Keck Institute for Space Studies - Video

Watch Jamie Bock, the principal investigator of the SPHEREx, discuss this two-year mission that will produce four complete all-sky maps with over a billion detected galaxies, hundreds of millions of high-quality stellar and galactic spectra, and over a million ice absorption spectra, enabling diverse scientific investigations.

Watch Rob Sherwood, the Deputy Executive Director of Innovation at The Aerospace Corporation, describe the programs Aerospace created to stimulate an innovative culture and provide examples of employee innovation that have resulted from those programs.

Watch Dave Thau from WWF discuss the topic of biodiversity and how to measure, monitor, and detect changes in it. This is the techie’s perspective on the state of our biodiversity knowledge.

PUFFER project developers Jaakko Karras and Dr. Jean-Pierre de la Croix from JPL present pop-up rover technology that was created to work in parallel with larger rovers (or deployed off landers) when the landscape becomes too dangerous.

Watch Dr. Olivier Hainaut from European Southern Observatory present his talk Fantastic Targets and How to Find Them at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Exploring Once-in-a-Lifetime Targets on October 29, 2018.

Watch Dr. Hope Ishii from HIGP/Univ. of Hawai’i at Mānoa present her talk Getting Close to Long-Period Objects – Lessons Learned from Past Missions at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Exploring Once-in-a-Lifetime Targets on October 29, 2018.

Watch Dr. Kristina Hogstrom from JPL present her talk Small but Powerful - State of the Art in Small Satellites at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Exploring Once-in-a-Lifetime Targets on October 29, 2018.

Watch Christian Davenport from The Washington Post tell the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. This lecture was sponsored by the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences - Exploration: The Globe And Beyond Series, and the Keck Institute for Space Studies (Caltech).

Watch Prof. Jeannine Cavender-Bares from University of Minnesota talk about Biodiversity Science at the Biodiversity Science and Remote Sensing Fundamentals short course on October 1, 2018 at the Keck Institute for Space Studies.

Watch Prof. Kyle McDonald from CCNY-CUNY/JPL talk about Remote Sensing Physics and Measurements at the Biodiversity Science and Remote Sensing Fundamentals short course on October 1, 2018 at the Keck Institute for Space Studies, Caltech.

Watch Prof. Phil Townsend from University of Wisconsin analyze Imaging Spectroscopy from Space at the Biodiversity Science and Remote Sensing Fundamentals short course on October 1, 2018 at the Keck Institute for Space Studies, Caltech.

Watch Dr. Robert Guralnick from Florida Museum of Natural History evaluate Species Distribution Modeling at the Biodiversity Science and Remote Sensing Fundamentals short course on October 1, 2018 at the Keck Institute for Space Studies, Caltech.

Watch Dr. Gary Geller from JPL present his talk Biodiversity Policy and Assessing Progress Toward Policy Goals at the Biodiversity Science and Remote Sensing Fundamentals short course on October 1, 2018 at the Keck Institute for Space Studies, Caltech.

Watch Professor Farisa Morales talk about planetary system formation, leading us to explore the uniqueness of our Solar System. The briefing also includes information about the tools and techniques scientists use to study these systems. Professor Morales also speaks about the formation of planets in disks, and ongoing efforts to detect them.

In this lecture, Prof. Marco Velli discusses our present knowledge of the magnetized solar corona and wind and describes the PSP scientific objectives, orbit, and instruments. Emphasis is on the potential new discoveries stemming from the first exploration of the space inside the orbit of Mercury. Prof. Velli also discusses how synergies with Solar Orbiter might lead us to accurately understand the state of the solar wind all the way from the corona into interplanetary space, elucidating like never before the role and dynamics of active magnetized plasmas throughout the universe.

