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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Colorful Clouds Drifting Over Mars
- NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured images of colorful clouds drifting over the Martian sky, made of frozen carbon dioxide or dry ice.
- The images show red-and-green-tinted clouds tinged with colors by scattering light from the Sun.
- Curiosity's observations of iridescent clouds have provided insights into particle size and growth rate in Martian clouds, enhancing our understanding of the planet's atmosphere.
- The twilight clouds, first seen on Mars by NASA's Pathfinder mission in 1997, create a visual spectacle in the Martian skies.
- One of the mysteries surrounding the carbon dioxide ice twilight clouds is why they haven't been observed in other regions of Mars.
- The presence of these clouds may be related to gravity waves cooling the atmosphere in specific locations on Mars.
- Curiosity's recent exploration includes studying impact craters like 'Rustic Canyon' to unearth materials that could provide insights into the ancient Martian environment.
- The Mars rover Curiosity has been instrumental in capturing images and data to expand our knowledge of the planet's geology and history.
- The Curiosity rover, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, continues its mission of exploration and discovery on the Martian surface.
- For more information on the Curiosity rover and its missions, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity.
Nasa | 12 Feb, 2025
NASA-Led Study Pinpoints Areas Sinking, Rising Along California Coast
- A team led by NASA has used California as a case study to show how seemingly modest vertical land motion could significantly impact local sea levels in coming decades.
- In many parts of the world, like the reclaimed ground beneath San Francisco, the land is moving down faster than the sea itself is going up.
- The researchers showed how direct satellite observations can improve estimates of vertical land motion and relative sea level rise.
- To capture localized motion inch by inch from space, the team analyzed radar measurements made by ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) Sentinel-1 satellites.
- The new study illustrates how vertical land motion can be unpredictable in scale and speed.
- By 2050, sea levels in California are expected to increase between 6 and 14.5 feet (15 and 37 centimeters) higher than year 2000 levels.
- The elevation changes resulting from vertical land motion may seem small — amounting to fractions of inches per year — but they can increase or decrease local flood risk, wave exposure, and saltwater intrusion.
- The scientists further calculated how human-induced drivers of local land motion increase uncertainties in the sea level projections by up to 15 inches (40 centimeters) in parts of Los Angeles and San Diego counties.
- Researchers from JPL and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) used satellite radar to track more than a thousand miles of California coast rising and sinking in new detail.
- The new information can help coastal communities develop strategies for rising seas due to a better understanding of the land’s role.
Nasa | 11 Feb, 2025
NASA Explores Earth Science with New Navigational System
- NASA recently tested an aircraft guidance system called Soxnav that helps planes maintain a precise course even at high speeds.
- The Soxnav navigational system provides precise, economical guidance for a variety of aircraft types.
- The G-IV aircraft successfully demonstrated the ability of Soxnav to keep a high-speed aircraft within just a few feet of its target track.
- With Soxnav, research aircraft can collect more accurate and reliable Earth science data, contributing to better disaster support and understanding of environmental changes.
Nasa | 8 Feb, 2025
A Recent Impact on Mars Shook the Planet to Its Mantle
- Recent research from two NASA missions, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the InSight lander, reveals meteorite signals on Mars may penetrate deeper inside the planet than previously thought. This discovery implies that our understanding and model for the planet’s interior may be due for an overhaul. The InSight lander detected over 1,300 'marsquakes' until the mission’s end in 2022, while the majority were caused by geologic activity, a few were caused by distant meteorite impacts. The Cerberus Fossae area was found to have a quarter shock distance from the InSight landing site, at around 1,640 kilometers distant.
- Typically, it was thought that the Martian crust had a dampening effect on distant impacts. The discovery of a crater about 21.5 meters in length proved a mystery to scientists as it was more distant than thought. Impact generated waves took a more direct route through the deeper mantle of the planet itself. Something that raises questions about what we think of the interior of Mars and shows the need to investigate the planet more to understand it better.
- MRO generates tens of thousands of images of the surface of Mars using a machine learning algorithm to sift through the images and look for fresh impact sites that do not appear in previous frames. The crater was found through the mission’s 0.5-meter High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The AI program was developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- InSight provided a wealth of seismology and geological information about Mars. Unfortunately, no dedicated follow-on geology mission is set to head to Mars. Crewed missions of the 2030s hope to see science, exploration and discovery through collaboration between nations, just as InSight was.
- This research is a crucial finding, as it offers insights to the geological activities happening on Mars, and also provides clues about the density, depth, and thickness of the planet’s mantle and core.
- InSight carried the first ever dedicated seismometer to the Red Planet that detected 1,300 'marsquakes', providing clues to its geological activities, density, depth, and thickness of the planet’s mantle and core.
- The InSight mission helped researchers' gain deeper insights into the Martian landscape, making it a groundbreaking mission that contributed greatly to scientific literature.
- NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the InSight lander were behind the two papers published in Geophysical Research Letters, providing new data from their respective missions which was used to make crucial discovery mentioned earlier.
- The impacts generated waves that traveled through the planet’s deeper mantle, penetrating much deeper than what was previously thought.
- To find the crater, NASA’s MRO sifted through tens of thousands of images using machine learning and a program developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, making detection much more efficient.
