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12/30/03 - NASA Comet Hunter Closing on Quarry. Having trekked 3.2 billion kilometers (2 billion miles) across cold, radiation-charged and interstellar-dust-swept space in just under five years, NASA's Stardust spacecraft is closing in on the main target of its mission -- a comet flyby. |
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12/29/03 - Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status. NASA's Spirit rover spacecraft fired its thrusters for 3.4 seconds on Friday, Dec. 26, to make a slight and possibly final correction in its flight path about one week before landing on Mars. |
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12/23/03 - Ion Engine Under Consideration for Jupiter Mission Passes Test. A new ion propulsion engine design, one of several candidate propulsion technologies under study by NASA's Project Prometheus for possible use on the proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission, has been successfully tested by a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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12/18/03 - NASA Releases Dazzling Images From New Space Telescope. A new window to the universe has opened with today's release of the first dazzling images from NASA's newly named Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. |
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12/18/03 - NASA Announces New Name for Space Infrared Telescope Facility. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced that NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility has been renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope. |
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12/17/03 - Mars May Be Emerging from an Ice Age . NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey missions have provided evidence of a recent ice age on Mars. |
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12/16/03 - Catching the Wild Child -- How Stardust Stays on Target. Imagine driving through heavy fog to a place you've never been, guided only by a faint taillight in the distance. |
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12/11/03 - Tones Break Silence During Mars Exploration Rover Landings. On the phone, tones can signal a connection. On paper, they can add shape and dimension. On Mars, they can do both. This is why members of the Mars Exploration Rover Entry Descent and Landing team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be on the lookout for a series of tones during the mission's landings in January 2004. |
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12/10/03 - NASA Scientists Discover Spring Thaw Makes a Difference . Using a suite of microwave remote sensing instruments aboard satellites, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Montana, Missoula, have observed a recent trend of earlier thawing across the northern high latitudes. |
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12/10/03 - Mission Captures Galaxies Galore. The most sensitive and comprehensive ultraviolet image ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large neighbor galaxy, has been captured by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. |
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12/8/03 - Odyssey Studies Changing Weather and Climate on Mars. Mars may be going through a period of climate change, new findings from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter suggest. |
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12/5/03 - NASA Scientists Use Radar to Detect Asteroid Force. NASA scientists have for the first time detected a tiny but theoretically important force acting on asteroids by measuring an extremely subtle change in a near-Earth asteroid’s orbital path. |
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12/5/03 - The Measure of Water: NASA Creates New Map for the Atmosphere. NASA scientists have opened a new window for understanding atmospheric water vapor, its implications for climate change, and ozone depletion. |
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12/4/03 - Progress, Promise in Space-based Earthquake Research. Nearly 10 years after Los Angeles was shaken by the devastating, magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake, scientists at NASA and other institutions say maturing space-based technologies, new ground-based techniques and more complex computer models are rapidly advancing our understanding of earthquakes and earthquake processes. |
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12/4/03 - Mars Missions Have International Flavor. A European Space Agency mission that will arrive at Mars this month has American participants, and Europeans are team members for two NASA spacecraft that will reach Mars in January. |
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12/2/03 - Mars Rovers Head for Exciting Landings in January. NASA's robotic Mars geologist, Spirit, embodying America's enthusiasm for exploration, must run a grueling gantlet of challenges before it can start examining the red planet. |
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12/2/03 - Challenges of Getting to Mars. Two out of three missions to the red planet have failed. |
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12/1/03 - NASA Spacecraft Pinpoints Where the Wild Thing is. Forty-nine days before its historic rendezvous with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully photographed its quarry, comet Wild 2 (pronounced Vilt-2), from 25 million kilometers (15.5 million miles) away. |
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11/26/03 - Mars Odyssey Mission Status. The martian radiation environment experiment on NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected data continuously from the start of the Odyssey mapping mission in March 2002 until late last month. |
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11/21/03 - Final Death Throes of Nearby Star Witnessed First-Hand. It takes only a few hundred to a thousand years for a dying Sun-like star, many billions of years old, to transform into a dazzling, glowing cloud called a planetary nebula. |
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11/21/03 - Our Amazing Universe: Vote for Your Favorite Image. You're invited to help NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrate 10 years of dazzling imagery of the universe from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. |
