February 25, 2021
Parker Solar Probe Offers Stunning View of Venus
During Parker Solar Probe’s third Venus flyby, the camera aboard the Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft captured a striking — and surprising — image of the planet’s nightside.
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February 25, 2021
During Parker Solar Probe’s third Venus flyby, the camera aboard the Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft captured a striking — and surprising — image of the planet’s nightside.
February 23, 2021
If life did arise on Venus, does it still exist? A new Johns Hopkins APL-led study provides a framework for estimating that chance. The Venus Life Equation calculates the probability that life currently exists on the second planet from the Sun by focusing on the likelihood of each of three factors: origination, robustness and continuity.
February 22, 2021
Six engineers and scientists from APL have earned Black Engineer of the Year Awards, joining a cadre of Laboratory staff members who have been recognized by the organization.
February 19, 2021
Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, APL is collaborating with the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality on a study to characterize and analyze the airborne transmission of infectious agents in hospital settings — with the goal of reducing risks to frontline health care workers and patients.
February 18, 2021
Perseverance is the most advanced Mars rover yet, strategically dispatched to a spot teeming with indicators of long-gone liquid water and, possibly, fossilized Martian life. Data from the Johns Hopkins APL-built CRISM imaging spectrometer factored into NASA’s selection of the Perseverance landing site.
February 15, 2021
Recent analyses of data fortuitously collected by an APL-built instrument on NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft reveal the planet’s little moon Io packs quite a punch, accelerating protons and other charged particles to millions of miles of per hour through an invisible link between itself and Jupiter.
February 1, 2021
Three principal investigators from APL were among researchers from across the Johns Hopkins enterprise to earn funding in the sixth round of the Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards program.
January 28, 2021
Morgan Trexler, a materials engineer at Johns Hopkins APL, was recently named the newest member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute executive committee.
January 25, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL researchers are working with Johns Hopkins Medicine and a technology startup to explore the use of Bluetooth Low Energy beacons with ultra-wideband capabilities to study the ability of health care workers to maintain safe distances from one another.
January 21, 2021
In a new paper published Jan. 8 in the journal Soft Robotics, a team of APL researchers demonstrated a liquid crystal elastomer-based soft robot that is fully untethered from a power source and has Bluetooth control.
January 14, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic persists into a second year and conducting disease surveillance continues to be an important component of public health responses, APL has entered into an agreement with InductiveHealth Informatics to facilitate access by additional state and local governments to the APL-developed Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, or ESSENCE.