Sentences with phrase «of jet propulsion»

«To have so much information about a warm Neptune is still rare, so analyzing these data sets simultaneously is an achievement in and of itself,» said co-author Tiffany Kataria of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Salps are semi-transparent, barrel - shaped marine animals that move through the water by drawing water in the front end and propelling it out the rear in a sort of jet propulsion.

One year later, astronomers Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger of the Jet Propulsion Lab in California snapped pictures of Mz 3 using slightly different filters.

The Legacy Survey team makes use of data products from the Near - Earth Object Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), which is a project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology.

«We tend to think of pollution as a local issue that can be addressed at the local, state or national level,» Jessica Neu of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.

Now George Null, William Owen and Stephen Synnott of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have used the Hubble Space Telescope to follow Pluto and Charon while the two worlds circled each other.

But on an early fly - by in February 2005, the spacecraft's magnetometer «sensed something unusual going on with its magnetic field», says Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

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.

«Io is a paradise for volcanologists,» said Rosaly Lopes of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, «but it's hell for cartographers, because the minute you make a map, it's obsolete.»

The observatory's critical systems all work well, says project scientist Michael Werner of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

It's three days before the Curiosity rover is set to land on Mars, and the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is cheerfully making tracks between a NASA social media event and his office on JPL's campus.

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.

Sifting through all this Hipparcos data, astronomers Bob Preston and Joán García - Sánchez of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory realized that perhaps the most interesting nearby stars would be the ones that scarcely seem to move from year to year.

When Richard C. Willson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research analyzed the data in the September 26, 1997 issue of Science, he noticed an increase in TSI of 0.036 percent from the previous minimum in 1986.

On average, Borrelly's nucleus reflects a low 2.5 % to 3 % of the light that strikes it, says Deep Space 1 project scientist Robert Nelson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

NASA has also approved the launch of a probe, scheduled for 1998, being developed by a team headed by Perry Hacking of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was determined to save Dawn from oblivion.

«Withers's claim is perfectly reasonable,» says planetary scientist Alan Harris of the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California.

Jeff Plescia of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggests it may be the edge of a shattered zone which collapsed inward after the impact.

«We now see a prominent northern cloud, where only small features were visible during the Voyager encounter,» says Dave Crisp of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Butler and two colleagues, Duane Muhleman of the California Institute of Technology and Martin Slade of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, discovered Stealth by bouncing radar signals off Mars in 1988, when the planet's orbit brought it unusually close to the Earth.

Meanwhile, another group led by Peter Eisenhardt of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena had photographed IRAS FSC 10214 +4724 in December with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field / Planetary Camera.

Myles Standish of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, came to this conclusion after analysing the motion of Uranus.

Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and her colleagues deduced that lava flows on the flanks of several Venusian volcanoes appear unweathered, meaning that the flows must be no more than 2.5 million years old.

First, Claudia Alexander of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, reviewed We Could Not Fail, which «presents the biographies of 10 African - American engineers, mathematicians, and technicians who laid the groundwork for the first African - American astronauts through their involvement in the U.S. space program in the 1950s and 1960s.»

Then last summer, Aaron Parness and Christine Fuller, of the Jet Propulsion Lab, and Hao Jiang of Stanford took the full gripper hand, which includes several patches of gripping material in a specific arrangement, on a microgravity flight in NASA's Weightless Wonder aircraft.

A team led by Ronald Kwok of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has studied satellite images of the Nares Strait — the narrow passage between Greenland and Ellesmere Island.

«This is our first opportunity to look at seasonal change,» says Bonnie Buratti of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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:

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.»

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.

«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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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