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NASA’s InSight Waits Out Dust Storm

October 8, 2022

. 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 drop in power generated by its solar panels as a continent-size dust storm swirls over Mars’ southern hemisphere. First…

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

October 7, 2022

. 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…

Citizen Scientists Enhance New Europa Images From NASA’s Juno

October 7, 2022

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…

NASA Study Finds Climate Extremes Affect Landslides in Surprising Ways

October 6, 2022

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 punctuated by storms that drop large amounts of rain or snow in a short amount of time. While wetter and drier spells may have certain…

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

October 6, 2022

. 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…

Testing, Testing: Space-Bound US-European Water Mission Passes Finals

October 5, 2022

. Testing, Testing: Space-Bound US-European Water Mission Passes Finals Your browser cannot play the provided video file(s). A rigorous testing program is the best way to ensure that every part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography…

NASA, USGS Map Minerals to Understand Earth Makeup, Climate Change

October 1, 2022

. 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 Survey (USGS) will map portions of the southwest United States for critical minerals using advanced airborne…

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…

NASA’s Juno Will Perform Close Flyby of Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa

September 23, 2022

As the spacecraft makes a close approach of the moon, it is expected to provide valuable science – and remarkable imagery – for NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission. On Thursday, Sept. 29, at 2:36 a.m. PDT (5:36 a.m. EDT), NASA’s Juno spacecraft will come…

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 Dimorphos, a small moonlet orbiting a larger asteroid by the name of Didymos. While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this…