Sit back and enjoy the view from the Voyagers' epic journey through the solar system. See iconic images of planets and moons, including Jupiter, Io, Europa, Saturn, Titan, Uranus, Neptune and Triton, set to music.
In just a couple of years, NASA's newest rover will be flying to Mars. The Mars 2020 mission will use the next generation of science and landing technology to collect rock samples for possible return by a future mission.
JPL engineers put together a drone race to find which is faster - a drone operated by a human or one operated by artificial intelligence. The race capped two years of research into drone autonomy funded by Google.
Scientists were surprised and delighted to detect -- for the first time -- an interstellar asteroid passing through our solar system. Additional observations brought more surprises: the object is cigar-shaped with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated-perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That is unlike any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date, and may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed.
The first flight of an advanced supersonic parachute system for Mars 2020 NASA's next Mars rover. The test took place on Oct. 4, 2017, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. At the moment of full inflation, the parachute is going 1.8 times the speed of sound or nearly 1,300 miles an hour, and generating nearly 35,000 pounds of drag force-drag that would be necessary to help slow a payload down as it was entering the Martian atmosphere. This is the first of several tests in support of NASA's Mars 2020 mission.
On Sept. 15, 2017, Cassini plunged into Saturn, ending its 20-year mission of discovery.
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High-definition (HD) videos from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory feature the latest news on space and science findings from JPL and NASA. Topics include discoveries made by spacecraft studying…
planets in our solar system, including Mars, Saturn and our home planet, Earth. Missions also study stars and galaxies in our universe.
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