![A Girl Power 2018 in-person attendee participates in a biomechanics demonstration](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210308_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Mar 8, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL to Host Virtual ‘Girl Power’ STEM Event on March 14
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.
![Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument, short for Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere that recombine into molecules in the nightside.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210225_image1b_lg.jpg)
News
Feb 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.
![NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this image of Venus, which has been enhanced to show the planet’s sulfuric acid clouds in greater detail.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210223_image1_med.jpg)
News
Feb 23, 2021
New Equation Lays Odds for Life on Venus
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.
![From left, top: Makita Phillips, Mika Ayenson and Adam Freeman; bottom: Jaime Arribas Starkey-El, Malik Little and Justin McGrath.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210222_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 22, 2021
Six From Johns Hopkins APL Honored with Black Engineer of the Year Awards
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.
![Health care professionals](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210219_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 19, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Partners with CDC to Protect Frontline Health Care Workers
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.
![On ancient Mars, water carved channels and transported sediments to form fans and deltas within lake basins.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210218_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Feb 18, 2021
Perseverance Mission Highlights CRISM’s Continued Contributions to Martian Science
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.
![Image of Io passing in front of Jupiter, taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210215_image3_med.jpg)
News
Feb 15, 2021
Little Moon Io Helps Jupiter Accelerate Charged Particles to Incredible Speed
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.
![Artist’s impression of the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on the surface of Eros.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210212_image3_lg.jpg)
News
Feb 12, 2021
NEAR Landing Left a Lasting Space Exploration Legacy
On Feb. 12, 2001, a carefully designed series of maneuvers brought the APL-built NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft to the surface of 433 Eros — the first-ever landing on an asteroid. The trailblazing accomplishment pointed the way for future missions.
![The USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) successfully executed the first live-fire test of the Mark 57 Vertical Launching System with a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) on the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Sea Test Range, Point Mugu, on Oct. 13.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210210_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Feb 10, 2021
Successful Intercept Test Sets Strong Course for Navy’s Zumwalt
Engineers from Johns Hopkins APL, U.S. Navy sailors and industry partners watched years of work pay off when the USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) successfully executed the first live-fire test of the Mark 57 Vertical Launching System with a Standard Missile-2 (SM‑2).
![DART team members (from left) John Schellhase, Emory Toomey and Lloyd Ellis of APL inspect the radial line slot array (RLSA) antenna before installing it on the spacecraft](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210209_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 9, 2021
DART Mission Heats Up, Enters Environmental Testing
A months-long integration and testing phase culminated recently with a successful review and the start of space-environment testing for NASA’s first planetary defense mission, the Johns Hopkins APL-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).