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.

The SPHEREx All-Sky Infrared Spectral Survey Satellite

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.

Stimulating a Culture of Innovation at The Aerospace Corporation

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.

Biodiversity: Perspectives of a Techie

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.

PUFFER: NASA's Pop-Up Origami Rover

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.

Fantastic Targets and How to Find Them

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.

Small but Powerful - State of the Art in Small Satellites

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.

Getting Close to Long-Period Objects – Lessons Learned from Past Missions

Watch Professor Christine McCarthy from Columbia University talk about planetary materials and their response to tidal deformation at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Tidal Heating on Solar System Worlds on October 15, 2018.

Planetary Materials and their Response to Tidal Deformation


Watch  Dr. Julie Rathbun (PSI) analyze geological activity on tidally-heated solar system worlds at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Tidal Heating on Solar System Worlds on October 15, 2018.

Geological Activity on Tidally-Heated Solar System Worlds, with an Emphasis on Io


Watch  Professor Francis Nimmo from UCSC discuss geophysics and interior processes of rocky and icy bodies at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Tidal Heating on Solar System Worlds on October 15, 2018.

Geophysics and Interior Processes of Rocky and Icy Bodies


Watch lectures from workshops and events put on by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS). KISS is a "think and do tank" designed to develop new planetary, Earth, and astrophysics space mission concepts and technology by bringing together a broad spectrum of scientists and engineers for sustained scientific and technical interaction. It is a joint institute of the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Watch Professor Jim Fuller from Caltech present his talk on Linking Tidal, Rotational, and Orbital Evolution at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Tidal Heating on Solar System Worlds on October 15, 2018.

Linking Tidal, Rotational, and Orbital Evolution


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).

The Space Barons and the New Space Age

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.

Parker Solar Probe: Exploring the Plasma Physics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere

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.

Magnifying Light by 100 Billion Times with the Solar Gravity Lens to Image an Exoplanet

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.

Moon Diver Mission Concept

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.

Comments on Cosmological Predictions

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.

Inflationary Predictions for Cosmology

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.

Painting a Picture of the Cosmos

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.

Panel: Data Visualization in VR/AR

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.

Virtual Mars

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.

Lessons Learned from Drilling through the Antarctic Ice Sheet: The WISSARD and SALSA Subglacial Lake Projects


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.

Structure and Thickness of Europa Ice Shell: What We Think We Know and What We Hope to Learn from the Europa Clipper


Watch astronaut Tyler N. Nick Hague from NASA Johnson Space Center talk about operational perspectives on the use of telepresence to support planetary exploration. October 5, 2016 - Keck Institute for Space Studies, Caltech.

Operational Thoughts on Data Driven Decision Making

Watch Prof. Rob Fergus from NYU presenting an overview of machine learning approaches for applications to exoplanet detection at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course Mastering the Wave - The Whys and Hows of Exoplanet Imaging on August 22, 2016.

An Overview of Machine Learning Approaches: Applications to Exoplanet Detection

Watch Ronald G. Blom, Ph. D. (Principal Scientist (Retired), Jet Propulsion Laboratory) discussing how remote sensing data from spacecraft and aircraft have contributed significantly to archaeological research.

Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology

Watch Simon Hook from JPL talk about Ecohydrology/ECOSTRESS during the recent Short Course "Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from Space" - Keck Institute for Space Studies, October 5, 2015.

Ecohydrology/ECOSTRESS

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