Sentences with phrase «discover jet propulsion»

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Even though the lunar mascons were discovered in 1968 by Paul Muller and William Sjogren at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they weren't fully mapped until 2001.

«The first near - Earth object was discovered in 1898,» said Don Yeomans, long - time manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been found.

«Finding brown dwarfs near our sun is like discovering there's a hidden house on your block that you didn't know about,» said astronomer Michael Cushing, a WISE team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of the study on the Y dwarfs.

Butler and two colleagues, Duane Muhleman of the California Institute of Technology and Martin Slade of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, discovered Stealth by bouncing radar signals off Mars in 1988, when the planet's orbit brought it unusually close to the Earth.

via Asteroid Discovered by NASA to Pass Earth Safely — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

That's what researchers Jean Dickey and Steven Marcus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and colleague Olivier de Viron of the Universite Paris Diderot and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France, set out to discover in a first - of - its - kind study.