As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under Artemis, the agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole. Each region contains multiple potential […]
The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Mission is expected to arrive at the Moon in November 2023, with the overall science objectives of: 1) Characterizing the distribution and physical […]
The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce Release 52 of Mars Exploration Rover data. This release includes data primarily from Sols 4501 through 4590, rover Opportunity (MER1/B), instruments: […]
LUNAR AND PLANETARY INFORMATION BULLETIN ISSUE #145 June 2016 Now available on the LPI’s website at www.lpi.usra.edu/lpib Download eBook version http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/lpib/e-book/ Features in this issue include: NASA’s Juno Mission: […]
This second community announcement about the fourth New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity (AO) provides information about the science objectives for the six mission themes listed in the first community announcement. […]
Ceres: Dispatches from a Dwarf Planet Tuesday, March 22, 12:00 noon CDT (1:00 p.m. EDT, GMT –5) to 1:00 p.m. CDT (2:00 p.m. EDT, GMT –5) The Woodlands Room Recorded session only Description: NASA’s Dawn mission […]
New Horizons: Peering Into Pluto’s Past Monday, March 21, 12:00 noon CDT (1:00 p.m. EDT, GMT –5) to 1:00 p.m. CDT (2:00 p.m. EDT, GMT –5) Waterway Ballroom 1 Watch LIve Panelists: Jim Green (NASA Headquarters), Introduction, […]
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting its latest images of Saturn’s icy, geologically active moon Enceladus, acquired during the dramatic Oct. 28 flyby in which the probe passed about 30 […]
In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto’s crescent. Thanks to new processing work by the science team, New Horizons is releasing the entire, […]
From Pluto’s unusual heart-shaped region to its extended atmosphere and intriguing moons, New Horizons has revealed a degree of diversity and complexity in the Pluto system that few expected in […]
Since its arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been surveying the surface and the environment of this curiously shaped body. But for a long time, […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent […]
The MAVEN Science Data Center is pleased to announce the availability of the following MAVEN datasets: IUVS, NGIMS, EUV, STATIC, SWIA, SWEA, MAG, in situ Key Parameters, and ancillary data. […]
The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image […]
The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, show the small world’s features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres’ tall, conical mountain; crater formation features and narrow, braided fractures. […]
Ten years after launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed the Red Planet’s diversity and activity, returning more data about Mars every week than the weekly total from all […]
They’re united by a lofty goal — to investigate whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could harbor primitive life under its icy shell. Last week, a team of scientists and engineers for […]
Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by NASA’s New Horizons team, just one day after […]
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate […]
The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday to tell the mission team and the world it had […]