New Insights into Water in the Asteroid 4 Vesta
The asteroid 4 Vesta is the second largest body in the asteroid belt and was visited by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2012. New observations recently published in the […]
The asteroid 4 Vesta is the second largest body in the asteroid belt and was visited by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2012. New observations recently published in the […]
El asteroide 4 Vesta es el segundo objeto más grande en el cinturón de asteroides. La sonda Dawn de la NASA alcanzó dicho objeto entre el 2011 y el 2012. […]
Applications are solicited for graduate student positions within the UT Planetary Surface Processes Group, headed by Dr. Tim Goudge, in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas […]
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 October 2019 edition of the […]
Los cráteres y cuencas de impacto son las rasgos geológicos dominantes en muchas superficies planetarias. La escasez de grandes cuencas de impacto en Marte (sólo cuatro se han confirmado: Hellas, […]
Titán es el único objeto extraterrestre en nuestro sistema solar con lagos y mares de hidrocarburos líquidos estables en su superficie. Previamente, debido a su similitud morfológica con los lagos […]
The first 2019-2020 Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series lecture will take place at the Lunar and Planetary Institute on Thursday, October 3, at 7:30 pm. Dr. Grant Heiken, a member of the […]
Impact craters and basins are the dominant geologic features of many planetary surfaces. The paucity of large impact basins on Mars (only four are unambiguous: Hellas, Argyre, Utopia, and Isidis) presents […]
Titan is the only extraterrestrial body in our solar system with persistent lakes and seas filled with liquid hydrocarbons on its surface. Among them, the small lake basins have been […]
The Summer Undergraduate Program for Planetary Research, or SUPPR, is an eight-week summer internship providing undergraduates majoring in geology and related sciences with an opportunity to participate in NASA planetary […]
David Criswell received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Rice University in the Department of Space Physics and Astronomy. His graduate research at Rice University included experimental work on auroral photometry […]
Student and early career (less than five years from PhD) travel support may be available for the Venus Exploration and Analysis Group (VEXAG) Meeting #17 that will be held November 6-8, […]
Important Dates: Applications due on NSPIRES: October 15th, 2019 Selections made no later than: October 21st, 2019 Workshop Dates: November 18th-20th, 2019 Workshop Location: University of Arizona Campus, Tucson, AZ […]
Un cometa recientemente identificado parece haberse originado fuera del sistema solar. El cometa C / 2019 Q4 (Borisov) fue descubierto el 30 de agosto de 2019. Su trayectoria y alta […]
Como habrás escuchado, la Organización de Investigación Espacial de la India (ISRO) trató de realizar un alunizaje suave el viernes 6 de septiembre (para los EE. UU.). Lamentablemente, la comunicación […]
Five recipients of the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) Larry Taylor Travel Fund Awards have been announced. In honor of planetary scientist Professor Lawrence (Larry) A. Taylor […]
A newly identified comet appears to have originated from outside the solar system. Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) was discovered on August 30, 2019. Its trajectory and high velocity, currently 150,000 kilometers […]
As you may have heard, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) attempted a soft landing on the Moon on Friday, September 6 (for the U.S.). Unfortunately, communication with Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram […]
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), part of the Universities Space Research Association, invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in the petrology and mineralogy of planetary materials. The successful candidate will […]
The School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University has one of the largest astronomy groups in the UK with 26 academic staff in astronomy-related activities including galactic and extragalactic […]