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The Emirates Mars Mission, also known as “Hope,” stays connected to its operators on Earth using a novel radio provided by APL.

A new conceptual mission developed by Johns Hopkins APL researchers proposes to send a small spacecraft to view Earth as if it were a potentially habitable exoplanet and help validate whether the methods currently used to look for habitable worlds can even detect life on the one planet where we know it does exist.

The field of information systems engineering is facing new challenges with the increased use of artificial intelligence and machine learning across public sectors and a resulting surge of legal, privacy and ethical concerns. David Silberberg, a computer scientist and engineer at Johns Hopkins APL, is excited to help address these challenges as the newly appointed chair of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School’s Information Systems Engineering program.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the global computing society with nearly 100,000 members from more than 190 countries, has chartered a Baltimore professional chapter led by APL employees. It will be the only ACM professional chapter in the Baltimore/Washington region, which is home to thousands of computing professionals across leading universities, major companies and government agencies.

APL leaders welcomed Gen. David Thompson, vice chief of space operations for U.S. Space Force, to the Laboratory on March 3, for a tour and briefings on APL work.

NASA has tapped APL to continue supporting the agency’s Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative, which aims to spur the development and deployment of technologies enabling humans to live and work on the Moon.

APL will virtually host “Girl Power,” an opportunity for elementary and middle school girls to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), on Sunday, March 14, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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.

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.