Caltech’s solar-powered toilet has won the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge issued by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Caltech engineer Michael Hoffmann and his colleagues were awarded $100,000 for their design, which they demonstrated at the Reinvent th... More »
Rover’s Self Portrait This Picasso-like self portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover was taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › Latest images Remarkable image sets from NASA’s Curiosity rover and Mars ... More »
Gale Crater Vista, in Glorious Color This is the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The first images from Curiosity’s color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been ... More »
Curiosity’s EDL team releases a timeline for mission milestones (as depicted in this artist’s concept) surrounding the landing of the Mars rover. The following data were compiled by Curiosity’s Entry, Descent and Landing team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborator... More »
First Hi-Res Color Mosaic of Curiosity’s Mastcam Images This image is the first high-resolution color mosaic from NASA’s Curiosity rover, showing the geological environment around the rover’s landing site in Gale Crater on Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/... More »
Traces of Landing This mosaic image shows part of the left side of NASA’s Curiosity rover and two blast marks from the descent stage’s rocket engines. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning... More »
President Barack Obama talks on the phone with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover team aboard Air Force One during a flight to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Aug. 13, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This photograph is provided by THE WHITE HOUSE ... More »
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta. The depiction of Vesta is based on images obtained by Dawn’s framing cameras. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Dawn Mission Status Report Engineers working on NASA’s Dawn space... More »
This full-resolution image shows part of the deck of NASA’s Curiosity rover taken from one of the rover’s Navigation cameras looking toward the back left of the rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. ... More »
Caltech geologists on a three-day trek on horseback to install a GPS station in Upper Mustang, a remote region in northern Nepal. Field geologists at Caltech come face to face with bears and wolverines, climb steep cliffs and mountains, and endure scorching su... More »
The American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) named Caltech chemistry professor Shu-ou Shan a recipient of the 2013 Young Investigator Award. The award will be presented at the ASBMB annual meeting in Boston next April. Shan was recognized... More »
Members of the Mars Science Laboratory team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) received a special call from President Barack Obama Monday morning. “I just wanted to call and say congratulations to the entire Mars Science Laboratory team and really all of ... More »
