 |
 |
|
|
|
December 19, 2002 Alberto Behar, JPL EngineerIn this video profile 'First Person,' JPL engineer Alberto Behar tests robotic technologies in the remote ice fields of Antarctica. |
|
December 18, 2002 The Brains Behind the BotThis is not the kind of bug you want to squash. The new Spiderbot is the leggy brainchild of JPL's Mobility Systems Concept Development section, including two ambitious engineering students and one recent graduate. Gabe Sibley, Jonathan Wall and Michael Poole spent their summer vacation building and testing this robotic hexapod. |
|
December 18, 2002 Robert Hogg, Engineering Robots of the FutureIn just five years at JPL, Hogg has already worked on some of the latest robotic vehicles to explore our own planet and beyond. |
|
December 17, 2002 Galileo Millennium Mission StatusNASA's Galileo spacecraft has begun transmitting high-priority scientific information that was collected and stored on its tape recorder during the orbiter's early-November dash by Jupiter, which brought it closer to the planet than ever before. |
|
December 16, 2002 Schools' Radio-Telescope Project Goes InternationalMost students at Hohenfels High School in Germany are from U.S. military families posted overseas. Sometimes America can seem far away. |
|
December 13, 2002 Launch Gives Weather Forecasters Twin Wind WatchersWeather and climate forecasters will double their pleasure, thanks to today's successful launch of NASA's SeaWinds scatterometer instrument. |
|
December 11, 2002 Jason Mission StatusThe joint NASA-French Space Agency oceanography satellite Jason is set to embark on the science phase of its scheduled five-year voyage to study ocean circulation and its effect on climate. |
|
December 11, 2002 Researchers Control Love-Hate Relationship Between AtomsResearch that makes ultra-cold atoms extremely attractive to one another may help test current theories of how all matter behaves - a breakthrough that might lead to advanced transportation systems, more efficient energy sources and new tests of astrophysical theories. |
|
December 10, 2002 Roving the Red Planet: Current and Future MissionsAs NASA prepares to launch two rovers to the red planet next spring, Dr. Firouz Naderi, will present a pair of free, public lectures about Mars exploration. |
|
December 10, 2002 SeaWinds Tracks Antarctic Ice EscapadesThe SeaWinds instrument has changed all that. SeaWinds is a scatterometer flying on NASA's QuikScat satellite. A second SeaWinds instrument will launch on Japan's Advanced Earth Observation Satellite 2 on December 13. |
|
December 9, 2002 Santa's Revealing Home Photos Released by NASAHe may see us when we're sleeping, know when we're awake, and know if we've been bad or good, but thanks to new images from NASA, we can now catch a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse of some of Santa Claus' summer estates. |
|
December 9, 2002 Ridge Catches Sunset, Lava Spreads in Io Views from GalileoIn one newly released image of Jupiter's moon Io from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, a mountain ridge named Mongibello, three-fourths as tall as Mount Everest, gleams from the rays of an otherworldly sunset. |
|
December 9, 2002 NASA Twins Plan Martian RambleWith just over a year to go before NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers land on the red planet, members of the science team are previewing the mission's goals and candidate landing sites at a special session of the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. |
|
December 9, 2002 Featherweight Jupiter Moon Is Likely a Jumble of PiecesNASA's Galileo spacecraft continues to deliver surprises with the discovery that Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea, appears to have a very low density, indicating it is full of holes. |
|
December 7, 2002 NASA's Revealing OdysseyIn mid-October the frozen carbon dioxide, which seasonally caps Mars' north pole, evaporated enough to give Odyssey's scientists their first chance to look there for ice. |
|
December 6, 2002 Latest Ocean Winds Research Creates a StirNew research findings from NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) satellite and its SeaWinds instrument have documented for the first time the significant effect typhoons have on the ocean and ocean life. |
|
December 6, 2002 Candidate Mission Would Scan Mars Atmosphere for Signs of LifeA possible mission to Mars in 2007 would scrutinize the martian atmosphere for any chemical traces of life, or even environments supportive of life, anywhere on the planet. |
|
December 6, 2002 Sophia Malloy, Mission Planner and Sequence EngineerSophia Malloy learned how to run a tight ship during her years in the military. Those skills are put to good use as a mission planner for two ocean-observing satellites. |
|
December 3, 2002 Kuiper Prize Going to JPL Pioneer in Radar Study of AsteroidsOstro studies asteroids as a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
|
