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Photo Album

2005 We lost Dr. Larry A. Haskin (1934 - 2005)


Larry was an example intellectual ability, integrity, and enthusiasm for all of us	The last talk that Larry gave at Earth & Planetary Science Department was on the new discoveries by Mars Exploration Rovers

2004 Mars Exploration Rover mission at JPL


We were all extremely excited by the successful landing of Spirit rover	The images from Mars at Gusev intrigued Larry immensely

2003 Remote Raman unit coupled with MMRS spectrograph


Shiv with his telescope, Alian with her spectrograph, Karla behind the camera.	Our Raman lab is not long enough for "remote" testing. We have to shoot the laser across the hallway and even into EMP lab, and have to work during the evenings

2003 MMRS Advanced Brassboard cold test at National Ice Core Lab

MMRS "Show and Tell" at JPL in 2002 & 2003


Larry works in Geology theme group	Brad works in Long-term planning theme group	Alian (behind camera) works in mineralogy & geochemistry theme group


WEB, one of the twin MER03 rovers	MER03 spacecraft	Testing chamber


Raman probe, one fiber for sending excitation laser, one fiber for transfer collected Raman radiation	Raman spectrograph inside a sealed box providing TEC cooling and preventing water condensation from Earth atmosphere	Raman electronics system


Meeting participants-- scientists & engineers	Comparing MER rover with famous "Yugi"	Discussion about ATLO


Discussion during the MEPAG workshop was very intensive	The flight instruments built by the devision of our Engineering team	Discussion with Bob Wilson (system engineer)


End of day briefing among Athena science team members and JPL engineer team.	inter-group discussions were very helpful in determine where to go and what to do.	panchromatic aerial and ASTER images were used to understand the local geology	Larry at field test site, finally got some clues for what we cached, missed, and why.

Alian had a small accident ~1 hour after this photo was taken.	Salute from rover -- some Pancam images are taken.	To keep a "cool" and function rover at 106F was quite a challenge.	JPL rover field team worked very hard to ensure the success of field test.


SOWG chairs and documentarian	members of Geology group are discussing a series CMI images	members of Geochemistry & Mineralogy group

FIDO rover -- IPS measurement	FIDO rover -- CMI measurement on rock "Lamda"	members of science-engineer team for this test

Recent group photos -- 32nd LPSc at Houston (March 2001)


Larry and Ryan each gave an excellent talk in the session of lunar impact effect	discussion after session was very fruitful (Brad and Dave Stewart)	Raman section of the group presented one talk and two posters (out of six abstracts)

His question was a little tricky	Karla met her professor (Hap McSween)	Randy met an old buddy (Dick Morris)

Sunday birding trip before the conference becomes a tradition	This year, they got a beautiful judge for Chili Contest	We had a good time at barbecue party


a few past and present members of research group	with Prof. Jill Pasteris research group


Optical fibers are grouped and protected by using a stainless steel capillary.	They are wrapped into the form of "coil" to increase the flexibility (Dr. Curt Kiddy)	A mechanics is designed to move (stretching, bending, & twisting) fibers in cold bath -- named as "torture unit"

Experimental setup for optical fiber cold test designed by Dr. Curt Kiddy.	Optical fibers are put inside of cold bath, their motion under different temperature are repeated by "torture unit"	these fibers are connected to light source and detectors, the variation of light throughput is monitored.



Chris Smith and Ken Manatt, Engineers from Jet Propulsion Laboratory come to replace several optical components in BB1d. The sensitivity of this system increases many times. Larry and his wife Mary invited them to have dinner at their house, we had a fun time together.

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