The JPL Tour - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in La Cañada Flintridge, California and Pasadena, California, United States.
The JPL is managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for NASA. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network.
Among the laboratory's current major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission (which includes the Curiosity rover), the Cassini–Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, the NuSTAR X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. They are also responsible for managing the JPL Small-Body Database, and provides physical data and lists of publications for all known small Solar System bodies.
The JPL's Space Flight Operations Facility and Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator are designated National Historic Landmarks.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Tour 2015
In March I had the opportunity to tour NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. I had been wanting to visit JPL for years, so I was thrilled!
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1970s JET PROPULSION LABORATORY PROMOTIONAL FILM CALTECH PASADENA CALIFORNIA JPL 64294
This short film from Graphic Films Corp. shows viewers some the projects that the teams of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of Caltech is working on with NASA to further U.S. space exploration. The film opens with various shots of buildings, offices, and devices in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Caltech. Men sit at computer monitors working on rocket propulsion (01:15). Inside a JPL hanger, a chamber opens and reveals a satellite (01:47). The Explorer I satellite orbits the earth. A Surveyor probe touches down on the moon’s surface. A Mariner spacecraft travels in space, part of the Mariner program to investigate Mars, Venus, and Mercury (02:42). Viewers see some of the photographs from the spacecraft, including a mapping of mars. A Viking satellite orbits Mars (03:26); the films shows a close-up photograph of Mars’ surface. The film shows several illustrations (and basic animations) of the Voyager spacecrafts photographing Jupiter and Saturn. An antennae dish sits at JBL (05:18). Men and women walk in and out of a JPL building or lounge around the courtyard at Caltech. A driverless cart transports people on campus. An electric-powered prototype car drives in a parking lot (06:44). Men convert coal into a substance that is sprayed continuously into steam boilers. A man operates the controls to telemanipulate a robotic arm. Another man operates a NASA robotic arm remotely (08:22). A robot turns and picks up a rock from the ground (08:55). A man operates a solar panel. Men apply mirrors on a large satellite dish. A man fires up a laser (10:53). The film shows other shots of lasers in a laboratory. Viewers see photographs of Earth that used lasers and radar to capture the image. A space shuttle sits with its Shuttle bay open (12:07). Two men work on designing a voice-controlled system to operate a boom for spacecraft maintenance. Animation depicts the spacecraft Galileo that is slated to orbit Jupiter and send a probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere (13:07). There is a shot of a telescope that can photograph space with more light and color than the human eye can capture. A man at JPL looks at a sensitive electronic camera that is being designed for the telescope planned for space launch in 1985 (14:53).
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States, though it is often referred to as residing in Pasadena, California, because it has a Pasadena ZIP Code. Founded in the 1930s, the JPL is currently owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for NASA. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission (which includes the Curiosity rover), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, the NuSTARX-ray telescope, the SMAP satellite for earth surface soil moisture monitoring, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. It is also responsible for managing the JPL Small-Body Database, and provides physical data and lists of publications for all known small Solar System bodies. The JPL's Space Flight Operations Facility and Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator are designated National Historic Landmarks.
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NASA's Mars 2020 Rover, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover - The Mars Rover 2020 mission which will launch next year is not only aimed at finding fossils, but also paves the way for humans to reach the fourth planet in the solar system.
This was revealed to scientists of the United States space agency (NASA) when introducing the rover vehicle to the public.
The rover was built in a large, sterile room in a laboratory in Pasadena, near Los Angeles, and last week underwent a successful trial.
Mars 2020 has also obtained a driving license to explore the Red Planet.
The report was released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The roaming activity shows that it has fulfilled all the criteria when the engine is rolling forward and backward and rotating in a clean room (a room with controlled contamination level) in JPL
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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in La Cañada Flintridge, California and Pasadena, California, United States. California Institute of Technology.
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Vice President Pence Visits NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Vice President Mike Pence is in the Southland visiting NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. His trip here is drawing protests. Jeff Nguyen reports.
Draftsmen working in the drafts room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, Calif...HD Stock Footage
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Draftsmen working in the drafts room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California.