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11/20/03 - Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status. NASA's Spirit spacecraft made its third trajectory correction. |
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11/18/03 - Largest pair of 'eyes' ever built to aid search for planets. Fully assembled, the Large Binocular Telescope resembles a face, gazing skyward with a pair of enormous saucer eyes. |
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11/17/03 - NASA's Deep Space Network: Calling Home Is About to Get Easier. This winter an unprecedented number of spacecraft will need to call home. |
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11/13/03 - Cassini Captures Jupiter in Close-Up Portrait. Jupiter, our solar system's most massive planet, has been captured in the most detailed global color view ever seen, courtesy of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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11/13/03 - Delta-Like Fan on Mars Suggests Ancient Rivers Were Persistent. Newly seen details in a fan-shaped apron of debris on Mars may help settle a decades-long debate about whether the planet had long-lasting rivers instead of just brief, intense floods. |
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11/7/03 - Two Cosmic Explorers Named ‘Best of What's New'. Two recently launched NASA missions won "Best of What's New" awards from Popular Science magazine. |
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11/5/03 - Voyager Spacecraft Approaches Solar System's Final Frontier. NASA's venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft, built and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is about to make history again. |
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11/5/03 - Deep Space Network Gears Up for Interplanetary Boom. NASA'S Deep Space Network has completed a number of upgrades to help support the fleet of more than two dozen spacecraft touring the solar system. |
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11/5/03 - JPL-Managed Missions Chosen for Study. A mission to study black holes, managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is one of five selected recently by NASA as candidate mission proposals to study the universe. |
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11/4/03 - Mars Rover Spirit Mission Status. A series of tests of one of the science instruments on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has enabled engineers and scientists to identify how to work around an apparent problem detected in August. |
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11/3/03 - Cassini Spacecraft Captures Sounds of Solar Storm. University of Iowa Professor and Space Physicist Dr. Don Gurnett used NASA's Cassini spacecraft to record the sound of one of the largest solar flares seen in decades, as it moved outward from the Sun. |
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10/28/03 - People Are Robots, Too. Almost. Popular culture has long pondered the question, "If it looks like a human, walks like a human and talks like a human, is it human?" |
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10/28/03 - JPL Scientists Receive NASA Fundamental Physics Grants. Four scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif, along with 11 other researchers, have been awarded NASA grants totaling more than $6.4 million over four years, to conduct space fundamental physics research. |
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10/23/03 - JPL Researchers Unveil Superconductor-Based Light Detector. A new and improved way to measure light has been unveiled by physicists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, both in Pasadena, Calif. |
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10/23/03 - NASA Scientist Dives into Perfect Space Storm. Newly uncovered scientific data of recorded history's most massive space storm is helping a NASA scientist investigate its intensity and the probability that what occurred on Earth and in the heavens almost a century-and-a-half ago could happen again. |
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10/22/03 - JPL Engineer in a Class of Her Own. Dr. Ayanna Howard, an electrical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been selected as one of the top 100 innovators by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review Magazine. |
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10/20/03 - Missing Link Sought in Planetary Evolution. Just as anthropologists sought "the missing link" between apes and humans, astronomers are embarking on a quest for a missing link in planetary evolution. |
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10/16/03 - South American Glaciers Melting Faster, Changing Sea Level. The Patagonia Icefields of Chile and Argentina, the largest non-Antarctic ice masses in the Southern Hemisphere, are thinning at an accelerating pace and now account for nearly 10 percent of global sea-level change from mountain glaciers, according to a new study by NASA and Chile's Centro de Estudios Cientificos. |
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10/14/03 - Cosmic Jets Whoosh into Free Public Lectures. Cosmic jets -- a common but mysterious phenomenon in the universe -- will be the topic of two free lectures to be held on Thurs., October 16 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, and Fri., October 17 at Pasadena City College. |
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10/13/03 - Associate Director Honored by American Astronautical Society. Thomas R. Gavin, associate director of flight projects and mission success at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. is being honored as a fellow of the American Astronautical Society. |
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10/13/03 - Space Infrared Telescope Facility Mission Status. The Space Infrared Telescope Facility, NASA's fourth and final Great Observatory, has been successfully focused. |
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10/8/03 - Research Scientist Receives National Minority Award. Dr. Claudia Alexander, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calf., is the recipient of an Emerald Honor for Women of Color in Research & Engineering. |
