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Follow the Curiosity landing with Pasadena Sun at JPL
Good afternoon, readers! Are you ready for the latest NASA rover Curiosity to (hopefully) land on Mars? We'll be stationed at Jet Propulsion Laboratory tomorrow, continually blogging news updates throughout the night. Check our website, Twitter account...
Tags: Social Media, Science and Technology, Google Inc., NASA
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Art takes over for pair of weekends
The art of generating buzz about local cultural institutions reaches a high point this month as both Pasadena and South Pasadena host free events that bring art to the masses, feet to the streets and business to local merchants. Pasadena hosts its twice-...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Entertainment Events, Halloween, Museums
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NASA rover Curiosity on course for Sunday night landing on Mars
With Curiosity still on a near-perfect course for a Sunday night landing on Mars, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge said Sunday morning that they had passed up a final opportunity to correct the spacecraft’s...
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JPL scientists, engineers adjust to Mars time
If all goes well, NASA will know around 10:31 p.m. tonight if their latest rover, the one-ton Curiosity, successfully landed on Mars’ Gale Crater. An hour later, Jordan Evans will head back to his office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he...
Tags: Science and Technology, Science, NASA, Google+
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Curiosity flight team sticks to traditions
For a group of people who claim that their job requires them to be the opposite of superstitious, there were a lot of traditions flying around Sunday among the engineers who were attempting to deposit the Curiosity rover on Mars. For years, mission...
Tags: Super Bowl, Scott Gold, Science and Technology, Los Angeles Times, NASA
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Engineers pass up chance to direct Curiosity one last time
Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers will forgo an opportunity to tell the spacecraft carrying the rover Curiosity how to get to Mars two hours before it lands. It's the last time they can talk to the spacecraft before the dramatic landing sequence that...
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Mars exploration to go on even if mission fails, space officials say
Two top space officials pledged Sunday afternoon to continue the exploration of Mars in years to come – regardless of whether NASA’s Curiosity rover survives its dramatic landing later tonight. “We are committed to a Mars exploration...
Tags: Scott Gold, Science and Technology, Space Programs, Los Angeles Times, NASA
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JPL: Curiosity rover has a 'clean' landing on Mars
Curiosity, NASA's most ambitious rover yet, made it to Mars safely Sunday night and is ready to begin a two-year exploration that scientists hope will tell the story of how the planet began. At 10:32 p.m., only one minute after the space agency predicted...
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Politicians cheer Curiosity's successful landing on Mars
Some of the celebration surrounding the Mars Science Laboratory's successful landing Sunday night on the Red Planet had a political tone. The touchdown of the over-budget $2.5-billion Mars rover mission comes as tax dollars for planetary exploration...
Tags: Barack Obama, SpaceX, Science and Technology, Science, Space Programs
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JPL basks in the glory of successful Mars landing
At 10:32 p.m. Sunday, Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Al Chen called out the news to dozens of workers hunched over monitors full of data in JPL's Mission Control center: “Touchdown confirmed. We're safe on Mars.” Cheers erupted and hugs...
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NASA drivers await chance to operate biggest, baddest Mars rover
The San Gabriel Mountains rise over a rough patch of sun-baked volcanic boulders, dusty flagstones and earthen slopes. Amid the terrain, a hulking creature of titanium, aluminum and silicon creeps through the sand, its wheels squealing like nails on a...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Los Angeles Times, Monte Morin, NASA
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Former JPL exec Frank Colella passes away at 91
Frank J. Colella, principal spokesman for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for nearly a quarter of a century, died peacefully at his La Cañada Flintridge home on July 29. He was 91. A native of New York City, Colella enlisted in the Army in 1940 and...
Tags: Science and Technology, New York City, Space Programs, United Nations, NASA
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