News Archive / Tagged: JPL

• NASA releases 3D video of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 3rd flight

  Michael McCabeMay 31st, 2021

  On April 25, 2021, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its third test flight. Recently, NASA engineers converted a video of the flight into anaglyph 3D.

• Curiosity mission team operates rover from home

  Jim SharkeyMay 13th, 2020

  While the majority of scientists and engineers who work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California are currently off-site, that doesn’t mean that their work supporting interplanetary missions has ground to a halt.

• Mars 2020 rover get rock-zapping SuperCam

  Jim SharkeyJuly 4th, 2019

  With its scheduled launch date just over a year away, work on NASA's Mars 2020 rover continues apace. In recent weeks, the rover has received MastCam-Z, its legs and wheels and its main robotic arm. and now one of the "big guns" of its scientific suite has been added to the rover.

• Interstellar: Voyager 2 goes where only one has gone before

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 14th, 2018

  NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has become the second probe to enter interstellar space, as confirmed by data returned by several of the science instruments on board the spacecraft.

• MarCO CubeSats perform successfully during InSight landing

  Laurel KornfeldNovember 28th, 2018

  Two CubeSats successfully monitored InSight's entry, descent, and landing on Mars and returned data to Earth hours before NASA's Mars orbiters came into position to transmit the data.

• “Pale Blue Dot” imaged by MarCO CubeSat

  Paul KnightlyMay 25th, 2018

  Reminiscent of the famous Voyager 1 “Pale Blue Dot” photo, an image returned by one of NASA’s Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats on May 9, 2018, shows a distant Earth and Moon as it speeds off toward the Red Planet.

• NASA begins assembly, test, and launch operations for Mars 2020 rover

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 15th, 2018

  NASA has started the assembly, test, and launch operations (ATLO) for its Mars 2020 rover, a key milestone that involves bringing together parts from all over the world.

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in precautionary standby mode

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 18th, 2018

  NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) placed itself into a precautionary standby mode after experiencing a sudden low battery voltage on February 15. 

• NASA prepares Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to support future missions

  Jim SharkeyFebruary 11th, 2018

  Since arriving in orbit above the Red Planet in 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has observed Mars with it scientific instruments and provided a vital communications link for mission on the Martian surface. The spacecraft has already operated for more than twice its planned mission lifetime. NASA is planning to keep using it well into the 2020's to support upcoming missions. The space agency is currently taking steps to increase the orbiter's longevity. 

• Newly discovered house-sized asteroid 2018 CB to zip close by Earth

  Tomasz NowakowskiFebruary 9th, 2018

  A newly detected house-sized asteroid, designated 2018 CB, is slated to fly by Earth on Friday, February 9, at around 22:30 UTC, with a velocity estimated at being some 26,000 mph (58,000 km/h).

• Large solar arrays deployed during tests of new Mars lander

  Laurel KornfeldJanuary 26th, 2018

  The large solar arrays built to power NASA's new Mars InSight lander were unfurled for testing by engineers and technicians at Lockheed Martin Space's facilities in Littleton, Colorado, on Tuesday, Jan. 23.