NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Payload Announced – Two JPL Instruments Make the Cut

 

LATEST NEWS NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations. Read more Mars 2020 Rover's PIXL to Focus X-Rays on Tiny Targets An X-ray instrument for NASA's next Mars rover combines a sharpshooting spectrometer and a camera, to identify and map chemical elements in targets at microscopic scale. Read more SHERLOC to Micro-Map Mars Minerals and Carbon Rings One of the seven instruments chosen for the payload of NASA's next Mars rover would detect key minerals and carbon chemicals and show where they are, at microscopic scale. Read more

 

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NASA to Announce Mars 2020 Rover Instruments | New NASA Studies to Examine Climate/Vegetation Links

 

LATEST NEWS ISSUED BY NASA HEADQUARTERS: NASA to Announce Mars 2020 Rover Instruments NASA will announce on Thurs., July 31, the instruments that will be carried aboard the Mars 2020 mission, a roving laboratory based on the highly successful Curiosity rover. Read more New NASA Studies to Examine Climate/Vegetation Links NASA has selected a proposal from JPL for a new International Space Station instrument that will observe effects on global vegetation caused by changes in climate or land use. Read more

 

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Mars Opportunity Passes 25 Miles of Driving | Cassini Reveals 101 Geysers and More | Printing the Metals of the Future

 

LATEST NEWS NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Passes 25 Miles of Driving NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. Read more Cassini Spacecraft Reveals 101 Geysers and More on Icy Saturn Moon Scientists using mission data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have identified 101 distinct geysers erupting on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Read more Printing the Metals of the Future Spacecraft components may need custom parts that traditional manufacturing processes can't make. A 3-D printing technique JPL scientists are using may solve such problems. Read more

 

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NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Maneuvers to Prepare for Close Comet Flyby

LATEST NEWS NASA's Mars Spacecraft Maneuvers to Prepare for Close Comet Flyby NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars orbiters, while preserving opportunities to gather valuable science, as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring nears Mars on Oct. 19. › Read full story

 

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The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World's Size | NASA Seeks Proposals for Mars Data Relay Satellites

 

LATEST NEWS The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World's Size NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have made the most precise measurement yet of the size of a planet beyond our solar system. Read more NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Mars Data Relay Satellites NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites for telecommunications with future Mars missions. Read more

 

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OCO-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward into the Past

LATEST NEWS OCO-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward into the Past Scientists will use a virtual time machine to trace carbon dioxide observations from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 back to their sources. › Read full story

 

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Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone Honored

LATEST NEWS Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone Honored Ed Stone, project scientist of NASA's Voyager mission since 1972 and a former JPL director, has received an American Astronautical Society lifetime achievement award. › Read full story

 

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NASA Honors First Moon Landing, Looks Ahead to Mars

LATEST NEWS NASA Honors First Moon Landing, Looks Ahead to Mars NASA marks the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing this month while it takes the steps needed for America's next giant leap to send astronauts to Mars. › Read full story

 

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Reminder: Mars Activities Educator Workshop This Saturday

 

JPL EDUCATION - WORKSHOPS Educator Workshop: Mars Activities Date: Saturday, July 19, 2014, 10 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Target Audience: Recommended for educators for grades 3-8, but all educators (formal and informal) are welcome Location: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Von Karman Auditorium Overview: This standards-based workshop will focus on the similarities and differences between the geology on Mars and Earth. Compare and contrast Earth and Mars images to discover how landscapes evolved. Learn how and why we explore Mars. Engage your students in present and future missions to the Red Planet. Please call the NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center at 818-393-5917 to reserve your spot. This free workshop is offered through the NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center, which provides formal and informal educators with NASA resources and materials that support STEM learning. For more information, visit the Educator Resource Center page at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=115. A full listing of educator workshops from NASA/JPL can be found on the JPL Education website, at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=387

 

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Further Evidence of Dry Ice Gullies on Mars | Experts Discuss the Search for Life Beyond Earth

 

LATEST NEWS Leading Space Experts to Discuss the Search for Life Beyond Earth NASA TV will air a panel discussion on July 14, about the scientific and technological roadmap that will lead to the discovery of potentially habitable worlds among the stars. Read more NASA Spacecraft Observes Further Evidence of Dry Ice Gullies on Mars Repeated observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate the surface gullies are mainly formed by seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide, not liquid water. Read more

 

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Sun Sends More 'Tsunami Waves' to Voyager 1 | NASA's RapidScat to Unveil Hidden Cycles of Sea Winds

 

LATEST NEWS Sun Sends More 'Tsunami Waves' to Voyager 1 NASA's Voyager has experienced more "tsunami waves" from the sun -- the same kind that led to the realization last year that the spacecraft had entered interstellar space. Read more NASA's RapidScat to Unveil Hidden Cycles of Sea Winds NASA is sending a new instrument to the International Space Station that will be the first to observe how winds over the ocean grow and change each day. Read more

 

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OCO-2 Takes the A-Train to Study Earth's Atmosphere

LATEST NEWS OCO-2 Takes the A-Train to Study Earth's Atmosphere New NASA satellite will be the latest addition to an international line of Earth observers. › Read full story

 

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OCO-2 Successfully Launches | Salty Ocean Inside Saturn Moon | Fireworks in Nearby Galaxy | Radio Delivered for 2016 Mars Orbiter

 

LATEST NEWS NASA Launches Carbon Mission to Watch Earth Breathe NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide at 2:56 a.m. PDT (5:56 a.m. EDT) Wednesday. Read more Ocean on Saturn Moon Could be as Salty as the Dead Sea Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as Earth's Dead Sea. Read more Black Hole Fireworks in Nearby Galaxy "Fireworks" in a nearby galaxy are driving away its star-making fuel. Read more NASA Radio Delivered for Europe's 2016 Mars Orbiter The first of two NASA Electra radios that will fly aboard the European Space Agency's next mission to Mars has been delivered onto the ESA ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). Read more

 

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