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10/2/03 - Saturn-Bound Spacecraft Tests Einstein's Theory. An experiment by Italian scientists using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, currently en route to Saturn, confirms Einstein's theory of general relativity with a precision that is 50 times greater than previous measurements. |
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10/1/03 - A Galaxy Far, Far Away Eyed by Linked Hawaiian Telescopes. A galaxy far beyond our own Milky Way, with a monstrous, churning black hole in its center, has been observed by two optical telescopes working in unison as an interferometer. |
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9/30/03 - Gallery of Mars Closeups from NASA Orbiter Adds 10,232 Views. Thousands of newly released portraits of martian landscapes from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft testify to the diversity of ways geological processes have sculpted the surface of our neighboring planet. |
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9/29/03 - Early Arctic Thaw Could Have Chilling Effect. Spring will be coming early next year to the great forests and tundra of the Arctic. Good for the vegetation, but perhaps not so good for the atmosphere. |
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9/23/03 - If You Thought That Was a Close View of Mars, Just Wait. As Earth pulls away from Mars after last month's close approach, NASA is developing a spacecraft that will take advantage of the next close encounter in 2005. |
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9/22/03 - NASA Awards Deep Space Network Operations Contract. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has awarded ITT Industries of White Plains, N.Y., a five-year, $274-million subcontract for operations and maintenance of NASA's Deep Space Network facilities in the United States and for support of overseas facilities. |
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9/21/03 - Galileo End of Mission Status. The Galileo spacecraft's 14-year odyssey came to an end on Sunday, Sept. 21, when the spacecraft passed into Jupiter's shadow then disintegrated in the planet's dense atmosphere at 11:57 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. |
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9/17/03 - Galileo to Taste Jupiter Before Taking Final Plunge. In the end, the Galileo spacecraft will get a taste of Jupiter before taking a final plunge into the planet's crushing atmosphere, ending the mission on Sunday, Sept. 21. |
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9/17/03 - Surprising Jupiter. After orbiting Jupiter 34 times and surviving four times the amount of radiation it was design to withstand, the resilient Galileo spacecraft is finally at the very end of its 14-year mission. |
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9/16/03 - Lecture Brings Galileo's Travels into Final Focus. Just a few days before NASA's Galileo mission makes its grand finale, Dr. Rosaly Lopes, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will discuss the legacy of the mission in two free lectures. |
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9/16/03 - JPL Scientist Among NASA Trio Honored with Prestigious Awards. A prominent scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., joins two other NASA leaders being honored by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization Women in Aerospace for their outstanding achievements in aerospace technology, education and community outreach. |
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9/12/03 - Marine Picks First Public Mars Global Surveyor Image. If you were given a chance to aim the camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter and take a picture of something on the red planet, what would you shoot? |
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9/11/03 - Lab Research Yields the Biggest Chill. NASA-funded researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded -- one-half-billionth degree above absolute zero. |
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9/11/03 - NASA Wants You to Be a Solar System Ambassador. With hopes to further expand the successful Solar System Ambassador program, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is recruiting more volunteers to be Solar System Ambassadors in 2004. |
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9/10/03 - NASA Satellites Sample Hurricane 'Ingredients' to Help Forecasters. Every year, from June 1 to November 30, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a meteorological mixing bowl, replete with all the needed ingredients for a hurricane recipe. |
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9/8/03 - Lending an Improved Ear. With the help of friends down under, calling home is about to get easier. |
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9/3/03 - Space Infrared Telescope Facility Mission Status. NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility has switched on two of its onboard instruments and captured some preliminary star-studded images. |
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9/2/03 - NASA Explorer Schools Enroll in JPL 101. Teachers had a blast with the launch of the NASA Explorer Schools program this summer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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8/27/03 - As Sea Level Rises, Beaches Shrink. Stack two dimes on top of each other. Their height is a tiny fraction less than global sea level is rising each year. |
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8/25/03 - Space Infrared Telescope Facility Lifts Off. NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility successfully launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:35:39 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (10:35:39 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, August 24) aboard a Delta II launch vehicle. |
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8/25/03 - Space Infrared Telescope Facility Mission Status. Following last night's picture-perfect launch, NASA's Space Infrared Telescope Facility is positioned exactly where ground controllers want it to be, trailing behind Earth as it orbits the Sun. |
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8/22/03 - Earth Has a New Look. A brand new look and understanding of the place we call home. |
