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Dr. Firouz Naderi has been named manager of the newly created Mars Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, JPL Director Dr. Edward C. Stone has announced.

Ozone losses of more than 60 percent have occurred in the Arctic stratosphere near 60,000 feet (18 kilometer) in one of the coldest winters on record. This is one of the worst ozone losses at this altitude in the Arctic.

During an unplanned rendezvous, the Ulysses spacecraft found itself gliding though the immense tail of Comet Hyakutake, revealing that comet tails may be much, much longer than previously believed.

A new office devoted to management of future Mars missions is being formed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, along with another new office that will oversee the implementation of space science flight projects, JPL Director Dr. Edward …

NASA’s blockbuster Galileo mission will receive what some might call the space world’s equivalent of an Academy Award® on Fri., March 31 — the prestigious Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award for outstanding contributions to planetary exploration.

NASA’s High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager spacecraft — an international mission to explore the basic physics of particle acceleration and energy release in solar flares — has sustained substantial damage during vibration testing. R…

People around the world will have a chance to interact online with Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) experts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, in a live mission webcast/webchat scheduled for March 28 from 1…

Creative sparks are flying as four contract-winning teams begin the quest to design Terrestrial Planet Finder, an ambitious mission in NASA’s Origins Program that will look for possible life-supporting planets around other stars.

New images from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have caught dust devils and landslides in the act of changing the surface of Mars, giving scientists more clues about how Mother Nature’s vandals are leaving their mark on the changi…

“Mars in the Mind of Man: A Panel Discussion” is part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-sponsored von Karman Lecture Series, Thursday, March 16 at JPL, and Friday, March 17 at Pasadena City College. Both discussions begin at 7 p.m. Admiss…

Some of Mars’ best kept secrets, long buried beneath the surface of the red planet, were recently revealed by instruments on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

NASA plans to renew the solar system passport of the Galileo spacecraft by extending the mission exploring Jupiter and its moons through the end of 2000, when Galileo may embark on a joint scientific expedition with another solar system …

New high-resolution images from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft comparing the ice caps at the North and South poles show the difference between the two regions is in the ‘cheese’. The North polar cap has a relatively flat, pitted …

If Guinness had a Book of Cosmic Records, a newly discovered quasar in the constellation Cetus would make the front page. This distant quasar easily skates past the previous record- holder, placing it among the earliest known structures …

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft is trying to go “three for three” as it attempts its third and closest flyby of Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system.

NASA’s “Space Place” — an educational program and Web site designed for young students — has recently welcomed its 100th partner and first aquarium, the Newport Aquarium in Newport, Ky.

Caltech President Dr. David Baltimore, one of the world’s leading scientists, will speak on the search for an AIDS vaccine, “Finding the Cure,” as part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-sponsored von K�rm�n Lecture Series, Thursday, Feb. 17 at JPL, and on Friday, Feb. 18 at Pasadena City College. Both lectures begin at 7 p.m. Admission is free, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Scientists, weather forecasters and the public take possession of a valuable stream of meteorological and climate observations this week, as the first calibrated measurements from NASA’s SeaWinds instrument on the Quikscat satellite beco…

Moshe Pniel, science project manager of Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on board NASA’s Terra Earth- observing spacecraft, has been named manager of scatterometer projects at the Jet Propulsion Labo…

By compiling all the solar wind data gathered in the space age, NASA scientists have concluded that even though the solar magnetic field is constantly changing, it always returns to its original shape and position.

The war against breast cancer has a new weapon, thanks to an advanced sensor developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Educators will train other teachers to use current space missions to teach their students on Earth math and science, thanks to a program recently expanded by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.

A giant horseshoe pattern of higher than normal sea-surface heights developing over the last year is beginning to dominate the entire western Pacific and Asiatic oceans, new imagery from the U.S.-French TOPEX/Poseidon satellite shows.
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People worldwide will be able to use the Internet to interact live with scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, about the upcoming Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

Comets and asteroids that may pass close to Earth are explored in free, public lectures to be held at Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Thursday, Jan. 20, and at Pasadena City College on Friday, Jan. 21.

The Mars Polar Lander flight team has ended all attempts to regain communications with the spacecraft.

NASA scientists taking a census of large asteroids in our solar system neighborhood have cut their estimate in half.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Dr. Charles Elachi, a pioneer in the development and use of spaceborne imaging radar for scientific studies of Earth and other planets, has been awarded the 2000 Dryden Lectureship in Research by the Ameri…

Astronomers from around the world will gather in Japan later this month to present the most detailed images of quasars ever seen, produced with data from the Very Long Base Interferometry Space Observatory Program. Space VLBI, as this is…

When NASA’s Galileo spacecraft swooped past Jupiter’s moon Europa a week ago, it picked up powerful new evidence that a liquid ocean lies beneath Europa’s icy crust.

