Back in the 1960s, Charlie Richter (PhD ’28) installed a seismometer in his living room. It was bigger than his TV set, and it didn’t go with the sofa, but it saved him a lot of late-night drives into the Seismo Lab and was a great conversation piece. Now, if ... More »
Antarctic Postcard From the Past This artist’s rendition created from a photograph of Antarctica shows what Antarctica possibly looked like during the middle Miocene epoch, based on pollen fossil data. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Dr. Philip Bart, LSU A new ... More »
Orbit and current location (6/15/2012) of asteroid 2011 AG5. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view WASHINGTON — Researchers anticipate that asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, will fly safely past and not impact Earth in 2040. Current finding... 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 Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft in... More »
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above Mars’ south pole in this artist’s concept illustration. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since October 24, 2001. Image credit: NASA/JPL Mars Odyssey Mission Status Report In a step toward returning NASA’s Mars O... 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 After successfully completing nearly five months scrutinizing the... More »
Caltech’s 118th annual commencement ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 15, 2012, at Beckman Mall. Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder and chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors, and the chair... More »
The MIRI Cleanroom Huddle: Although it appears that these six contamination control engineers are in a huddle around the James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (or MIRI), they are conducting a receiving inspection. Engineers from the European Spa... More »
Senior Katie Brennan visits a chip stand on Lake Malawi during a volunteer trip to Africa. She spent two of her undergrad summers working at a pediatric nutrition clinic there. Growing up, Katie Brennan didn’t have a lot of opportunities to travel. So when sh... More »
New Interactive Takes You ‘Under the Hood’ of NASA’s Salt-seeking Aquarius Mission Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Aquarius, NASA’s pioneering instrument to measure ocean surface salinity from orbit, launched a year ago (on June 10, 2011) aboard the Argentine S... More »
Saturn’s rings lie in the distance as the Cassini spacecraft looks toward Titan and its dark region called Shangri-La, east of the landing site of the Huygens Probe. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Cassini space... More »
This artist’s conception shows a newly formed star surrounded by a swirling protoplanetary disk of dust and gas. Debris coalesces to create rocky ‘planetesimals’ that collide and grow to eventually form planets. The results of this study show that small planet... More »
