The 'front' entrance of JPL.
JPL green ground area.
Site map of JPL.
NASA JPL to the left, Pasadena Rose Bowl (famous American football stadium). Turning onto the famous Oak Grove Drive (see sign).
Model of the Mars Science Laboratory due to be launched in Autumn 2011.
Neat video in the background showing the landing - a guided entry, which will prove a difficult challenge.
Some nice artwork of Sptizer on display.
The mission control centre at JPL. Status of each mission is shown on the left.
The various spacecraft under control at mission control. I forget what format the start and end times are.
Operator at work on the Deep Space Network.
Data System Operations at Mission control.
The JPL/Caltech sign at Mission control.
More of Mission control.
Another of the many important places at JPL :)
One of the displays around the site.
The 50 year timeline on display by the main green.
The coffee 'cart' at JPL. :)
Galileo on display in the exhibition part of JPL. Unfortunately most of this was being refurbished when I was there. Hopefully next time I'm there I shall see the rest!
MSL in construction in the clean room.
Signs of various missions completed in the clean room at JPL.
Engineers hard at work on MSL at JPL.
Miniature model of MSL.
MSL with a picture from MER: Spirit in the background.
A picture of the ATLO (Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations) engineering team of MSL.
It's a shame to think all the black in the mountains is in fact burnt woodland from the fires last year.
A replica of Spirit stuck on Mars.
Poor Spirit, stuck on Mars. http://xkcd.com/695/
Oh dear! http://xkcd.com/695/
Roads named after the space programmes, Mariner and Surveyor. Mariner was a series of space probes to study Venus and Mars (including the first planetary flyby). Surveyor was a series of space probes to study the Moon in the late 1960s. There was also the Mars Global Surveyor which orbited Mars, mapping the surface.
A few interactive screens in the visitor centre.
The entrance to the visitor centre.
More pictures at the visitor reception.
Oak Grove Drive.
