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Cracks Forming in Frozen Martian Soil Simulant

These formations similar to the Red Planet's spiders appeared within Martian soil simulant during experiments in JPL's DUSTIE chamber.

A Look Inside JPL’s DUSTIE Planetary Simulation Chamber

Here's a look inside of JPL's DUSTIE, a wine barrel-size chamber used to simulate the temperatures and air pressure of…

Experiment Re-Creating a Carbon Dioxide Plume

This video shows Martian soil simulant erupting in a plume during a JPL lab experiment that was designed to replicate…

IceNode Prototype Under the Ice

A remote camera captured an IceNode prototype deployed below the frozen surface of Lake Superior, off Michigan's Upper Peninsula, during…

Arctic Test for JPL’s IceNode Prototype

A prototype of an autonomous robot, part of a project called IceNode being developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was…

NASA JPL’S ORCAA Field Work in Alaska

A group of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions spent two weeks on a glacier in Alaska…