Sentences with phrase «propulsion laboratory researchers»

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Only a handful were natural seeps from underground formations, and one was a vent from a coal mine, according to researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

The drone project was developed by Facebook's Connectivity Lab, which contains former researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, among others.

Study researchers Hélène Seroussi and Erik Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a model of all the known melting and freezing under the ice in the region.

The researchers found between four and 28 viable cells per passport photo — size unit of area — similar to those in clean rooms at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where spacecraft are assembled.

While there are no formal plans for a NASA mission to Europa yet, it's a top priority for many researchers working for the organization, says planetary scientist Bob Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

When researcher Alberto Behar from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., joined an international Antarctic expedition last month on a trek to investigate Subglacial Lake Whillans, he brought with him a unique instrument designed and funded by NASA to help the researchers study one of the last unexplored aquatic environments on Earth.

And at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, researchers are demonstrating how to fabricate a larger - scale starshade's delicate petals, fold the entire structure up inside a rocket, and deploy and unfurl it to the size of a baseball diamond.

«When the mass of gas is roughly equal to the mass of dust, the two interact in a way that leads to clumping in the dust and the formation of patterns,» said lead researcher Wladimir Lyra, a Sagan Fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «In essence, the gas shepherds the dust into the kinds of structures we would expect to be see if a planet were present.»

He is a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have recently found evidence that the moon has a hot, liquid center.

Researchers, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CalTech, a chemist from the University of Copenhagen and an anesthesiologist from the University of Michigan Medical School, studied three anesthetic gases: isoflurane, desflurane and sevoflurane.

The MIT researchers were also joined by colleagues at IBM and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«The Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) technique and the process of correcting for absorption effects is a tool that is unique to the Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory,» said Shaun DeSouza, a researcher at the University of Florida and lead author of the publication.

Steve Squyres oversees the science operations of both rovers and a team of 170 researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«The National Academy of Sciences recently convened a meeting to look at science missions in CubeSats,» said Bryce Tappan, an explosives chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead researcher on the CubeSat Propulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developPropulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developpropulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developed.»

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.

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.

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.

That may be great if you are using carbon nanotubes to deliver chemotherapy drugs to people with brain tumors, as cancer researchers in California (at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment center in Duarte in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena), hope to do.

In fact, ice shelves mostly melt from the bottom before they even form icebergs,» said lead author Eric Rignot, a UC Irvine professor who's also a researcher with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

In the second report, researchers led by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used remote sensing and radar data to calculate the glaciers» movement.

The researchers tested its gecko - inspired grabber using pressurised air at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and in the temporary weightlessness of a parabolic plane flight.

«Most of the available data on snowfall in the Eurasian Basin is outdated, from drifting stations that operated between 1954 and 1991,» said Ron Kwok, a member of IceBridge's science team and a sea ice researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

However, researchers know surprisingly little about the levels and types of pollution that cause different kinds of illness, said Stacey Boland, a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California who was not involved in the study.

But over several decades, researchers repeatedly failed to catch the moon in action, said Robert Pappalardo, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory planetary scientist who was not involved in the study.

How Hektor became a Trojan asteroid, located at only 5 times the Earth — Sun distance, is probably related to the large scale reshuffling that occurred when the giant planets were still migrating,» said Julie Castillo - Rogez, researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

A team of researchers from the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the Wageningen University in the Netherlands measured the amount of ozone between 10,000 and 30,000 feet above the Earth's surface.

Girona, a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, led the research during a postdoctoral appointment at Brown University, working with Brown professor Christian Huber and Corentin Caudron, a postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent University in Belgium.

And that's what we mean by polar motion,» said Surendra Adhikari, a researcher with Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who conducted the work with his colleague Erik Ivins.

Planetary Radio visits the 33rd ISDC to talk with three explorers who've set their sights on the Red Planet: MD and space medicine researcher Susan Jewell, Meteorite Man Geoff Notkin, and Mars Program Formulation Office Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Charles Whetsel.

The team includes researchers from NASA Goddard, NASA Glenn (Cleveland, Ohio), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, Calif.), University of Arizona (Tucson), University of California (Berkeley), SETI Institute (Mountain View, Calif.), University of Washington (Seattle), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

Other Lidar technologies «lack two significant features: one is performance, the range being long enough, the resolution being high enough and the ability to detect speed directly,» says Meleki, who spent nearly three decades as a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before establishing laser research startup OEWaves, which spun off Strobe in 2014.

Updates below Alberto Behar, a polar researcher who combined a scientist's deep curiosity with an engineer's audacious inventiveness, died on Friday when the plane he was flying crashed shortly after he took off from a small airport near his longtime workplace, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

The pattern appears to fit what is expected from human - driven warming of the global climate, said the researchers, Tong Lee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Michael McPhaden of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Researchers from the University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., combined the ship's measurements of ocean temperatures with modern observations from the international Argo array of ocean profiling floats.

A month later, other researchers, including Dr. Ian R. Joughin, an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with an office near Dr. Rignot's, reported a change with opposite effect nearby.

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.

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In the new study, Son Nghiem, a researcher with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, evaluated satellite data to zero in on an answer.

Events like the ice conditions Barber witnessed are difficult to forecast, so scientists and decision - makers need to be prepared for them, said Ronald Kwok, a climate researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who was not connected to the new study.

«A new study by researchers from the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California at Santa Cruz, published in the respected journal Science, found that the ice sheets of Antarctica, far from melting, actually are expanding by some 26.8 billion tons of ice a year.2

Jet Propulsion Laboratory — June 13, 2013 PASADENA, Calif. — Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.

Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Winrock International developed the layer by collecting data from more than 4,000 in situ inventory plots, plus optical and microwave imagery (1 km resolution) to extrapolate the amount of calculated carbon stocks from forests distributed over the South American, Southeast Asia, and the sub-Saharan African regions.