The Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) will be devoting the bulk of its August meeting to discussions and preparation for the next Decadal Survey. Community members are encouraged to attend […]
Session EP036 – Shaping Landscapes of the Solar System: Environmental Flows on Other Planets This session’s goal is to explore the interplay between quantitative models for planetary surface processes and […]
The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 made a second touchdown on July 10 on the asteroid Ryugu. Photos from the spacecraft show views of Ryugu’s surface at touchdown and the nearby rock before and after the […]
With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing approaching on July 20, here are a few suggestions of how to celebrate the event. When we look up at […]
The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing with two Forever stamps. A stamp dedication ceremony will be held at the Apollo/Saturn V Center […]
The Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Spring 2019 findings have been posted to the OPAG website at https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/apr2019/OPAG%20Findings%20Spring%202019.pdf
The next Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) meeting will be held August 20–21, 2019 in Boulder, Colorado. The day prior, August 19, will be the Ocean Worlds Access Working Group Workshop. The […]
Dear Colleagues, The AGU Fall Meeting is returning to San Francisco this year (December 9-13, 2019), with its centennial edition. Planetary sciences are part of the celebrations. We would be delighted […]
Planet Formation: From Dust Coagulation to the Final Orbital Assembly, Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics (MIAPP), Garching, Germany, June 1-26, 2020 Dear colleagues, It gives us great pleasure to […]
The Tissint meteorite fell to Earth in 2011 in the Moroccan desert. Tissant is a shergottite, an igneous rock that crystallized on Mars about 575 million years ago. Because it […]
Founded at the height of the Apollo program in 1968, the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is proud to share our resources with the world as we celebrate the 50th […]
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 9-13, 2019 Session ID: 81113 Session Title: Mars Sample Return: Balancing the Benefits of a New Phase of Mars Exploration Against Potential Risks […]
We would like to draw your attention to our AGU Session V053 entitled “Volatiles in Magmatic Processes and Planetary Evolution.” We are hoping to receive a roughly equal number of abstracts from both […]
The First International Orbital Debris Conference (IOC) is scheduled for December 9–12, 2019 at the Sugar Land Marriott Town Square in Sugar Land (greater Houston area), Texas. Fir more information, […]
Dear colleague, We are pleased to send you the Third Circular of the “Horizon 2061 synthesis workshop” that will be organized by IRAP and OMP in Toulouse from September 11th […]
Members of the Mars community, I cordially invite you to participate in the 37th meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), scheduled as an ~5-hour meeting on July […]
To the Mars Community, On behalf of Aileen Yingst (MEPAG Chair), Dave Beaty, Rich Zurek, and Serina Diniega of the Mars Program Science Office, the July 2019 edition of the […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is anticipated to launch in March 2021, with the first scientific data becoming available six months after launch. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) would […]
After a large collision in the asteroid belt some 470 million years ago (in Ordovician times), many asteroid fragments were tossed into Earth-crossing orbits, collided with the Earth, and […]
Giant planets have been identified orbiting 290 of the stars within 500 light-years of the sun; the remaining 4,200 stars appeared to be planet-less. However, Natalie Hinkel of the Southwest […]