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NASA to Convene Mars Sample Return Review

April 14, 2023
NASA will convene a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Program independent review board, or IRB, to perform a review of current plans and goals for one of the most difficult missions humanity has ever undertaken: bringing samples from another planet to study on Earth. Later this year MSR will approach confirmation, a milestone at which NASA formally establishes the technical, cost, and schedule baselines…
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Major Software Upgrade

April 14, 2023
Years in the making, a major software update that has been installed on NASA’s Curiosity rover will enable the Mars robot to drive faster and reduce wear and tear on its wheels. Those are just two of about 180 changes implemented during the update, which required the team…
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NASA Receives Nine 2023 Webby Award Nominations

April 11, 2023
The last time NASA sent a spacecraft to the Moon that was built to carry people, the internet didn’t exist. Its predecessor was a small network that connected a handful of servers at universities and military bases. That was 1972, and the system had only just developed the…
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NASA Awards Innovative Concept Studies for Science, Exploration

April 6, 2023
Technology in development today could radically change the future of air and space exploration. Nearly silent electric aircraft could ferry people and packages around cities, a sprawling radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon could reveal new secrets about the universe, and astronauts on long-duration missions could grow their own medicines to protect their health. These concepts are…
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New Interactive Mosaic Uses NASA Imagery to Show Mars in Vivid Detail

April 5, 2023
Cliffsides, impact craters, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in a new mosaic of the Red Planet composed of 110,000 images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Taken by the veteran spacecraft’s black-and-white Context Camera, or CTX, the images cover nearly 270 square feet (25 square meters) of surface per pixel. That makes the Global CTX Mosaic of Mars the…
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Free Tickets to ‘Explore JPL’ Available Online Soon

March 30, 2023
For decades, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has invited the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains to go “behind the scenes” and see the latest technologies and space missions studying Earth, our solar system, and…
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Joint NASA, CNES Water-Tracking Satellite Reveals First Stunning Views

March 24, 2023
Loading Image Comparison… Sea level data gathered Jan. 21 in the Gulf Stream by SWOT’s KaRIn instrument, visualized at left, has 10 times the spatial resolution of data taken over the same area by altimeters on seven other satellites, visualized at right. Red represents sea levels higher than the global average, while blue is lower. Credit: left: NASA/JPL-Caltech; right…
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