This map shows the distribution of water in the stratosphere of Jupiter as measured with the Herschel space observatory. White and cyan indicate highest concentration of water, and blue indicates lesser amounts. The map has been superimposed over an image of J... More »
The tiny red spot in this image is one of the most efficient star-making galaxies ever observed, converting gas into stars at the maximum possible rate. The galaxy is shown here in an image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which first sp... More »
The HyspIRI airborne campaign overflew California’s San Andreas Fault on March 29, 2013. The three-color (red, green, blue) composite image of the fault (left), composed from AVIRIS data, is similar to what a snapshot from a consumer camera would show. The ent... More »
Kepler-62 and the Solar System The artist’s concept depicts Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Calte... More »
Three JPLers Named Among the ‘Most Influential’ The 2013 list of the 100 most influential people named by TIME Magazine includes three men from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Don Yeomans (left), manages NASA’s Near-Earth Program Office at J... More »
Dan Johnston (left) is the new project manager for NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. David Lehman (right) is the new project manager for NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter. Both missions are managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Image credit... More »
This artist’s impression shows the “starburst” galaxy HFLS3. The galaxy appears as little more than a faint, red smudge in images from the Herschel space observatory. Image credit: ESA-C. Carreau Astronomers, including Matt Bradford, Jamie Bock, Darren Dowell,... More »
This spectacular image of comet Tempel 1 was taken 67 seconds after it obliterated Deep Impact’s impactor spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD Like many of his colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with aster... More »
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT), Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency’s Kepler mission. The briefing will be held at NASA’s ... More »
These images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show one of the large seas and a bounty of smaller lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan. Scientists saw these small lakes in data obtained by both Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (left) and radar instrumen... More »
The NEOCam sensor (right) is the lynchpin for the proposed Near Earth Object Camera, or NEOCam, space mission (left). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Teledyne An infrared sensor that could improve NASA’s future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has... More »
This graphic of Jupiter’s moon Europa maps a relationship between the amount of energy deposited onto the moon from charged-particle bombardment and the chemical contents of ice deposits on the surface in five areas of the moon (labeled A through E). Credit: N... More »
