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

Hear about what we know about Titan topics that were investigated early in Cassini’s mission. Learn what questions have baffled and perplexed Cassini scientists for a long while (cough cough cryovo...
More
Titan: Cold Cases
CHARM October 2016 - Titan:Cold Case Files
The sequence of seven images in this animation shows sunspots as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from June 27 to July 8, 2015. From Mars, the rover was in position to see the opposite side of...
More
The sequence of seven images as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from June 27 to July 8, 2015. From Mars, the rover was in position to see the opposite side of the Sun from the side facing Earth during this period.
Tracking Sunspots from Mars, Summer 2015
Two crescent moons dance around Saturn as far-off Dione slips behind its sibling moon Rhea.
More
Screenshot from the 'Rhea Eclipses Dione' movie
Rhea Eclipses Dione
In this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the gravitational pull of Saturn's moon Prometheus creates patterns in Saturn's F ring.
More
In this movie from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the gravitational pull of Saturn's moon Prometheus creates patterns in Saturn's F ring.
F Ring Patterns
A quick look at how a Bistatic Observation works.
More
Artist's rendition of a bistatic observation
Bouncing Waves Off Titan
Cassini scientist Dr. Kevin Baines discusses Saturn's Cyclones.
More
Kevin Baines
Kevin Baines on Saturn's Cyclones
The flight over Charon begins high over the hemisphere New Horizons saw on its closest approach, then descends over the deep, wide canyon of Serenity Chasma. 
More
Video showing close terrain at Pluto's moon Charon.
Flyover: Pluto Moon Charon
This view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon."
More
Saturn hexagon
In Full View: Saturn's Streaming Hexagon (black and white)
My name is Mana. Europa is my favorite It is that it is one of the very few places in our solar system that could potentially have life.
More
Woman explaining Europa.
Scientist for a Day Option 3: Europa
The most prominent jets of vapor and icy particles emerging from the south polar terrain of Saturn’s moon Enceladus are shown here in graphical form in a movie clip of a “rotating” Enceladus.
More
Enceladus' Jets
Enceladus' Jets
Six years of exploration through the 'eyes' of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
More
Six years of exploration through the 'eyes' of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
Spirit of Mars
Cassini mission planners created this animation to showcase Cassini's final 22 orbits - the mission's Grand Finale.
More
Animation showing Cassini Grand Finale orbits from a side view.
Grand Finale Orbits - Side View
Ranger 9 was the last of the Ranger series of spacecraft launched in the 1960s to explore the moon and was designed to image and impact the moon's crater Alphonsus. This video from 1965 includes im...
More
1965 black-and-white video showing ranger trajectory and images from moon
Ranger 9
As Huygens descends Titan's atmosphere, Cassini will record the data from 72,000 kilometers (about 44,700 miles).
More
Tracking Huygens Animation
Tracking Huygens Animation
Io Color Eclipse
More
Io Color Eclipse
Io Color Eclipse
A scientist's interpretation and visualization of the January 2005 descent and landing of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe on Titan.
More
Data fills on on a sphere and details emerge as spacecraft descends.
Descent to Titan
This animation, from Cassini's navigation team, shows the spacecraft's final orbits in 2016 and 2017. 
More
Visualization of Cassini's final dives between the planet and rings.
Final Orbits: Cassini Grand Finale (Animation)
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
More
Computer simulation of asteroid orbit.
OSIRIS-REx Orbits
Pan Found!
More
Pan Found!
Pan Found!
This animation shows the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft being captured in orbit at Saturn in 2004.
More
This animation shows the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft being captured in orbit at Saturn in 2004.
Cassini Tour Beginning
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system.
More
Video about how an asteroid was formed over billions of years.
Bennu's Journey
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
Mark Hofstadter describes the lure of science -- of discovering something new -- and his path to becoming a planetary scientist.
More
Mark Hofstadter describes the lure of science -- of discovering something new -- and his path to becoming a planetary scientist.
Through the Eyes of Scientists - Meet Mark Hofstadter
This colorized movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows a polar projection of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon" in the infrared.
More
This colorized movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows a polar projection of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon' in the infrared.
Looking Down on the Hexagon in Infrared
This data visualization represents twenty years' worth of data showing the abundance of life both on land and in the sea. 
More
Visualization showing ebb and flow of life on Earth.
Earth: Our Living Planet

You Might Also Like