Hang gliders could drop tiny probes on red planet
LONDON: An innovative concept for tiny probes attached to gliders could one day allow small robots to explore intricate locales ...
Tag: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Antarctic ice shelf a few years from disintegration: NASA
LONDON: The last intact section of one of Antarctica’s mammoth ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate completely ...
NASA warns giant Antarctic ice-shelf will be gone by 2020
BRENT: Antarctica's Larsen B ice-shelf is on course to disintegrate completely within the next five years, according to a new ...
NASA assembles scientific team to find life on far-away worlds
FRANCE: According to a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory statement, the agency is assembling a multidisciplinary team of experts to search ...
“Four corners” methane mystery still stuns scientists
MEXICO: The so-called “Four Corners” mystery, an inexplicable methane hot spot discovered in the region of the United States that ...
NASA: Opportunity rover endures “amnesia event”
WASHINGTON: According to a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory statement the durable Opportunity rover suffered a brief loss of flash memory ...
On Mars, opportunity rover spots weird rocks near marathon finish line
NEW YORK: NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover found some rather peculiar rocks and minerals as it neared the end of its ...
NASA Seeks to Improve GPS Communications
LONDON: When you don't know how to get to where you are going, chances are you pull out a smartphone ...
Scientists found new evidence: Ancient Mars had an ocean
BRENT: After six years of planetary observations, scientists at NASA say they have found convincing new evidence that ancient Mars ...
NASA’s Europa Mission to track down Life’s Niches
PARIS: Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are excited to see a robotic mission concept Europa to ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory seeking $30 million from NASA to build Mars drone
NEW YORK: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is seeking $30 million from NASA to build a Mars drone expected to survive at ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory designing copter drone for NASA’s Mars Rover
PARIS: Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers are working on creating a helicopter drone that could be added to NASA's next generation ...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft takes best images of dwarf planet on way to Ceres
LONDON: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is in the home Constant of its journey to Ceres and has snapped the best images ...
Asteroid that buzzed by earth has its own moon at 745,000 miles
NEW YORK: NASA has discovered an asteroid that traveled unusually close to the Earth orbited by a smaller asteroid moon. ...
Mountain-size Asteroid to pass at 745,000 miles distance from Earth
HONG KONG: A mountain-size asteroid will zoom past Earth Monday (Jan. 26), marking the closest pass by such a large ...
Early Rosetta result reveals comets are much more complicated than thought
WASHINGTON: According to research the early Rosetta results reveal that comets are much more complicated than anyone knew. In a ...
NASA to attach Martian helicopter to Mars Rover that travels at just 660 feet per day
LONDON: NASA’s Mars Rover travels at a rate of 660 feet per day or 27.5 feet per hour. It is ...
Huge asteroid 2004 BL86 to hurtle near Earth on January 26th
BRENT: NASA has insisted that we have no cause to fear about an enormous asteroid slighter larger than the Empire ...
NASA: Curiosity to drill into crystal-loaded rock on Mars
WASHINGTON: The Curiosity rover on Mars is being used to look at a rock called Mojave in order to determine ...
Curiosity start drilling operations on bedrock at base of Mount Sharp
LONDON: On Sol 867 of its mission, Curiosity start drilling operations on a slab of bedrock at the base of ...