Watch Slava G. Turyshev (Physicist, JPL) and Louis Friedman (Co-Founder and Executive Director Emeritus, The Planetary Society) discuss a mission to the SGL focal region that could provide us with direct, multi-pixel, high-resolution images and spectroscopy of a potentially habitable Earth-like exoplanet. The speakers address some aspects of mission design and spacecraft requirements, as well as capabilities needed to fly this mission in the next two decades. This lecture took place at the workshop Technology Requirements to Operate at and Utilize the Solar Gravity Lens for Exoplanet Imaging at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on May 16, 2018.

The Moon Diver mission concept proposes to send the JPL-developed Axel extreme terrain rover into one of these pits, rappelling down the wall to expose the history of the lunar mare, and to illuminate the workings of the flood basalt eruptions that created them: eruptions on a scale never before witnessed in the history of humankind. This lecture was presented by Dr. Laura Kerber at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on April 2, 2018.

Watch Anthony Challinor from University of Cambridge present his talk on the future cosmic microwave background (CMB) exploration at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course The Whys and Hows of Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Exploration on March 19, 2018.

Watch Jacques Delabrouille from CNRS talk about the future cosmic microwave background (CMB) exploration at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course The Whys and Hows of Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Exploration on March 19, 2018.

Watch Alan Kogut from NASA, GSFC discuss design challenges for future CMB experiments at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course The Whys and Hows of Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Exploration on March 19, 2018.

Watch Paul Steinhardt from Princeton University discuss cosmological predictions at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course The Whys and Hows of Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Exploration on March 19, 2018.

Watch Joe Silk from JHU/IAP analyze inflationary predictions for cosmology at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course The Whys and Hows of Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Exploration on March 19, 2018.

Watch Graca Rocha from JPL/Caltech present her talk on the future cosmic microwave background (CMB) exploration at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course The Whys and Hows of Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Exploration on March 19, 2018.

In this presentation, planetary scientist, author, and Planetary Society President Jim Bell takes us on both a personal and scientific journey looking over Voyager's shoulders as we all discovered the wonders of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their panoply of rings and moons. And we'll also learn that their missions are not over - they both continue to explore and transmit data on the space environment beyond the planets and between the stars. Through the Voyagers, and their discoveries, we have all entered the interstellar age...

Watch Roh Bhartia from JPL discuss the search for life on Mars at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course MarsX - Mars Subsurface Exploration - Life and Resources in the Martian Subsurface on February 12, 2018.

Watch Nathaniel Putzig (PSI) talk about Subsurface Sounding on Mars and the Search for Water Ice at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course MarsX - Mars Subsurface Exploration - Life and Resources in the Martian Subsurface on February 12, 2018.

Watch Kris Zacny from Honeybee Robotics analyze drilling on Mars at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course MarsX - Mars Subsurface Exploration - Life and Resources in the Martian Subsurface on February 12, 2018.

Watch Gerald (Jerry) Sanders from NASA JSC discuss resources and ISRU from the Martian subsurface at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course MarsX - Mars Subsurface Exploration - Life and Resources in the Martian Subsurface on February 12, 2018.

Parker Abercrombie, a senior software engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, presents Virtual Mars during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

Emine Basak Alper Ramaswamy, a data visualization developer at JPL, talks about visualizing and designing spacecraft trajectories in VR at the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

Charles White, a JPL’s Knowledge Management Specialist for the Office of the Chief Engineer, talks about Virtual Heritage: Knowledge Management in VR during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

This panel discussion on VR/AR for Mission Design and Ops was part of the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018. The panes features Scott Davidoff, Emine Basak Alper Ramaswamy, Parker Abercrombie, Joel W. Burdick, and Charles White.

