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NASA pulled off a scientific double play in Hawaii this winter, using the same instruments and aircraft to study both volcanoes and coral reefs.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 28, 2017
As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics—Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 20, 2017
A recent NASA-funded study has shown how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn's moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 17, 2017
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 10, 2017
Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth's orbit can be a technological challenge.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 10, 2017
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 3, 2017
On Mars, wind rules. Wind has been shaping the Red Planet's landscapes for billions of years and continues to do so today.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 1, 2017
A mission to examine the habitability of Jupiter's ocean-bearing moon Europa is taking one step closer to the launchpad, with the recent completion of a major NASA...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 28, 2017
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 22, 2017
Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists' understanding of Earth's water...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 17, 2017
Participants in a landing site workshop for NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 13, 2017
Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 10, 2017
NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 4:57 a.m. PST (7:57 a.m. EST, 12:57 UTC).
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 1, 2017
Newly released images showcase the incredible closeness with which NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now in its "Ring-Grazing" orbits phase, is observing Saturn's dazzling...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 30, 2017
A simple chemistry method could vastly enhance how scientists search for signs of life on other planets.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 27, 2017
Scientists used NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in recent weeks to examine slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 18, 2017
After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in temperatures...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 12, 2017