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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Blue Sky Metropolis
The Next Best Thing to Visiting Mars, No Spacesuit (or Money) Required
Post date:It's hard not to be fascinated JPL's mind-blowing scientific accomplishments. The good news is that you can get a look behind the scenes.
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Aerospace
Blue Sky Metropolis
How the Bad Boys of Space Exploration Created the Jet Propulsion Lab
Post date:Discover the mysterious beginnings of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and its "rocket boys."
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Aerospace
Blue Sky Metropolis
Live Cam: Building the Next Mars Rover
Post date:Watch engineers and technicians build the next Mars Rover. Plus, send your name to space!
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science fiction
Lost L.A.
What Makes L.A. the "Capital of Science Fiction"?
Post date:A conversation about "Her," the Bradbury Building, JPL, Octavia Butler, and imagining utopic and dystopic futures for the City of Angels.
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climate change
Redefine
California Has Two Fire Seasons, and Climate Change Will Make Both Worse
Post date:A new study shows that both of California's fire seasons are getting more destructive as the planet warms.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
The Whimsy of Wood: The Pyrography of Suzanne Walsh
Post date:Pyrography plays a primary role in the practice of Suzanne Walsh. The Orange County-based artist uses fire to portray animal life, and the parallels between humans and animals.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
How Art, Science, and Technology Interact in Southern California
Post date:Over the past few decades, artists and scientists have helped bring focus to the art-science-technology track of Southern California's present creative economy.
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Altadena
Earth Focus
Conservationists Take to Crowdfunding to Fight Hahamongna Watershed Plan
Post date:Conservationists say that the plan is a temporary solution that has 425 double dump trucks a day running through the project area, giving off noxious fumes, noise, and adding to traffic.
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intersections
History & Society
California Triangulation: Science, Religion, Industry, and the Birth of the Research Park
Post date:While undoubtedly influential and important, Northern California's Silicon Valley's rise rests heavily on its Southern California predecessor -- Caltech. Even today, this history remains obscured.
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Artbound
MOCAtv: Brian Butler and the Art of Darkness
Post date:Elevating mystic practices to the status of art -- or elevating art to the status of ritual --Brian Butler's films and performances are themselves Orphic ceremonies and Satanic rites.
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JPL
News
Smile! NASA Will Be Photographing Earth From Saturn
Post date:The portrait will be snapped by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which will take a photo of Earth between the rings of Saturn from a distance of 898 million miles.
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art center
Artbound
Beautifying Data with SoCal Art Schools and the Jet Propulsion Labs
Post date:Dan Goods' inventive projects are at the nexus of art and science, sparking the public's wonder about the depths of the universe.
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L.A. River
Earth Focus
Arroyo Seco Foundation Receives $3.3 Million for Hahamongna Improvements
Post date:A series of improvements are planned at the watershed near the JPL in the hills of Pasadena.
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JPL
Press Room
KCET Re-Launches Exciting Space Exploration Films in October
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Artbound
A Moon-Age Daydream: The Collision of Arts and the Aerospace Industry
Post date:The Light and Space movement pushed LA into the forefront of art culture
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Tom Mueller: From Idaho Logger To Space Explorer
Post date:Tom Mueller, VP of Propulsion Development for private spaceflight firm SpaceX, made his way through the Idaho woods to become a rocket engineer. And the results of his hard work is about to lift off.
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Space
SoCal Focus
Spaced: Planetary Exploration Headed Toward Irrelevance
Post date:The "sense of wonder" that propelled discovery has become a feeling of frustration as the Space Age unwinds.
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NASA
SoCal Focus
Lost Worlds: The Passing of an Age of Space Exploration
Post date:Robotic exploration of the solar system is losing out in the tug-of-war for funding, and it may never recover.
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Bill Patzert: Surfing, Sextants and Spacecraft Plus 'Global Warming is the Real Deal'
Post date:Jet Propulsion Laboratory's research scientist and oceanographer Bill Patzert dreamed big and landed in Los Angeles.
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Press Room
JPL and KCET Present Special Trilogy of Documentaries on the Beginnings of the Space Age
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