October 26, 2012 NASA Oct. 30 Telecon About Mars Curiosity ProgressNASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, Oct. 30, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. |
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October 25, 2012 NASA Radar Penetrates Thick, Thin of Gulf Oil SpillResearchers at JPL and Caltech have developed a method to use a specialized NASA 3-D imaging radar to characterize the oil in oil spills like the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill. |
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October 25, 2012 Assessing Drop-Off to Mars Rover's Observation TrayNASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 78th sol (Oct. 24, 2012) to view soil material on the rover's observation tray. |
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October 25, 2012 NASA's Cassini Sees Burp at Saturn After Large StormNASA's Cassini spacecraft has tracked the aftermath of a rare massive storm on Saturn. |
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October 24, 2012 NASA's Spitzer Sees Light of Lonesome StarsA new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky. |
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October 23, 2012 NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black HoleNASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. |
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October 22, 2012 Curiosity Rover Collects Fourth Scoop of Martian SoilNASA's rover Curiosity shook a scoopful of sand inside its sample-handling mechanism on Sol 75 (Oct. 21, 2012) as the third scrubbing of interior surfaces of the mechanism. |
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October 18, 2012 JPL Scientists Participate in ShakeOut ExercisesTwo JPL-developed projects designed to assist in response to earthquake disasters participated in exercises tied to today's Great California ShakeOut quake drill. |
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October 18, 2012 Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside RoverNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission. |
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October 17, 2012 Could a Hurricane Ever Strike Southern California?California has its share of disasters, like earthquakes, fires and floods. But what are the odds a hurricane could ever strike here? Turns out the concept isn't exactly all wet. |
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