By rss@youtube.com (darkhim85) It will be a real nail-biter on May 25, 2008, for engineers, as the Phoenix spacecraft performs a series of challenging maneuvers right before it lands on Mars. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Author: darkhim85 Keywords: Phoenix Mars Lander nasa hd Added: January 2, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (petebkr) Animation of Cassini's approach and flyby of Enceladus Mar.12, 2008 with a closest approach distance near the equator of about 50 kilometers. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Author: petebkr Keywords: NASA Space Cassini Saturn Enceladus Astronomy Added: August 12, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (sunday9pm) Exclusive visit of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), part of the Caltech, Pasadena, Los Angeles. Tour by the Chief Scientist of the Mars program, Dan McCleese. Keywords: JPL jet propulsion lab caltech mars NASA pasadena explorer dan mccleese matt golombek rich zurek

By rss@youtube.com (petebkr) Animated "flyover" of the workspace of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's created from images taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 14 (June 8, 2008), or the 14th Martian day after landing. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University/NASA Ames

By rss@youtube.com (sussitube) The image of Phoenix on its parachute was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

By rss@LiveVideo.com (vrmars) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/MSSS/USGS/OSU/Honeybee Robotics/New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science - More information at www.vrpresents.com and in this astronomical software. Author: vrmars ...

By rss@youtube.com (lionarenas) JPL/Caltech and city of Anaheim Test there Floats for the 2008 Rose Parade, made by Phoenix Decorating Company. Author: lionarenas Keywords: Rockets Cars Planets. Added: September 30, 2007

By rss@youtube.com (Pyxmalion) Spectra of a Jupiter-like by Spitzer space telescope. Video released by NASA/JPL-Caltech. Author: Pyxmalion Keywords: exoplanet extrasolar planet jupiter sun atmosphere spectra spitzer telescope science space solar system astronomy Added: February 25, 2007

Image credit: United Launch Alliance/ JPL-Caltech Launch of nasa's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ... and more »

At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, December 8, in Beckman Institute auditorium, JPL scientist Robert M. Nelson and other plaintiffs in the case of Nelson et al. vs. NASA, Caltech, and the Department of Commerce will take part in a panel discussion called "National Security Homeland Security Presidential...

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech)-based JPL manages WISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in Washington DC. ... and more »

By webmaster Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009 at 2 pm Baxter Lecture Hall, Caltech Pasadena, California Important ticket information Tickets are first come first served at the door. Sorry, no advance ticket sales. Seating is limited. $8 Skeptics Society members & Caltech/JPL Community; $10 General Public.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Spirit's right-rear wheel stalled again on Sol 2099 (Nov. 28, 2009) during the first step of a two-step extrication maneuver. ... and more »

through the Mars Rover's eyes. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/OSU/MSSS/USGS/Honeybee Robotics/New Mexico Museum of Natural History and ... vimeo.com

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a NASA facility at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), decided not to move the rover forward ...

The JPL is based at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena, California, and is operated by NASA. The most interesting aspect of ... and more »

At noon on November 20 in the second-floor common area of the Center for Student Services, the Caltech C will honor the life and work of Tsien Hsue-Shen, PhD '39, a Caltech alumnus and one of the founders of JPL, with special remembrance presentation by Professor Emeritus Theodore Wu. Lunc...

Exquisitely detailed drawings of the Hale Telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory and a JPL model of the Mars Pathfinder rover Soujourner are among the works on display in "Tools," a new exhibit at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design showcasing a diverse range of objects from th...

At 2 p.m. on November 14 in Beckman Auditorium, Shannon Boettcher, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, will introduce and guide a post-screening discussion of Curious--Powering the Planet, an Emmy-nominated program that features Caltech and JPL scientists.

By Nancy Atkinson NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz. © nancy for Universe Today, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us

By Steve Hsu(noreply@blogger.com) Qian Xuesen, a former Caltech rocket scientist who helped establish the Jet Propulsion Laboratory before being deported in 1955 on suspicion of being a Communist and who became known as the father of China's space and missile programs, has died. He was 98.

Join Caltech/JPL LGBT + Allies for an afternoon of food and fun in Tournament Park. Friends, families and pets are welcome to attend. Activities will include tie-dye, volleyball, croquet, and playground area for children.

Named for the late Earnest C. Watson who founded the series in 1922, these lectures feature speakers from Caltech and JPL, speaking on cutting-edge research taking place at Caltech.

The Caltech Women's Club invites all Caltech/JPL families to their annual Fall Family Potluck from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 18, in Tournament Park. This event is an opportunity to meet other families in the community at a casual gathering. There will be crafts for the kids and enterta...

Edward Stone, the David Morrisroe Professor of Physics at Caltech and former director of JPL, discussed the Thirty Meter Telescope in a lecture at Alumni College. Stone explained how if we collect and concentrate enough light from dim, distant bodies, we can observe them as they were nea...

By Tom A few new targets from the now "warm" Spitzer Space Telescope. Click for larger (135k). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

By Tom Is "Block Island" a meteor? Click for larger. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Looking at this image from the Mars Rover Opportunity, it appears it is in a sea of sand, with a solitary rock in the foreground - seems quite out of place. —————————

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a first-of-its-kind partnership between the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), JPL, and Caltech to establish Los Angeles as "a powerhouse for demonstrated energy and water innovation." This part...

Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have provided evi...

This summer, the Athenaeum is offering complimentary 30-day membership passes for current nonmembers who are Caltech, JPL, or Huntington Library employees eligible to join as members and interested in trying the experience. The passes will provide the opportunity to enjoy the Athen...

By Tom Oppy's view of a baby crater on Mars. Click for larger. Credit for image: Opportunity Rover, portion of Navcam mosaic (Sol 1825; PIA 1185). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Credit for image: Opportunity Rover, portion of Navcam mosaic (Sol 1825; PIA 1185). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

 VA Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/S. Park and J. Lee); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech Penn State astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new image of a ghostly exploded star with an unusual shape in a galaxy near the Milky Way. ...

 CA by Staff Writers Angelle Tanner, a post-doctoral scholar at JPL and Caltech, studies planets in distant solar systems, called extrasolar planets. The golden prize in this field is to find a planet similar to Earth - the only planet we know that harbors ...

 DC Credit: (top left) University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy; (top right): A. Dupree (CfA)/NASA/ESA; (bottom) NASA/JPL-Caltech/SV Ramírez (NExSci/Caltech)/SST/IRAC/MIPS/IRS By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee PASADENA, CALIFORNIA--Stars have been the, well, ...

press release) spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Science operations and data processing will take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

 FL Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (Univ. of Wisconsin) Located near the Aquila rift in the Galactic plane at a distance of 23000 light-years, this cloud condensation has a mass 120 times that of the Sun contained within a volume smaller than the ...

 NY Credit: J. Swift, NASA/ JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (Univ. of Wisconsin) and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope/Joint Astronomy Center. PASADENA, CALIF. — A massive, tranquil object found lurking in a dark cloud in our galaxy could be about to transform into ...

Join fellow Caltech Alumni Association members for Caltech/JPL Dodger Day on July 26, as the Dodgers face off against the Florida Marlins. Ticket price includes admission to the right field pavilion, and all-you-can-eat Dodger Dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn, soda, and water. Bring yo...

 CA The laboratory, operated on behalf of the government by Caltech, is the epicenter of man's exploration of space. This is where Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's famous promise is renewed week in and week out: "We came in peace for all mankind. ...

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By ANNIE YOUDERIAN (CN) - The 9th Circuit on Thursday let stand an injunction blocking NASA and Caltech from performing extensive background checks on low-risk employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. In one of three dissents, ...

By Tom M81 from Spitzer. Click for larger. Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Witwatersrand The Galaxy known as M81 was used to solve a mystery, the short version is below and the long version from the Spitzer site is linked.

 TX Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Image 2: This image is a blend of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's M33 image and another taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. M33, one of our closest galactic neighbors, is about 2.9 million light-years away in the ...

By Tom Spirit's Road. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A while back I mentioned the rover Spirit is going through computer reset events and nobody knows for sure why.  The computer was reset once again recently but the little rover has been as NASA puts it “well behaved”.

By Tom A tiny bit of Keplers view, Tres-2 is a Jupiter like planet and it's location is noted on the image. Click for larger. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The image above is but one of a few “first light” images the rest can be seen at the Kepler site. About the image, from NASA/JPL:

By Tom Spitzer and Hubble team up to view the galactic collision that is NGC 6240. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI-ESA This image was created from combined data from the infrared array camera of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope at 3.6 and 8.0 microns (red) and visible light from NASA’s Hubble Spac...

By Anne Minard NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer reveals, for the first time, dwarf galaxies forming out of nothing more than pristine gas likely leftover from the early universe. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DSS Apparently, dwarf galaxies can spring out of thin air.

The Pleiades star cluster, captured here in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Click on image to view slideshow. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech). IYA2009 In the UK, the Society for Popular Astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology Faci...

By Tom Spitzer Image of the Pinwheel Galaxy. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI I’ve seen the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 101, numerous times, but never quite like this.  Clicking on the image above may help show its great structure.

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc. ( Nachrichten ) (BULLETIN BOARD: VSPC), a company dedicated to commercializing proven technologies from NASA and the US Department of Defense, announced today that its expert system software, "SHINE," licensed from C...

VIASPACE Inc. , a company dedicated to commercializing proven technologies from NASA and the US Department of Defense, announced today that its expert system software, "SHINE," licensed from Caltech, has been awarded a prestigious NASA Space Act Award.

The Spitzer Space Telescope's new view of the Eagle Nebula with a pullout of the Pillars of Creation region. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Flagey/MIPSGAL Science Team. Click to enlarge.

Members of the Caltech/JPL community are invited to attend a gathering in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Max Delbruck, the creator of molecular biology. His influence on biology, especially at Caltech, continues to the present day in the vigorous and growing inter...

Two undergraduate and two graduate students will receive vocal scholarships from the Caltech Opera Club. In this recital, the winners of the second annual competition will perform operatic, classical, or Broadway pieces. All Caltech and JPL community members, friends, and families a...

You are invited to attend a short presentation by a United Way representative and the directors of the Caltech Y, Caltech Children's Center, and Child Educational Center at JPL, who will describe their organizations and tell how they assist the community. Caltech will match, dollar for...