Editing Jet Propulsion Laboratory (section)

=== Earth science and robotic exploration ===
[[File:Mars Science Laboratory mockup comparison.jpg|thumb|MSL mockup compared with the [[Mars Exploration Rover]] and [[Sojourner (rover)|''Sojourner'' rover]] by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on May 12, 2008|250x250px]]In the 2000s and 2010s, JPL broadened its exploration scope, including the launch of missions to study the outer planets, like the [[Juno (spacecraft)|''Juno'' mission]] to Jupiter and the [[Cassini–Huygens|''Cassini-Huygens'' mission]] to Saturn.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grammier |first=Richard S. |title=2009 IEEE Aerospace conference |chapter=A look inside the Juno Mission to Jupiter |date=2009 |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/aero.2009.4839326 |pages=1–10 |publisher=IEEE |doi=10.1109/aero.2009.4839326 |isbn=978-1-4244-2621-8 |s2cid=9029002 |access-date=August 5, 2023 |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523065236/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4839326/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sollazzo |first1=C. |last2=Rakiewicz |first2=J. |last3=Wills |first3=R.D. |date=1995 |title=Cassini-Huygens: Mission operations |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0967-0661(95)00174-s |journal=Control Engineering Practice |volume=3 |issue=11 |pages=1631–1640 |doi=10.1016/0967-0661(95)00174-s |issn=0967-0661 |access-date=August 5, 2023 |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523065239/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/096706619500174S?via%3Dihub |url-status=live }}</ref> Concurrently, JPL also began to focus on Earth science missions, developing satellite technology to study climate change, weather patterns, and natural phenomena on Earth. JPL also opened the Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA in 1998, which had found 95% of asteroids a kilometer or more in diameter that cross Earth's orbit by 2013.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Whalen |first1=Mark |last2=Murrill |first2=Mary Beth |date=24 July 1998 |title=JPL will establish Near-Earth Object Program Office for NASA |url=http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/program/neo.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313011043/http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/program/neo.html |archive-date=13 March 2013 |access-date=19 February 2013 |website=Jet Propulsion Laboratory |publisher=NASA}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=18 February 2013 |title=NASA scrambles for better asteroid detection |newspaper=[[France 24]] |url=http://mobile.france24.com/en/20130218-nasa-scrambles-better-asteroid-detection |url-status=dead |access-date=19 February 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410235718/http://mobile.france24.com/en/20130218-nasa-scrambles-better-asteroid-detection |archive-date=10 April 2013}}</ref>

Entering the 2010s and 2020s, JPL continued its Mars exploration with the ''[[Curiosity (rover)|Curiosity]]'' rover and the Mars 2020 mission, which included the [[Perseverance (rover)|''Perseverance'' rover]] and the [[Ingenuity (helicopter)|''Ingenuity'' helicopter]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tzanetos |first1=Theodore |last2=Aung |first2=MiMi |last3=Balaram |first3=J. |last4=Grip |first4=Havard Fjrer |last5=Karras |first5=Jaakko T. |last6=Canham |first6=Timothy K. |last7=Kubiak |first7=Gerik |last8=Anderson |first8=Joshua |last9=Merewether |first9=Gene |last10=Starch |first10=Michael |last11=Pauken |first11=Mike |last12=Cappucci |first12=Stefano |last13=Chase |first13=Matthew |last14=Golombek |first14=Matthew |last15=Toupet |first15=Olivier |title=2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO) |chapter=Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: From Technology Demonstration to Extraterrestrial Scout |date=2022-03-05 |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/aero53065.2022.9843428 |pages=01–19 |publisher=IEEE |doi=10.1109/aero53065.2022.9843428 |isbn=978-1-6654-3760-8 |s2cid=251473148 |access-date=August 5, 2023 |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523065238/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9843428/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Perseverance''{{'}}s core objective is to collect samples for a future Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. In addition, JPL ventured into asteroid exploration with the [[OSIRIS-REx]] mission which returned a sample from asteroid [[101955 Bennu|Bennu]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=JPL Science: OSIRIS |url=https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/osiris/ |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=science.jpl.nasa.gov |archive-date=August 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805082742/https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/osiris/ |url-status=live }}</ref>