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Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has visited Caltech almost every year since 1992, usually spending about a month on campus. And since 2000, it’s been a tradition for Caltech students to cook an Indian feast for Hawking, who’s the director of resear... More »
Team members of NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn gather in October 2010 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., where the mission is managed. Over 200 scientists, engineers and other staff work on planning observations, keeping the spacecraft on tr... More »
Following the path of one of Jupiter’s jet streams, a line of V-shaped chevrons travels west to east just above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up o... More »
Caltech freshman Vighnesh Leonardo Shiv loves music and computer science. That pair of passions led him to envision a machine-learning tool that has earned him the $25,000 top prize in this year’s Intellectual Ventures–Caltech Invention Competition... More »
Portrait of Rhea NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn’s moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,019 miles (41,873 kilometers) away. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI These raw, unpro... More »
Artist’s concept of NuSTAR on orbit. NuSTAR has a 10-m (30′) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The Tuesday, March 13, media briefing to discuss th... More »
Last Thursday, the area around Millikan Library saw quite a bit of action. Parachuting eggs drifted down from the top of the nine-story building, and boats and bots battled it out in Millikan Pond. No, they weren’t more legendary Caltech pranks—they were final... More »
Roger Hunter (left), the Kepler project manager at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and Jim Fanson (middle), the former project manager for the mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., accepted the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate ... More »
This image is a glimpse into the depths of a neutrino detector that’s part of the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment. Each detector consists of two inner nested transparent acrylic cylinders that sit inside a third vessel made of stainless steel. When filled with cl... More »
In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. For example, the pitch of someone’s voice, and how it changes as they are speaking, d... More »
In honor of Women’s History Month, JPL is hosting an event on March 8 to recognize the success of women in science and engineering. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view In honor of Women’s History Month, Jet Propulsion Laboratory is hosting an even... More »
A towering dust devil, casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on JPL’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona An afterno... More »
