Sentences with phrase «found jet propulsion»
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday confirmed an earlier ruling that found Jet Propulsion Laboratory administrators did not discriminate against a longtime staffer when they laid him off in 2011.
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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.
Finding a way to integrate his engagement efforts into the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's official outreach has proven to be a challenge, Willis admits.
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.
Suzanne Smrekar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and colleagues found signs of relatively recent volcanism by measuring the infrared «glow» of solidified lava in three regions in its southern hemisphere.
For the C - start response, the vortices also explained a large part of the motion, but «an additional non-rotating jet fluid region enclosed by the vortex region is found to be crucial for the propulsion,» said Huhn.
A 2003 survey found a particularly stubborn strain of the rod - shaped bacteria Bacillus pumilus in even the cleanest of clean rooms at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where Mars - bound spacecraft are assembled.
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'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.
«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.
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have recently found evidence that the moon has a hot, liquid center.
«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.
«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.
«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.
If they don't find work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they can make a good living in private industry.»
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.»
Three years ago he found it on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, then under assembly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
«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.»
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.
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.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrophysicist Slava Turyshev began an investigation and in June reported his findings.
«This is a very exciting discovery, found by scouring the new generation of wide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
«Dione has been an enigma, giving hints of active geologic processes, including a transient atmosphere and evidence of ice volcanoes — but we've never found the smoking gun,» Bonnie Buratti, a Cassini science team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said in a statement from NASA.
Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the first author of the Science paper, says that as we begin to find Earth - like planets in other solar systems, some of which may turn out to be similar to Venus, it's becoming urgent to understand why the planet took such a different path from the Earth in its evolution.
APXS analyzed a rock called Jake Matijevic — named in honor of a deceased Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars engineer — and found that it is one of the most Earth - like rocks yet seen on the Red Planet.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, wanted to find out what the atmospheres of these giant worlds have in common.
Riley Duren, chief systems engineer for the Earth Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is unaffiliated with the study, said he agrees with the study's findings that locating and mitigating methane emissions are important both in cities and in oil and gas fields.
After months of analysis and testing here on Earth, «we haven't found a clear solution to how to get Spirit out of its predicament,» said project manager John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Robert Fathauer and colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in California found no evidence of crystallinity in their chemically etched stain films.
«It's like video - streaming services not only predicting what you would like to watch in the future, but also your current age, based on your viewing preferences,» said Adam Miller of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, lead author of a new report on the findings appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.
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.
After that, Olkin found work on spacecraft navigation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..
Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard are not that interesting to me on their own, so I'm pretty sure I grabbed this book because I'm a fan of Jack Parsons — the guy who founded NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the blue - collar Jack who pioneered solid rocket fuel.
Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory cautioned that the new findings were based on a single, fairly simple simulation and said that while the results matched well with the seabed evidence, they lacked the precision needed to know what will happen over short periods.
A team led by Ala Khazendar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, found evidence of the ice shelf flowing faster and becoming more fragmented.
«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.
In fact, «there has been a very slight cooling,» according to a U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) interview with Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a scientist who keeps close watch on the Argo findings.