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On Cosmic Discovery and Human Significance
Jake Rosenthal takes us on a tour of the history of discovery of our place in the cosmos.
Space Exploration: Leaving the Earth to Understand It
Looking back at Earth from beyond helps to give perspective on our place in the cosmos.
The Pioneer Plaque: Science as a Universal Language
In 1972, an attempt to contact extraterrestrial life was cast into space with the launch of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. What exactly was the message we sent into the cosmos?
Mars 2020 and the Adaptive Caching Assembly: An Intern’s Perspective
Jet Propulsion Laboratory summer intern Jake Rosenthal shares his thoughts on the Mars 2020 sample caching technology currently in development.