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PASADENA
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in southwestern California to the east of Los Angeles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Pasadena" is a part of...):
CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)
Context examples:
The recent findings on dust towers come courtesy of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which is led by the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
After the initial detections of the comet, Scout system, which is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, automatically flagged the object as possibly being interstellar.
(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)
"You wouldn't need a backhoe to dig up this ice. You could use a shovel," said the paper's lead author, Sylvain Piqueux of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
This is the most extreme orbit I have ever seen, said Davide Farnocchia, a scientist at NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, found that the warmer water was driven into the area by winds associated with two global climate patterns: La Niña and the less-known Southern Annular Mode, which involves a change in location of the belt of winds that encircles Antarctica.
(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
No matter what planet you're on, lightning bolts act like radio transmitters — sending out radio waves when they flash across a sky, said Shannon Brown of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a scientist from NASA's Juno mission.
(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)
Titan has an active methane-based hydrologic cycle that has shaped a complex geologic landscape, making its surface one of most geologically diverse in the solar system, said Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and lead author of new research used to develop the map.
(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)
This black hole grew far larger than we expected in only 690 million years after the Big Bang, which challenges our theories about how black holes form, said study co-author Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)
Using a visible-light spectral analysis, planetary scientists at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have discovered that the yellow color visible on portions of the surface of Europa is actually sodium chloride, a compound known on Earth as table salt, which is also the principal component of sea salt.
(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)
We refer to this repeating pattern as a resonance, said Marina Brozovic, an expert in solar system dynamics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the lead author of the new paper.
(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)
