A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.
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Planetary Survey From Orbit: Earth’s Surface Minerals In Arid Regions
Editor’s note: We’re now able to detect planets orbiting other stars. We can determine the size and basic composition of these worlds but only in a general sense. As newer […]
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High-gain Antenna Installed On The Europa Clipper Astrobiology Probe
The addition of a high-gain antenna will enable the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft in August 2023 – set to launch in October 2024 – to communicate with mission controllers hundreds […]
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Antarctic Away Team Mission: Ice Caves Near An Active Volcano In Antarctica
In 2017 a JPL robotics researcher tested new technologies in ice caves near an active volcano in Antarctica. Mt. Erebus is at the end of our world — and offers […]
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NASA Studies Cryobots To Explore Ocean Worlds
In February 2023, researchers from around the country gathered at a NASA-sponsored workshop to discuss the latest developments and a roadmap for a cryobot mission concept to drill through the […]
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Testing Hardware For Potential Future Astrobiology Mission Landing On Europa
On Aug. 17 and 18, 2023, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California tested the landing system for a proposed future mission that would touch down on Jupiter’s […]
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Overview and Status
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument is a critical technology demonstrator for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory.
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Away Team Tech: Impossible Sensing Brings High-Tech Laser Lab To The Ocean Floor
On Friday, May 19, 2023, Impossible Sensing, along with a team of scientists and engineers from SETI Institute, NASA JPL, University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory and other institutions onboard […]
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Video: U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Unveils Her Poem for Europa
Poet Laureate Ada Limón read her poem for NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and talked with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden; Nicola Fox, associate administrator of the NASA Science Mission Directorate; […]
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Snake-Like EELS Droid Slithers Into New Robotics Terrain
How do you create a robot that can go places no one has ever seen before – on its own, without real-time human input? A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion […]