Charles Elachi

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Name: Charles Elachi

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Challenges of Landing "Curiosity" on Mars

Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Charles Elachi is speaker at upcoming NSF Distinguished LectureOn May 16, the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation will host a Distinguished Lecture on the challenges of landing the ... [Published WebWire - May 13 2013]

Entities: Charles Elachi, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Science Foundation

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

AUB to award honorary doctorate to Chomsky, other luminaries

Four trailblazers in their fields will be awarded honorary doctorates next month by the American University of Beirut.This year's degrees will go to world-renowned linguist and anti-war activist Noam Chomsky; Lebanese-American Charles Elachi, director ... [Published Lebanon Daily Star - May 13 2013]

Entities: Ray R. Irani, Charles Elachi, Faten Hamama

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Prestigious Awards Won By NASA Curiosity Rover

Image Caption: This self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines 66 exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 3, 2013). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSNASA’s ... [Published Red Orbit - May 10 2013]

Entities: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars Science Laboratory, Charles Elachi

First reported Dec 18 2012 - Updated Dec 19 2012 - 1 reports

NASA

Twin NASA probes crash into the moon

A pair of NASA moon-mapping probes smashed themselves into a lunar mountain on Monday, ending a year-long mission that is shedding light on how the solar system was formed.The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft had been flying ... [Published Taipei Times Online - Dec 18 2012]

Entities: NASA, The Gravity Group, Charles Elachi

First reported Nov 29 2012 - Updated Nov 29 2012 - 1 reports

Mars rover Curiosity may have found organic compounds, says JPL director

In this image from NASA's Curiosity rover, a rock outcrop called Link pops out from a Martian surface that is elsewhere blanketed by reddish-brown dust. The fractured Link outcrop has blocks of exposed, clean surfaces. Rounded gravel fragments, or clasts, ... [Published Main Line Life - Nov 29 2012]

Entities: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Organic Compound, Charles Elachi, Molecule, Organic Compounds

Quotes

"We are honored to have three distinguished individuals from JPL on the TIME list of most influential people," said JPL Director Charles Elachi. "their contributions in the fields of asteroid research and mars exploration is representative of all the exciting and important work being done at nasa and jpl on behalf of the american people."

Three from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab among Time's Most Influential [Published KeralaNext.com - Apr 19 2013]

"Perhaps Curiosity has found simple organic molecules," Elachi said at La Sapienza University, according to La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. "it's preliminary data that must be checked (on) organic, not biological, molecules."

Mars rover Curiosity may have found organic compounds, says JPL director [Published Main Line Life - Nov 29 2012]

"mars is only about 15 percent of what we do" Elachi said, although it's the project that has been garnering the lion's share of attention this year - including a congratulatory phone call from President...

NASA-JPL director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars mission [Published Space Daily - Sep 20 2012]

"more people probably watched the youtube videos and connected to 'mohawk guy' than connected with the [curiosity] landing itself" said Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

What NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' Means for the Future ... [Published Space.com - Sep 17 2012]

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Twin NASA probes crash into the moon [Published Taipei Times Online - Dec 18 2012]
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