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8/21/03 - New Findings Could Dash Hopes for Past Oceans on Mars. After a decades-long quest, scientists analyzing data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have at last found critical evidence the spacecraft's infrared spectrometer instrument was built to search for: the presence of water-related carbonate minerals on the surface of Mars. |
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8/20/03 - NASA Seeks Public Suggestions for Mars Photos. Earth comes closer to Mars this month than it has in nearly 60,000 years, but one new opportunity for seeing details on the red planet comes from a vantage point much closer. |
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8/19/03 - Programs Will Share Inside Story of Mars-Bound Robots. Two free public programs in Pasadena this week will offer an introduction to the challenges and excitement of NASA's project to examine two areas of Mars with robotic rovers that are currently flying to Mars. |
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8/19/03 - Infrared -- Catch the Wave. When you pick up that TV remote to switch to your favorite channel, you''re riding a wave--an infrared wave. |
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8/13/03 - NASA Satellites Eye Forest Fires. If a forest catches fire and no one is around to see it, can it call for help? |
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8/11/03 - Science, Studies and a Little Sun for Students at JPL. Thanks to a partnership between NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Washington College of Engineering, eight soon-to-be college freshmen are spending their summer working on science and engineering projects at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. |
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8/6/03 - Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status. The first in-flight checkouts of the science instruments and engineering cameras on NASA's twin Spirit and Opportunity spacecraft on their way to Mars have provided an assessment of the instruments' condition after the stressful vibrations of launch. |
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8/6/03 - Asteroids Dedicated to Space Shuttle Columbia Crew. The final crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia was memorialized in the cosmos as seven asteroids orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter were named in their honor today. |
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8/6/03 - A Rock By Any Other Name . It begins with a faint trace of light that besmirches an astronomer’s otherwise pristine image of a starfield. The process ends, if the observer is lucky, with an opportunity to dispense a cosmological version of immortality by naming a celestial object for an earthly entity. |
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7/31/03 - JPL Software Expert Wins Award. Dr. Gerard Holzmann, who recently joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has won a Thomas Alva Edison patent award in the information technology category. |
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7/30/03 - Ion Engine Records No Tuneups, No Problems. The future is here for spacecraft propulsion and the trouble-free engine performance that every vehicle operator would like, achieved by an ion engine running for a record 30,352 hours at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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7/28/03 - Mars Moves in for Some Quality Visual Time . Living too close to a neighbor may not be very appealing, but when Earth’s neighboring red planet moves closer than it’s been in 60,000 years, observers expect nothing but acclaim. |
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7/25/03 - Intriguing Celestial Images Arrive from Galaxy Mission. NASA/'s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has beamed back revealing images of hundreds of galaxies to expectant astronomers, providing the first batch of data on star formation that they had hoped for. |
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7/22/03 - Tiny Measurement Gives Big Boost to Planet Hunt. Even though astronomers have discovered more than 100 planets around stars other than the Sun in recent years, the holy grail of the search -- an Earth-sized planet capable of supporting life -- remains elusive. |
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7/21/03 - USA-France Tandem Satellite Mission Serving Up Fresh Sea Fare. Take one well-seasoned oceanography satellite, the joint NASA-Centre National dEtudes Spatiales (French Space Agency) Topex/Poseidon, nearing its 11th year in orbit to study the worlds ocean circulation and its effect on climate, mix in a fresh sibling satellite, Jason, and add a dash of ingenuity, and you get what scientists are calling the Jason-Topex/Poseidon tandem mission. |
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7/21/03 - Oceanographers Catch First Wave of Gravity Mission's Success. The joint NASA-German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) mission has released its first science product, the most accurate map yet of Earths gravity field. Grace is the newest tool for scientists working to unlock secrets of ocean circulation and its effects on climate. |
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7/18/03 - Students and Teachers to Explore Mars. While the ultimate field trip might someday be an actual journey to Mars, NASA is doing the next best thing giving high school teams the opportunity to explore Mars by working on specific research projects during the Mars Exploration Rover missions, set to land on the red planet in January 2004. |
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7/18/03 - Mars Rover Opportunity Mission Status. NASA's Opportunity spacecraft made its first trajectory correction maneuver today, a scheduled operation to fine-tune its Mars-bound trajectory, or flight path. |
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7/15/03 - Asteroid Hunters Discover Near-Earth Object with New Camera. NASA astronomers in pursuit of near-Earth asteroids have already made a discovery with the newly installed Quasar Equatorial Survey, or 'Quest,' camera mounted in mid-April on Palomar Mountain's 1.2-meter (48-inch) Oschin telescope.