November 26, 2002 NASA Awards Caltech Five-Year JPL ContractNASA has awarded the California Institute of Technology a new five-year contract to manage the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
|
November 25, 2002 Galileo Millennium Mission Status"It appears that the tape recorder has taken a hit from the intense radiation Galileo passed through," said Dr. Eilene Theilig |
|
November 20, 2002 NASA Prepares for 'Last Chance' Meteor Shower |
|
November 20, 2002 NASA Prepares for 'Last Chance' Meteor ShowerA NASA mission to gather particles shed by the Sun is now operating under the management of Donald Sweetnam of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
|
|
November 20, 2002 NASA Prepares for 'Last Chance' Meteor ShowerDr. James Breckinridge has returned to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. to serve as the Origins Theme Technologist for NASA's Origins Program. |
|
November 18, 2002 Where on Earth Is Mars?Researchers interested in what makes the red planet tick can’t study the planet in person—at least not yet. To help them interpret what they see in Mars images and other remote sensing data--and to test their instruments and procedures--they turn to Earth. |
|
November 15, 2002 Dr. Michelle Thaller, AstrophysicistIn this video profile 'First Person,' Caltech astrophysicist Dr. Michelle Thaller discusses methods astronomers use to study stars and galaxies. |
|
November 14, 2002 NASA Prepares for 'Last Chance' Meteor ShowerThe early morning hours of Nov. 19 may be your last chance to see the spectacular Leonid meteor shower in its full glory, according to astronomers. |
|
November 13, 2002 How to Sort Science Fact from Science FictionThe facts and fiction of space exploration will be discussed in a pair of free public lectures |
|
November 12, 2002 A Conversation with Dr. Moustafa ChahineDr. Moustafa Chahine is the science team leader on a suite of instruments that will measure Earth's atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles with high accuracy. |
|
November 12, 2002 Mars Rover Takes Baby StepsLike any travelers worth their frequent flyer miles, the twin rovers of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission must prepare for a long journey. |
|
November 8, 2002 JPL Missions Chosen for Popular Science Magazine AwardNASA’s unprecedented work in Space Science and Earth Science captured three of Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New Awards” |
|
November 6, 2002 NASA's First Gravity Mission Image Depicts a Bumpy RideColor gradations in the image measure changes in the distance between the Grace spacecraft as they orbit overhead approximately 220 kilometers (137 miles) apart. |
|
November 6, 2002 NASA Research Offers Explanation for Earth's Bulging WaistlineThe team of researchers sought to find a climatic reason for the dramatic changes in Earth's gravity field observed since 1997. |
|
|
November 6, 2002 Galileo Millennium Mission StatusNASA's long-lived Galileo spacecraft achieved partial success in a dash through Jupiter's inner radiation belts |
|
November 4, 2002 NASA's Stardust Comet-Chaser Passes Asteroid TestAll systems on NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed successfully when tested in a flyby of asteroid Annefrank on Friday |
|
November 4, 2002 Building Planets in CyberspaceRecipe: Take a rocky mass [about 12.8 thousand kilometers (nearly 8 thousand miles) wide], add carbon dioxide, water vapor and methane. Place in stable, circular orbit, the same distance from a sunlike star as the distance between Earth and the Sun. |
|
November 2, 2002 Stardust Mission StatusImages and information from the flyby period are being transmitted from the spacecraft today and through the coming week. |
|
November 1, 2002 Cassini-Huygens Mission StatusA successful test of the camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has produced images of Saturn 20 months before the spacecraft arrives at that planet. |
|
November 1, 2002 NASA Images Show Calmer Side of Italy's Fiery Mount EtnaThe last major eruption of Europe's highest active volcano, located on the island of Sicily, was in 1992. |
|
October 30, 2002 Red Freckles on Europa Suggest 'Lava Lamp' ActionReddish spots on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa may indicate pockets of warmer ice rising from below. |
|
October 30, 2002 Camera Eyes Dusty Spirals in Milky Way CenterMany technologies developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have skyrocketed on Earth due to strategic business alliances. |
|
October 29, 2002 Jupiter Orbiter Nears First Visit to Small Moon, Dusty RingAs Galileo approaches Jupiter, it will skim past Amalthea at 06:19 on Nov. 5, Universal Time (10:19 p.m. Nov. 4, Pacific Standard Time). |
|
October 28, 2002 It's Amateur Night in SpaceHow would you like to discover a near-Earth object without leaving your own backyard? It's possible. |
|
|
October 25, 2002 NASA Sponsors Student Robotics CompetitionHeavy metal will rock -- and roll -- at seven different locations across the country early next year. |
|