Emily Law, Michael Amori, Eduardo Siman, Jonathan Fay and Shayna Skolnik discuss a view from the industry and tech transfer during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

Jonathan Fay, Ciro Donalek, and Santiago Lombeyda provide an introduction to demos at the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

Watch S. George Djorgovski, a Professor and Executive Officer (Dept. Chair) for Astronomy and the Director of the Center for Data Driven Discovery at Caltech, discuss VR/AR as a scientific and educational platform during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018. S. George Djorgovski's research encompassed a broad variety of topics, including structure and dynamics of globular clusters, fundamental properties of galaxies and their evolution, gamma-ray bursts, early phases of galaxy and structure formation, distant quasars, dark energy, and exploration of the time domain in astronomy. He has led several large digital sky surveys, and is one of the founders of the Virtual Observatory framework, as well as the emerging discipline of Astroinformatics. He was the Chair of the National Virtual Observatory Science Definition Team, the director or the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (the first professional scientific institution based in virtual worlds), among many other leadership roles. His principal scientific interests are in the ways in which information and computation technologies are changing the ways we do science and scholarship in general, and the emergence of a new scientific methodology for the computationally enabled, data rich science in the 21st century. He has earned numerous recognitions, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Dudley Observatory Award, the NASA Group Achievement Award, and first prize in the Boeing-Griffith Science Writing Contest, as well as fellowships with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The asteroid 24421 Djorgovski is named in his honor.

Watch Wolfgang Stuerzlinger discuss the challenges and opportunities of interacting with N-dimensional data in immersive 3D during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018. Wolfgang Stuerzlinger is a Professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at the Simon Fraser University, where he is the director of the VVISE lab.

Watch Alex Endert, an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, present a talk on Visual Analytics by Demonstration for Interactive and Immersive Data Analysis during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

Watch Dan Keefe, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, present his talk on experiential analytics during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

Doug A. Bowman, the Frank J. Maher Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, presents his talk about immersive analytics beyond visualization during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

S. George Djorgovski, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Alex Endert, Dan Keefe and Doug A. Bowman analyze data visualization in VR/AR during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018.

Watch Scott Davidoff present a talk on visual analytics as force multiplier for space exploration during the Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration symposium at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30, 2018. Scott Davidoff manages the Human Interfaces Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he leads design and development of the user interfaces that command all JPL spacecraft.

Watch Dr. Stanislav (Stas) Babak from APC/Université Paris Diderot present his introduction to data analysis of gravitational-wave signals during the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Science, Source Modeling, and Data Analysis for the Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Observatory LISA on January 16, 2018.

Watch Prof. Deirdre Shoemaker from Georgia Institute of Technology discuss analytical and numerical modeling of binary sources during the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Science, Source Modeling, and Data Analysis for the Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Observatory LISA on January 16, 2018.

Watch Dr. Curt Cutler from JPL present an overview of Lisa science during the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Science, Source Modeling, and Data Analysis for the Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Observatory LISA on January 16, 2018.

Dr. Christophe Sotin from JPL/Caltech talks about ocean and rock interactions and prospects for life on Europa and Enceladus. This lecture was part of the short course Accessing the Subsurface Oceans of Icy Worlds at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on October 9, 2017.

Dr. Louise Prockter from Lunar and Planetary Institute analyzes the structure and thickness of Europa ice shell and what we hope to learn from the Europa Clipper at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course on October 9, 2017.

Dr. Tom Cwik from JPL/Caltech evaluates the challenges in designing a mission that travels through Europa Crust at the at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Accessing the Subsurface Oceans of Icy Worlds on October 9, 2017.

Dr. John Priscu (Montana State University) and Dennis Duling (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) discuss the WISSARD and SALSA subglacial lake projects and lessons learned from drilling through the Antarctic ice sheet at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course on October 9, 2017.

Dr. Joe Berry from Carnegie Institute for Science/Stanford talked about the new tools for investigating the Carbon Cycle at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on September 18, 2017. This talk was part of the short course Next-Generation Approach for Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks.

Prof. Christian Frankenberg from Caltech evaluated the past, present and future of remote sensing of solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on September 18, 2017. This talk was part of the short course"Next-Generation Approach for Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks.

Dr. Ian Baker from Colorado State University talked about incorporating observations of OCS and SIF into carbon cycle models at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on September 18, 2017. This talk was part of the short course Next-Generation Approach for Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks.