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PASADENA, CA – NASA’s attempt to shield Neela Rajendra has ultimately failed.
Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, beneath Mars’ surface—providing new clues that the Red ...
To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed "Ubajara" on April 30, 2023. This ...
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...
Project-based learning and a modular class design help students from various backgrounds and universities gain hands-on ...
Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.
standing in the cavernous and dimly lit mission control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “It grabbed most of the leftovers after the Sun formed. When we want ...
He was one of the few JPL civilians at Cape Canaveral when the Explorer was launched in 1958. “We’re looking good, sir,” he told an Army general. “Damn it, Hibbs, are we in orbit or are we not?” ...