Keck Institute for Space Studies - Video KISS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.