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Remembering 9/11: The American flag and the World Trade Center on Mars

  • NASA
  • November 14, 2011
As an institution that takes us into the future on a daily basis, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena honored the past when NASA’s...
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Randii Wessen from JPL on ‘what’s up with space exploration’

  • Randii Wessen
  • October 17, 2011
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is just across the Arroyo from Altadena, so it’s a natural for the Friends of the Altadena Library to host a...
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Remembering 9/11: JPL, NASA send pieces of World Trade Center to Mars

  • 9/11
  • September 8, 2011
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena is known for putting things on Mars. Usually these are robots dedicated to exciting scientific...
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Out of Space?

Earlythis morning, the Space Shuttle Endeavor crossed the California coast and passed over the place where it was assembled, not quite twenty years...
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NASA to choose between three new missions

Earlier this week, NASA announced through CalTech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that it will soon choose between three potential new projects: a...
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von Kármán Lecture: ‘The Dry Ice Polar Caps of Mars’

The discovery of water ice caps at the poles of Mars was important in determining whether life was ever possible on the red planet. The Mars...
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von Kármán Lecture -- Mars Science Laboratory: the search for habitable environments

  • News
  • September 12, 2010
In planetary classification, a class M planet or planetoid was characterized by an abundance of surface water and an atmosphere high in nitrogen,...
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reaches 100 terabit data milestone, reports JPL

Mars moon Phobos from 6,800 kilometers, taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. photo by NASA/JPL Related articles Mars radar mapping reveals...
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Mars radar mapping reveals hidden glaciers and buried ice

Deposits of glacial ice (blue) on Mars. Yellow indicates ground tracks of the radar observations. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/University of Rome/Southwest...
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Mars rover Spirit in new role as stationary science laboratory, NASA & JPL announce

  • News
  • January 28, 2010
Spirit's rear wheels and landscape to the south, Sols 2147 (Jan. 20) Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Related articles 2010 von Kármán...
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