Tag: JPL

• May 5, 2013

  JPL Cassini speaker

  This last Thursday I heard Trina L. Ray, JPL Senior Science Systems Engineer speak about the Cassini- Huygens mission, which studies Saturn, its rings, and its moons. Most interesting to me is the fact the moon Enceladus has an immense, unexplained heat source which radiates through fractured cracks in its southern hemisphere. As a result of…
• May 2, 2013

  Tour at JPL in Pasadena, CA

  Today I took a tour at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. JPL deals with unmanned exploration vehicles and is responsible to such famous crafts as Voyager 1&2 ( and I learned today that Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1, but Voyager 1 moves faster thus is further away. In fact, Voyager 1 is just now…