Artist’s concept of NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Deep Impact Mission Status NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft completed a firing of its onboard rocket motors earlier today. The maneuver began at 1 p.m. PDT (4 p.m. EDT), lasted 71 ... More »
Wheel Scuff Mark at ‘Rocknest’ NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity cut a wheel scuff mark into a wind-formed ripple at the “Rocknest” site to give researchers a better opportunity to examine the particle-size distribution of the material forming the ripple. Image Cred... More »
This artist concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. E... More »
NASA’s Voyager spacecraft mission received a Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award during a ceremony in New York City on Oct. 4. Pictured (from left to right) – Voyager’s Ed Stone; Suzanne Dodd; Jefferson Hall; and Jim Meigs, Editor-in-Chief, Popular Mechanics.... More »
Target: Jake Matijevic Rock This image shows where NASA’s Curiosity rover aimed two different instruments to study a rock known as “Jake Matijevic.” Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The first Martian rock NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached out to touch pres... More »
Artist concept showing the descent and landing of Huygens. Image credit: NASA/JPL/ESA The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe, ferried to Saturn’s moon Titan by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10 seconds after touc... More »
This pairing illustrates the first time that NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity collected a scoop of soil on Mars. It combines two raw images taken on the mission’s 61st Martian day, or sol (Oct. 7, 2012) by the right camera of the rover’s two-camera Mast Camera (Mas... More »
Olivier Guyon, an astronomer at JPL, has been named one of the 2012 MacArthur Fellows, a prestigious award popularly known as the “genius grant.” Photo courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Physicist…coronagraphy expert…planet hunter. Now... More »
This 360-degree scene shows the surroundings of the location where NASA Mars rover Curiosity arrived on the 59th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission on Mars (Oct. 5, 2012). It is a mosaic of images taken by Curiosity’s Navigation Camera (Navcam) on sol... More »
JPL’s Battle Mountain meteorite hunters. Pictured from left to right: Peter Willis, Amanda Stockton, Josh Schoolcraft, Fernanda Mora, Morgan Cable, J.P. Kirby. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Peter Willis and his team of researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab... More »
Former President and Resident California Institute of Technology Physicist Robert F. Christy, an integral contributor to the Manhattan Project that gave birth to the world’s first atomic bomb, has passed away in his Pasadena home Wednesday, October 3, 2012... More »
Sarkis K. Mazmanian, a professor of biology at Caltech studying bacteria and their impact on immunity and on the human body, is being awarded a $500,000 “no strings attached” MacArthur grant on October 2. Mazmanian’s findings are revealing links between gut b... More »
