News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Copyright (c) 2009 NASA / JPL All rights reserved. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ News and Technology JPL's RSS feed brings you the latest press releases, feature stories and slide shows from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. JPL has explored every planet in the solar system with robotic spacecraft. en-us Mon, 20 May 2009 15:49:47 PDT 5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Phoenix Results Point to Martian Climate Cycles http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-106 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Phoenix Thursday, 02 Jul 2009 11:07:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-106'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/phoenix/collection_16/phx17062-th.jpg' align='left' alt='mosaic of images from the Surface Stereo Imager camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favorable environment for microbes. 
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Engineers placed a rock underneath the test rover at JPL on July 1, 2009, to more closely simulate Spirit's predicament on Mars. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Earthquakes, From Above and Below: Live Chat http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-105 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 01 Jul 2009 12:07:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-105'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/ustream/20090701/chat-20090701-th.jpg' align='left' alt='This is a simulated view of ground movement following an earthquake' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Earthquakes: they're among the most frightening and deadly of all natural disasters. 
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After several days of preparing a sloped area of soft, fine soil to simulate Spirit's current sandtrap on Mars, the rover team drove a test rover into the material. 
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Ulysses, a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission, officially ceased operations today, after receiving commands from ground controllers to do so. 
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NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg QuikScat's 'Greatest' Hits http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2202 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Friday, 26 Jun 2009 12:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2202'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/quikscat/20090626/QuikScat_ad_th.jpg' align='left' alt='QuikScat vinyl record illustrating its greatest hits' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's wind-watching QuikScat satellite is 10 years old this month. Take a spin down memory lane and see some of the mission's greatest achievements to date. 
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Ulysses, a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission, will officially end its operations Monday, June 29. 
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The Herschel Space Observatory has snapped its first picture since blasting into space on May 14, 2009. 
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NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history. 
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When residents of the top floors of JPL's new Flight Projects Center look out their windows down to the roof of the building's auditorium, they won't see black tar. 
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For the first time, scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have detected sodium salts in ice grains of Saturn's outermost ring. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2196 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 25 Jun 2009 02:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2196'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/quikscat/earth20090625-th.jpg' align='left' alt='QuikScat image of a mature North Atlantic extratropical cyclone' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Among QuikScat's greatest achievements in its first decade of operations is its ability to spot hurricane-force winds within commonly occurring extratropical storms. 
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Diviner, an instrument that will make the first maps of the temperature on the surface of the lunar polar regions, has entered the moon's orbit aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-100 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 22 Jun 2009 10:30:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-100'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/odyssey/odyssey20090622-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Improved Infrared Imaging from Changed Odyssey Orbit' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg JPL Wind Watcher Blows Into its Second Decade http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2193 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Draft Thursday, 18 Jun 2009 05:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2193'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/quikscat/20081118/quikscat-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Artist concept of QuikScat.' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's QuikScat satellite has reached a milestone--10 years of tracking wind speed and direction, and revolutionizing marine weather forecasts. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Scientists Bring Light to Moon's Permanently Dark Craters http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-099 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 18 Jun 2009 01:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-099'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/moon/20090618/goldstone2-20090618-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Topographic image of the moon.' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

A new lunar topography map with the highest resolution of the moon's rugged south polar region provides new information on some of our natural satellite's darkest inhabitants - permanently shadowed craters. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg JPL Instrument Set for Lunar Orbiter Mission http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-098 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 17 Jun 2009 12:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-098'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/lro/lro-20090617-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist's concept of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA is scheduled to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, tomorrow, June 18. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Scientists Search for a Pulse in Skies Above Earthquake Country http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2190 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 17 Jun 2009 12:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2190'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/uavsar/20090616/radar-20090616-th.jpg' align='left' alt='UAVSAR image of the San Andreas fault in the San Francisco Bay area just west of San Mateo and Foster City' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

