Tag Archives: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 19, 2019 by rburnham

Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.

Posted in Reports | Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Elysium Planitia, Gale Crater, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, NASA, temperature, Temperature and Wind for InSight, TWINS, weather | Comments Off

Mars 2020: Things are stacking up for the spacecraft

Posted on April 18, 2019 by rburnham

For the past few months, the clean room floor in High Bay 1 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been covered in parts, components and test equipment for the Mars 2020 spacecraft, scheduled for launch toward the … Continue reading →

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 15, 2019 by rburnham

Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.

InSight: More testing for the ‘mole’

Posted on April 12, 2019 by rburnham

Updated at 5 p.m. PDT (8 p.m. EDT) on April 11: InSight’s Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument completed a new round of diagnostic hammering into the Martian surface on March 26, 2019, while the spacecraft’s seismometer listened in. … Continue reading →

Posted in Reports | Tagged Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES, DLR, Elysium Planitia, German Aerospace Center, Heat and Physical Properties Package, HP3, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, NASA | Comments Off

Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 11, 2019 by rburnham

Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.

Posted in Reports | Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Elysium Planitia, Gale Crater, global dust storms, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, NASA, temperature, Temperature and Wind for InSight, TWINS, weather | Comments Off

MAVEN completes orbit change for Mars 2020

Posted on April 8, 2019 by rburnham

MAVEN has achieved a tighter orbit around Mars to act as a telecommunications relay. The two-month campaign began February 11 and ended April 5. MAVEN’s navigation team slowed the spacecraft down gradually by aerobraking, a process taking advantage of the … Continue reading →