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 »
When Curiosity touched down safely on Mars Sunday night, John Grotzinger, the mission’s chief scientist and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology at Caltech, was given the “keys” to the car-sized rover. Since then, most of Curiosity’s time has been taken up ... More »
Leaders from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiwan) recently agreed to jointly fund a scholarship program to provide students from Taiwan with tuition and stipends as they pursue PhD deg... More »
At Caltech, hydrophilic researchers in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences take to the salty seas to gather data, explore the deep, and get a firsthand view of the beasts at the bottom. The briny treasures they collect along the way are helping... More »
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around our sun. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Two of three key signs of changes expect... More »
Tackling the Challenge of Mars This artist’s scoreboard displays a fictional game between Mars and Earth, with Mars in the lead. It refers to the success rate of sending missions to Mars, both as orbiters and landers. Of the previous 39 missions targeted for M... More »
This graphic shows the locations of the cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover. The rover’s mast features seven cameras: the Remote Micro Imager, part of the Chemistry and Camera suite; four black-and-white Navigation Cameras (two on the left and two on the right) ... More »
JPL’s Mission Support Area (MSA), shown in this panorama, will be the hub of activity on Aug. 5 as mission team members monitor the careful and intricate entry, descent and landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars. Visit http://bit.ly/mslmsa to explore the ro... More »
This is one of the first images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › Curiosity latest images NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red ... More »
Communicating with Curiosity This artist’s still shows how NASA’s Curiosity rover will communicate with Earth during landing. As the rover descends to the surface of Mars, it will send out two different types of data: basic radio-frequency tones that go direct... More »
Curiosity’s Heat Shield in View This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA’s Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The image was obtained by the Mars Descent Imager instrument known as MARDI and shows the 15... More »