Draftsmen working on drawing in the drafts room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory,Pasadena, California. A person walks to the draftsman table and they discuss about the drawing. 24 February 1958. Location: Pasadena California. Date: February 24, 1958.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The mission of the JPL Planetary Protection Center of Excellence is to promote and sustain the infrastructure of planetary protection at JPL while supporting NASA missions. JPL fosters a culture of intra and inter collaboration to meet evolving mission requirements. Through our Planetary Protection Center of Excellence, we ensure our scientists and engineers are equipped with the state-of-the-art technology, remain effectively trained, lead mission-related Research & Technology Development projects, and leverage leading government and industry advancements, so that they can better fulfill multi-mission needs. Our vision reaches across several domain areas and ensures JPL's Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group (BPPG) has the right capabilities, people, tools, and expertise to offer the very best solutions to meet NASA’s needs and challenges. JPL's BPPG has had a longstanding involvement in mission implementation, and more recently, space microbiology research and technology development. The team ensures that spacecraft meet stringent cleanliness requirements to prevent forward contamination (microbial contamination of the solar system by spacecraft that we launch from Earth) and backward contamination (extraterrestrial contamination of the Earth and Moon by way of sample return missions). In support of this implementation role, the BPP Group seeks to advance spacecraft cleanliness, sterilization, and validation technologies for NASA's solar system exploration missions.
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Workers work in Jet propulsion laboratory at Pasadena, California. A worker rolls a piece of metal sheet into cylindrical shape in a machine to use as rocket motor case. Location: Pasadena California. Date: February 24, 1958.
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NASA Team Salutes Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope’s mission concluded on Jan. 30, 2020, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. After more than 16 years of studying the universe in infrared light, the spacecraft entered a state known as safe mode and ceased science operations.
Launched in 2003, Spitzer revealed previously hidden features of known cosmic objects and led to discoveries and insights spanning from our own solar system to nearly the edge of the universe.
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, conducts mission operations and manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at IPAC at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, California, built the Spitzer spacecraft, and during development served as lead for systems and engineering, and integration and testing. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado provided the optics, cryogenics and thermal shells and shields for Spitzer.
Ball developed the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) instrument, with science leadership based at Cornell University, and the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument, with science leadership based at the University of Arizona in Tucson. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, developed the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) instrument, with science leadership based at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NASA 2012 Hispanic Heritage Month Profile -- Luis Dominguez - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Luis Dominguez is a systems engineer in the Systems Integration and Test Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California (JPL). Dominguez is a Test Conductor/Analyst for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission System Testbed Team. He started at JPL as an academic part time employee in the fall of 2007 working for the MSL Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) Team and subsequently moved to the Testbed team in 2009. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California in the Leimert Park/Mid-City area. Luis holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Polar Vortex Behind U.S. Big Chill Explained
The chilling weather phenomenon that hit much of the U.S. in January is explained by scientist Eric Fetzer using data from NASA's AIRS instrument. To see a data only version, watch at:
This movie of temperature observations from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft depicts the first major North American weather event of 2014: cold air moving out of the Arctic and south to cover much of the continent. The temperatures shown are at a pressure of 850 hectopascals (hPa, formerly knows as millibars; sea level pressure is normally around 1000 hPa). Pressures of 850 hPa correspond to an altitude of about 3,000 feet (1 kilometer) above sea level. The temperatures in the movie range from about minus 18 degrees Fahrenheit (245 Kelvin or minus 28 degrees Celsius) to warmer than 66 degrees Fahrenheit (290 Kelvin or about 17 degrees Celsius). The very coldest temperatures in purples and blues are minus 18 to 17 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 28 to about minus 8 degrees Celsius).
The most obvious feature of the movie is the tongue of cold air moving out of Canada and southward to cover much of the eastern United States during early January 2014. This event was covered extensively in the media, and introduced the term 'polar vortex' to a broader audience.
This global perspective illustrates some features not noted in all the recent media attention. Perhaps most obvious: this is not a global phenomenon. The eastern half of the United States includes only about one percent of the total surface area of the planet (about two million of 197 million square miles). One advantage of satellite observations, as from AIRS, is coverage of the entire planet. A truly global perspective is required when studying variations in climate, and this event must be compared against a number of other phenomena occurring around the planet. Note that Alaska and northern Eurasia were warm during this period of unusual cold over the eastern United States.
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About AIRS
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, in conjunction with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit, AMSU, sense emitted infrared and microwave radiation from the Earth to provide a three-dimensional look at Earth's weather and climate. Working in tandem, the two instruments make simultaneous observations all the way down to the Earth's surface, even in the presence of heavy clouds. With more than 2,000 channels sensing different regions of the atmosphere, the system creates a global, three-dimensional map of atmospheric temperature and humidity, cloud amounts and heights, greenhouse gas concentrations, and many other atmospheric phenomena. The AIRS and AMSU fly onboard NASA's Aqua spacecraft and are managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, under contract to NASA. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
More information about AIRS can be found at airs.jpl.nasa.gov.