While the term “rocket scientist” gets tossed around rather loosely these days, Dr. Josette Bellan, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is the genuine article, spending much of her time pondering the mysterie…

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter via gravity-assist encounters with Venus and the Earth, performed its second trajectory correction maneuver Friday, Dec. 22.

Straight-A students and science fair award-winners from Pasadena’s Eliot Middle School will be honored at an awards banquet sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Thursday, Dec. 7, 1989 at 6:30 p.m. at JPL’s von Karman Auditorium….

The first scientific results from the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft were released today by scientists attending the 1989 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed new approach to old radar data and determined the shape of the large Earth-approaching asteroid, Eros.

Three scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and university professor have dated the most powerful volcano eruption in recorded history, the Thera/Santorini eruption, to the late 17th Century BC.

Science papers and poster presentations on Voyager’s encounter with Neptune were scheduled Dec. 4-5, the first two days of the 5-day 1989 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union at San Francisco.

Near Earth spacecraft can be used not only to predict the occurrence of sun-caused magnetic storms but also the time they will occur and their magnitude, Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist said Wednesday.

New information on the rate of crustal deformation along earthquake faults in central and southern California was presented Thursday by Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist before science conference in San Francisco.

Triton, the large frozen moon of Neptune, has surface that apparently undergoes regeneration as do Jupiter’s moons Europa and Io, Voyager 2 scientists said.

A NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist has proposed monitoring the sea level in relation to the Earth’s crust as potential way of observing greenhouse effect.

While Martian soil contains no organic matter, conditions beneath the surface may once have been more favorable to the existence of life on the Red Planet, said three NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists.

Voyager Project Manager Norman R. Haynes has been appointed Deputy Assistant Laboratory Director of JPL’s Office of Flight Projects, and Haynes’ deputy, George P. Textor, has been named Voyager Project Manager.

The Galileo spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter by way of multi-planet gravity-assist path leading past Venus in February, completed its first trajectory-correction maneuver Saturday night, under the control of its flight team at NASA’s Je…

Houston-based Lifeco Services Corporation has been awarded the travel management contract for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft experienced an interruption of its telemetry signal between Monday afternoon and Tuesday midnight, and Wednesday resumed normal communications with Earth.

The planet Jupiter, scientific objective of NASA’s Galileo mission, scheduled for launch this week, has recently exhibited dramatic changes in major atmospheric feature.

five-mile-tall, geyser-like plume of dark material has been discovered erupting from the surface of Neptune’s moon Triton in one of the images returned last month to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., by NASA’s Voyager 2 sp…

Painters, potters, sculptors, glass blowers and wood carvers will be among exhibitors at an arts and crafts fair benefitting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech Child Educational Center.

A complete, end-to-end system for land mobile communications has been field-tested for the first time by researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected intense radio emissions from Neptune, indicating that the planet has magnetic field.

A tracking station in Japan has been added to the network of giant antennas trained on Voyager 2 during its flyby of Neptune on August 24-25 to help the spacecraft mission’s radio science experiment.

News updates on Voyager 2’s encounter with Neptune will be available to the public during late August on special telephone numbers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Images from the Voyager 2 spacecraft have revealed three additional new moons in orbit around Neptune, Voyager imaging team scientists announced today.

Two NASA scientists and noted planetary geologist have called for the Soviet Union and other nations to join the United States in robotic exploration of Mars in the 1990s.

An experiment left on the lunar surface 20 years ago by the Apollo 11 astronauts continues to study the Earth-Moon system and return data to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other scientific centers around the world.

A new moon has been discovered orbiting Neptune, scientists on the Voyager Project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., announced today.

A Cray supercomputer has been installed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to give JPL and California Institute of Technology researchers greater power in solving complex scientific problems.

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft today entered the observatoryphase of its flyby of Neptune, signaling the beginning of its final planetary encounter after nearly 12 years of exploring the outer solar system.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been recognized for its more than 25 years of accomplishments in the field of planetary imaging science by the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

The Magellan spacecraft, responding to computer command, Sunday fired four of its eight 100-pound thrusters to increase its velocity and slightly alter its trajectory to Venus.

After 4-day cross-country trip, the Galileo spacecraft has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin preparations for its launch to the planet Jupiter next fall.

Dr. Michael Q. Hooks, historian with dozen years’ experience building and maintaining institutional archives, has been appointed archivist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Citing “an expression of our mutual intent to increase our common interests,” Dr. Lew Allen, director of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Tuesday (May 9) formalized set of agreements with seven of the nation’s Historically Bla…

Two industry-sponsored educators will join other participants at four-day conference at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center this week marking the launch of the Magellan planetary spacecraft.