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7/14/03 - Art Meets Aerogel . The Louvre….the Vatican Museums….JPL? There is no doubt that the heavens and the exploration of space have inspired beautiful art. |
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7/11/03 - Scientists, Students Dig High and Low for 'Dirt' on Soil Moisture. It's all about "getting the dirt." In this case, collecting detailed information about the soil. |
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7/11/03 - Meet the Humans Behind the Robots. From investigating abandoned buildings to charting the hazardous terrain of Mars, engineers at JPL design robots able to confront risky environments on Earth and elsewhere in the universe. |
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7/9/03 - Mars Rover Opportunity Mission Status. NASA's Opportunity spacecraft, the second of twin Mars Exploration Rovers, has successfully reduced its spin rate as planned and switched to celestial navigation using a star scanner. |
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7/7/03 - Newly Launched 'Opportunity' Follows Mars-Bound 'Spirit'. Launched 'Opportunity' Follows Mars-Bound 'Spirit'. NASA launched its second Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, late Monday night aboard a Delta II launch vehicle whose bright glare briefly illuminated Florida Space Coast beaches. |
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7/1/03 - Hawaiian Telescope Team Makes Debut Discovery. Astronomers have observed a young star ringed by a swirling disc that may spin off planets, marking the first published science observation using two linked 10-meter (33- foot) telescopes in Hawaii. |
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7/1/03 - NASA Explorer Schools Program Takes Off. NASA launched a major new education initiative this week when the NASA Explorer Schools Program premiered at the 2003 National Educating Computer Conference in Seattle. |
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6/27/03 - At 25, Remembering a Trendsetting Seafaring Satellite. It only skippered the seas of space for a mere three months, but just as Gilligans "three-hour tour" has continued on in syndication for decades, a salty satellite launched to study the oceans 25 years ago this week by JPL, is living on through the many missions it has spawned. |
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6/26/03 - NASA's Odyssey Orbiter Watches a Frosty Mars. NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is revealing new details about the intriguing, dynamic character of the frozen layers now known to dominate the high northern latitudes of Mars. |
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6/24/03 - NASA Orbiter Eyes Phobos Over Mars Horizon. Images from the Mars Orbiter Camera aboard NASAs Mars Global Surveyor capture a faint yet distinct glimpse of the elusive Phobos, the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons. |
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6/20/03 - Mars Rover Spirit Mission Status. NASA's Spirit spacecraft, the first of twin Mars Exploration Rovers, performed its first trajectory correction maneuver today. |
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6/19/03 - South America Shines in NASA's Latest Space Radar Map Release. Straddling the equator and engaged in a titanic clash of great tectonic plates, South America is home to some of the worlds most scenic landscapes. |
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6/19/03 - Stardust Spacecraft Mission Status. With 198 days before its historic rendezvous with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully completed the missions third deep space maneuver. |
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6/19/03 - New Maps Open Roads to Research. The most dangerous road on Earth. That's what they call the narrow, cliff-hugging road in the Bolivian Andes linking La Paz, the world’s highest capital, with the lowland Amazonian rainforest. |
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6/12/03 - Mars Rover Spirit Mission Status. NASA's Spirit spacecraft, the first of twin Mars Exploration Rovers, has successfully reduced its spin rate as planned and switched to celestial navigation using a star scanner. |
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6/11/03 - The Aerover Blimp: The Ultimate All-terrain Vehicle. Engineers are constantly planning for the future. In space exploration, this means coming up with innovative and energy-efficient ways to study harsh but scientifically interesting environments that are millions or billions of miles from Earth. |
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6/10/03 - NASA's 'Spirit' Rises on Its Way to Mars. A NASA robotic geologist named Spirit began its seven-month journey to Mars at 1:58:47 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (10:58:47 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time) today when its Delta II launch vehicle thundered aloft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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6/9/03 - Scope Out NASA's Space Observatory Finale. An upcoming mission that will study the darkest and dustiest regions in the cosmos will be explored in two free lectures to be held on Thursday, June 12, at JPL, and Friday, June 13, at Pasadena City College. |
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6/8/03 - Girl with Dreams Names Mars Rovers 'Spirit' and 'Opportunity'. Twin robotic geologists NASA is sending to Mars will embody in their newly chosen names -- Spirit and Opportunity -- two cherished attributes that guide humans to explore.
