Who Knew You Could Use GPS Satellites to Spot Tsunamis While Ignoring the Ocean Itself?
10 Jun 2023, 23:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is working on a way to use GPS satellites and atmospheric disturbances to detect the formation of tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean
NASA Wants to Crash-Land Spacecraft on Mars, Here's How They'll Do It
20 Oct 2022, 20:52 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA has tested the design of a lander concept named SHIELD, hurling a full-scale prototype of the base to the ground at 177 kph
This Is How You Drive a Rover on Mars
4 Jun 2022, 02:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Video put together by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory a few years back shows how people here on Earth command rovers over on Mars
This Is How Easy Landing on Mars Is. In Theory
29 May 2022, 02:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Older Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) video describes the thee ways a rover can be placed on the surface of Mars if one needs to
There’s a Mars Rover Hiding in This Photo Taken by the Mars Helicopter
28 Apr 2021, 08:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Ingenuity helicopter took a number of photos during its last flight on Mars, and in one of them, the Perseverance rover can be seen
NASA Is Playing Asteroid Impact Games to See How the World Would React
27 Apr 2021, 08:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA, JPL, and ESA come together in Vienna to develop another response scenario in case of high chance of asteroid impact
This Rover Can Split in Two Like a Space Transformer Made on Earth
14 Oct 2020, 12:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA DuAxel is a special kind of rover that can split in have to explore otherwise difficult terrain like crater walls, pits, scarps, vents
Science’s Next Big Idea Is a Death Star-Shaped Telescope on the Moon
14 Apr 2020, 14:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, a robotics technologist from JPL submitted an idea about a telescope built inside an impact crater on the Moon
Mars 2020 Now Testing Its Instruments at JPL
28 Oct 2019, 10:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The American space agency announced last week the rover is now at JPL’s Simulator Building, where it is undergoing final testing
NASA Reveals Mars 2020 Already Landed on Mars Several Times During Simulations
25 Mar 2019, 16:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA tests the systems of the Mars 2020 rover in simulated landings conducted at the beginning of the year inside its facilities
InSight Sends Home Mars Weather Reports for All to See. Daily
20 Feb 2019, 15:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / InSight will collect weather information every second for the next two years to form a picture of Mars weather and seasons
JPL's Open Source Rover Project Lets You Build Your Own Martian Rover
1 Aug 2018, 07:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / JPL is trying to make students design their own rover for planetary exploration by launching the Open Source Rover Project
NASA Repairs Curiosity Rover Drill from Millions of Miles Away
2 Mar 2018, 08:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's Curiosity rover can go back to drilling holes into the Martian soil, after the malfunctioning drill was by-passed from Earth
NASA Declares Tesla Roadster a Spacecraft, Reveals Car's Amazing Cargo
9 Feb 2018, 13:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A plaque on the Tesla Roadster is etched with the names of more than 6,000 SpaceX employees. The car is dubbed "spacecraft" on NASA website.