The idea is to make the spacecraft act more like a human: Instead of just seeing data, it’s thinking about what the data shows and how to respond.
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Are Water Plumes Spraying from Europa? NASA’s Europa Clipper is on the Case
From NASA Finding plumes at Europa is an exciting prospect, but scientists warn it’ll be tricky, even from up close. In 2005, images of a brilliant watery plume erupting from…
NASA’s Juno: Science Results Offer First 3D View of Jupiter Atmosphere
From NASA Oct 28, 2021 New findings from NASA’s Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet’s distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock
From NASA NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken on Sept.…
Clays, Not Water, Are Likely Source of Mars ‘Lakes’
“In planetary science, we often are just inching our way closer to the truth,” Plaut said. “The original paper didn’t prove it was water, and these new papers don’t prove…
ECOSTRESS Data Incorporated Into New Wildfire Response Tool
ECOSTRESS measures surface temperature from the vantage point of the International Space Station, and its ability to observe fires of the Northwest US often twice per day at a high…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins Its First Science Campaign on Mars
The goal of the campaign is to establish what four locations in these units best tell the story of Jezero Crater’s early environment and geologic history. When the science team…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of…
Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle, NASA Scientists Find
“The fact that there’s organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old rocks, and we found it at the surface, is a very promising sign that we might be able to tap more…
NASA’s ICESat-2 Measures Arctic Ocean’s Sea Ice Thickness, Snow Cover
From NASA May 14, 2020 Arctic sea ice helps keep Earth cool, as its bright surface reflects the Sun’s energy back into space. Each year scientists use multiple satellites and…
’Pale Blue Dot’ Revisited
From NASA Feb. 12, 2020 Full image and caption More About the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ 10 things you might not know about the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image Print your very…
A solar eclipse as seen from Mars
From NASA JPL: NASA Mars Rover Views Eclipse of the Sun by Phobos PASADENA, Calif. – Images taken with a telephoto-lens camera on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity catch the larger…
'Game changer' – Antarctic melt due to warm water, not air temperature
From the University of California – Irvine something that pretty well makes Steig et al 2009 even more irrelevant, since in that paper they did a survey of air temperatures…
Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor largest since 1908 Tunguska event
Image credit: Google Earth, NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view From the WSJ (NASA JPL Statement follows): The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed…
PODEX Experiment to reshape future of Atmospheric Science by getting a handle on aerosols and clouds
Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX) in Southern California. The brightness, or “intensity,” and polarization of reflected light provide different information about the elements that make up a scene, apparent in this…
Why ice loss and sea level measurements via satellite and the new Shepherd et al paper are highly uncertain at the moment
There’s a paper (Shepherd et al) on ice loss and sea level rise that has been making the rounds in media (such as this article in Science Recorder, claiming it…
Bipolar disorder – as in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea ice extent is affected by wind, unless of course it's 'climate change'
From the “no matter what happens it is climate change” department. So, according to this, when the Arctic loses ice it is due to climate change ‘global warming’ when the…
Curiosity: no methane found on Mars – yet
From NASA JPL, no evidence of Methane found in first tests. PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much…
Finally: JPL intends to get a GRASP on accurate sea level and ice measurements
A climate science bombshell: New proposal from NASA JPL admits to “spurious” errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the…
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