Mars community, The MEPAG Goals Committee welcomes comments from the community on the newly updated MEPAG Goals Document. The MEPAG Goals document is an important living document that is intended […]
Dear Colleagues: The Planetary Science Advisory Committee (PAC) (https://science.nasa.gov/nac/science-advisory-committees/pac) supports the advisory needs of the Planetary Science Division (PSD), the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and other mission directorates as required, […]
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and NASA’s Science Mission Directorate have reached consensus on the statement of task for the next decadal survey in planetary science and […]
Dear Lunar Community, We would like to host a two-hour virtual discussion session on Wednesday, December 4 from 2–4 p.m. EST in order to share our thoughts on how we […]
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) has created a website to capture white paper proposals for the Planetary Decadal Survey. All interested members of the planetary science community are encouraged […]
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 November 2019 edition of the […]
On November 5, scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) opened untouched samples brought back from the Moon during the Apollo era. The rock and soil samples will be studied as […]
The Fall 2019 findings of the Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) have been posted to the OPAG website. The report can be found here: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/aug2019/Findings.pdf
LPI Director Dr. Louise Prockter will be the presenter of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) web seminar “The Exploration of Europa – An Ocean World in Our Backyard” on […]
Issue 158 of the Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin features the cover story, “NASA’s Ames Research Center: Contributions to Flight and Planetary Science.” You’ll find additional news from space, milestones, new […]
Edscottite (IMA 2018-086a), Fe5C2, is a new iron carbide mineral that occurs with low-Ni iron (kamacite), taenite, nickelphosphide (Ni-dominant schreibersite), and minor cohenite in the Wedder-burn iron meteorite, a Ni-rich […]
The success of scientists depends upon their ability to obtain funding. One of the largest challenges is to create strong proposals. Using Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) […]
Members of the Mars community, I cordially invite you to participate in the next virtual meeting (VM7) of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), scheduled on Wednesday, November 13th, […]
In support of NASA’s effort to explore the lunar south pole, including the Artemis program’s scheduled landing there of the first woman and next man in 2024, the LPI continues […]
VEXAG (Venus Exploration Analysis Group) is seeking two new volunteers for the VEXAG Steering Committee to replace the Roadmap Focus Group Lead and Member at Large, who have successfully completed […]
Sammy Griffin of the University of Glasgow has been named the 2019 Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award recipient. The Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award is for undergraduate or […]
As a reminder, the next SBAG meeting will be January 14th-16th at the Pasadena Hilton in Pasadena, California. We have two opportunities at the upcoming SBAG meeting in January specifically […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]