Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/08

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Subject: Re: Comet - JPL
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@bayarea.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 97 08:35:13 -0700

><2400 images of the comet (with
>details on lenses, film and exposure) that JPL has up.
>
>who and where is JPL?

JPL stands for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory facility, located in 
Pasadena, California. The California Institute of Technology 
administrates the facility, but the funding is NASA. It's the home of the 
Deep Space Network, contributor to virtually all US space science flight 
missions, with a massive amount of image processing personnel on board. I 
worked there for four years in the Radar Sciences group, doing Synthetic 
Aperture Radar image processing, Orbital Debris Detection and other fun 
projects. 

JPL is the center for Mission Control and Flight Operations for Voyager, 
Galileo, Space Telescope and many other such robotic spacecraft.

Godfrey