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NASA Recaps InSight Mars Landing
Original air date: November 26, 2018 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET, 2100 UTC)
Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-kilometer) journey from Earth.
This is the post landing news briefing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Speakers include:
Jim Bridenstine - NASA Administrator, NASA Headquarters
Michael Watkins - JPL Director, NASA JPL
Tom Hoffman - InSight Project Manager, NASA JPL
Andy Klesh - MarCO Chief Engineer, NASA JPL
Elizabeth Barrett, InSight Instrument Operations Lead, NASA JPL
Hosted by: Veronica McGregor
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tour
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory visitor tour of the federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Video and original music [The Unconscious Dream] by Salvatore Sebergandio.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2010
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in Pasadena, California, United States.
NASA JPL First Amendment Audit w/ Teen4Justice and HDCW
First Amendment Audit of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with HDCW and Teen4Justice Camback/Photobombed and attempt to I.D. twice.
On recent summer afternoons on Mars, navigation cameras aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover observed several whirlwinds carrying Martian dust across Gale .
Kick a ball into a can. Sound easy? Think again. Student inventors and Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers compete in the 2011 Invention Challenge to see .
First Amendment Audit of the United States Court of Appeals in Pasadena with HDCW and Teen4Justice. Security goes berserk.
Engineering for Mars: Building the Mars 2020 Mission (360 video)
Peer over the shoulders of our engineers as they build hardware for NASA's Mars 2020 mission. This 360 video transports you to the historic Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Engineer Emily Howard narrates as you walk around the cruise stage, which will fly the 2020 rover to the Red Planet, and the descent stage, which will lower the rover to the Martian surface. Note: Not all browsers support viewing 360 videos. YouTube supports their playback on computers using Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera browsers. Use the YouTube app to view it on a smart phone.
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Super Blue Blood Moon over NASA-JPL (Time Lapse)
Much of the western United States began the morning with the view of a super blue blood moon total eclipse. In this silent time lapse video, the complete eclipse is seen over NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, located at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, California.
Why was it called a Super Blue Blood Moon? It was the third in a series of “supermoons,” when the Moon is closer to Earth in its orbit – known as perigee – and about 14 percent brighter than usual. It was also the second full moon of the month, commonly known as a “blue moon.” The super blue moon passed through Earth’s shadow to give viewers in the right location a total lunar eclipse. While the Moon is in the Earth’s shadow it takes on a reddish tint, known as a “blood moon.” For more about JPL and all its space missions, visit
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Soaring Over Titan: Extraterrestrial Land of Lakes
This colorized movie from NASA's Cassini mission takes viewers over the largest seas and lakes on Saturn's moon Titan. The movie is made from radar data received during multiple flyovers of Titan from 2004 to 2013.
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This colorized movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan's northern land of lakes and seas. Saturn's moon Titan is the only world in our solar system other than Earth that has stable liquid on its surface. The liquid in Titan's lakes and seas is mostly methane and ethane.
The data were obtained by Cassini's radar instrument from 2004 to 2013. In this projection, the north pole is at the center. The view extends down to 50 degrees north latitude. In this color scheme, liquids appear blue and black depending on the way the radar bounced off the surface. Land areas appear yellow to white. A haze was added to simulate the Titan atmosphere.
Kraken Mare, Titan's largest sea, is the body in black and blue that sprawls from just below and to the right of the north pole down to the bottom right. Ligeia Mare, Titan's second largest sea, is a nearly heart-shaped body to the left and above the north pole. Punga Mare is just below the north pole.
The area above and to the left of the north pole is dotted with smaller lakes. Lakes in this area are about 30 miles (50 kilometers) across or less.
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Most of the bodies of liquid on Titan occur in the northern hemisphere. In fact nearly all the lakes and seas on Titan fall into a box covering about 600 by 1,100 miles (900 by 1,800 kilometers). Only 3 percent of the liquid at Titan falls outside of this area.
Scientists are trying to identify the geologic processes that are creating large depressions capable of holding major seas in this limited area. A prime suspect is regional extension of the crust, which on Earth leads to the formation of faults creating alternating basins and roughly parallel mountain ranges. This process has shaped the Basin and Range province of the western United States, and during the period of cooler climate 13,000 years ago much of the present state of Nevada was flooded with Lake Lahontan, which (though smaller) bears a strong resemblance to the region of closely packed seas on Titan.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.
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