Sentences with phrase «us jet propulsion»

«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.

Even NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory team communicates via Slack while maneuvering the Mars Curiosity rover.

As the Jet Propulsion Lab explains in a letter on NASA's site, mining asteroids has several purposes.

So serious, in fact, that the organization's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has put out a call for design proposals of the spacecraft that will eventually land on an asteroid, then send a huge chunk of it over to humans for experimentation.

On January 31, an engineer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was pulled into additional screening upon his return to the U.S. after a two - week vacation in Chile.

However, two astronomers — Gianluca Masi of The Virtual Telescope Project and Michael Schwartz of Tenagra Observatories, Ltd. — managed to track down the Tesla using orbit data provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«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.

According to a video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Lyrid meteor shower is active from Saturday, April 14 through Monday, April 30.

«Touchdown confirmed, we are safe on Mars,» engineer Allen Chen said over the radio, eliciting tears of joy and congratulatory hugs between all the blue - shirted Jet Propulsion Laboratory staff.

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.»

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.

The jet propulsion will thrust you forward.

Google engineers studied balloon science from NASA, the Defence Department and the Jet Propulsion Lab to design their own airships made of plastic films similar to grocery bags.

Sidd Bikkannavar, a U.S. - born engineer, was not only detained on his way back home to Los Angeles but also asked to turn over his work - issued phone and provide the access PIN to unlock it, potentially compromising sensitive material and contacts related to his work at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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.

If Catholic Hospitals don't have to provide birth control health care to their employees, then JPL (the Jet PROPULSION LABORATORY for cryin» out loud!!!)

Catholic News Agency: NASA worker's lawsuit charges discrimination over intelligent design A NASA mission specialist allegedly demoted for his beliefs about intelligent design is suing Jet Propulsion Laboratories in a civil trial to begin in Los Angeles March 7.

«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.»

Los Angeles (CNN)- A former veteran systems administrator for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory claimed during opening arguments in a civil lawsuit Tuesday that he was wrongfully terminated for expressing his views on intelligent design.

The heartwarming event kicks off with carolers from Maranatha High School, a harpist, a vocal quartet from the Jet Propulsion Lab and features a string -LSB-...]

The heartwarming event kicks off with carolers from Maranatha High School, a harpist, a vocal quartet from the Jet Propulsion Lab and features a string quartet playing cheerful holiday music from the Pasadena Symphony and POPS» «Random Acts of Music» program.

These findings lend credence to the fast - pebble - collapse theory of planetesimal formation, says Joseph Masiero, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., who was not involved in the work.

Early that morning, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent Cassini down to meet the planet it had spent 13 years studying.

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick - thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates.

«It's a bittersweet, but fond, farewell to a mission that leaves behind an incredible wealth of discoveries that have changed our view of Saturn and our solar system, and will continue to shape future missions and research,» said Michael Watkins, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which manages the Cassini mission for the agency.

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.

«EDF has a very good team, and I have no doubt that it can be done,» says Charles Elachi, who formerly headed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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«We chose a name for this mission phase that would reflect the exciting journey ahead while acknowledging that it's a big finish for what has been a truly great show,» said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Riley Duren, a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says that the EDF team's goals are ambitious — and if MethaneSAT succeeds, it will help to fill an important gap in methane monitoring.

Discover jet propulsion in dragonflies, camouflage in cuttlefish, and much more!

The most likely strategy for returning samples stored on the 2020 rover will involve two more spacecraft heading to Mars, says Charles Whetsel of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, provides navigation and Deep Space Network support, as well as the Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations.

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

James, also a physicist, heads his own company, designing high - powered microwave systems for clients like NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Lockheed and Boeing.

«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.

Willis has experience in this — he participated in the week - long Leshner Leadership Institute communication and engagement training at AAAS in June 2016, as well as the training AAAS led at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory this past January.

Speaking at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris where he is presenting the methods to be adopted, Dr Ken Williford (who is also Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Astrobiogeochemistry Laboratory) said:

Finding a way to integrate his engagement efforts into the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's official outreach has proven to be a challenge, Willis admits.

«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.

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.

Quick videos produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

We know this produces another type of waves called density waves, but we wanted to test if gravitational waves are also produced,» said project co-leader Jamie Bock of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., which developed the BICEP2 detector technology.

The office has clashed in recent years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, which assembled Curiosity.

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.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, SwRI's Bolton.

Member, at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109.

Now 91 specimens from a new quarry reveal the creature had a lot in common with cephalopods, including well - developed eyes with an internal lens, a funnel - shaped nozzle for jet propulsion, and two tentacles with bumps that could be primordial suckers (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09068).

In 2014, five engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested independent inventor Guido Fetta's Cannae Drive, a prototype space engine that's basically a microwave emitter within a small metal cone.