University of Oxford – Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics Grade 7: 29,837 – 36,661 BP/year Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant within the sub-department of Atmospheric, Oceanic […]
In April and May 2013 the Cassini spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope, and a number of ground-based telescopes undertook an unprecedented observing campaign to study the aurora of Saturn, forming the most comprehensive […]
Anticipating Rosetta, Maven and Mars orbiter missions. Second announcement and call for notification of interest. Conference dates: 7-11 July 2014 Location: University College London (UCL), UK Main topics: Comets, Mars, […]
Members of the Mars Community, Please help us spread the word about two funding opportunities for students to attend upcoming Mars conferences! These opportunities are open to undergraduate and graduate […]
NASA’s Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 percent of […]
New Horizons sailed past another milepost today when the NASA spacecraft moved to within four astronomical units (AU) of Pluto – which is less than four times the distance between […]
The Mars Exploration Program has issued, in January 2014, a Request for Proposal for round IX of the Mars Critical Data Products program. This RFP provides support for initial landing […]
Letter of Invitation Members of the Mars community, I cordially invite you to attend the 2014 face-to-face meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), scheduled for 1.5 days, […]
The archived presentations from the Habitability of Icy Worlds workshop are now available on the meeting webpage. http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/icyworlds2014/
You are invited to participate in a lunchtime Venus Town-Hall Meeting during the LPSC on Thursday, March 20, 2014, in the Indian Springs Room, hosted by the Venus Exploration Analysis […]
TENURED/TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR Geologic Processes in Early Planetary History Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University The Department of Geological Sciences (http://www.geo.brown.edu/), Brown University, invites applications for a faculty position in […]
SAVE THE DATE Workshop on the Study of the Ice Giant Planets July 28–30, 2014 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, Maryland The goal of this 2.5-day workshop is to […]
JPL will provide support for travel of up to four (4) students from any city in the U.S. to the workshop. Expenses for airfare, accommodation, meals, and airport transfers will […]
Terrain that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now crossing is as smooth as team members had anticipated based on earlier images from orbit. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the rover covered […]
A new image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars shows NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at work on “Murray Ridge,” without any new impact craters nearby. The Feb. 14 view […]
Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA’s Mars […]
The Cassini Rings Working Group will hold a several day Planetary Rings Workshop in the summer of 2014. The workshop will be open to all interested parties, and any observational […]
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has tweaked its orbit to help scientists make the first systematic observations of how morning fogs, clouds and surface frost develop in different seasons on the […]
NASA trained several pairs of eyes on Saturn as the planet put on a dancing light show at its poles. While NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able […]
More than 400 years after its discovery by astronomer Galileo Galilei, the largest moon in the solar system – Jupiter’s moon Ganymede – has finally claimed a spot on the […]