October 25, 2002 Scientists Boost Tally at UranusA new moon of the planet Uranus has been discovered and confirmed by a team of astronomers including Dr. Christophe Dumas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
|
October 24, 2002 NASA Music out of This WorldGurnett converted the recorded plasma waves into sounds, much as a receiver turns radio waves into sound waves. |
|
October 23, 2002 NASA to Develop Biohazard 'Smoke' DetectorResearchers have demonstrated a prototype device that automatically and continuously monitors the air for the presence of bacterial spores. |
|
October 23, 2002 Student's Curiosity Leads to DiscoveryCollege senior Elizabeth Lester's work on a device to detect bacterial spores contributed to the new biohazard detector. |
|
October 22, 2002 Shuttle Radar Clears the Air on Central America's TopographyThe image depicts all of Central America-Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama-plus southern Mexico and portions of Cuba and Jamaica. |
|
October 21, 2002 Comet Orbiter Shipped to South American Launch SiteTwenty instruments on the European Space Agency's comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft, including three from NASA, are in final tests for launch early next year. |
|
October 21, 2002 Art Chmielewski, Project ManagerIn this video profile 'First Person,' Art Chmielewski, project manager for New Millennium project ST6, discusses artificial intelligence and new technologies for NASA spacecraft. |
|
|
October 16, 2002 Stardust Mission Status"This is an engineering test," said Thomas Duxbury, project manager for Stardust at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
|
October 14, 2002 NASA Navigation Work Yields Science, Civil, Commerce BenefitsNASA researchers have demonstrated the ability to very precisely navigate airplanes in real time |
|
October 11, 2002 Chaos Seen in Movement of Ring-Herding Moons of SaturnScientists have a new explanation for weird movements of two small moons |
|
October 8, 2002 'Cat's Eye' Images Show Cold Hole Over Jupiter's North PoleThe Hubble Space Telescope is managed by the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. |
|
October 8, 2002 Free Lectures Explore the Biography of Earth's Stellar AncestorsHuman beings were once fascinated with the concept of living under an infinite, unchanging blanket of stars. |
|
October 7, 2002 NASA Adds to Mars Global Surveyor Photo AlbumOne of the highest-resolution images ever obtained from the red planet |
|
October 1, 2002 Mars Odyssey Releases First Data Archive to ScientistsThis release is a major milestone for Mars scientists worldwide |
|
October 1, 2002 Camera Eyes Dusty Spirals in Milky Way CenterThe highest resolution mid-infrared picture ever taken of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals details about dust swirling into the black hole that dominates the region. |
|
September 30, 2002 Northridge Quake Activity Has Apparently Subsided, Says NASAThe Northridge fault surprised residents of greater Los Angeles with a magnitude 6.7 earthquake on January 17, 1994 |
|
September 30, 2002 When Not Seeing Is BelievingA revolutionary portable infrared video camera developed by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may open new vistas for doctors, pilots, environmental scientists and law enforcement. |
|
September 26, 2002 Cassini-Huygens Mission Status"All the probe subsystems and probe instruments did just what they are supposed to do," |
|
September 24, 2002 Pasadena Honors Age-Old Relationship with UniversePasadena is celebrating its roots in astronomy |
|
September 23, 2002 NASA-Built Atomic Clock Does the Time Warp, Again"If I could save time in a bottle..." |
|
September 20, 2002 First Confirmed Capture into Earth Orbit Is Likely Apollo RocketNASA scientists have confirmed the first known capture of an object into Earth orbit from a Sun-centered orbit... |
|
September 16, 2002 Fostering the Next Generation of Mars ExplorersThe Mars Student Imaging Project allows students from the fifth grade through community college to take their own pictures of Mars using a thermal infrared visible camera system onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. |
|
|
September 12, 2002 New Gravity Mission on Track to Map Earth's Shifty MassSix months into its mission to precisely measure Earth's shifting water masses and map their effects on Earth's gravity field, the joint NASA-German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or Grace, is already producing results of considerable interest. |
|
September 9, 2002 Earning Seal of Approval for New Weather DataThere’s no Food and Drug Administration approval for satellite data, no consumer-style rating. So, how do the people who want to use data from a new instrument know they can trust it? |
|
September 3, 2002 Ion Engine to Open Up the Solar SystemThis little engine that could has more than made up for its diminutive size, proving that sometimes less is more -- particularly in space. It was the first non-chemical propulsion system to be used as the primary means of propelling a NASA spacecraft. |
|
