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Sites are grouped by color indicating their geographical locations. The color-coded site numbers and names appear on lightpole Legend Sites banners; follow them to your favorite sites. First Aid Drinks/Snacks/Food “JPL Up to the Minute” Movie JPL Stamp Club Located in the conference room at Visitor Reception (Bldg 249). A wide variety of food and snack items to choose from 1 Building 180, First-Floor Conference Room 11 North of Building 183 (14 sites, see map). The latest on JPL’s missions to study , other and JPL commemorative stamp covers and space stamps are Information Booth the cosmos, including technology to land bigger, heavier things featured. i Booths are located at various points throughout the Open The JPL Store on Mars. Plus, a preview of a close encounter. House area. Space gifts and memorabilia — located under the Office of Safety and Mission Success Cafeteria, Bldg 167. Deep 12 North of Building 183 Rest Rooms 2 Building 180, Lobby View a demonstration of how control of static electricity ensures Indicated on the map. Wheelchair-Accessible Van Service Learn how the Deep Space Network communicates with safety and mission success; learn about JPL’s commitment to A special van is available at Entrance #1 for those in exploring our and beyond. the protection of the environment. Lost Child / Lost Belongings wheelchairs. Enter Earth: Your Future. Our Mission. Earth Science Center Visitor Reception (Bldg 249) — from a JPL telephone, dial 4-5559. 13 Entrance Photo 3 Building 167, Cafeteria Building 264-118 #4 Earth is changing. See how JPL engineers and scientists, plus Join us for our 3-D movie: “Earth: Your Future. Our Mission.” 6 an armada of satellites, show us how Earth’s , climate, land and sea respond to natural and human-caused changes. Universe Plaza: Exploring New Worlds 14 Building 301 Plaza Education Office See how NASA missions explore the universe, from discovering 4 Building 167, Wellness Center new planets to studying stars, black holes and distant galaxies. 1 Learn about activities and programs that benefit students, See yourself in infrared and take a virtual tour of the latest T teachers and lifelong learners in local communities and across exoplanet discoveries. 2 the country through hands-on demonstrations, interactive Enter displays and more. Entrance for 5 “Our Restless ” Movie #1 kids 4 Spacecraft Assembly Facility 5 Building 167, Conference Room 15 Building 179 Experience a 12-minute film that takes you on a journey JPL’s largest “clean room” is a super-fastidious environment for into some of the most pressing research affecting our planet where JPL spacecraft and instruments are assembled and T 7 kids Enter today. Watch scientists and engineers tackle the impacts of i tested. See the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instruments 3 T Entrance natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. See how and spacecraft before they’re shipped to Vandenberg Air Force for California’s entire freshwater system is straining from the kids ATM #3 Base for launch. 21 effects of global warming and declining snowmelt. Spacecraft Fabrication Facility 9 13 Space Flight Operations Facility 16 20 6 Building 170 T T Building 230 Learn about spacecraft fabrication and how mechanical, 8 10 Data from all interplanetary spacecraft flow through Mission developmental and flight hardware is made for JPL programs Control in the Spaceflight Operations Facility, JPL’s center of ATM and projects. for 14 the universe. kids i 11 22 T Mobility and Robotic Technologies 12 Note: Due to security requirements within the Space Flight 17 Building 318 Parking Lot i Operations Facility, the line for building access closes at 3 p.m. Check out technology rovers and other robots for current and i future space missions.

i 19 Mars Exploration 15 7 Mall Area Flying Saucers For Mars See a full-scale model of the rover, 18 Building 321 (Flight Projects Center), Room B20 , exploring Mars since August 2012. Friendly Martians Learn about the “flying saucer” experimental test JPL flew from roll rovers over earthlings and share the latest information on Hawaii in June. The Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) Enter current missions to Mars. project is investigating new breakthrough technologies destined T Entrance for future Mars missions. 16 #2 von Kármán Visitor Center 8 Building 186 “Journey to the Planets and Beyond” Movie View exhibits about JPL missions to the planets and beyond; 19 321 Auditorium 18 see a full-scale model of the spacecraft and a lunar Travel through our solar system and beyond in this spectacular 17 T Parking sample brought back by the 16 . movie narrated by Harrison Ford. T Structure B “Voyager: The First Encounter” Movie Solar System Exploration 9 Building 186, von Kármán Auditorium 20 Building 303 In 2013, NASA announced that Voyager 1 had entered See spacecraft and planet models, and experience a virtual interstellar space, the only spacecraft ever to do so. Journey online solar system explorer. Learn about missions studying back in time and experience the origins of this historic mission moons of our solar system, protoplanets, , , in this 25-minute film, a retrospective told by the pioneering and beyond. engineers and scientists who were there. In-Situ Instrument Laboratory 21 Building 317 This is where engineers test spacecraft in a simulated Mars The Web Space Experience environment. See NASA’s next Mars lander, named InSight, 10 North of Building 183 using its instrument deployment arm to place instruments on Get hands-on with exciting web tools and mobile apps from the martian surface. JPL and discover how you can explore the wonders of space from home or on the go. Microdevices Laboratory 22 Building 302 Here is where engineers and scientists work in the world of the ultraminiature — learn how and why.