Jet Propulsion Laboratory

the successful launch of Sputnik, this only made our engineers work harder trying to improve any mechanics in being finally being able to launch our own rockets into space “(Space.com).” This satellite was designed and built by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Its design was simple…

Boarding school was liberating, so much so that I focused almost solely on my computer science passion to the detriment of other subjects. I founded the Programming Club to teach peers to code well beyond the two school computer science (CS) classes offered, resulting in furthering my coding knowledge to prepare for growing classes. Naively, I plotted ideas to become the "next big thing". Needless-to-say my report cards showed one cannot be a genius without studying. Despite having built an…

long-lasting lakes and water streams about 3.8 to 3.3 billion years ago, boosting the odds that life may have once existed on the Red Planet, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found. Using data from the Curiosity rover, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team has determined that, long ago, water helped deposit sediment into Gale Crater, where the rover landed more than three years ago. The sediment deposited as layers that formed the foundation for Mount Sharp, the mountain…

The Opportunity Rover and it’s twin the Spirit Rover received their names from a nine year old, Sofi Collis. She won the naming contest that NASA held (with help from Planetary Society and sponsorship from lego) to find a name for the rovers exploring Mars. Sofi Collis got adopted at the age of two. She came to live with her new family in Scottsdale, Arizona. "I used to live in an orphanage," Collis wrote in her winning essay. "It was dark and cold and lonely. At night, I looked up at the…

“The Cassini discoveries in the first three flybys were so amazing. We changed our focus and added 20 more flybys of Enceladus, including seven through the icy jets” says Linda Spilker, Cassini Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Target One; Enceladus’s Plumes; would yield the best scientific results because it has the possibility of habiting life, a mysterious heat source and feeds Saturn’s rings. To begin with, Enceladus’s plumes have tremendous qualities that make them…

visible camera, a visible and electromagnetic mapping spectrometer, gamma ray and a neutron spectrometer. The radiometric and optical navigation data will provide data relating to the gravity field in addition to the instruments. According to Jet Propulsion Laboratory since April 11, Dawn has been aiming its camera to the left and forward as it orbits and Ceres rotates. By May 25, it will have mapped most of the globe from that angle. Then it will start all over once more, looking instead to the…

(ASI/MET) (Nelson). The Sojourner rover was equipped with an Alpha/Proton/X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and rover imaging cameras (Nelson). The mission was developed in only three years while only spending $265 million (JPL, 2001). According to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pathfinder captured an unprecedented amount of data on top of the goal data, and lasted much longer than designed…

The idea that Mars could be hospitable to human life is still under question, however the question of water on Mars is indubitably unambiguous. And with the new breaking scientific news, the long lasting question of water on Mars has finally been answered. “New findings from NASA’S Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars( Liquid Water para 1)”. According to this new theory, empirical data from NASA shows…

during which time he won his jet pilot wings at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. He was the youngest pilot in his squadron at…

The past seventeen years of my life led up to this momentous month--this month that decided my future: the people I would meet, the caliber of the education that would serve as a foundation for my future, and even perhaps the connections that would serve me further along the road. It was with this knowledge that, at the start of the application process, I knew UC Berkeley was my top choice. Everything was superior, and not a single aspect that I valued was missing from its campus. The weeks…