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PASADENA, Calif. - Disappointed scientists held out hope Saturday for a sign of life from the Mars Polar Lander, a day after the $165 million spacecraft failed to beam back signals from the Red Planet.
...an isolated La Nina occurring in the Pacific Ocean,'' said William Patzert, an oceanographer at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Patzert believes the ocean-wide temperature changes indicate a natural shift that occurs every 20 to...
LOS ANGELES - NASA's space exploration program is trying to do too much with too little money and not understanding the risks that could lead to embarrassments like last year's failed Mars missions, according to two panels of experts.
...resources, but we're not going to let the pendulum swing all the way back,'' he told employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter were managed. Goldin visited the lab Wednesday, a day...
...would be a bunch of little fireflies in the midst of a searchlight,'' Jane Platt, a spokeswoman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said of trying to see it. Planetary alignments, which occur when three or more celestial objects move...
...understanding is not complete and not to say more than you know," said William Patzert, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's hard after three years of being a hotshot. It's really hard." Unlike El Nino and La Nina...
...international team of astronomers concluded Friday. The International Astronomical Union and space scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said there is a 1-in-500 chance that a newly discovered asteroid-like object called 2000 SG344 could...
...exploration. "This mission is one of redemption," said David Spencer, manager of the $297 million mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We had a couple of high-profile failures, but we're bouncing back. This mission is going to be...
...Wednesday at his home and charged with using his personal computer to break into two computers belonging to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The lab is the lead center for exploration of space with robotic spacecraft, having...