A new NASA 3-D airborne radar, capable of seeing below the surface, will study earthquake faults in California. 
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The Herschel observatory has flipped its lid -- the cover protecting the telescope's instruments was successfully removed on June 14, 2009. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Shaken and Stirred: Lab Studies Ice From Frigid Worlds http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2188 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Cassini Monday, 15 Jun 2009 01:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2188'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20090615/360288main_D2009_0603_D663_cropped_th.jpg' align='left' alt='Researcher Fang Zhong analyzes ices like those found on Saturn's moon Titan in JPL's Ice Physical Properties Laboratory.' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The most exotic frozen cocktails on Earth won’t be found in a chic restaurant or trendy bar. Scientists are mixing up icy concoctions in a laboratory not much bigger than a janitor’s closet. 
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A JPL-developed and -built cooler on the Planck spacecraft has chilled the mission's low-frequency instrument down to its operating temperature. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Baby Stars Finally Found in Jumbled Galactic Center http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-097 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 10 Jun 2009 04:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-097'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090610/spitzer-20090610a-th.jpg' align='left' alt='three baby stars in the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg WISE Mission Assembled and Preparing for Launch http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2183 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 10 Jun 2009 12:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2183'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wise/20090610/wise-20090610-th.jpg' align='left' alt='WISE Project Scientist Peter Eisenhardt stands next to the fully assembled WISE satellite' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has been assembled and is undergoing final preparations for a planned Nov. 1 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. 
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining Mars again with its scientific instruments after successfully transitioning out of a precautionary standby mode. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg 'Curiosity,' Meet Clara http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2181 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL MSL Monday, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2181'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/msl/20090608/msl-20090608-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Clara Ma signs Curiosity' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Twelve-year-old Clara Ma flew from Kansas to JPL to meet and sign the next rover that will zoom millions of miles to Mars. 
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Mission controllers at JPL have received a transmission from the Dawn spacecraft confirming it has re-ignited its ion propulsion system. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Rebooting Resembles February Event http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-095 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL MRO Thursday, 04 Jun 2009 14:06:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-095'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mro/20081126/mro-concept-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after an unexpected rebooting of its computer Wednesday evening, June 3. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Cassini Finds Titan's Clouds Hang on to Summer http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-093 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Cassini Wednesday, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-093'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20090603/pia12005-th.jpg' align='left' alt='The tip of the shadow of the moon Tethys is cut off where it crosses Saturn's B ring, demonstrating the variations in density across the planet's rings.' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Cloud chasers studying Saturn's moon Titan say its clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion. 
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A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. 
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Crater http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-087 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Thursday, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-087'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-02-03/20090203_CYL_L-th.jpg' align='left' alt='full-circle view of the rover's surroundings' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Study Shows Asteroids May Have Accelerated Life On Earth http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-111 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL asteroids Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:05:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-111'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/asteroid/20090521/060417_bombard_hmed-226.jpg' align='left' alt='Artist concept of asteroid impacting earth' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

A NASA-funded study indicates that an intense asteroid bombardment nearly 4 billion years ago may not have sterilized the early Earth as completely as previously thought. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-087 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Monday, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-087'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-05-11/mer-20090511-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Spirit's wheels digging into soft ground' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's rover project team is using Spirit and other spacecraft at Mars to find a way for the rover to get dislodged from soft Martian ground. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Spitzer Begins Warm Mission http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-086 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Friday, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-086'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090506/spitzer-20090506-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Artist's concept of Spitzer Space Telescope' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

After more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cool cosmos, Spitzer has run out of the coolant that kept its infrared instruments chilled. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Herschel and Planck on Way to Study Our Cosmic Roots http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-085 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-085'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/herschel/20090514/launch-20090514-th.jpg' align='left' alt='launch of Herschel/Planck' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The Herschel and Planck spacecraft successfully blasted into space on May 14 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Let the Planet Hunt Begin http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-084 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-084'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/kepler/20090219/briefing-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Artist concept of Kepler' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-083 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-083'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090513/spitzerB-20090513-th.jpg' align='left' alt='A young sun-like star encircled by its planet-forming disk of gas and dust.' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar system's outer edges. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Soft Ground Puts Spirit in Danger Despite Gain in Daily Energy http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-082 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Monday, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-082'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-05-11/mer-20090511-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Spirit's wheels digging into soft ground' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-081 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-081'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc/20090510/nebula-20090510-th.jpg' align='left' alt='planetary nebula known as Kohoutek 4-55' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed a planetary nebula to commemorate the decommissioning of a super camera. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg The Camera That Saved Hubble... Twice: JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2144 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2144'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc/20090507/nucleus-20090507-th.jpg' align='left' alt='M100 Galactic Nucleus' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The story and the people behind Hubble's imaging workhorse. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station, New Mars Rover http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-080 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL MSL Thursday, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-080'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/msl/20090507/msl-20090507-th.jpg' align='left' alt='view of Mars Science Lab model on Photosynth' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Wins Two Webby Awards for Internet Excellence http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-079 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Cassini Wednesday, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-079'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20090506/keyboard-20090506-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Cassini and NASA sites' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's main site won the People's Voice award for best government Web site and the Cassini mission won for best science site. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up To New Career http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-078 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-078'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090506/helix-20090506-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Helix Nebula' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg A Universal Art Form: NASA's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2138 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2138'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc/20090505/hourglass-20090505-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Hourglass Nebula' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Throughout history, humanity has been moved by the work of the great artists of their age. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Herschel and Planck Share Ride to Space http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-077 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-077'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/herschel/herschel-planck-20090505-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Herschel and Planck' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Two missions to study the cosmos are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Visitors Throng to Annual JPL Open House http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2134 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2134'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/openhouse/20090504/msl-20090504-th.jpg' align='left' alt='model of Mars Science Laboratory' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

