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New images from JPL's UAVSAR, the radar that sees through trees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory may be most famous for sending Curiosity to Mars and Voyager to the edge of the solar system, but some of its coolest technology is being used right here on Earth. For the last month, a manned C-20A aircraft owned by...Tags: Volcanoes, NASA, Google Inc., Science and Technology, Landforms
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Future space explorers tour JPL
Thirty-two students in aerospace, engineering and science programs in 11 different countries descended on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week as part of a Caltech competition to design a mission to one of Mars' two moons, Phobos or Deimos. "Watching...
Tags: Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Trips and Vacations, NASA, Engineering
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Student teams ace Mars plan at Caltech
It could take several months for aerospace experts to design a manned mission to a Martian moon. Students pulled off the feat in five days. Caltech hosted a competition on its Pasadena campus this week that divided 32 students from 21 different...
Tags: Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning
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NASA sends fleet of small drones to inspect noxious volcano plumes
Getting information on volcanic plumes can be perilous work. The unbearable heat. The noxious gas. The jagged terrain. So NASA found a new way to carry out the mission without putting its researchers in danger: drones. PHOTOS: America's drone fleet...
Tags: Costa Rica, Military Equipment, Volcanoes, NASA, Air Transportation Industry
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Toll students go to Washington, D.C.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) met on March 20 in Washington D.C. with a group of 70 seventh- and eighth-grade students and their chaperons from Glendale's Toll Middle School. The students were visiting during their spring break, and Schiff took time to...
Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Washington, DC, California State University, Northridge, Teaching and Learning, Colonial Williamsburg
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Planck: Big Bang's afterglow reveals older universe, more matter
The universe has hidden its age well. The European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope has scanned the skies for the Big Bang’s fingerprint and discovered that the universe is about 100 million years older than thought, and that there’...Tags: University of Cambridge, NASA, Cosmology, Science and Technology, Space Programs
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has left the solar system — almost
It was welcome news to Earthlings: The Voyager 1 spacecraft had seemingly crossed a momentous threshold and become the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. "Voyager 1 has left the solar system," the American Geophysical Union declared...
Tags: Science, Monte Morin, NASA, Science and Technology, Amina Khan
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C Walter Diem, Jr. February 25, 2013
Walt Diem, a long-time La Canada Flintridge resident, passed away February 25 in Laguna Hills, California, at age 84. Walt joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1964 and worked there for the following 30 years. He spent many years as a volunteer...
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Testimony expected to begin in Rockefeller imposter's murder trial
L.A. NOWProsecutors say John Sohus was killed by German-born Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a man with numerous aliases. Testimony is expected to begin Tuesday in Gerhartsreiter’s trial in Los Angeles Superior Court.... -
Mars Curiosity rover bounces back after 2 technical problems
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is up and running after a pair of back-to-back computer scares, officials at Jet Propulsion Laboratory said, and should be back to its science tasks in the next two days. The rover has emerged from a weekend of safe-...Tags: Science, NASA, Science and Technology, NASA Mars Exploration Program
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Mars Curiosity rover on spring break after hitting pay dirt [video chat]
NASA’s Curiosity rover is taking time off after the very first Martian rock it drilled turned out to be a hole-in-one, chock full of evidence that hypothetical microbes could have lived on the Red Planet. In the rock known as John Klein, the...Tags: NASA, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Twitter, Inc.
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La Cañada History: Junior Baseball and Softball Assn. ready to play ball
Ten Years Ago The La Cañada Junior Baseball and Softball Assn. was gearing up for the 2003 season 10 years ago this week, with hundreds of children expected to participate. Twenty Years Ago Faced with budget cuts, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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