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

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.

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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...

NASA recently confirmed that the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission will launch in August 2011. NuSTAR will carry the first high-energy X-ray focusing telescopes into orbit, providing a much deeper, clearer view of energetic phenomena such as black holes and sup...

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. —————————

Fire conditions around JPL improved throughout the day on Sunday, and the lab is no longer threatened by the Station Fire. However, there has been heavy smoke in the area. To ensure acceptable air quality for employee safety, JPL will be closed Monday except for mission-critical personne...

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...

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 Caltech and JPL have provided evidence that some of the most ancient stromatolites on our planet were built wi...

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...

 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.

The Money Times  CA Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech PASADENA, Calif. -- Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was made using the infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ...

 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, ...

 TX JPL is a partner with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in the Palomar Observatory. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov .

 CA JPL is a partner with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in the Palomar Observatory. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov . ...

 VA I am especially pleased with the choice, which recognizes something universally human and essential to science." Clara Ma, winner of the Mars Science Laboratory naming contest. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ma decided to enter the rover-naming contest ...

press release), Germany NuSTAR is a partnership of many of the most prominent research facilities in the world led by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and is defined as “a pathfinder mission that will open the high energy ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech Back on Earth, NASA is working to re-create the soft Martian soil in which Spirit is stuck, so that they can test different maneuvers that might extricate the rover. Behind this worker is the rover replica the scientists will use to ...

by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. 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.

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 CA by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. 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.

 India Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech May 18, 2009, (Sawf News) - NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter is also aiding in the Spirit recovery plan for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become embedded. A diagnostic test on May 16 provided ...

 CA The NASA Herschel Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, supports the United States astronomical community. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information is online at ...

 CA JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

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 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 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...