More than 30,000 people visited JPL for the annual Open House the weekend of May 2 and 3. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2133 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2133'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090504/spitzer20090504-th.jpg' align='left' alt='NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Interview' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Top Five Breakthroughs From Hubble's Workhorse Camera http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2132 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2132'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc/20090504/deepfield-20090504-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Hubble Deep Field' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Here are five things you should know about JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which is the oldest and longest working instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg JPL's John Casani Honored by Air and Space Museum http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-076 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-076'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/people/casani/casani-20090430-th.jpg' align='left' alt='John Casani' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

John Casani of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been honored with the National Air and Space Museum's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Arctic Trek to 'Break the Ice' on New NASA Airborne Radars http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-075 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-075'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/arctic/greenland-20090429-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Petermann Floating Tongue in north Greenland' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Galaxy-Exploring Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2126 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2126'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/galex/20090428/galexC-20090428-th.jpg' align='left' alt='NASA's Galaxy Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission marks its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Spirit Resumes Driving While Analysis of Problem Behaviors Continues http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-074 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Friday, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-074'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-04-23/mer-20090423-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Spirit on Mars' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove on Thursday for the first time since April 8, acting on commands from engineers who are still investigating bouts of amnesia and other unusual behavior exhibited by Spirit in the past two weeks. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Live JPL Open House Video/Chat: Next Best Thing to Being There http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-073 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-073'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/ustream/ustream-20090423-th.jpg' align='left' alt='montage of events at Open House' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Don't worry if you can't attend this year's annual Open House at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. - just throw on your fuzzy slippers, switch on your computer and join us for a live video stream and chat. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Team Continues Analyzing Spirit Computer Reboots and Amnesia Events http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-071 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Monday, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-071'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-04-20/A1871_fhaz-th.jpg' align='left' alt='NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

After three days of completing Earth-commanded activities without incident last week, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had a bout of temporary amnesia Friday, April 17, and rebooted its computer Saturday, April 18, behavior similar to events about a week earlier. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg JPL Invites Public to Annual Open House http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-070a http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 20 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-070a'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/openhouse/oh20090420-th.jpg' align='left' alt='JPL Invites Public to Annual Open House 2009' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., welcomes the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-068 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 12:04:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-068'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/kepler/20090416/kepler-20090416-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Kepler's full field of view' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-067 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-067'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-04-15/mer-20090415-th.jpg' align='left' alt='dust storm on Mars' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Online Poll for NASA's Greatest Hits for Earth Begins Today http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/earthday/greatest_hits.html http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/earthday/greatest_hits.html '> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/earth/earth-20090414-th.jpg' align='left' alt='This image from Apollo 17, and others like it, captured whole hemispheres of water, land and weather.' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA is inviting the public to vote online for the most important contribution the space agency has made to exploring Earth and improving the way we live on our home planet. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Spirit Healthy but Computer Reboots Raise Concerns http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-066 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Monday, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-066'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-04-13/pia11978-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Spirit saw this view of its surroundings' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is examining data received from Spirit in recent days to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over the April 11-12 weekend. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Dust Cover Jettisoned From NASA's Kepler Telescope http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-065 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-065'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/kepler/20090407/off-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Kepler dust cover coming off' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-064 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-064'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090407/spitzerB20090407-th.jpg' align='left' alt='This artist's conception shows a young, hypothetical planet around a cool star.' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Satellites Show Arctic Literally on Thin Ice http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-062 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-062'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/earth/arctic/artic20090406-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Snow and Ice Data Center show that the Arctic's sea ice cover is continuing to shrink, and is thinning as well.' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-061 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-061'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090402/sig06-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Cartwheel Galaxy' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Continues to Advance International Polar Year Science http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-059 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-059'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/ipy/20090330/chapman-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Chapman glacier' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Although the International Polar Year officially came to a close in February, NASA is continuing to push the frontiers of polar science from space, the air and the surface of ice. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Team Finds Riches in Meteorite Treasure Hunt http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2094 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2094'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/asteroid/20090325/treasure2-th.jpg' align='left' alt='path of meteors' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Just before dawn on Oct. 7, 2008, an SUV-sized asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded harmlessly over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Cassini Provides Virtual Flyover of Saturn's Moon Titan http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-058 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Cassini Tuesday, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-058'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20090324/pia11831-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Hotei' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

