The scientists were especially intrigued by strong signals of carbonate minerals detected by Mars orbiters. On Earth, carbonates frequently form in shallow ocean and lake environments capable of ...

Home of NASA's robotic space missions — explore Mars rovers, planetary science, Earth observation, and the latest discoveries from 40 active missions.

In this project, you will build a paper helicopter. Then, just as NASA engineers had to try out different versions of the Mars helicopter before coming up with a final design, you will experiment with ...

Imagination is our window into the future. At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge of possibility so that someday, with the help of new generations of innovators and explorers, these ...

JPL’s Theodore von Kármán Lecture Series, presented by the Communications and Education Directorate, aimed to bring the excitement of JPL’s missions, instruments and other technologies to an audience ...

An overview of weather missions and research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

The first two are generated from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical data. The third, fourth are derived from SAR data only, while the fifth is generated from Interferometric SAR (InSAR) data .

From visiting mission control to seeing where space robots are built, this interactive tour lets online users explore the historic space facility from anywhere in the world. Take a tour of NASA's Jet ...

John von Neumann 'Method in the Physical Sciences', in John von Neumann and L. Leary (ed.), The Unity of Knowledge, 1955. Physics-based modeling & simulations (M&S) play an indispensable role in ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, has studied the Red Planet's atmosphere and terrain from orbit since 2006 and also serves as a key data relay station for other Mars missions. The Mars ...

Our planet Earth is not expanding, as some scientists had previously speculated. Satellite laser ranging -- a global observation station network that measures, with millimeter-level precision, the ...

Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a ...