Another good day on Mars: MSL’s remote sensing mast was successfullydeployed, and a Navcam panorama acquired. Not all of the images have beensent to Earth yet, but those that have…
I forgot to mention previously that, unlike at other NASA Centers, JPL employees work for Caltech, not NASA directly. So they were not as immediately affected by the government shutdown…
MSL landed on Mars one Earth year ago tonight, so there were cheers and applause during the SOWG meeting today. There are some nice products on the MSL web page…
Those of us supporting MSL tactical mission operations are living on “Mars time.” A day on Mars, or “sol” is about 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth, but…
Mars is at opposition today, so Mars will rise at sunset and be visible all night here on Earth. On Mars, Earth is not visible because it is too close…
On Jan. 18, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter executed its 72nd flight at the Red Planet. The flight was designed as a quick pop-up vertical flight to check out the helicopter’s…
MRO is back–we received over 400 Mbits of data through the orbiter yesterday! The amount of data relayed through MRO will decrease once the orbiter’s instruments are operating again (they…
Instagram Getting candid. Bachelor Nation followers noticed Tyler Cameron search for love on Season 15 of “The Bachelorette” with main woman Hannah Brown. Since his time on the present, Tyler’s…
Sol 569 Replace On Curiosity From USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Towards “The Kimberley” Science@NASA
I forgot to mention previously that, unlike at other NASA Centers, JPL employees work for Caltech, not NASA directly. So they were not as immediately affected by the government shutdown…