2005 Features :
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12/27/05 - The Year in Images: JPL 2005
JPL missions and instruments capture unique and beautiful images 365 days a year. The following photo essay and gallery offer a glimpse at just a few of these views.
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12/27/05 - Cassini Caps Off Year With Titan Flyby
The Cassini spacecraft wrapped up this year's whirlwind tour of Saturn's many moons with a Titan rendezvous on Dec. 26.
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12/13/05 - Spitzer Exposes Our Galaxy's Deepest Secrets
Astronomers used Spitzer's heat-seeking infrared eyes to gaze at the dust-drenched plane of our galaxy.
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12/12/05 - Bump Into Mars Tonight
Look for Mars in the night sky on December 12, 2005, and wish Opportunity a Happy One Martian Year Anniversary!
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12/12/05 - Opportunity Celebrates One Mars Year
Seemingly touched with a load of luck from the giddy-up, Opportunity has been galloping since she strutted off of her lander, some 670 sols ago. A mission planned for 90 days has turned into an adventure that's lasted nearly two Earth years!
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12/2/05 - Mars Express Radar Instrument Reveals Martian Subsurface
A U.S.-Italian radar instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express has peered deep below the surface. Early results from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding reveal buried craters and reservoirs of ice. The top image shows radar data from the subsurface. The lower image shows the location on a topographic map of the area. (Dec. 2)
+ JPL's Mars Express site
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11/30/05 - America and Europe Partner to Study Titan and Mars
Results from the collaborations between NASA and the European Space Agency on two missions were presented today at an European Space Agency briefing from Paris. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has pinpointed where a probe landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan (image above) and the Mars Express spacecraft has seen through surface layers on Mars.
+ Huygens landing site movie
+ Mars radar image
+ Mars release from Univ. of Iowa
+ Titan release from Univ. of Arizona
+ European Space Agency
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11/29/05 - A Planet With Planets? Spitzer Finds Cosmic Oddball
Planets are everywhere these days. They have been spotted around more than 150 stars, and evidence is growing that they also circle "failed," or miniature, stars called brown dwarfs.
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11/21/05 - Spirit Marks One Martian Year on the Red Planet
Since Spirit landed on January 3, 2004, Mars has completed one orbit around the sun. This anniversary picture is a synthetic image of the rover on the flank of "Husband Hill" produced using JPL technology. The process combines visualization and image-processing tools with Hollywood-style special effects.
+ Anniversary feature from rover site
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11/17/05 - Astronomers Assemble Fine Collection of 'Einstein Rings'
You can look but you can't touch the new rings discovered by JPLer Dr. Leonidas Moustakas and his colleagues. The team used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to locate, among other objects, galaxies whose light has been warped into circles called "Einstein rings."
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