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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…
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NASA’s Asteroid-Striking DART Mission Team Has JPL Members

September 23, 2022
It’s a bold and complex undertaking to try impacting an asteroid. JPL is there to assist with navigators, communications, and more. On Monday, Sept. 26, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has the challenging goal of crashing its spacecraft into…
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NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars

September 19, 2022
. NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars The Mars lander’s seismometer has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years. NASA’s InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. Not only do these represent the first impacts detected by…
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NASA eyes late September for another Artemis I launch attempt

September 9, 2022
After repeated delays, NASA is lightly penciling in launch dates of September 23rd or 27th for its Artemis I mission. A lot of things will have to go right for either of those dates to be possible, including repairs to the rocket’s fueling system, a sign-off from the Space Force, and managing to avoid an assortment of space scheduling conflicts. Artemis I will mark the first launch of the…
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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S8 and S8 Plus are $100 off at Best Buy today

September 7, 2022
Just like with Thanksgiving, sometimes the leftovers are the best part. Sifting through some of the remaining deals from the Labor Day weekend, we’ve found some excellent discounts on Samsung’s S8 lineup of tablets. Both the standard Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 and S8 Plus, for instance, are discounted by $100 at Best Buy, bringing the prices of the 128GB configurations down to $599.99 and $799.99…
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