Sentences with phrase «propulsion laboratory»

Michael Malaska at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues wondered how much of this snow could dissolve in the lakes.

«Witnessing the possible birth of a tiny moon is an exciting, unexpected event,» said Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

There is an urgent need for such climate study projects in temperate regions across the world, says Eric Rignot, principal scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Radar Science and Engineering Section.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the NEOWISE mission for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office within the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Most recently Cerf has been involved with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in helping move the Internet to other parts of the universe.

NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by Caltech and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrophysicist Slava Turyshev began an investigation and in June reported his findings.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, built the rover and manages the Curiosity mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

«Titan's northern lakes region is one of the most Earth - like and intriguing in the solar system,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know lakes here change with the seasons, and Cassini's long mission at Saturn gives us the opportunity to watch the seasons change at Titan, too.

Matthew Golombek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory considers the breeze hypothesis implausible.

Further, in areas of the ocean with persistent or frequent eddies, Qiu and co-authors from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory determined that sea level can reliably be used to calculate circulation at a fairly high resolution, that is, at fairly small length scales (resolution of 10 miles).

Planetary scientist Kevin Baines of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is impressed.

It's three days before the Curiosity rover is set to land on Mars, and the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is cheerfully making tracks between a NASA social media event and his office on JPL's campus.

«The idea is to get very high contrast near a bright star,» explains study co-author Eugene Serabyn, an astrophysicist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «You really have to get everything right, because you're looking for something that's one part in 10 billion of the star if you're looking for an Earth.»

«If there is lava on this planet, it would need to cover the entire surface,» said Renyu Hu, astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and co-author of a study published in The Astronomical Journal.

Christophe Sotin, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, calls the new results «quite compelling.»

Three new papers co-authored by Mike Russell, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., strengthen the case that Earth's first life began at alkaline hydrothermal vents at the bottom of oceans.

«Over the life of the mission, Juno will be exposed to the equivalent of over 100 million dental X-rays,» said Rick Nybakken, Juno's project manager from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Tantalizingly, Diana Blaney of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a member of the Mars Exploration Rover team, announced at the September meeting that a rock found by the Spirit rover, christened Independence, is claylike.

2012 SCIENCE NEWS TOP 25: 2 Besieged by budget cuts and diminished by the end of the shuttle era, NASA got a welcome shot in the arm in August as mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., watched their latest interplanetary emissary guide itself to a safe landing on Mars.

Devin Kipp is an entry, descent, and landing systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has spent the past 7 years working on the design, development, testing, and operation of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

Richard Zurek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is the project scientist for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, whose gravity mapping provided support for the hypothesis that the northern lowlands were formed by a massive impact.

Near - Earth object (NEO) 8TA9D69 will strike the atmosphere over Sudan tonight at 0246 UTC, 5:46 a.m. local time, according to calculations by celestial dynamicist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«It's a major impediment to developing realistic ice sheet models when you don't even know how thick some of these outlet glaciers are,» says Eric Rignot, a remote - sensing glaciologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

And even that amount may be low: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology pay in the mid - to upper $ 40s, representatives noted, while Eli Lilly's Jean Labus said the Indiana drug company starts its life science postdocs at $ 42,000.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Opportunity mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Christopher Webster of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the instrument lead for the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS), Curiosity's atmospheric analyzer.

Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who isn't involved in the mission, says it promises «data we've not had for Mars before.»

The team's scenario «is a really very interesting way to get a «false positive»» for extraterrestrial life, says Wesley Traub, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«The schedule is not obtainable unless mission goals are made laughable,» said Gentry Lee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Update 21 March: Yesterday afternoon, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a statement that read, in part, «It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., supervises the Dawn mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in September 2007 and flrst flew by Mars for a gravity boost.

Last month, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released Earth Now, an app featuring a 3D Earth model with different visualization layers of Earth's «vital signs».

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Sifting through all this Hipparcos data, astronomers Bob Preston and Joán García - Sánchez of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory realized that perhaps the most interesting nearby stars would be the ones that scarcely seem to move from year to year.

Concerned about the possibility that astronauts might unwittingly be exposed to pathogens that lurk in a spacecraft's surfaces or in air filters — biological contamination has been found in both the ISS and Russia's MIR before — NASA asked researchers at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, to assess the problem.

When Richard C. Willson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research analyzed the data in the September 26, 1997 issue of Science, he noticed an increase in TSI of 0.036 percent from the previous minimum in 1986.

«We're the first measurement from the martian surface,» says Christopher Webster, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and lead author of the new study.

The spacecraft's view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet,» said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

Researchers Cathleen Jones and Ron Blom of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., analyzed interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) imagery of the area acquired during flights of the agency's Uninhabited Airborne Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), which uses a C - 20A jet, in June 2011 and July 2012.

The synthetic aperture radar developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mounted on NASA's C - 20A research aircraft captured this image of Peru's Ubinas volcano on April 14, 2014, during its Latin American research mission.

The source was the massive 2011 Tohoku - Oki earthquake in Japan, and its signature was detected at this orbital altitude only eight minutes after the arrival of seismic and infrasonic waves, according to Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech's Yu - Ming (Oscar) Yang and colleagues in collaboration with the University of New Brunswick, Canada, who present their research today at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America (SSA).

«One way of thinking is, it's sort of potentially accelerating a trajectory toward a drier environment,» David Schimel, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said.

Dawn's mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

One possible explanation, says Raghvendra Sahai, a researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is that each ripple might in fact consist of several smaller ripples too tiny to be seen even with the Hubble.

On average, Borrelly's nucleus reflects a low 2.5 % to 3 % of the light that strikes it, says Deep Space 1 project scientist Robert Nelson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, was carried in a specialized pod on NASA's C - 20A.

By examining how Earth cools itself back down after a period of natural warming, a study by scientists at Duke University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms that global temperature does not rise or fall chaotically in the long run.

In a complementary study, planetary scientists Terrence Johnson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona, Tucson, used Cassini data to calculate the relative proportions of rock and ice inside Phoebe.