2014-10-11-jpl-open-house

A short trip to JPL Open House 2014
IMG 4630  Everyone wants to be at JPL this morning. IMG 4637  Site 20, Solar System Exploration. IMG 4641  Stephanie Smith!
IMG 4642  Alice Wessen! IMG 4650  Jane Houston Jones! IMG 4653  Splendid comet replica, outside the Solar System display.
IMG 4658  Crowds enjoying the Solar System exhibits inside. IMG 4665  Great little "working" 3D model of Rosetta's comet, Churyumov Garesiminko. IMG 4667  A more static 3D model with caption.
IMG 4670  Kim Steadman by the quarter-scale Cassini model. IMG 4674  Todd Barber by Cassini IMG 4679  Ken Frank on Titan.
IMG 4680  Lauren IMG 4682  (name?) IMG 4683  Todd, Rachel, Kim, the Cassini triumvirate this morning.
IMG 4686  The always-lovely Dave Doody at Cassini and DSN. IMG 4687  Juno model! IMG 4688  Some detail of an equipment rack on Juno.
IMG 4689  More detail of the Juno model. IMG 4691  Entering the MDL Micro Devices Lab. IMG 4695  Walking through MDL
IMG 4696  Peaking in at the Micro Devices equipment, lots of vacuum chambers and fancy gear. IMG 4699  Line outside the Mars In-situ building. IMG 4700  Crowds along the JPL streets enjoying the sunny day.
IMG 4702  Plenty of snacks. :) IMG 4703  Great guidepost to JPL Open House. IMG 4712  Inside SAF, Spacecraft Assembly Facility, the SMAP orbiter satellite is stowed and ready to be shipped to Vandenburg AFB on Wednesday.
IMG 4713  Detail of the stowed reflector for SMAP. IMG 4714  More SMAP detail. IMG 4716  Love to see the really close-up detail on a working spacecraft.
IMG 4717  Legend identifies equipment on SMAP. IMG 4718  This model shows how SMAP will look in orbit fully deployed. IMG 4720  Sign for building 179, SAF.
IMG 4721  Line outside the SFF, Spacecraft Fabrication. IMG 4723  Your gateway to the universe. IMG 4725  Enjoying some seat time on the lovely mall lawn.
IMG 4728  MSL Curiosity model puts in an appearance. IMG 4733  One of the MSL test rigs was in action. IMG 4738  Electronic art exhibit that visualizes data traveling two and from the Deep Space Network.
IMG 4741  Opportunity model. IMG 4742  Inside Van Karmann, Explorer 1. IMG 4743  A girl practices steering a DSN dish.
IMG 4745  Me in infrared. IMG 4748  Randii Wessen talks comets. IMG 4752  Comets with Randii!
IMG 4754  Moon rock! See legend next frame. IMG 4755  The moon rock in the previous frame is from Apollo 16. IMG 4768  The SFOF, Space Flight Operations Facilitiy, Jane's building.
IMG 4771  View of the new parking structure from the east exit of JPL. JPL-pano  A pano view of JPL from the east exit.