The South Pole-Aitken (SP-A) basin is the largest impact feature on the Moon, 2500 kilometers in diameter and 13 kilometers deep. Observations made by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory […]
The Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science at Purdue University has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher to lead a joint code development, modeling, and remote sensing project focused […]
The 2,500-kilometer-diameter South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is the largest impact structure on the Moon. Such very large impact craters can potentially penetrate through the crust and sample the underlying lunar […]
Impact cratering from asteroids and comets is perhaps the most important process that shapes planet surfaces in the solar system, so it is important to know the rate of impact […]
China’s Chang’e 4 probe successfully landed on the far side of the Moon on Thursday, January 3, at 10:26 am (Beijing time). This is the first mission to land on […]
The farside South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is the largest known impact structure on the Moon and is a hot spot for scientific and space exploration. In 2018, the Chinese Chang’e-4 […]
The lunar surface is covered by regolith that contains microscopically small, angular, and abrasive dust particles. A new study on simulants, carried out by Rachel Caston and colleagues at Stony Brook University, […]
Dear Colleagues, The journal Geosciences is accepting papers for a Special Issue related to recent advances in studies of the Moon. The deadline has been extended until the end of […]
Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the European Planetary Science Congress 2018, EPSC 2018 (16–21 September 2018, Berlin, Germany), on the Session LSE1/TP15: […]
Unlike Earth, the Moon does not have a global magnetic field, but it does display regional magnetic anomalies. The magnetic carrier in lunar rocks is metallic iron, but indigenous lunar […]
Goddard has recently released a new Scientific Visualization Studio webpage focusing on the Moon and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data: Moon Phase and Libration, 2018. Beginning January 1, 2018, the page […]
In an effort to compare the relative rates of landform evolution on the Moon and Mercury, Caleb Fassett of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and his team measured the depth-to-diameter […]
NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) will hold the annual Exploration Science Forum (ESF) July 18-20, 2017 at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, Calif: https://nesf2017.arc.nasa.gov/ The […]
The close collaboration between science, technology, and exploration enables a deeper understanding of the Moon and other airless bodies as our manned missions move further out of low-Earth orbit, return […]
Session ID#: 13390 Session Description: A close collaboration between science, technology and exploration will enable deeper understanding of the Moon and other airless bodies as we move further out of […]
2016 Planetary Science Short Course (PLANETSC 9603A) Offered through the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), the Department of Earth Sciences, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University […]
The Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2017) workshop will be a forum to discuss our current understanding of the surface environment of the Moon, […]
Asia Oceania Geosciences Conference 2016 July 31 – Aug 5, Beijing, China Conference website Abstract submission deadline: extended to March 4, 2016 Session Description: Recent years have provided us with […]
First Announcement #newviews2 May 24–26, 2016 Houston, Texas The New Views of the Moon 2 workshop will be held May 24–26, 2016, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, which is located in the […]
Microsymposium 57: Polar Volatiles on the Moon and Mercury: Nature, Evolution and Future Exploration The Woodlands Waterway Marriott, Montgomery Ballroom, The Woodlands, Texas, March 19-20, 2016. The Microsymposium 57 program […]