August 26, 2002 The Grandfather of Interplanetary ExplorationOn August 27, 1962, NASA scientists and engineers paused with anticipation as they watched the launch of Mariner 2, a spacecraft whose journey would make history and help pave the way for interplanetary exploration. |
|
August 19, 2002 Howdy, StrangersIf you could toss a bottle out into space, what message would you seal into it for anyone -- or any thing -- to open some day far away from our solar system? |
|
August 14, 2002 Students Ride the Wave of JPL ResearchHow did you spend your summer vacation? A group of college students working at JPL will have a unique answer to that mundane question when they head back to school this fall. |
|
August 8, 2002 Celebrating Ten Years of Ocean ObservationsTopex/Poseidon is a little satellite that could. Launched on August 10, 1992, the joint U.S.- French spacecraft was designed to fly for three to five years. This week it celebrates its 10th anniversary and is still going strong. |
|
August 8, 2002 Dr. Ayanna Howard, JPL's Bionic WomanHoward is JPL's own bionic woman who, at the moment, is helping develop an advanced Entry, Descent and Landing software application that can look at virtual terrain on Mars. |
|
July 30, 2002 Planet-hunting Among the StarsNASA scientists are trying to answer that age-old question 'Are we alone?' by looking at other celestial bodies that might have life, with much of their search concentrated on finding Earthlike planets orbiting other stars. |
|
July 29, 2002 Building Blocks and Designing StudentsJust as a toddler uses a set of blocks to build a structure, engineers at JPL design conceptual space missions using a set of blocks, each representing a different segment of requirements. |
|
July 22, 2002 The Science of Surfing - Surfers Use Satellites to Chase Big WavesSurf forecasters are now using near real-time meteorological data from satellites to find big waves. |
|
July 15, 2002 Sniffing Out TroubleThe importance of the sense of smell is not always as obvious as the nose on one's face. Despite the fact that there were seven noses aboard the space shuttle Discovery four years ago in the form of the human crew, the E-Nose had the ability to sniff out what they could not. |
|
July 8, 2002 New Spanish Dish Will Aid Interplanetary CommunicationsConstruction workers erecting steel components atop a new concrete chamber near Madrid, Spain, this summer are helping NASA study Mars and comets. |
|
July 1, 2002 Pathfinder's 5th Anniversary Reveals Big Future for Mars ExplorationOn Friday, July 4, 1997, American flags dressed the nation in a giant Independence Day celebration. It was National Hot Dog Month, and an estimated 155 million hot dogs hit the grill that weekend alone. |
|
June 24, 2002 JPL High Bays Give a Whole New Meaning to 'Clean Your Room'Any fan of television medical dramas knows that operating rooms must be sterile. You don't have to be a doctor, or even play one on TV, to scrub in before entering the cleanroom high bays at JPL. |
|
June 17, 2002 The Longest DayThe longest day of the year should be the perfect time to get a tan, right? But does all that exposure to the Sun also make us more vulnerable to the effects of solar storms? |
|
June 10, 2002 Space Observatory Phones Home with South African CenterImmediately after the Space Infrared Telescope Facility launches in January 2003, mission planners anticipate a four-hour communication gap when their tracking system won't be able to talk to the observatory. |
|
June 7, 2002 Dr. Robert Crippen, Geologist and GeographerDr. Robert Crippen expects the Grand Canyon to be delivered to his office any day. |
|
June 3, 2002 Scientists 'Muscle' Sci-Fi into RealityScientists and engineers worldwide are focusing on biologically inspired technologies like artificial muscles and intelligence. In the future, insect-like robots might relieve their manufacturer's burden by packing themselves for shipping. |
|
May 28, 2002 The Infrared Sky Goes DigitalWould it be possible to see the entire sky without ever stepping outside? Well, if you have access to a computer, the answer would be yes, thanks to the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), the most detailed digital map of the heavens ever made. |
|
May 20, 2002 NASA Radar to the RescueA stormy night, a small plane crashes in the mountains. The search can't start until daylight, and the bad weather may cause more delays. |
|
May 13, 2002 Peering into the Heart of GalaxiesNew technologies are helping astronomers unlock the mysteries of our Milky Way galaxy and the billions of other galaxies in our universe. |
|
May 6, 2002 Wiring the Fashion Trend of the FutureJPL engineer Ann Devereaux is hard at work developing the Wearable Augmented Reality Prototype (Warp), a personal communication device. The voice- activated wearable computer allows easy, real-time access to voice communication, pictures, video, people and technical reports. |
|
