Sentences with phrase «new jet propulsion»

NASA's new Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California is a LEED Certified Gold building, a first for NASA.

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«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.

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).

IT»S A BIRD, IT»S A PLANE Aaron Parness of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory does his «best Superman» to grab a floating cube with a new gecko gripper — inspired hand in a microgravity plane.

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.

And now NASA has entered the retro space race with three new posters created by artists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A concept called Comet Hitchhiker, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, puts forth a new way to get into orbit and land on comets and asteroids, using the kinetic energy — the energy of motion — of these small bodies.

«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.

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

New Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.

«To put it another way, that puts the current probability of no impact in 2032 at about 99.998 percent,» said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «This is a relatively new discovery.

The new research has been carried out by the National Space Research Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) and collaborating international partners from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of New Brunswick (UNnew research has been carried out by the National Space Research Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) and collaborating international partners from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of New Brunswick (UNNew Brunswick (UNB).

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).

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.

«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.

«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.»

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.

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

«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.

«On Pluto, almost the whole game is haze,» says planetary scientist Robert West of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wrote a commentary on the new work, also published in the Nov. 16 Nature.

«I think it's a very compelling argument, especially with the two papers together,» says Linda Spilker, a planetary scientist and Cassini project scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who also did not contribute to the new studies.

The GPS signal used for «sat - navs» could help improve understanding of ocean currents, according to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters by National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientists, alongside colleagues from the University of Michigan and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

Snow «pushes» earth down Donald Argus, a research scientist and geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., recently published a study outlining the new technique in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

«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.

«These astonishing science results are yet another example of Jupiter's curve balls, and a testimony to the value of exploring the unknown from a new perspective with next - generation instruments,» said Scott Bolton, Juno's principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, in a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is considering a new mission to Uranus and possibly Neptune after successfully flying by Pluto and, if all goes according to plan, the Europa moon orbiting Jupiter.

Other partners include: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, headquartered in Washington.

This 45 - second trailer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory takes you from designing and testing the rover to the thrilling landing and new views of the mysterious Red Planet.

«These new events are in a relatively rare class of eruptions on Io because of their size and astonishingly high thermal emission,» states Ashley Davies, a volcanologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A virtue of this new concept compared to prior efforts is that there is a project in the works to test it, said Sergio Pellegrino, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

A propulsion engineer, Kyle should be exited that they will be flying on the new E-474 plane — a huge jumbo - jet which Kyle had helped design — but she is crippled by her grief.

With enough thrust and propulsion to rival that of a combat fighter jet and top speeds that exceeds 200 mph, key representatives of this exclusive club are expected to be quite a hit when displayed during the 2014 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) opening April 16 and 17 with media days and April 18 to 27 to the public.

During this time, he worked with clients including YouTube, Nike, Jet Propulsion Lab (NASA), Microsoft, LGBT Center New York, London Science Museum and the Maritime Museum.

* Josh Willis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory * Sophie Nowicki, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center * Mike Watkins, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory * Virginia Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey * Andrew Revkin, Pace University & New York Times Dot Earth blogger

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.

Joshua Willis, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was involved in an analysis of these temperature records underpinning the new work (and in press in the Journal of Climate).

A new study, led by Son Nghiem at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and appearing this week in Geophysical Research Letters, used satellites and buoys to show that winds since 2000 had pushed huge amounts of thick old ice out of the Arctic basin past Greenland.

One new experiment is a nascent blog at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with a fresh contribution by Josh Willis, whose work on ocean temperature trends has been discussed here.

In a study published today in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, lead author Xiao - Hai Yan of the University of Delaware, Newark, along with scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and several other institutions discuss new understanding of the phenomenon.

The new work by Minzoni and her colleagues is extremely interesting and reveals past ocean - forced melting, according to Eric Rignot, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine, who studies ice shelf thinning around the Antarctic.

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.

The cause of climate alarmism has been struck another near - fatal blow by a new study from a NASA research team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Jeff Norris, project manager for Project HoloLens at NASA with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, spoke up this week about how and when a new set of Microsoft's holographic headsets will be able to be launched into space.