|
November 20, 2008 NASA Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers on MarsNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. |
|
November 20, 2008 JPL's Hubble Camera Chips In To Galactic Core PortraitJPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to a new portrait of one of the universe's most brilliant star-making galaxies. |
|
November 19, 2008 Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars LandingFour intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory. |
|
November 19, 2008 NASA Plans Test of 'Electronic Nose' on International Space StationNASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air. |
|
November 19, 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins Innovation AwardThe University of Arizona has received an Arizona Governor's Innovator of the Year Award for leading NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission. |
|
November 18, 2008 NASA's Quikscat Ocean-Observing Satellite Mission HonoredThe Earth-observing satellite has been recognized for helping scientists better understand our home planet. |
|
November 18, 2008 NASA Tests First Deep-Space InternetNASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. |
|
November 18, 2008 NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars RoverNASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. |
|
November 18, 2008 Stardust Spacecraft Burns For HomeThe NASA/JPL Stardust spacecraft fired its engines today to prepare for a Jan. 14, 2009, Earth flyby. Stardust is scheduled to fly past comet Tempel 1 in 2011. |
|
November 17, 2008 JPL Instrument Observes Changes in Big Antarctic GlacierJPL satellite data have helped scientists crack the case of a speeding Antarctic glacier. Understanding glacial flow processes can improve sea level forecasts. |