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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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Tagged family, fun, JPL, kids, La Canada Flintridge, Mars rover, NASA, open house, Pasadena, photos, science
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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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Tagged armenia, festival, free, fusion fridays, history, JPL, Museums of the Arroyo, NASA, open house, pacific asia museum, Paseo Colorado, Weekend Guide
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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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Tagged animals, asteroid, Avatar, balloon, BP America, Caltech, crash, Exxon Valdez, giant, Gulf Coast, James Cameron, jellyfish, JPL, NASA, oil spill, photos, planet, science, threat, video, water, week in science, wildlife
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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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Tagged adoption, bias, birthday, blueberries, breast cancer, Caltech, City of Hope, gender, Hubble Space Telescope, JPL, methane, NASA, photos, planet, race, research, SoCal Minds, Spitzer Space Telescope
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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
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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Tagged Caltech, Discovery, earthquake, International Space Station, JPL, meteor, NASA, photos, roundup, science, space shuttle, USGS, WISE
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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
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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That’s genius: ‘E.T., e-mail home’ and other adventures in deep-space Internet with JPL’s Scott Burleigh
>>THINK Scott Burleigh of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one among a consortium of scientists and computer programmers working to turn interplanetary Internet from science fiction to reality. The deep-space Internet, which had to be specially designed to withstand the … Continue reading