How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on Time

How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on Time

The Deep Space Atomic Clock, a new technology from NASA’s JPL, may change the way spacecraft navigate in space. Launching in late June aboard the Orbital Test Bed satellite, on the SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, descendants of the technology demonstration...
NASA’s MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars

NASA’s MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars

This still from an animation shows NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter soaring over Mars. The spacecraft has been in Mars orbit for 13 years, and just completed 60,000 trips around the planet.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the...