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 »
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 »
