Photo Gallery: Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Gov. Jerry Brown, from left, JPL Director Charles Elachi and Director of the Mars Exploration Directorate Fuk Li take a look at recorded footage of the Mars rover Curiosity landing in the control room at JPL.

Gov. Jerry Brown, from left, JPL Director Charles Elachi and Director of the Mars Exploration Directorate Fuk Li take a look at recorded footage of the Mars rover Curiosity landing in the control room at JPL.  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

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Gov. Jerry Brown, from left, JPL Director Charles Elachi and Director of the Mars Exploration Directorate Fuk Li watch recorded footage of the Mars rover Curiosity landing on Mars in JPL’s control room. Gov. Jerry Brown got a glance at the life of a Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist during an afternoon tour of the La Cañada Flintridge campus on Wednesday.

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Gov. Jerry Brown, center, listens to Richard Cook, deputy project manager on the Curiosity mission, as he shows the governor a full-scale model of the Curiosity rover at an indoor test bed at JPL.  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Gov. Jerry Brown watches videos of the night Curiosity landed at JPL.  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL’s Mars rover control room during a tour of the campus.  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Gov. Jerry Brown, from left, listens to Engineering Operations Manager Jessica Samuels as she gives Brown a tour of the Mars rover control room at JPL.  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Gov. Jerry Brown, from left, listens to Engineering Operations Manager Jessica Samuels as she shows Brown a photo that the Mars rover Curiosity snapped during a tour of JPL.  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Gov. Jerry Brown, from left, JPL Director Charles Elachi and Director of the Mars Exploration Directorate Fuk Li watch recorded footage of the Mars rover Curiosity landing on Mars in JPL’s control room.  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

Gov. Jerry Brown visits JPL

Engineering Operations Manager Jessica Samuels, from left, shows Gov. Jerry Brown the Mars rover control room at JPL .  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

Gov. Jerry Brown, from left, listens to Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau as he shows live footage of Mars rover Curiosity at JPL in Pasadena on Wednesday, August 22, 2012.

Gov. Jerry Brown, from left, listens to JPL Director Charles Elachi as they watch footage from Aug. 5, when the rover Curiosity landed on Mars.  (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)