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6/4/03 - NASA Will Send Two Robotic Geologists to Roam on Mars. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover project kicks off by launching the first of two unique robotic geologists on June 8. |
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6/2/03 - U.S. Partners Share in Excitement of Europe's Mars Mission. Americans are participating in several ways in the European Space Agency's first mission to Mars, launched today from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. |
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6/2/03 - Doctor Prescribes Space Science to U.S. Troops in Iraq . A nuclear, biological and chemical defense officer for the Army’s 1st Medical Brigade, Steinhurst is an army captain who also volunteers as a solar system ambassador for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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5/28/03 - Galaxy Mission Honors Columbia Crew with First Light. NASAs Galaxy Evolution Explorer has gathered its first celestial images, a first light milestone dedicated to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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5/27/03 - Theatre in the Rectangle. The great sculptor gravity ensures that larger, denser objects in the universe -- like stars, planets and moons -- take on the familiar spherical shape. |
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5/22/03 - First-Ever Snapshot Released of Mother Earth from Mars. Have you ever wondered what you would see if you were on Mars looking at Earth through a small telescope? |
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5/22/03 - New NASA Computer Models May Lead to Quake Forecast System. Advanced computer simulation tools now being developed by NASA and university researchers may soon give scientists new insights into the complex and mysterious physics of earthquakes and enable vastly improved earthquake forecasting.
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5/21/03 - Frozen Light: Cool NASA Research Holds Promise. NASA-funded research at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., that literally stops light in its tracks, may someday lead to breakneck-speed computers that shelter enormous amounts of data from hackers.
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5/20/03 - Newly Discovered Star May Be Third-Closest. The local celestial neighborhood just got more crowded with a discovery of a star that may be the third closest to the Sun. |
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5/8/03 - Your Name Could Make a 'Deep Impact' on a Comet. People worldwide may celebrate July 4, 2005, as the day their names reach a comet. NASA is launching a campaign to send hundreds of thousands of names to comet Tempel 1.
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5/6/03 - Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Status. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer successfully opened its telescope cover this morning at 4:32 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (1:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time).
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5/6/03 - NASA Brings 'Mars at the Mall' to Florida May 9 and 10. Part of Merritt Square Mall in Merritt Island, Fla., will take on an unearthly tone during two "Mars at the Mall" days presented by NASA on May 9 and 10 to celebrate Florida's role as America's gateway to Mars. |
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5/1/03 - JPL Welcomes World-Renowned Software Specialist. Dr. Gerard Holzmann, a leader in software verification and validation, has joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to further develop the newly established Laboratory for Reliable Software.
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4/30/03 - NASA 'Ambassadors' Target the Future of Flight with Space Day. About 35 volunteers in NASA's Solar System Ambassadors Program are planning an assortment of public activities across the country for Space Day, being observed this year on May 1. The events run through May 17.
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4/29/03 - Live Webcast Will Preview Mars Rover Adventure. A live interactive broadcast and webcast on May 1 will offer an advance look at NASA's plans to land two robotic geologists on Mars in January 2004 -- the Mars Exploration Rover mission.
