Jet Propulsion Laboratory

CloudSat
CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite)
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Water on Earth
Over the course of nearly two decades, its powerful radar provided never-before-seen details of clouds and helped advance global weather and climate predictions. CloudSat, a NASA mission that peered into hurricanes, tallied global snowfall rates, and achieved other weather and climate firsts, has ended its operations.
Posted April 23, 2024
Juno
Io
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter
Jupiter Moons
The Solar System
Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft provides close-ups of intriguing features on the hellish Jovian moon.
Posted April 18, 2024
Ingenuity (Helicopter)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
Mars Sample Return (MSR)
Perseverance (Rover)
The Solar System
The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]
Posted April 17, 2024
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Earth
Earth Science
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Water on Earth
Data from the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission helped researchers to calculate the depth of water in this transient freshwater body. California’s Death Valley, the driest place in North America, has hosted an ephemeral lake since late 2023.
Posted April 15, 2024
General
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Spinoffs
Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
Math for designing lasers becomes artist’s key to creating complex crease patterns
Posted April 12, 2024
Europa Clipper
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Solar System
Excitement is mounting as the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission gets readied for an October launch.
Posted April 11, 2024
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The staff changes tap into a deep well of talent and experience across JPL as the laboratory looks to the future.
Posted April 11, 2024
NEOWISE
Comets
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)
NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
As the infrared space telescope continues its long-duration survey of the universe, it is creating a unique resource for future astronomers to make new discoveries.
Posted April 4, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
Mars Sample Return (MSR)
The Solar System
The 24th sample taken by the six-wheeled scientist offers new clues about Jezero Crater and the lake it may have once held. Analysis by instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate that the latest rock core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended period of time in the distant past, perhaps […]
Posted April 3, 2024
Oceans
Climate Change
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Water on Earth
New findings have revealed a coastal realm highly sensitive to changes in runoff and rainfall on land. After helping stoke record heat in 2023 and drenching major swaths of the United States this winter, the current El Niño is losing steam this spring. Scientists have observed another way that the climate phenomenon can leave its […]
Posted April 3, 2024
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