US Robotic Exploration of Earth, Mars, Our Solar System and the Universe

US Robotic Exploration of Earth, Mars, Our Solar System and the Universe Randii R. Wessen, Ph.D., is the Deputy Manager of the Project Formulation Office at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For 27 years, he has worked on multiple spacecraft, including the search for Earth-like planets around other stars. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society.

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Interview of SCI-Arc/Caltech's CHIP design during Solar Decathlon 2011

Interview of SCI-Arc/Caltech's CHIP design during Solar Decathlon 2011 Interview with SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture/Caltech (California Institute of Technology)'s CHIP design with Elizabeth Neigert and Susan Sun Nunamaker at Washington, DC, made available by Sun Is The Future of http://sunisthefuture.net

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SCI-Arc/Caltech Engineering Video - 2011 Solar Decathlon

SCI-Arc/Caltech Engineering Video - 2011 Solar Decathlon What are the engineering innovations that the SCI-Arc/Caltech team built into the Compact Hyper Insulated Prototype home for the 2011 Solar Decathlon? Well, they show you...

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Animation of Panorama of Phoenix's Solar Panel and Robotic Arm [HD]

This is an animation of panorama images of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's solar panel and the lander's Robotic Arm with a sample in the scoop. The image was taken just before the sample was delivered to the Optical Microscope. The images making up this animation were taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager looking west during Phoenix's Sol 16 (June 10, 2008), or the 16th Martian day after landing.

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