View from space. Image courtesy of Fourmilab's Earth and Moon viewer
World map. Rivers are blue; countries are brown.
2x zoom. North America in context: You can see the eastern edge of Siberia, Latin America to the south, and even small pieces of the British Isles and Scandinavia.
4x zoom. The United States begins to dominate the picture; 49 of the 50 states are clearly visible. Alaska gets short shrift, but some of the Aleutian Islands stretch across the northwest corner of the map.
8x zoom. The state of California sprawls across the West Coast, bordered by (clockwise from top) Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California (Mexico).
16x zoom. The very north of California is off the map, but nobody cool lives there anyway. Note the San Francisco Bay (in the north) and the islands off the south of California.
32x zoom. More details have been added to the map. Political boundaries are now purple; highways are shown in brown and federal lands in green. The spiderweb convergence of brown lines is the Los Angeles Basin.
64x zoom. Pasadena is in the very center of the map, directly beneath the 210 freeway. The island connected to the mainland with a dotted brown ferry route is Santa Catalina Island, where Caltech frosh go for orientation.
128x zoom. The City of Los Angeles is outlined in solid purple. The green area to the north of center are the San Gabriel Mountains, visible from Caltech when the smog isn't too bad.
256x zoom. Pasadena is directly past the easternmost extent of Los Angeles proper. Native Angelinos can amuse themselves identifying the various freeways and communities...
Campus Map. This is the Caltech campus. Click on red circles for photographs and purple squares for links. The UGCS cluster is located in the Jorgensen Center for Information Science, directly to the north of the west end of the San Pasqual Street stub. (It's the building with three purple squares in it; we're the upper-right one.)
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Map of the Lab. Here you could see the UGCS lab. Click on the usernames to finger them, or the machine names to find out who's logged in remotely. You can click here to find out who's logged in to the whole lab.