JPL Open House 2012

Saturday, June 9th & Sunday, June 10th

The annual Open House at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., welcomes over 38,000 visitors. The theme of last year's event was "The Excitement of Exploration," inviting visitors to share in the wonders of space through high-definition and 3-D videos, live demonstrations, interactions with scientists and engineers, and a first look at JPL's new Earth Science Center.

See photos of the event here.

Other exhibits included:

• The Spacecraft Assembly Facility where the next Mars rover, "Curiosity," is being built and prepared for a November 2011 launch.
• Tours of the Microdevices Laboratory
• Hands-on demonstrations of JPL robotics
• An Earth "Puffersphere" globe that displays recent data from NASA's Earth-orbiting satellites
• An exciting demonstration of JPL's latest image gallery, Space Images.

Many of JPL's facilities were open and staff members on-hand to answer questions about JPL's past, current and future missions.

In addition, over 27,000 people viewed Open House remotely via live steaming video. Live video webcasts aired from JPL's mission control, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, and other key locations, giving viewers the opportunity to ask questions of scientists and engineers via a live chat. Those videos are now archived at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .

JPL also kept space enthusiasts up-to-date on information about the event's various exhibits and demonstrations via Twitter @NASAJPL at http://twitter.com/NASAJPL and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NASAJPL.

Additional Links:
Space Images
Space Images for your iPad/iPhone/Android
JPL Education Gateway
NASA Deep Space Network(DSN)
Cassini to Saturn
Dawn to Ceres and Vesta
Epoxi (comet Temple 1 &comet Hartley 2)
Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) to the moon
Juno to Jupiter
Moon Mineralogy Mapper
Rosetta
Stardust-NExT (Comet Wild 2)
Voyager Interstellar Mission
NASA Solar System Exploration
Eyes on the Solar System
Year of the Solar System
What’s Up? Backyard Astronomy
NASA Science web
Climate Change 
Eyes on the Earth 3D
Mars 
Mars Science Lab
Curiosity Cam
Universe
Night Sky Network
Discovery Program
Space School Musical 
Exo's Discovery 
3D Image Gallery * 3D glasses required to view. Click here for more info.