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4/29/03 - New NASA Data Helps Take 'Whether' Out of Weather Prediction. Your weatherperson's job just got a little easier, thanks to new data now available from advanced weather instruments aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. |
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4/29/03 - Breaking the Typhoon Rules. Storms like Typhoon Varmei aren't supposed to happen. So when U.S. Navy ships were hit by this tropical cyclone in the South China Sea in December 2001, researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif., decided to take a closer look. |
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4/28/03 - Galaxy Evolution Explorer On Its Way. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft was successfully launched today from a Pegasus XL rocket released by an L-1011 aircraft off the coast of Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Station at 7:59:57 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (4:59:57 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time).
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4/25/03 - Lectures to Cover Engineering Challenges of 'Hard Rock' Science. Scientists and engineers don't always dance to the beat of the same drum, especially when it comes to "hard rock" science -- the study of intact, crystallized rocks on other planets, which may provide clues to how these other worlds formed. |
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4/22/03 - Transforming Teachers into NASA Astronauts. Students and the public are encouraged to help NASA recruit teachers who can create out-of-this-world ways to educate students. |
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4/22/03 - Galaxy Evolution Explorer Looks Back in Time. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer will carry a telescope into Earth orbit that will observe a million galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history to help astronomers determine when the stars we see today had their origins.
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4/21/03 - JPL Open House to Take Visitors to the Planets and Beyond. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will hold an open house on Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., taking visitors on a virtual ride through the solar system with this year's theme, "Journey To The Planets and Beyond." |
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4/21/03 - Shedding Light on the Universe. The universe has been described as a symphony of light. And just as any piece of music is comprised of individual notes up and down the musical scale, the dazzling display of light from celestial sources is made up of photons, or packets of light, scaled by energy along the electromagnetic spectrum. |
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4/15/03 - NASA and Naval Research Lab to Study Coastal Eddies. NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory will take a closer look at the swirling water phenomenon known as coastal eddies when they fly a specially-instrumented NASA airborne sciences DC-8 jet off the Southern California coast this month.
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4/15/03 - NASA Orbiter Camera Team Begins Daily Mars Picture Postings. The camera team for NASA's Mars Global Surveyor mission is beginning daily Internet postings of pictures that showcase the rich diversity of martian landscapes.
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4/14/03 - Peril in Peru? NASA Takes a Look at Menacing Glacier. An Earth-monitoring instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite is keeping a close eye on a potential glacial disaster-in-the-making in Peru's spectacular, snow-capped Cordillera Blanca (White Mountains), the highest range of the Peruvian Andes.
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4/11/03 - NASA Rovers Slated to Examine Two Intriguing Sites on Mars. NASA has chosen two scientifically compelling landing sites for twin robotic rovers to explore on the surface of Mars early next year. The two sites are a giant crater that appears to have once held a lake, and a broad outcropping of a mineral that usually forms in the presence of liquid water.
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4/10/03 - Mars Mysteries Revealed in Two Public Lectures. Two free public programs in Pasadena next week offer an overview of the historic Mars Global Surveyor mission. |
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4/9/03 - Galileo Millennium Mission Status. |
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4/8/03 - Prolific NASA Orbiter Adds Thousands of Photos to Mars Album. |
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4/2/03 - NASA Researchers Put New Spin on Einstein's Relativity Theory. |
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4/1/03 - JPL Origins Theme Technologist Receives Goddard Award. |
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3/31/03 - Robots Stack Their Way to Victory in NASA-Sponsored Competition. |
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3/31/03 - NASA's Deep Space 1 Team Receives National Award. |
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3/28/03 - NASA Finds Wide Annual Fluctuations in Arctic Ozone Loss. |
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3/27/03 - JPL Participates in Two Community Events This Weekend. |
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3/27/03 - The Sky's the Limit: Grand Finale for Twin-Telescope Survey. |
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3/27/03 - Cosmic Objects -- Something Old and Something New. When the French astronomer Charles Messier was trying to discover new comets in the mid-18th century, he compiled a list of about 100 diffuse objects that, to his eye, could be confused with comets. |
