![Captured photo of space with the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in its field of view](/sites/default/files/2024-02/wispr_merged_arrows%20-%20trimmed.jpeg)
News
Feb 1, 2021
Parker Solar Probe Captures Planetary Portrait
Its proximity to the Sun not only puts NASA’s Parker Solar Probe in position to grab unprecedented information on the nascent solar wind and solar activity, but it also affords the spacecraft some unique (and pretty cool) views of our solar system.
![Adam Crego and Jennifer McKneely of Johns Hopkins APL](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210201_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 1, 2021
Latest Discovery Awards Fund Johns Hopkins APL-Led Projects in Public Health Messaging, Detecting Pathogens and Detecting Unconscious Bias
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.
![Mercury’s surface, as captured here in 2013 by the APL-operated MESSENGER spacecraft](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210129_image2_med.jpg)
News
Jan 29, 2021
Study Reveals MESSENGER Watched a Meteoroid Strike Mercury
A team of physicists that includes Johns Hopkins APL’s Leonardo Regoli reveals in a recent study that the Lab-operated MESSENGER spacecraft witnessed a meteoroid impact on the planet Mercury more than seven years ago. It’s the first impact ever observed on the surface of another planet.
![Morgan Trexler, a materials engineer at APL](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210128_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jan 28, 2021
Trexler Named to Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute Executive Committee
Morgan Trexler, a materials engineer at Johns Hopkins APL, was recently named the newest member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute executive committee.
![Parker Solar Probe was making a close approach to the Sun on June 7, 2020, when its Wide-field Imager for Solar PRobe (WISPR) captured the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in its field of view.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210127_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Jan 27, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Spacecraft Capture Planetary Portraits
The APL-built Parker Solar Probe was wheeling around the Sun last summer when it spied six planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — in its camera's field of view. The Lab-operated STEREO spacecraft caught a similar glimpse at the same time.
![Briana Vecchio-Pagán](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210125_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jan 25, 2021
Johns Hopkins Researchers Tap Bluetooth Technology to Keep Health Workers Safe
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.
![APL researchers demonstrate a snail-like, LCE-based soft robot](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210121_image1_lg.gif)
News
Jan 21, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Achieve Wireless Soft Robotic Advancement
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.
![APL Director Ralph Semmel speaks in February 2020 during the first meeting of the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC)](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210115_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jan 15, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Team Lauded for Lunar Technology Leadership
The APL team that stood up the Lunar Science and Innovation Consortium, an organization to help NASA advance the development of lunar surface technology, will receive a NASA Headquarters 2020 Honor Award.
![DART Team](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210115b_image1_med.jpg)
News
Jan 15, 2021
DART Team Takes a Last Look at Asteroid Target Before Launch
As integration and testing continue on the spacecraft, DART’s investigation team has kicked off the mission’s final prelaunch observation campaign on the ground, using powerful telescopes located around the world in an effort to get a glimpse of the asteroid system that DART will encounter this year.
![A myESSENCE dashboard example using simulated data](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210114_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jan 14, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Partners with InductiveHealth on Disease Informatics for Health Agencies
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.