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Press Release
Feb 22, 2013
Johns Hopkins APL to Host ‘Girl Power’
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is hosting a free introduction to careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for middle and high school girls on Sunday, March 17, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on APL’s Laurel, Md., campus.
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Press Release
Feb 13, 2013
APL Plays Key Role in Critical Integrated BMD Test
Engineers from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) played a significant role in the successful test of a system critical to protecting the U.S. against growing regional ballistic missile threats.
![This view of layered rocks on the floor of McLaughlin Crater shows sedimentary rocks that contain spectroscopic evidence for minerals formed through interaction with water.](/sites/default/files/2023-02/CRISMarsLakeannotated-lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jan 20, 2013
APL Instrument Shows Martian Crater May Have Once Held Groundwater-Fed Lake
Data from a spectrometer on board a NASA spacecraft are providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet’s early evolution.
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Press Release
Dec 4, 2012
Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Launches Parent STEM Workshop
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., is launching its first-ever Parent STEMpowerment Workshop Dec. 9, 2012, geared to help parents of middle school students prepare their children for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.
![This artist's concept shows plasma flows around NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft as it gets close to entering interstellar space](/sites/default/files/2023-02/Krimigis-1.gif)
Press Release
Dec 3, 2012
NASA’S Voyager 1 Cruising on a ‘Magnetic Highway’
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a new region on the outskirts of our solar system that appears to be a magnetic highway for charged particles. Scientists believe this is the final region Voyager has to cross before reaching interstellar space, or the space between stars.
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Press Release
Nov 29, 2012
MESSENGER Finds New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury’s Poles
New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters.
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Press Release
Nov 9, 2012
NASA Renames Mission to Honor James Van Allen, Pioneering Physicist and APL Trailblazer
NASA has officially renamed the recently launched mission to study Earth’s radiation belts the Van Allen Probes, in honor of the late James Van Allen. Van Allen was the head of the physics department at the University of Iowa who is recognized for his discovery in 1958 of radiation belts encircling Earth.
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Press Release
Oct 4, 2012
MESSENGER Mission Receives Prestigious IAA Award
The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has awarded its 2012 Laurels for Team Achievement to the team leading NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to the innermost planet.
![This perspective view of Marcia crater on the giant asteroid Vesta shows the most spectacularly preserved example of "pitted terrain," an unexpected discovery in data returned by NASA's Dawn mission.](/sites/default/files/2023-02/Vesta%20CraterLg.jpg)
Press Release
Sep 20, 2012
Dawn Spacecraft Sees Hydrated Minerals on Giant Asteroid
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed that the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Scientists from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) contribute to two new papers describing how volatile, or easily evaporated materials, have colored Vesta’s surface in a broad swath around its equator.
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Press Release
Sep 11, 2012
APL and Robinson Nature Center Offer Space Science Lectures
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Robinson Nature Center are teaming up for a joint lecture series called “Beyond Earth.” APL scientists will share details of and discuss findings from four Laboratory space missions to different parts of the solar system.