Skip Navigation

Resources

Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Bob Anderson

Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Published: September 7, 2010

Bob Anderson describes his work as a geologist who helps design and uses robots to collect data about Mars.

Related

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for nearly 13 years, is beginning its Grand Finale — and it's thanks to some Crazy Engineering!  A team of engineers called astrodynamicists use ma...
More
Video describing Cassini's navigation.
Crazy Engineering: Astrodynamics
A simplified visualization of Saturn's magnetic field, or magnetosphere.
More
Animation showing magnetic lines extending to form a bubble around Saturn.
Saturn's Magnetic Field (Magnetosphere)
Animation of Cassini's final orbit, leading to a pass by the moon Titan which sends the spacecraft plunging into Saturn on Sept. 15, 2017. 
More
Animation of Cassini's final orbit
Cassini's Final Orbit
Rosaly Lopes shares how she was inspired to help the exploration of space and how that lead to her role as a planetary scientist.
More
Rosaly Lopes shares how she was inspired to help the exploration of space and how that lead to her role as a planetary scientist.
Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Rosaly Lopes
Have you ever seen a meteorite streaking across the sky? If so, you may very well have seen part of the asteroid, Vesta!
More
Artist concept showing the Dawn spacecraft
Dawn, Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Project Scientist Linda Spilker and Mission Planner Molly Bittner answer questions about Cassini's Ring-Grazing orbits during this Jan. 30, 2017 Facebook Live event. 
More
Link to Facebook live event.
Cassini Facebook Q&A
No one really knew what Vesta looked like until NASA’s Dawn spacecraft decided to drop in on it. Now, images taken by the spacecraft have been stitched together to create a virtual flyover of the j...
More
Flyover simulator of Vesta.
Meet Vesta
Blanket Protection
More
Blanket Protection
Blanket Protection
This animation shows a color-coded map from NASA's Dawn mission revealing the highs and lows of topography on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres.
More
This animation shows a color-coded map from NASA's Dawn mission revealing the highs and lows of topography on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres.
Ceres Topographic Globe Animation
This animation illustrates Jupiter's magnetic field.
More
looping lines emanating from a sphere represent planetary magnetic field lines
Jupiter's Magnetic Field
RTG fit and test
More
RTG fit and test
RTG fit and test
Ben Holt tells how he fell in love with the ocean as a teenager and how that lead to a career as a research scientist.
More
Ben Holt tells how he fell in love with the ocean as a teenager and how that lead to a career as a research scientist.
Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Ben Holt
This animation based on data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows how the “explosions” of hot plasma on the night side (orange and white) periodically inflate Saturn’s magnetic field (white ...
More
This animation based on data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows how the “explosions” of hot plasma on the night side (orange and white) periodically inflate Saturn’s magnetic field (white lines).
Saturn's Hot Plasma Explosions
This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia.
More
This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia.
Touring Vesta's Craters
This animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2019, at hourly intervals. The imagery is based on actual dat...
More
This animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2019, at hourly intervals, based on data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Moon Phase and Libration, 2019
Change is detected on Saturn’s moon Titan, in these three composite images from data taken during flybys in October 2005, January 2006 and March 2006 by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
More
Titan’s Chilly Volcanoes?
Titan's Chilly Volcanoes?
Great Red Spot
More
Great Red Spot
Great Red Spot
The Sun as seen in multiple wavelengths of light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory over four days in August 2018.
More
rotating sun seen in several colors
The Sun in Multiple Wavelengths
This movie is based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and shows a flyover of an area of Saturn's moon Titan known as Sotra Facula
More
This movie is based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and shows a flyover of an area of Saturn’s moon Titan known as Sotra Facula.
Flyover of Sotra Facula, Titan
Orange and white stripes slide against each other, and huge oval storms  gyrate in the NASA's Cassini spacecraft's first color movie clip of Jupiter.  
More
Cassini's First Color Movie
Cassini's First Color Movie of Jupiter
New science, mined from the archives. Data from NASA's Galileo orbiter launched a generation ago yields new evidence of plumes, eruptions of water vapor, from Jupiter's moon Europa.
More
New science, mined from the archives. Data from NASA's Galileo orbiter launched a generation ago yields new evidence of plumes, eruptions of water vapor, from Jupiter's moon Europa.
Re-analyzing Old Data Reveals New Evidence at Europa
Clara, Sugar Plum Fairy, move aside. Saturn's moons give Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, "The Nutcracker," a graceful new spin in this video compiled from some 61 images taken by the Cassini spacecra...
More
Clara, Sugar Plum Fairy, move aside. Saturn's moons give Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, "The Nutcracker," a graceful new spin in this video compiled from some 61 images taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
Saturn Moon Ballet
Dawn spacecraft successfully launched September 27th, 2007.
More
Dawn Launch September 27, 2007
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Launches September 27, 2007
With kaleidoscopic forms and hues, these two false-color views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the patterns that come and go in the course of one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet'...
More
Patterns that come and go in the course of one Saturn day within the huge storm in the planet's northern hemisphere.
Kaleidoscopic Rainbows
  After decades of exploration, Voyager 1 reaches a historic milestone for mankind, interstellar space.
More
After decades of exploration, Voyager 1 reaches a historic milestone for mankind, interstellar space.
Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space

You Might Also Like