April 29, 2002 Global Surveyor Continues its Watch on the Red PlanetWeather reports from Mars, global mapping, inspection of potential landing sites, more data about the red planet than from all previous missions – no problem for the hardworking Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. |
|
April 28, 2002 Sending 'rats' to MarsOne rock abrasion tool will ride on each of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, launching in the summer of 2003. |
|
April 26, 2002 Mars Odyssey Observes First Anniversary in SpaceThe excitement of launch last April 7, the arrival at Mars, the long, sometimes tedious aerobraking concluded so successfully, the beginning of the mapping phase .... |
|
April 22, 2002 A Clear Collaboration in Lake TahoeClear water - Lake Tahoe is famous for it. But over the past 40 years, the lake has been losing its clarity, and the reasons why are murky. |
|
April 16, 2002 Dr. Edward Olsen, Astronomer and Earth ScientistEdward Olsen started his science career as an astronomer looking outward at the universe, but now he has turned his focus in the other direction - inward towards Earth. |
|
April 8, 2002 Voyager Maintenance from 7 Billion Miles AwayAstronauts can make service visits to the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, but what do you do if the spacecraft needing a replacement part is the farthest human-made object from Earth, more than twice as distant as Pluto? |
|
April 1, 2002 David Charbonneau, Planet HunterAlthough the planets found so far outside our solar system are incapable of supporting life as we know it, the detection of those elusive, small Earth-like worlds may be closer than you think, according to Caltech's David Charbonneau. |
|
April 1, 2002 A Mission Brings Black Holes to LightSpace exploration requires a great deal of imagination. With the international Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry mission, supported by NASA until last month, a global team of scientists and engineers not only imagined a telescope larger than Earth. |
|
March 25, 2002 How to Land Softly on a Hard PlanetJust one of the many problems in landing on another planet, after it's been determined where to land and the method to get there, is landing safely. |
|
March 18, 2002 Building Better ForecastsMeteorologists around the world will soon have access to more and better data about Earth's atmosphere thanks to a new NASA instrument planned for launch this spring. |
|
March 11, 2002 Students Get the Best from JPLFor about a half dozen years, JPL employees have been volunteering to bring space and science to L.A. classrooms. |
|
|
March 7, 2002 Grace Space Twins Set to Team Up to Track Earth's Water and GravityNASA and the German Space Agency are preparing to launch the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a scientific pathfinder mission that will test a novel approach to tracking how water is transported and stored within the Earth's environment. |
|
March 6, 2002 Student Navigators Drive Mars Rover TestbedIntense discussion, various viewpoints, chairs being scooted around, slightly raised voices, and eventual consensus: just a typical meeting of scientists in the lab; in this case a rover lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
|
March 5, 2002 Shedding Light on Black HolesIf there were monsters in space, they might appear as black holes - bottomless pits of gravity that rip holes in the fabric of time and space, swallowing up entire stars. Nothing - not even light - can escape. |
|
February 25, 2002 From Russia With GraceOwens is one of a small group of engineers from JPL and Astrium, the German company that built the two Grace satellites, who have come to Russia to oversee the final preparations before launch. |
|
February 11, 2002 Ideas that GelThe most obvious ideas are not always clear. Take aerogel for instance, a transparent, smoky blue substance that's been especially manufactured to bring home a piece of a comet, among other things. |
|
February 6, 2002 Kids Explore Earth, Olympic StyleEarthly wonders on display in a small children’s museum have spread worldwide with the help of NASA and JPL. Beginning this week, visitors will be treated to a new exhibit at the future home of the Children’s Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City, called "Wal |
|
January 22, 2002 All Days Are Not Created EqualAll days are not created equal. Some don't just seem longer than others -- they are. |
|
January 7, 2002 A Texas-Sized Space RockFor two centuries it was the largest known rock in the solar system. The Texas-sized asteroid Ceres, about 930 kilometers (580 miles) across, was the first asteroid ever detected. |
|
January 2, 2002 Happy Navigators Prepare to Say 'Goodnight and Goodbye' to Odyssey's Successful AerobrakingKennedy is one of 11 navigators at JPL who are responsible for the 'round-the-clock guidance of NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft through the mission's aerobraking phase - repeatedly flying Odyssey through the top of the martian atmosphere, using friction to |
 | Register today and receive up-to-the-minute e-mail alerts delivered directly to your inbox. |
