Engineers at NASA’s JPL dropped this prototype to learn how a future Sample Return Lander could safely touch down on Mars as part of the…
Posts published in “JPL”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Fully interactive, Eyes on Asteroids uses science data to help visualize asteroid and comet orbits around the Sun. Zoom in to travel along with your…
The Perseverance team is celebrating middle-school students who have persevered in the face of academic challenges. Awardees will receive a personal message beamed back from…
Topography Between Mars Helicopter and Rover for Flight 17: In this annotated image, Ingenuity’s flight path is depicted in yellow. Perseverance’s location is indicated in…
This diagram shows the orbits of 2,200 potentially hazardous objects as calculated by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Highlighted is the orbit…
Mars Helicopter Sol 133 – Color Camera: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image during its 9th flight. Flight 17 will fly by this terrain…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree selfie using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, at the end of its robotic arm. The selfie…
[embedded content] What’s Up for December? Your early evening highlights, a chance to catch a comet, and the annual Geminid meteors. On December 6th through…
Is NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s mast. Credit:…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene. Blue, orange, and green color was added to a combination of…
Over 4,5000 planets have been found around other stars, but scientists expect that our galaxy contains millions of planets. There are multiple methods for detecting…
With NASA’s Eyes on the Earth, you can track Earth science satellites in real time as they orbit our planet and explore the trove of…
NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity illustration. Credit: NASA/JPL Recently downlinked imagery of a September flight has allowed the rover imaging team to put together a video…
Animation illustrating NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars. Credit: NASA With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards “Wright Brothers Field” at “Octavia E.…
HiRISE Spots Perseverance in ‘South Séítah’: The white dot in the centre is our beloved Perseverance rover, dwarfed by the large sand dunes in the…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, to take this selfie at the “Quela” drilling location in the “Murray Buttes”…
Worldwide restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic caused huge reductions in travel and other economic activities, resulting in lower emissions. Seen here, almost-empty highways in Colombia…
[embedded content] What’s Up for November? Sunset planets, a partial lunar eclipse, and the return of the winter stars. From November 6th through the 11th,…
We’ve been driving on MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent…