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JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia

August 10, 2021

. JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia After having served five years as director of JPL, Michael Watkins will move to the Caltech campus as professor of aerospace and geophysics. Larry D. James becomes interim director of JPL. JPL Director Michael Watkins announced Monday he will step down from his position as the director of the Jet…

NASA, International Panel Provide a New Window on Rising Seas

August 10, 2021

. NASA, International Panel Provide a New Window on Rising Seas A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come. NASA’s Sea Level Change Team…

NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt

August 7, 2021

. NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt The rover continues to explore Jezero Crater while the team assesses today’s activities. Data sent to Earth by NASA’s…

A Few Steps Closer to Europa: Spacecraft Hardware Makes Headway

August 6, 2021

. A Few Steps Closer to Europa: Spacecraft Hardware Makes Headway Take a closer look at the complex choreography involved in building NASA’s Europa Clipper as the mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa approaches its 2024 launch date. The hardware that makes up NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is…

NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Moon Ganymede

August 6, 2021

. NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Moon Ganymede The spacecraft used its infrared instrument during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create this latest map, which comes out a decade…

My Favorite Martian Image: Helicopter Scouts Ridge Area for Perseverance

August 5, 2021

. My Favorite Martian Image: Helicopter Scouts Ridge Area for Perseverance A member of the Perseverance rover’s science team explains why the aerial image offers science advantages over ground-level images. Ask any space…

Job alert: ‘Spaceport Mixologist’

August 5, 2021

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking a “Spaceport Mixologist” who can whip up space-themed drinks next to the company’s sprawling rocket factory in south Texas. While space itself likely won’t be in their future, an experienced bartender — who will have one of the coolest job titles — will be tapped to join the hundreds of employees working on SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket system in…

Stars Are Exploding in Dusty Galaxies. We Just Can’t Always See Them

August 5, 2021

. Stars Are Exploding in Dusty Galaxies. We Just Can’t Always See Them Exploding stars generate dramatic light shows. Infrared telescopes like Spitzer can see through the haze and to give a better idea of how often these explosions occur. …

NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland Mission Leaves for Its Last Field Trip

August 4, 2021

. NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland Mission Leaves for Its Last Field Trip By dropping probes from a plane into the ocean, the pioneering campaign tracks how seawater is melting glaciers to give insight into the future of sea level rise. …

SpaceX’s Starlink app gets big update to help find clear sky

August 4, 2021

SpaceX’s Starlink mobile app got a refreshing upgrade this week that makes it easier to find clear patches of sky and monitor connection outages — and adds a new dark mode for its user interface. The app improvements came out yesterday as SpaceX reported 90,000 active users in its open “better than nothing” beta phase, which spans rural regions across 12 different countries so far. The…