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3/25/03 - Space Observatory to Study the Old, the Cold and the Dusty. |
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3/20/03 - Students Join Scientists in the Snowy Rockies Via Live Webcasts. |
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3/18/03 - NASA Astronaut Encourages Students in Los Angeles. |
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3/17/03 - Observatory Boldly Goes Where the Human Eye Cannot. Equipped with advanced infrared technology, NASA will peer into unknown territories of the universe with the long-anticipated Space Infrared Telescope Facility. |
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3/14/03 - Programs Will Share Excitement of Saturn-Bound Mission. |
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3/13/03 - NASA's Mars Odyssey Changes Views about Red Planet. |
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3/6/03 - Space Infrared Telescope Facility Arrives at KSC. |
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3/6/03 - Scientists Say Mars Has a Liquid Iron Core. |
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3/6/03 - Rising Storms Revise Story of Jupiter's Stripes. |
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3/6/03 - NASA's Newest Maps Reveal a Continent's Grandeur and a Secret. |
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3/6/03 - A 'Smoking Gun' for Dinosaur Extinction. It is hard to imagine that one of the largest impact craters on Earth, 180-kilometers (112-mile) wide and 900-meters (3,000-feet) deep, could all but disappear from sight, but it did. |
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2/27/03 - New Spacecraft Tool Reveals Massive Gas Cloud around Jupiter. |
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2/26/03 - Galileo Team Disbanding as Long Jupiter Tour Winds Down. |
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2/24/03 - NASA's Newest SeaWinds Instrument Breezes into Operation. |
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2/24/03 - Flying with Nature's Own Fuel. With new solar sail technology, scientists are finding a way to convert light energy from the Sun into a lightweight, propellant-free source of propulsion for spacecraft. |
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2/20/03 - NASA Solves Half-Century Old Moon Mystery. |
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2/19/03 - Free Lectures Feature New Weather and Climate Tools. |
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2/19/03 - NASA's Mars Odyssey Points to Melting Snow as Cause of Gullies. |
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2/18/03 - Women Working on Mars. |
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2/14/03 - NASA Ambassadors Spread the Wow of Space Exploration. |
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2/13/03 - Roll with the Rovers and 'Explore Mars'. |
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2/12/03 - NASA Scientist Clears the Fog on Gloomy Summers. |
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2/7/03 - NASA El Niño Expert to Speak at Long Beach Weather Fair. |
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2/7/03 - Space Sensors Sample Brews from Earth's Volcanic Cauldrons. |
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2/5/03 - Satellite Helps Scientists See Quake Effects in Remote Areas. |
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2/3/03 - Twins Share a Room . Engineers for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission are completing assembly and testing for the twin robotic geologists at JPL. |
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1/31/03 - A 70,000-Carat U.S. Space 'Gem' Marks Its Sapphire Anniversary. |
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1/27/03 - 2003: A JPL Space Odyssey -- Join the Journey with Free Lectures. |
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1/27/03 - The Keys to the Stellar Kingdom. The Space Interferometry Mission will provide the breakthrough technology needed to pinpoint these two extremes of stellar evolution. |
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1/24/03 - JPL to Hold High-Tech Conference for Small Business. |
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1/22/03 - Workers at Australian Site Save Space Antennas from Wildfire. |
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1/21/03 - A Cosmic Identity Crisis. Nature defies categorization. Think of the platypus, a curious creature that lays eggs like a bird but suckles its young like a mammal. |
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1/16/03 - NASA Mission Will Look at Clouds from Both Sides. |
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1/16/03 - What's Shakin' in Space Quake Research? Find Out at Free Talks. |
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1/14/03 - Mars and the Final Four . Potential landing sites for Mars Exploration Rovers are relatively near landing sites for Viking 1 and 2, and Mars Pathfinder. The data is from Mars Global Surveyor. |
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1/13/03 - NASA Instrument Captures Early Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting. |
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1/7/03 - Getting the Big Picture on Houston's Air Pollution. Houston has a serious air quality problem. Since 1999, the Texas city has exchanged titles with Los Angeles as having the most polluted air in the United States defined by the number of days each city violates federal smog standards. |
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1/6/03 - Astronomers Find a Hero. |
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1/2/03 - Earth and Asteroid Play Orbital Cat and Mouse Game. |
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