In Memoriam: Robert O. Pepin, 1933–2023
Robert Osborne Pepin, planetary scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, passed away on January 6 at the age of 89. Pepin was the director of the Lunar […]
Robert Osborne Pepin, planetary scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, passed away on January 6 at the age of 89. Pepin was the director of the Lunar […]
An exciting opportunity for a three-year postdoctoral research position is available at The Open University to develop and perform experiments with a Venus Global Climate Model in preparation for future […]
This position will serve as a Research Scientist in the Planetary Environments Laboratory of the Solar System Exploration Division in the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at NASA Goddard Space Flight […]
The Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (Gaia) mission launched by ESA in 2013 is tasked with creating the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy to date by surveying […]
Mars experienced widespread volcanism and tectonic activity 3 to 4 billion years ago, but it has been viewed as largely tectonically quiescent since then. From 2018 to 2022, NASA’s InSight […]
La misión del Interferómetro astrométrico global para astrofísica (Gaia) lanzada por la ESA en 2013 tiene la tarea de crear el mapa tridimensional más grande de la Vía Láctea hasta […]
Marte experimentó volcanismo extendido y actividad tectónica hace 3 o 4 billones de años, pero desde entonces se le ha considerado tectónicamente inactivo. Desde 2018 hasta 2022, el módulo de aterrizaje […]
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, funded by the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe. The post-holder will work […]
The UT Austin Planetary Surface Processes Group, headed by Dr. Tim Goudge, is advertising an opening for a postdoctoral fellow. This position will focus on research that integrates orbital spectroscopic […]
Dear Ocean Worlds Community, NASA has indicated support for forming a joint Ocean Worlds Working Group (OWWG) under the umbrella of the Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG), Small Bodies Assessment Group […]
JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission returned ~5.4 grams of material from the C-type asteroid Ryugu. Studies have shown that this material resembles the CI (Ivuna-type) carbonaceous chondrites, which are primitive meteorites that […]
JWST was launched into space on December 25, 2021, and started taking pictures and collecting data a few months later. Since the telescope has been fully operational, JWST has been […]
La misión Hayabusa2 de JAXA trajo ~5.4 gramos de material del asteroide tipo C Ryugu. Los estudios han demostrado que este material se parece a las condritas carbonáceas CI (tipo […]
JWST se lanzó al espacio el 25 de diciembre de 2021 y comenzó a tomar fotografías y recopilar datos unos meses después. Desde que el telescopio comenzó a operar a […]
The Department of Physics at Umeå University in Sweden is offering a postdoctoral scholarship in modeling plasma interaction with planetary bodies. The scholarship is full-time for two years, and the […]
The GSA Penrose Conference, “The Role of Outburst Floods in Earth and Planetary Evolution,” will take place from June 5-9, 2023, at Camp Delany, Coulee City, Washington, situated at the […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18, 2021, with the goals of studying Mars’ geology and past climate and searching for evidence of past microbial […]
Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the three large volcanoes on the Tharsis Plateau on Mars, rising to about 11 miles above the average martian surface. Winds impinging on such […]
El rover Perseverance de la NASA aterrizó en el cráter Jezero en Marte el 18 de febrero de 2021, con el objetivo de estudiar la geología y el clima pasado […]
Arsia Mons es el más meridional de los tres grandes volcanes de la meseta de Tharsis en Marte, y se eleva a unas 11 millas por encima de la superficie […]