Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a NASA Center in Pasadena, Calif. managing robotic spacecraft in the exploration of Earth, the solar system and the universe. Find us online at jpl.nasa.gov or from your smartphone with our easy-to-browse mobile site.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) New views of Tropical Storm Ida from space – NASA satellite images provide insights into Ida, now bearing down on the northern U.S. Gulf Coast. Take a look.

Kathy Hansen
Kathy Hansen
Cool pic ! Wish soooo many people would NOT have their lives torn apart in this all ready mixed up economoy !! I'll be praying for those suffering...
2 hours ago
Anthony Gonzalez

Anthony Gonzalez Any aware of any meteor shower tonight in california????

Sat at 6:20pm · Report
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
The Taurid meteor shower is going on now and there have been some interesting fireballs seen lately, as reported today on Spaceweather.com (see “Weekend Fireballs”). The Leonid meteor shower starts on Nov. 19 and you can find more information about that at: http://bit.ly/3fYjxs.
6 hours ago
Alastair Dickson

Alastair Dickson Keep up the good work.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) A frosty bump on the north polar plains of Mars is actually the Phoenix lander. Look closely at these images taken by the HiRISE instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter during the height of Martian winter.

Source: bit.ly
Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Patrick-Ryan Hicks
I KNOW ! I AM GETTING MY PAPER WORK AND PATENTS READY FOR HIM
Fri at 4:47am
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Lcross Lunar
sky at night, great Sky At Night Magazine November 2009 issue - out now! everyone go out and get its great .http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/BBC-Sky-At-Night-magazine/24754131270?ref=search&sid=100000317751785.140852316..1
Fri at 1:31pm
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Like this new image from Cassini's latest close Enceladus encounter? Check out other new raw images of the flyby. Go to: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/ and click on Select Camera: Narrow Angle; Target: Enceladus; Observation time: Newest and then “search images.

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Gil
Vasilis, Mike, Dhaneshwar you have just expressed all I wanted to say.....:) Way to go JPL.
November 5 at 1:39pm
Gary Sullivan
Gary Sullivan
Another great pic. Keep them comming JPL.
November 5 at 3:58pm
Marcus

Marcus Dawn is a robotic spacecraft sent by NASA/JPL on a space exploration mission to the two largest members of the asteroid belt: the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Launched on September 27, 2007, Dawn is scheduled to explore Vesta between 2011 and 2012, and Ceres in 2015.

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.asp

David Cohen

David Cohen How did NASA decide to put JPL geographically? Why Pasadena? Always wanted to know that, Thanks!

October 31 at 8:48pm · Report
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
David, JPL has a unique history with links to Caltech and NASA. You might want to check our JPL Fact Sheet put together a while ago. The first couple of pages explain how, where and why JPL started: http://jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/jpl.pdf
October 31 at 9:11pm
Rick Kwan
Rick Kwan
JPL existed long before NASA. As you'll see from the fact sheet, it started from a group of graduate students of Theodore von Karman who were experimenting with rocketry, or as it was known "jet propulsion". But if you check other sources, you'll find they couldn't do testing on campus at Caltech because it was too dangerous; in fact, what the ... Read Moregroup was doing was considered so crazy that others nicknamed them the "Suicide Squad". So they went off campus to Arroyo Seco, several miles away from the campus. The current JPL surrounds the original testing site; there is (or was) a bronze plaque inside JPL to mark the location.
November 1 at 7:09pm
Joseph
Joseph
there is still a plaque by the visitor control office but its not the exact location
November 2 at 10:38am
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Halloween, JPL style! Our annual lunchtime parade is lots of fun, and it launches our yearly United Way campaign. Anybody seen any cool space costumes out there this weekend?

Lisa Whalen
Lisa Whalen
awesome. You can definitely see simularities between R2D2 and the Mars Rovers ;)
November 3 at 5:20pm
Arun Kumar Dutta

Arun Kumar Dutta Zero means (+x)+(-x) and zero means nothing and x means something.The universe in front of us,one may take it as + (plus) universe.Where is then its - (minus) counterpart. Its probable answer is that it is in a very far distance to avoid annihilation, a synthesisation of these two.Here comes the concept of anti-matter.When will we explore the anti-universe.

Paul J Heidt

Paul J Heidt Can hardly wait to see this mission to Mars happen. I have signed up to send my name on this mission.

Brendan James Doroshow

Brendan James Doroshow I'll be applying for the Summer High School Internship Program next month. I hope I'll be able to spend 8 weeks of my summer at such a fantastic place.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Halloween tricks and treats from space?! We've got a video and slideshow of spooky space sights and sounds captured by NASA spacecraft.

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October 31 at 5:50am
Melinda Gice

Melinda Gice Finally a company that can make me go WOW! Going for the JPL internship wish me luck!

October 28 at 6:07pm · Report
James Maxwell
James Maxwell
Good luck, hoping for the day when I could get a graphic design job there. But alas I fear it not possible :(.
October 31 at 9:04pm
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Alexandria Lorraine Anthony
wow... good for you. good luck too! :)
November 5 at 8:08am
Sarah Lundeen

Sarah Lundeen NASA/JPL's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) image featured INSIDE and ON the cover of Science Magazine! http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol326/issue5952/cover.dtl

October 23 at 9:39am · Report
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Lcross Lunar
super awesome NASA mission!!!
October 25 at 11:37pm
Spencer Lindsay
Spencer Lindsay
Is that your team? If so, Congrats!
October 26 at 3:24pm
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