Tag Archives: JPL

Scenes from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory open house

Children laugh as a Mars rover test vehicle rolls over their backs on Saturday during NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory open house.

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Weekend guide: Fusion Fridays, open house at JPL, and freebie day at Museums of the Arroyo

Friday, May 14 Fusion Fridays at Pacific Asia Museum Premiering Friday is Pacific Asia Museum’s dynamic summertime mix of art, conversation, music, dance, drinks and food — from your favorite mobile gourmet food like The Sweets Truck and Frysmith. Cocktail … Continue reading

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Week in science: Oil spill threat spreads | James Cameron helping to bring 3-D to Mars | A monster jellyfish of the deep

Image: Dr. Erica Miller, left, and Danene Birtell with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research work Friday to help a Northern Gannet bird, normally white when full grown, which is covered in oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of … Continue reading

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Week in science: Hubble telescope celebrates 20 years | Spitzer ‘tastes’ a methane-free planetary puzzler | Adoptive parents bring biases to process

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 20th anniversary. In the spirit of the occasion, the famous telescope has captured this phantasmagorical image deep within the Carina Nebula. Not too shabby for a telescope with two decades under its belt. NASA … Continue reading

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Week in science: Donner Party cannibalism in question | JPL satellites eye Iceland volcano chain | Striking images from Saturn

>>THINK  A bone to pick: Was the Donner Party’s legendary cannibalism just a myth? A new study of the bones found at the Donner’s campsite in California’s Sierra Nevadas suggests the snowbound pioneers may not have eaten each other after … Continue reading

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The week in science: Space station rendezvous, a WISE-eyed beauty and bullets of sound

>>THINK  Space shuttle Discovery docked at the International Space Station early Wednesday, after a rare antenna breakdown that knocked out radar tracking. Today, a pair of astronauts completed a spacewalk to disconnect an old, empty ammonia tank outside the station, … Continue reading

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‘Pasadena Babalon’: The world of Jack Parsons, on stage at Caltech

>>GO  “Pasadena Babalon” lives in the in-between space of things we know and don’t know about John Whiteside Parsons. Jack, they called him; He, the young genius of a nascent aerospace industry as it emerged in Southern California, of the … Continue reading

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Role-playing at JPL: Send your name to Mars and build your own space mission without leaving home

>>PLAY As part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, you can now send your name on a microchip to Mars. That’s right: This is your (probably only) chance to go to Mars, even if only in name. The Mars Science Laboratory … Continue reading

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A sky-high bonus for BCS fans — and anyone who cares to look up

>>INSIDER A fun tip from the Twitter feed run by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory: The International Space Station will make a visible pass from 5:23 p.m. to 5:28 p.m. tonight, heading from southwest to northeast. It’s just a stellar “added … Continue reading

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Pasadena area real-estate and development roundup

>>LIVE There will be a ribbon-cutting Monday for the new Jet Propulsion Laboratory Flight Projects Center at 4800 Oak Grove in Pasadena. The structure was designed by Irvine-based architecture firm LPA Inc. (via CurbedLA) Would you prefer two years of … Continue reading

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