Daryal T. Gant has been appointed deputy assistant laboratory director for administrative divisions of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory by JPL’s director, Dr. Lew Allen.

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, only four months away from its flyby of the planet Neptune, today completed one of the last major change-of-course maneuvers it will make before reaching the planet in August.

A two-way digital voice terminal for land, aeronautical or maritime mobile communications has been demonstrated in the field for the first time by Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers.

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft imaging science team has found two of the long-sought-after ring arcs, or partial rings, thought to exist around Neptune.

Several previously unknown geological faults, some of which may be active, have been discovered in the central and eastern Mojave Desert in California by geologists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Louisiana State University analyzin…

Earth scientists, inundated by volumes of data from space satellites, will need whole new strategy to process the additional one-trillion bits per day expected from NASA’s Earth Observing System (Eos) in the 1990s, two NASA scientists sa…

Two senior managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, it has been announced.

Albert G. Brejcha and Thomas R. Gavin have been appointed to key posts in reliability and quality assurance at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory by William S. Shipley, assistant laboratory director for engineering and review.

The prototype measuring station of NASA’s proposed Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change has completed an important test validating its laser remote sensing technique for measuring atmospheric ozone. The data acquired by this…

A paper written by JPL ozone researcher Dr. Mario Molina, which has come to form the basis for current scientific understanding of Antarctic ozone depletion, has been recognized by Science magazine as the best paper it published during t…

Image processing scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created “Mars the Movie,” an animated, three-dimensional look at the planet Mars.

The public is invited to visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during an open house Saturday, Dec. 3, 1988, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the date JPL became part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administ…

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, now less than year away from its encounter with the planet Neptune, successfully completed critical change-of-course maneuver today that will bring Voyager 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) closer to the planet…

A system using aircraft-based infrared remote sensing and specialized data-processing techniques to provide forest fire mapping almost in real time for firefighters has begun development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the …

A dedication ceremony for the new three-story Microdevices Laboratory building at Jet Propulsion Laboratory is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. October 27, Dr. Lew Allen, JPL director, announced.

The first fully operational digital terminal for mobile satellite communications system has been successfully field-tested in an automobile by Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers.

Painters, potters, sculptors, glass blowers and wood carvers will be among exhibitors at an arts and crafts fair benefitting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech Child Educational Center.

Analyzing ancient Chinese accounts of solar eclipses up to nearly 4,000 years old, Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers have determined to within few thousandths of second the rate at which the Earth’s daily rotation has been gradually …

The Deep Space Network, operated for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will provide tracking support for the STS-26 flight of the space shuttle Discovery and for the deployment and on-orbit checkout of Discovery’s payload, the Track…

Image-processing scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have used digital animation techniques to produce three-dimensional, whirlwind tour of Earth, flying the viewer over, under and through the cloudtops in the …

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has announced the inauguration of its Mark III Hypercube parallel supercomputer.

When rocket rose into the sky north of Los Angeles in dazzling evening launch 10 years ago this week, the satellite it carried was destined to usher in new era of space research focusing on unsolved questions of the world’s oceans and we…

Gerald S. Levy of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been named recipient of the Charles Stark Draper Award by the International Aeronautical Federation for his innovative work in 3-year-long astronomical experiment.

Newly processed radar pictures of the surface of Venus show what may be geologically recent volcanic activity and impact cratering, including possible volcanic mountains and broad lava flows and fields like those which make up the Hawaii…

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., was honored last week by the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues for the Laboratory’s longstanding commitment to making quality child care available to its employees.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has begun construction of domed building at its Table Mountain site to house 48-inch optical telescope acquired from the U.S. Air Force.

Projects ranging from study of “superlearning” to experiments with the effectiveness of cough drops have won awards for handful of junior-high students who entered area science fairs coordinated with JPL.

Achievements ranging from headline-making astronomical discovery to work on computers that mimic the human brain have earned 1987 NASA Honor Awards for 24 men and women at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Technologies and issues in the emerging field of mobile satellite communications will be the focus of three- day conference sponsored by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

David D. Evans has been appointed as Mars Observer project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, announced Walker E. Giberson, assistant laboratory director for flight projects.

NASA astronaut Anthony England will tell more than 200 teachers how the U.S. space station can help classroom education at day-long meeting on “Communications in Education” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on May 2l.

On the chance that someone is out there, NASA has approved tie placement of a phonograph record on each of two planetary spacecraft being readied far launch next month to the outer reaches of the solar system

A large reservoir of carbon dioxide trapped in the soil of Mars may account for apparent drastic changes in the red planet’s climate over billions of years, two scientists at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told their colleagues toda…

Viking’s biology instruments have completed their search for life on Mars.

One of the three experiments in Viking Lander 1’s biology instrument has developed leak that will end its operation.