My Favorite Martian Image: ‘Enchanted’ Rocks at Jezero Crater
Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance’s Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she’s looking for....
Month : December 2022
NASA’s Stratospheric Balloon Mission Gets Telescope With Giant Mirror
Telescopes designed to operate in space have to be constructed differently than those meant to operate on the ground. But what about telescopes that operate...
NASA Helps Decipher How Some Distant Planets Have Clouds of Sand
A new study using archival observations by the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope found a common trait among distant worlds where the exotic clouds form....
NASA Updates Coverage for Webb Telescope’s First Images Reveal
Team members with the Mid-Infrared Instrument, a camera aboard the observatory, will celebrate the images at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages MIRI for NASA....
NASA Shares List of Cosmic Targets for Webb Telescope’s First Images
The images will include some taken by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, which is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA....
NASA Highlights Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets Coverage
Riding aboard will be EMIT, a mission developed at JPL to identify the composition of airborne mineral dust from Earth’s arid regions and analyze its...
President Biden Reveals First Image From NASA’s Webb Telescope
Thousands of galaxies are revealed in this first science image from the observatory, which includes the Mid-Infrared Instrument managed by JPL for NASA....
NASA’s Perseverance Scouts Mars Sample Return Campaign Landing Sites
The six-wheeled explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for NASA’s next Mars lander....
NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe
The images include some taken by the telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, which the Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages for NASA....
NASA’s New Mineral Dust Detector Readies for Launch
Designed to analyze airborne dust to see how it might affect climate, the EMIT mission launches to the International Space Station on Thursday, July 14....