"Fly me to the moon"-to Saturn's moon Titan, that is. New Titan movies and images are providing a bird's-eye view of the moon's Earth-like landscapes. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Live Chat With NASA's Asteroid Trackers http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-057 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL asteroids Monday, 23 Mar 2009 12:03:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-057'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/neo/20090323/ida-th.jpg' align='left' alt='asteroid Ida and its moon Dactyl' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

A live videocast and chat from JPL offers a unique opportunity for viewers to ask questions of scientists with NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office about how NASA discovers and tracks asteroids. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Online Poll for NASA's Mars Rover Naming Contest Opens March 23 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-055 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL MSL Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-055'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/msl/20090318/pia09202-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Artist concept of Mars Science Laboratory Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA will post online nine names that are finalists for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory mission and invite the public to vote for its favorite. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Celebrates Sun-Earth Day With Illuminating Webcast http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-054 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-054'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/sun/20090318/pia09321-th.jpg' align='left' alt='' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA scientists will reveal new information and images about our sun and its influence on Earth and the solar system for Sun-Earth Day, recognized each year in conjunction with the spring equinox. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Explorer Schools Compete in Lego Robotics Contest http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2087 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2087'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/lego-20090318/san-th.jpg' align='left' alt='students from San Cayetano Elementary School race their robot' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Fillmore's San Cayetano Elementary School and Mesa Union School from Somis captured top honors at the 3rd Annual Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition at JPL on Tuesday, March 17. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-053 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-053'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-03-18/PIA11834-th.jpg' align='left' alt='North Rim of Endeavour Crater on Horizon' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater that has been Opportunity's long-term destination for six months. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Asteroid to Fly By Earth Wednesday http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2085 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL asteroids Tuesday, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2085'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/neo/20090317/fh-th.jpg' align='left' alt='orbit of 2009 FH, Mar. 17, 2009' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

A small asteroid will fly past Earth early tomorrow morning (Wed., March 18). 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped by Hubble http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-051 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-051'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc/20090317/saturn-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Saturn' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

On Feb. 24, 2009, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a photo of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Lunacy Rules at First Robotics Competition http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2082 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2082'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/first/first2009/first2009-th.jpg' align='left' alt='FIRST Robotics Competition' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Sixty-one teams from Southern California, Arizona, Brazil and Chile faced off in the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition on March 13 and 14. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Hearts of Galaxies Close in for Cosmic Train Wreck http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-050 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Monday, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-050'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090316/spitzer20090316-th.jpg' align='left' alt='This image of a pair of colliding galaxies called NGC 6240' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

A new image from Spitzer offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the mass of the sun. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Launches 'Eyes on the Earth 3-D' http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-048 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-048'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/climate/20090312/eyes-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Artwork from' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

