Clay-Like Minerals Found on Icy Crust of Europa

LATEST NEWS Clay-Like Minerals Found on Icy Crust of Europa A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo mission leads to the first detection of such minerals on the surface of this moon of Jupiter. › Read more

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Spacecraft Reveals Markings on Mars | Juno Flies By Earth | Natural Hazard Warning Systems

LATEST NEWS NASA Mars Spacecraft Reveals a More Dynamic Red Planet NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed to scientists slender dark markings -- possibly due to salty water - that advance seasonally down slopes surprisingly close to the Martian equator. Read more NASA's Juno Gives Starship-Like View of Earth Flyby When NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 8,800 mph (about 7.3 kilometer per second), which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. Read more NASA Developing Natural Hazard Warning Systems Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have enhanced existing GPS technologies to develop new systems for California and elsewhere to warn of hazards from earthquakes, tsunamis and extreme weather events. Read more

 

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Snow Mapper Reaps Big Benefits for California | Curiosity Provides Vital Insight

 

LATEST NEWS NASA Snow Mapper Reaps Big Benefits for California Unprecedented snowpack maps from NASA's prototype Airborne Snow Observatory mission helped water managers for 2.6 million residents of the San Francisco Bay Area achieve near-perfect water operations this summer, despite the driest year in California's recorded history. Read more NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. Read more

 

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NASA/JPL Present New Findings at AGU | CubeSats Successfully Launched

 

LATEST NEWS NASA Highlights Mars, Earth and Other Science at AGU Event NASA researchers, including some from JPL, will present new findings on Earth and space science topics at the next week's American Geophysical Union meeting. Read more Thinking Inside the Box, Launching into Space Two tiny, cube-shaped research satellites hitched a ride to Earth orbit to validate new hardware and software technologies for future NASA Earth-observing instruments. Read more

 

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Saturday Last Giveaway Day at NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center

This is a feature of the NASA/JPL Education Office                                          Dec. 06, 2013 Saturday Last Giveaway Day at NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center After 15 years in its Pomona, Calif., location, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Educator Resource Center will be moving. More updates to come in the future. To facilitate our move, once again we need your help giving some of our excess material a new home. Up for grabs are items such as historical reference books, posters, historical JPL annual reports, bookmarks, postcards, and other JPL and educational materials. This coming Saturday, December 7th, we will have our final free yard-sale-type event during which you can visit the ERC at the Indian Hill Mall in Pomona and take whatever you can use. The doors will open at 12:30p.m. and close at 2:30p.m., no need to RSVP. We recommend arriving with boxes or bags to carry items home. No early birds please. If you attended our last event, please come again - we have many more items available this week. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=115 - end -

 

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NASA Finds Reducing Salt Is Bad for Glacial Health

LATEST NEWS NASA Finds Reducing Salt Is Bad for Glacial Health A new NASA-led study has discovered an intriguing link between sea ice conditions and the melting rate of Totten Glacier, the glacier in East Antarctica that discharges the most ice into the ocean. › Read more

 

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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon

LATEST NEWS NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north pole. › Read more

 

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Mars Workshop, Giveaway Saturday at the NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center

This is a feature of the NASA/JPL Education Office                                          Dec. 04, 2013 Educator Workshop: Marsbound! Mission to the Red Planet Date: Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Target audience: Educators for grades 4 and above Location: NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center, Pomona, Calif. Overview: Bring Marsbound! Mission to the Red Planet, an exciting hands-on lesson that addresses Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, to your classroom! Build a mission to Mars using a mat and cards game, design and redesign, facing the same problems that real engineers and scientists face. Compare Earth and Mars geology and explore what it will take to create a Mars colony, socially, historically, physically and vocationally! This workshop is limited to 30 participants. Please call 909-397-4420 to reserve your spot. For more information and directions, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=115 *Note: The NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center will be hosting a giveaway day featuring numerous items from its Pomona, Calif., location immediately following this workshop. See below for more information. Giveaway Days: After 15 years in its Pomona, Calif., location, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Educator Resource Center will be moving. (A new arrangement for the center has not been determined. Continue to check the ERC page at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=115 for future updates.) To facilitate our move, we need your help giving some of our excess material a new home. Up for grabs are items such as historical reference books, posters, historical JPL annual reports, bookmarks, postcards, and other JPL and educational materials. This coming Saturday, Dec. 7, we will have our final free yard-sale-type event during which you can visit the ERC at the Indian Hill Mall in Pomona and take whatever you can use.   The doors will open at 12:30 p.m. and close at 2:30 p.m., no need to RSVP. We recommend arriving with boxes or bags to carry items home. No early birds please. If you attended our last event, please come again - we have many more items available this week. - end -

 

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Two Supermassive Black Holes Spotted | iPad App Reveals Dramatic Changes | Dawn Cruises Toward Ceres

LATEST NEWS Massive Black Hole Duo: Possible Sighting by NASA's WISE Astronomers have spotted what appear to be two supermassive black holes at the heart of a remote galaxy, circling each other like dance partners. Read more NASA iPad App Shows Earth Changing Before Your Eyes Human activities, a changing climate and natural disasters are rapidly altering the face of our planet. Read more NASA's Dawn Fills out its Ceres Dance Card It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance card. Read more

 

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NASA Holds Google+ Hangout on Cassini's Findings at Saturn

LATEST NEWS NASA Holds Google+ Hangout on Cassini's Findings at Saturn NASA will host a Google+ Hangout at 12:30 p.m. PST (3:30 p.m. EST) on Wednesday, Dec. 4, to discuss images of Saturn taken by the agency's Cassini spacecraft. The Hangout also will look ahead to the next few years of the Cassini mission. › Read more

 

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