U bent hierNieuws

Nieuws

NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - wo, 22/02/2012

Building a Buckyball Particle in Space

Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space.



NASA Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting Lower

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - di, 21/02/2012

This image of clouds over the southern Indian Ocean was acquired on July 23, 2007

A new university study using data from NASA's Terra spacecraft finds Earth's clouds got about one percent lower on average during the first decade of the 2000s.



NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - vr, 17/02/2012

Global map of forest height produced from NASA's ICESAT/GLAS, MODIS and TRMM sensors.

A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests.



NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - vr, 17/02/2012

Artist's concept of NuSTAR on orbit. NuSTAR has a 10-m (30') mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left).

Mating of NASA's NuSTAR observatory to its Pegasus rocket is underway.



JPL and Caltech CubeSat Proposals Move Forward

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - di, 14/02/2012

CubeSat Artist Rendering and NASA's M-Cubed/COVE

NASA selects 33 small satellites - including two from JPL in partnership with Caltech - to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014.



Advanced Communications Testbed for Space Station

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - ma, 13/02/2012

NASA Engineers and Technicians transporting the SCAN Testbed

An orbiting laboratory will soon provide new and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate.



Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - ma, 13/02/2012

All-sky image of molecular gas and three molecular cloud complexes seen by Planck

New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy.



3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of 2010 Mexico Quake

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - do, 09/02/2012

This five-foot-high (1.5-meter-high) surface rupture, called a scarp, formed in just seconds along the Borrego fault during the magnitude 7.2

A new partially NASA-supported study of the April 2010 major quake near the California-Mexico border gives the most comprehensive before-and-after picture yet of a quake zone.



Spacecraft Computer Issue Resolved

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - do, 09/02/2012

This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover

Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it.



New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - wo, 08/02/2012

Spirit Lander and Bonneville Crater in Color

New color images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the agency's 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander and the lander that carried its rover Spirit to Mars in 2004.



NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - wo, 08/02/2012

NASA's GRACE Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice

A new comprehensive University of Colorado-led study used gravity data from NASA's Grace mission to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level.



NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - di, 07/02/2012

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer was launched on April 28, 2003.

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer was placed in standby mode today as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch.



Mars-Bound NASA Rover Carries Coin for Camera Checkup

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - di, 07/02/2012

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity with an inset of an instrument located at the end of it's robotic arm.

At least one object in photos NASA's Curiosity rover will transmit from Mars later this year will look familiar to all Americans: a Lincoln penny sent as a camera reference.



NASA's Juno Spacecraft Refines its Path to Jupiter

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - do, 02/02/2012

NASA's Juno spacecraft passes in front of Jupiter in this artist's depiction.

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the mission's first trajectory correction maneuver.



NASA Mission Returns First Video From Moon's Far Side

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - wo, 01/02/2012

South pole of the far side of the moon as seen from the GRAIL mission's Ebb spacecraft.

A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon.



GRAIL Mission Returns First Video of Moon's Far Side

HD video - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - wo, 01/02/2012



NASA's GRAIL mission has beamed back its first video of the far side of the moon. The imagery was taken on Jan. 19 by the MoonKAM aboard the mission's 'Ebb' spacecraft.



What's Up for February?

HD video - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - di, 31/01/2012



Mars gets closer and two comets delight viewers.



JPL to Host High-Tech Small Business Conference

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - ma, 30/01/2012

High-Tech Conference for Small Business

JPL will host the 24th annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on Tuesday, March 6, and Wednesday, March 7, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel.



NASA Study Solves Case of Earth's 'Missing Energy'

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - vr, 27/01/2012

Scientist Graeme Stephens at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is also an artist. This work is entitled 'Cumuls Congestus'

Inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating led NASA scientists to reexamine the data to solve the puzzle.



NuSTAR Spacecraft Arrives in California

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - vr, 27/01/2012

NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft, enclosed in an environmentally controlled shipping container, is delivered by tractor-trailer to processing facility 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

NASA's NuSTAR mission has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California, where it will be mated to its Pegasus rocket.