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Jason Willis
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Deep space exploration and fantasy football enthusiast | JPL Principal Systems Engineer | Mars Exploration Rovers, NuSTAR, InSight missions among others | All opinions expressed are my own
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Sunset on Mars captured by NASA’s InSight lander.
April 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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An InSight of Changes on Mars

We caught a glimpse of the retired InSight lander to document the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft’s solar panels that have acquired the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet.

uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_08...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars
December 18, 2024 at 1:59 PM
The wolf and bull getting in some winter sun while they can.

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November 22, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Sometimes you need a high tech multi-million dollar test facility... others... the local swimming pool will do...
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-oc...
NASA Ocean World Explorers Have to Swim Before They Can Fly
In a competition swimming pool, engineers tested prototypes for a futuristic mission concept: a swarm of underwater robots that could look for signs of life on ocean worlds.
www.jpl.nasa.gov
November 21, 2024 at 8:21 PM
NuSTAR continues to produce high quality science 12 years into its 26 month nominal mission.
www.nustar.caltech.edu/news/nustar2...
Fireworks at Closest Approach: Repeated X-ray Flares from a Young Binary System
NuSTAR is using DQ Tau as an extraordinary laboratory to study how the intense radiation from X-ray super-flares affects planet formation in young, forming systems.
www.nustar.caltech.edu
November 18, 2024 at 5:21 PM
NASA scientists continue to pull insights from Voyager 2s Uranus flyby 38 years ago.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mining-...
Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers.
www.jpl.nasa.gov
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM