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JPL Developing More Tools to Help Search for Life in Deep Space

. 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…
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NASA’s Juno Gets Highest-Resolution Close-Up of Jupiter’s Moon Europa

. 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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NASA-Built Weather Sensors Capture Vital Data on Hurricane Ian

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

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

. 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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