Universe Today | 6 Feb, 2025
NASA’s InSight Finds Marsquakes From Meteoroids Go Deeper Than Expected
- Meteoroids striking Mars produce seismic signals that can reach deeper into the planet than previously known. That’s the finding of a pair of new papers comparing marsquake data collected by NASA’s InSight lander with impact craters spotted by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
- Researchers have in the past taken images of new impact craters and found seismic data that matches the date and location of the craters’ formation. But the two new studies represent the first time a fresh impact has been correlated with shaking detected in Cerberus Fossae, an especially quake-prone region of Mars that is 1,019 miles (1,640 kilometers) from InSight.
- The impact crater is 71 feet (21.5 meters) in diameter and much farther from InSight than scientists expected, based on the quake’s seismic energy. The Martian crust has unique properties thought to dampen seismic waves produced by impacts, and researchers’ analysis of the Cerberus Fossae impact led them to conclude that the waves it produced took a more direct route through the planet’s mantle.
- InSight’s team will now have to reassess their models of the composition and structure of Mars’ interior to explain how impact-generated seismic signals can go that deep.
- A machine learning algorithm developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to detect meteoroid impacts on Mars played a key role in discovering the Cerberus Fossae crater.
- The findings also highlight how researchers are harnessing AI to improve planetary science by making better use of all the data gathered by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) missions.
- JPL managed InSight for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. InSight was part of NASA’s Discovery Program, managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
- A number of European partners, including France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), supported the InSight mission.
- Significant contributions for SEIS came from IPGP; the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland; Imperial College London and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) supplied the temperature and wind sensors.
- A division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, JPL manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Nasa | 4 Feb, 2025
6 Things to Know About SPHEREx, NASA’s Newest Space Telescope
- NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx), set to launch soon after Thursday, Feb. 27, will map the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors, illuminating the origins of our universe, galaxies within it, and life’s key ingredients in our own galaxy. The observatory will help scientists to improve their understanding of cosmic phenomenon called inflation. By mapping the distribution of over 450 million galaxies, SPHEREx will help scientists improve our understanding of the physics behind this cosmic event.
- The SPHEREx space telescope will take a different approach by measuring the collective glow from all galaxies, including galaxies too small, too distant for other telescopes to easily detect, in other to provide scientists with a complete picture of all the major sources of light in the universe.
- The observatory will also pinpoint the location and abundance of basic ingredients such as water and carbon dioxide frozen in interstellar clouds of gas and dust, where stars and planets form.
- The SPHEREx observatory will provide maps that encompass the entire sky, thereby complementing telescopes like Hubble and Webb that have studied individual galaxies and objects of scientific interest.
- The SPHEREx observatory sees infrared light, which is ideal for studying stars and galaxies, and it splits the light into its component colors, like a prism creates a rainbow from sunlight, to measure the distance to cosmic objects and learn about their composition.
- The observatory's infrared telescope and detectors need to operate at around minus 350 degrees Fahrenheit and rely on an entirely passive cooling system. Key to making this feat possible are three cone-shaped photon shields that protect the telescope from the heat of Earth and the Sun.
- SPHEREx is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the agency’s Astrophysics Division within the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, and BAE Systems (formerly Ball Aerospace) built the telescope and the spacecraft bus.
- The SPHEREx dataset will be publicly available at NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive and processed and archived at IPAC at Caltech, which manages JPL for NASA.
- The mission principal investigator is based at Caltech with a joint JPL appointment.
- The SPHEREx observatory is expected to help scientists answer major questions such as inflationary theory, the origin of galactic light, the chemical makeup of the early universe, the evidence of dark matter, a better understanding of galaxy formation, and the search for life’s building blocks.
Nasa | 1 Feb, 2025
NASA to Preview Sky-Mapping Space Telescope Ahead of Launch
- NASA will host a news conference to discuss the SPHEREx mission, a new telescope that will improve our understanding of the universe and search for key ingredients for life.
- The mission aims to understand the structure of the universe, how galaxies form and evolve, and the origins and abundance of water.
- The SPHEREx observatory will survey the entire celestial sky in near-infrared light and gather data on millions of galaxies and stars.
- The mission is managed by NASA JPL and is scheduled to launch on February 27, sharing a ride with NASA's PUNCH mission.
Nasa | 28 Jan, 2025
The Los Angeles Fires Got Extremely Close to NASA’s JPL Facility
- The Los Angeles wildfires posed an extreme risk to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) located in the hills of Pasadena.
- JPL is responsible for important NASA missions and receives a significant portion of the agency's budget.
- One of the wildfires, originating from Eaton Canyon, came within one kilometer of JPL.
- While JPL itself was spared, nearby towns, including those of JPL employees, suffered significant damage.
Universe Today | 17 Jan, 2025
California Fires Came Within a Mile of Burning Down NASA’s $40B Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) came within one kilometer of being burned down by the Eaton fire during the California fires.
- The 177-acre JPL campus, home to over 150 buildings and high-tech equipment, was close to destruction.
- Despite the surrounding devastation, JPL's facilities, including Mission Control and spacecraft assembly rooms, survived.
- The news brings relief that scientifically important places like JPL were spared.
Mossandfog | 17 Jan, 2025
Leader of NASA’s VERITAS Mission Honored With AGU’s Whipple Award
- Suzanne Smrekar, geophysicist and principal investigator of the agency’s upcoming VERITAS mission to Venus, is NASA JPL’s first recipient of the prestigious award.
- Smrekar received the Fred Whipple Award at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
- VERITAS mission aims to study Venus from surface to core, understanding its volcanic plains and deformed terrain beneath a toxic atmosphere.
- Smrekar has previously worked on NASA's Mars InSight mission and had a passion for Venus exploration.
Nasa | 10 Dec, 2024
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