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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov 

Charli Schuler 818/354-3965      
Jet Propulsion Laboratory                                             
January 27, 2003

News Release: 2003-010

2003: A JPL Space Odyssey - Join the Journey with Free Lectures
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From the oceans that govern Earth's environment to the stars that
illuminate outer space, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will share a
wide range of discoveries in science and space exploration with the
public in a series of free lectures this year. The von Kármán Lecture
Series, now in its seventh year, features monthly presentations that
originate on a Thursday night from JPL and on a Friday night from
Pasadena City College.  The JPL lectures are also Webcast live and
archived for later viewing.   The JPL lectures are held at the lab's
von Karman Auditorium, 4800 Oak Grove Dr. in Pasadena.  Friday
lectures are held at Pasadena City College's Vosloh Forum, 1570 E.
Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena.

All lectures begin at 7 p.m., with first-come, first-served seating.
For more information, see http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures.cfm
or call (818) 354-0112 or email lecture{at}www.jpl.nasa.gov
mailto:lecture{at}www.jpl.nasa.gov .  Here is the schedule:

* Feb. 20, 21-New Weather and Climate Tools for the 21st Century Dr. 
Moustafa Chahine, JPL senior research scientist and science team
leader for the Aqua spacecraft sounding system: The benefits of NASA's
Aqua mission, which is observing Earth's weather and water cycle with
unprecedented detail.

* Mar. 20, 21-The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn Dr. Robert 
Mitchell, Cassini program manager: The birth and evolution of the 
Cassini-Huygens four-year mission to Saturn.  Cassini will arrive at 
Saturn in 2004.

* Apr. 17, 18-Mars Global Surveyor Across the Centuries Dr. Terry 
Martin, JPL research scientist, Earth and planetary atmospheres: How 
the Mars Global Surveyor mission contributes to future Mars 
exploration.

* May 8, 9-Challenges in Mobility and Robotics for In Situ Science
Brian Wilcox, manager, Solar System Exploration Mobility Technology
Program:  The challenges of exploring extreme planetary surfaces with
mobile robots.

* Jun. 12, 13-SIRTF: The Last of the Great Observatories
Dr. Dave Gallagher, project manager, and Dr. Michael Werner, project
scientist: The developmental history of the Space Infrared Telescope
Facility, a mission scheduled for launch in April that will study the
early universe and look for planet-forming discs around other stars. 

* Jul. 17, 18-Searching and Crawling: A Few JPL Research Robots
Robert Hogg, robotics engineer, JPL Autonomy and Control Section: All
about "Urbie," a bathmat-sized robot designed to investigate potential
human hazards, help search-and-rescue efforts and survey enemy
territory.

* Aug. 21, 22-The Mars Exploration Rovers - Robotic Geologists
Peter Theisinger, JPL Mars Exploration Rover program manager:
Post-landing mission plans for the Mars Exploration Rovers, twin
spacecraft scheduled to launch this year and arrive at Mars in 2004.

* Sep. 18, 19-Galileo's Odyssey - The Worlds of Jupiter
Dr. Rosaly Lopes, JPL research scientist: A guide to the Galileo
spacecraft's journey around Jupiter and its moons, just days before
the spacecraft plunges into Jupiter.

* Oct. 16, 17-Cosmic Jets: New Building Blocks of the Universe
Dr. David Meier, JPL astrophysicist: How the mysterious, spectacular
phenomenon of cosmic jets are integral to our origin and the
universe's structure and evolution.

* Nov. 20, 21-Deep Space Network Challenge for 2003-2004: Tracking
Dozens of Mission Critical Spacecraft Events
Speaker TBA: How the Deep Space Network plans to get through its
approaching challenge to support more concurrent events of crucial
magnitude than ever in its history.

* Dec. 11, 12-Pointing the Way to Exoplanetary Systems: New
Initiatives in Space Astronomy and the Legacy of the Hubble Space
Telescope Dr. John Trauger, JPL senior research scientist: How soon 
will we see planetary systems orbiting the stars in our nearby galactic
neighborhood?

JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena.

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