meet the elite team revolutionizing how nasa thinks -- from a california trailer - an interactive whiteboard

Pickett, written by Mallory, CNNNASA's Jet Propulsion LaboratoryJPL)
A group of concrete 1970
Located between the San Gabriel Mountains in Pasadena, the style building is the birthplace of the most amazing achievements of mankind.
The first moon probe in the United States, the Mars probe, the first scientific satellite in orbit-
For decades, JPL scientists have been looking out and pushing the boundaries of human knowledge beyond the Earth. It's awe-
Inspiring imaginationtickling work.
But space scientists spend their time on numbers, data, and details.
So in JPL, a fantastic team
Breeders stand to guard against the secular.
It is embedded in the campus and consists of scientists and designers of astronomical physicists, aerospace engineers and geologists in the laboratory.
They call themselves Studios.
The face of our robot tells us about ourselves.
Various creative agents of the house.
Its clients are scientists, delegations, and JPL departments, who engage with the team according to their creative needs.
So far, the studio has created a human
Comet in Brooklyn and an interactive device that simulates the surface of Jupiter.
It helps scientists imagine countless tasks and projects, from landing a spaceship on a comet to designing a disaster --response robot.
On 2014, a comet model "deformation" studio was installed in Brooklyn to celebrate the landing of the Rosetta mission's probe on the comet.
Image source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The studio started with Dan Goods.
After graduating from the School of Design at Pasadena Arts Center, Goods knew he wanted to apply his design skills to science.
He sent his resume to different research labs in the area, but no one knew what to do with him.
Finally, Anthony Freeman, who manages the JPL tasks and system architecture section, told him, "I really don't understand what you're doing, but I'll give you six months.
"That was 15 years ago.
Hate your job?
NASA wants you to work on MarsOne's first project is a bright wall that shows planets and other shapes when shadows are projected onto the wall.
The purpose of the installation is to meet the challenge--and reward --
Look for new planets.
After the success of the early project, Goods was able to hire his "creative soul mate" David Delgado, a fellow at the School of Design at the arts center.
Seven years ago, he invited product designer Jessie Kawata.
The studio of JPL was born.
Yves Bihar: Why is California the real home of American innovation? The actual studio where the team works is a humble gray trailer.
But, opening the door, it's clear that you're in a place where something extraordinary happens.
Posters, whiteboards, photos and sketches are posted on the wall.
Old scientific glassware, rough black models of some space rocks, copies of the NASA Solar System Atlas, and a variety of other curiosity are scattered on the table.
In addition to merchandise, Delgado and Kawata, the team now includes graphic designer Lois Kim, artist Joby Harris, Walt Disney fantasy Engineering, a former member of Disney's R & D department, and
It is also de la Torre of the entertainment circle.
De La Torre and Kim spent a lot of time making storyboards for the task proposal book, which created visual aids for task planners to become the length of a short story.
De La Torre, by using Hollywood film production and matte painting technology to visualize operations, participated in the 2004 launch of Rosetta, the first probe to land on a comet. . slider-slide> img {width: 100%; display: block; }
1/14-Mars, displayed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
A set of "travel posters" depicting various cosmic destinations were released ".
This poster shows that Mars is a world suitable for living. The posters --
Creative Studio, design and strategy team for JPL-
Is a way to celebrate the discovery of planets.
Speaking of these designs, David Delgado, Visual Strategist at JPL, said: "All these distant places are hard to reach, but they are all there.
The idea was, what would it look like if we could go there one day?
"Credit: invisible animals when she asks scientists to help her create visual effects, it prompts them to ask questions about the surface of the comet that they are not fully considering.
Are there geysers or caves?
What is the surface like?
They know it's porous, but it's not like a sponge.
De La Torre recalled that they described at as more "pancake cooking ".
"So I went to make the pancakes and took a picture of the texture," she said . ".
"It actually became very accurate when [it]the probe]arrived.
"The scope of the studio is far beyond the JPL campus.
While its role is primarily to assist JPL in its mission, it also exists to tell the story of the lab to the public.
This is mainly achieved through immersive installation.
On 2014, Delgado and Goods worked with Studio KCA, a New York architecture and design company, on the comet model "deformation" in Brooklyn ---
Complete the realistic tail with water vapor--
Celebrate the decade of Rosettalong mission.
The steel sculpture, about 9 feet high and about 12 feet long, glows to simulate how a real comet reflects the sun's rays.
The combination of steam and dust creates the tail of the comet.
Read: NASA used the free mailbox "solar cover" to attract space travelers, turn the sun into electricity, artIn 2015, and the studio once again commissioned KCA studio to design a "sound experience" called the rail Pavilion ", visitors can enter a huge shell model in it.
Internally, NASA satellite trajectory data is paired with sound passing through the interior of the shell, producing effects similar to jet aircraft flying overhead.
Delgado and cargo at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex put forward the idea of the orbital Pavilion, a California observatory that communicates with spacecraft orbiting the Earth and spacecraft at the far end of the solar system. "You get out (to the complex)
That's the problem with perception, because you know there's a lot of data streaming back and forth.
But it's very quiet. you don't know what's going on . "
It makes the two think, "what if you could hear where these ships are?
"Inside the Orbit Pavilion, visitors can hear the sounds of different NASA satellites in the sky, just as you hear jets flying over your house.
Credit: there are Jet Propulsion Labs available, but one of the studio's most influential pieces is one of the smallest: a hole in a grain of sand.
Grain should represent the Milky Way, and this hole symbolizes the region of our Milky Way, where our planet-
Planets around other stars-are found.
After the item was displayed under a microscope, he recalled an astronomical physicist coming to see it.
"This guy can point Hubble to something," said Goods . ".
He looked down (at the sand)
He looked up and looked into my eyes and said, "you reminded me why I work here.
"Milan Design Week: The sculpture tree blooming in the fog --
The location of the studio team is rare.
Few research institutions have such powerful art and design facilities.
But even with the uncertainty of government funding for scientific research, JPL still supports the important role of the studio in the laboratory.
"We recognize the value of communication, whether it's telling stories from outside or helping with tasks from within," said deputy director of JPL.
"I think one of the key issues with JPL is that we have such an incredible story to communicate.
When you see all the amazing missions-
Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, the first starship of man-
You want to communicate well.
You want to uniquely convey this to the public and (the Studio)
Definitely help us to do this.
"JPL is entirely on the edge of the possibility," said Goods . ".
This is where the studio is firmly surrounded: on the boundaries of what has been done and what has never been imagined ---
Until they imagine it first.