New interactive features on NASA's Global Climate Change Web site give the public the opportunity to "fly along" with NASA's fleet of Earth science missions and observe Earth from a global perspective in an immersive, 3-D environment. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2076 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2076'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20090312/spitzer-20090312-th.jpg' align='left' alt=''Cat's Eye' Planetary Nebula' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Cassini Swaps Thrusters http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-047 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Cassini Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-047'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20090202/pia03883-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artst concept of Cassini spacecraft' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Early this morning the Cassini spacecraft relayed information that it had successfully swapped to a backup set of propulsion thrusters late Wednesday. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Odyssey Spacecraft Reboots Successfully http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-046 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-046'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/odyssey/20081009/pia04816-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Odyssey' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's last reboot. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Rebooting Postponed for Odyssey http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-044 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-044'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/odyssey/20081009/pia04816-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Odyssey' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter postponed a planned rebooting of the spacecraft this morning after seeing an unexpected rise in the temperature of a star camera that is part of the navigation system. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Kepler Mission Rockets to Space in Search of Other Earths http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-043 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Friday, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-043'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/kepler/20090306/kepler-20090306-th.jpg' align='left' alt='United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST (7:49 p.m. PST), Friday, March 6. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Five Things About Kepler http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2068 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2068'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/kepler/20090219/briefing-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Kepler in space' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Here are some quick facts about the Kepler mission, scheduled to launch March 6, 2009. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Faces Circuitous Route http://www-stage.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-041 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Rover Thursday, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www-stage.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-041'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2009-03-05/mer-20090305-th.jpg' align='left' alt='' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau has blocked Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward destinations for the upcoming Martian summer and following winter. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Kepler Mission Set for Launch http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-040 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Thursday, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-040'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/kepler/20090305/kepler-20090305-th.gif' align='left' alt='' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Scientists Expose 'Buried' Fault That Caused Deadly 2003 Quake http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-039 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-039'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/earth/earthquake/20090304/sub2-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Three-dimensional perspective view of vertical displacement of the land surface south of Bam, Iran during the three and a half years after the December 26, 2003 earthquake' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Scientists have observed, for the first time, the healing of subtle surface scars from an earthquake that occurred on a "buried" fault several miles below the surface. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-038 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-038'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/odyssey/20081009/pia04816-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Odyssey' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Orbiter Resumes Normal Science Operations http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-037 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-037'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mro/20090225/pia07245-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer re-set last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Announces Mishap Board Members for OCO Investigation http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-036 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-036'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/oco/20090113/concept-blue-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Orbiting Carbon Observatory' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA has selected the members of the board that will investigate the unsuccessful launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory on Feb. 24. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Newfound Moon May Be Source of Outer Saturn Ring http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-035 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Cassini Tuesday, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-035'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20090303/pia11148-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Saturn moonlet' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn's G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Dawn Finishes Mars Phase http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-034 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Dawn Thursday, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-034'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/dawn/dawn20090220-th.jpg' align='left' alt='near-infrared image of Mars taken from the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

With Mars disappearing in its metaphorical rearview mirror, NASA's Dawn spacecraft's next stop is the asteroid belt and the giant asteroid Vesta. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Cassini Maps Global Pattern of Titan's Dunes http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-032 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Cassini Thursday, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-032'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20090226/pia11801-th.jpg' align='left' alt='mapping Titan's global wind patterns' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Titan's vast dune fields, which may act like weather vanes to determine general wind direction on Saturn's biggest moon, have been mapped by scientists who compiled four years of radar data collected by the Cassini spacecraft. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Names Chairman for Orbiting Carbon Observatory Investigation http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-030 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-030'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/oco/20090113/concept-blue-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Orbiting Carbon Observatory' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Rick Obenschain, deputy director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will lead the investigation board for the unsuccessful launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory on Feb. 24. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Orbiter Puts Itself into Precautionary Mode http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-029 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL MRO Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-029'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mro/20090225/pia07245-th.jpg' align='left' alt='NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its computer Monday morning, Feb. 23, and put itself into a limited-activity mode that is an automated safety response. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-028 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-028'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/universe/CarlSagan_20080903-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Carl Sagan' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble, and Sagan Fellowships. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg NASA's Launch of Carbon-Seeking Satellite Is Unsuccessful http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-026 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-026'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/oco/20090113/concept-blue-th.jpg' align='left' alt='artist concept of Orbiting Carbon Observatory' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 1:55 a.m. PST liftoff Tuesday from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Readying for Mars: Live 'Clean Room Cam' and Chat http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2046 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL MSL Monday, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2046'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/msl/20090223/msl-20090223-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Mars Science Lab in clean room' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Join us for a rare opportunity to go behind-the-scenes to see engineers and technicians as they work on the Mars Science Laboratory, which is scheduled to launch in 2011. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Q and A: A Green Comet http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2043 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Friday, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2043'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/comet/20090220/lulin-th.jpg' align='left' alt='sky chart showing comet Lulin' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

We hear a lot about "going green" these days. The latest to join in the trend is comet Lulin, which is making an appearance in the nighttime sky this month. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Five Things About the Orbiting Carbon Observatory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2042 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Friday, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2042'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/oco/20090220/pad-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Orbiting Carbon Observatory on launch pad' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

Here are some quick facts about the Earth-orbiting satellite, scheduled to launch on Feb. 24, 2009. 
5 News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/planets-300.jpg Award to Recognize Phoenix Mars Lander Team http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2040 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm NASA / JPL Phoenix Thursday, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT <a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2040'> <img src='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/phoenix/20090219/pia11055-th.jpg' align='left' alt='Phoenix workspace' width='100' height='75' border='0' /></a>

The team that developed and operated NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission will receive the 2009 John L. "Jack" Swigert Award for Space Exploration from the Space Foundation.