The Network Operations Control Center,or "mission control",at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,California. JPL runs NASA's planetary exploration programme,& it is from this room that the Viking mission to Mars,the Voyager mission to Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus & Neptune,& other missions are controlled. The photograph was taken during Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune in August 1989. A crescent Neptune is displayed on the screen at top left. The surface of Triton,Neptune's large moon,is on the colour screen at top centre |