Sentences with phrase «propulsion laboratory scientists»

Experiencing Mars is now just a matter of donning a mixed reality tool developed by Microsoft and Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists.

We have the chance to behold these bold, retro posters courtesy of The Studio at JPL, a design and strategy team that works with Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers to visualize and depict complex science and technology topics.

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«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

Get a behind the scenes look a the tension, anticipation and exhilaration experienced by scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. during the Curiosity rover's harrowing descent through the Martian atmosphere — known as «Seven Minutes of Terror.»

Ambition Data Scientist, Harvard Ph.D in Atomic Physics and former NASA Jet Propulsion / MIT Lincoln Laboratory technologist Rob deCarvalho on the science of sales.

«The environment around this quasar is very unique in that it's producing this huge mass of water,» said Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times.»

Willis is also working with more junior scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, encouraging them to give public lectures and interviews about their research.

«I've certainly been pitching this for 20 years, really from the beginning of BECs, when doing something like this in space seemed crazy,» says Robert Thompson, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and CAL's project scientist.

«Cassini's stunning images are providing us a quick look at Enceladus from this ultra-close flyby, but some of the most exciting science is yet to come,» said Linda Spilker, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Ravi is the project scientist for the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, which is being constructed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the JPL President's and Director's Fund Program.

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.

For those who prefer a more macho approach, planetary scientist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed a companion mission called ISIS.

But these mid-sized ripples are a reminder that those differences can surprise us,» said Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Second Life: Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory restarted the probe's thrusters in November 2007, sending it on a new mission to survey comet Hartley 2.

Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, also wants to see more evidence.

And Suzanne Smrekar, VEXAG co-chair and a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., wants to follow up on a 2010 finding in which she and her colleagues used Venus Express data to identify hot spots on the planet's surface — evidence for volcanism within the past few million years.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

«I think it's safe to say we're on the threshold of recovery,» says Michelle Santee, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

In 2009, Jay Famiglietti, now a scientist researching underground water in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, set out to quantify just how much groundwater had been lost over time.

«We've only found simple organic molecules so far,» says Ashwin Vasavada, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads Curiosity's science team.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

One site where scientists are becoming agitated is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, where many Mars missions are built and managed.

When Curiosity has technical difficulties, scientists diagnose and manage the problem from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

«It is a very good paper which provides valuable new insights about the physical processes controlling the change in reflectivity of the Greenland ice sheet and specifically its darkening over time,» said Eric Rignot, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies ice sheets but was not involved with the new study.

«If you had a mission at one of these sites, sampling the layers going down the scarp, you could get a detailed climate history of Mars,» suggested MRO Deputy Project Scientist Leslie Tamppari of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

«Our work introduces a design scheme to mimic the key flight mechanisms of biological bats,» said Chung, who is also a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

In April 2008, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-- a larger - scale, slower - cycling ocean pattern — had shifted to its cool phase.

And these days scientists have placed thousands of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers around the world that can track Earth's orientation to within a few millimeters, says geophysicist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif..

«The ability of MRO to observe for multiple Mars years with a payload able to see the fine detail of these features has enabled findings such as these: first identifying the puzzling seasonal streaks and now making a big step towards explaining what they are,» said Rich Zurek, MRO project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«This is really an entirely new kind of remote sensing,» says project scientist Michael Watkins, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«First, we didn't expect to find any plumes at all, and second, we didn't expect to find any organic matter in those plumes,» says Cassini project scientist Dennis Matson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Dr. Ayanna Howard, MiSciNet's featured scientist, also credits her summer research experience at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for introducing her to her present specialty, artificial intelligence.

«I have always dreamed of going to Mars,» said Serina Diniega, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of a report published online by the journal Icarus.

As Kenneth Nealson, a University of Southern California geobiologist and Jet Propulsion Laboratory visiting scientist, recently told the journal Nature: «The field is haunted by thinking you've detected life on Mars and finding that it's Escherichia coli from Pasadena.»

The greatest danger will occur when Mars passes through the debris trail following the comet, says Richard Zurek, chief scientist in the Mars Program Office at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

The results show that the metro is particularly vulnerable to highly variable rates of subsidence, says Cathleen Jones, a radar scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«We want the ability to get context and zoom in,» says Richard Zurek, MRO project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Wladimir Lyra, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., says the names are boring and don't resonate with non-scientist audiences.

However, the moon is too big and too close to Jupiter to be a solid hunk of ice, says planetary scientist John Anderson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«The rover has made this detection of simple organic compounds,» says project scientist John Grotzinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«Clouds circulate around the feature like cars on a racetrack,» says Kevin Baines, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

At the time of its launch, Paul Goldsmith, Herschel project scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told ScientificAmerican.com that Herschel's infrared view of star birth would be «analogous to using ultrasound to seeing what is going on in a mother's womb.»

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

Kargel, Leonard, Dan Shugar of the University of Washington Tacoma, Umesh Haritashya of the University of Dayton in Ohio, Eric Fielding of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UA student Pratima KC, and 58 other scientists, from more than 35 institutions in 12 countries, are co-authors on the research report.

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.

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.