Tag: instrument

Image showing the night sky with a hot pink and purple aurora.

June 24, 2024 / David Lawrence and Patrick Peplowski

The Psyche Spacecraft: The Solar System’s Newest Interplanetary Meteorologist?

Most people don’t think about weather in space (or that space may even have weather!), but the effects of space weather were hard to miss in early May 2024. The Sun is currently in an agitated...

Annotated version of the starfield image with stars labeled.

December 5, 2023 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA’s Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data

The mission team has celebrated several successes since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 13, 2023. The latest is the operation of the spacecraft’s cameras. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft...

October 21, 2021 / David Lawrence and Patrick Peplowski

The Path to Psyche Starts at Mercury and Moves through Long Island

Building a flight instrument for our asteroid mission Everyone has their story for how they made their way to the Psyche mission. For some of us on the Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS)...

Man standing next to a modern astronomical research telescopes

November 20, 2019 / Steven Dibb

Meteorites: Pieces of the cosmos delivered to our doorstep

What rocks from space teach us about our solar system and ourselves When I was 15 years old, I saw the Perseid meteor shower for the first time. Having grown up in urban, light-polluted Los Angeles,...