSight’s team is taking steps to help the solar-powered lander continue operating for as long as possible.
NASA’s InSight mission, which is expected to end in the near future, saw a recent…
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JPL Developing More Tools to Help Search for Life in Deep Space
A team at the Lab has invented new technologies that could be used by future missions to analyze liquid samples from watery worlds and look for signs of alien life.
Are we alone in the universe? An answer to that age-old question has seemed tantalizingly within reach since the discovery of ice-encrusted moons…
Science enthusiasts have processed the new JunoCam images of Jupiter’s icy moon, with results that are out of this world.
Citizen scientists have provided unique perspectives of the recent close flyby of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. By…
The results represent an early step toward developing what researchers hope will become the ability to forecast whether a slow-moving landslide will collapse.
Climate change is driving more volatile precipitation patterns around the world – very dry stretches…
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NASA’s Juno Gets Highest-Resolution Close-Up of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Observations from the spacecraft’s pass of the moon provided the first close-up in over two decades of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science.
The highest-resolution photo NASA’s Juno mission has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter’s moon Europa…
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Testing, Testing: Space-Bound US-European Water Mission Passes Finals
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A rigorous testing program is the best way to ensure that every part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography…
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NASA, USGS Map Minerals to Understand Earth Makeup, Climate Change
These new observations can be used to identify the presence of a wide variety of minerals as well as mineral weathering or alteration.
NASA and the U.S. Geological…
NASA-Built Weather Sensors Capture Vital Data on Hurricane Ian
September 29, 2022
A pair of microwave radiometers collected data on the storm as they passed over the Caribbean Sea aboard the International Space Station.
Two recently launched instruments that were designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to provide forecasters data on weather over the open ocean captured images of Hurricane Ian on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, as the storm…
