The New Shape of Titan
A new map of Titan created by a team led by Paul Corlies from Cornell University provides a global view of the highs and lows of the moon’s topography, such […]
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Dawn’s Ceres Color Map Reveals Surface Diversity
A new color map of dwarf planet Ceres, which NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting since March, reveals the diversity of the surface of this planetary body. Differences in morphology […]
Voyager Map Details Neptune’s Strange Moon Triton
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager’s historic footage of Triton […]
Largest Solar System Moon Detailed in Geologic Map
More than 400 years after its discovery by astronomer Galileo Galilei, the largest moon in the solar system – Jupiter’s moon Ganymede – has finally claimed a spot on the […]
Job Opportunity: LPI Researcher in Planetary Mapping and Impact Studies
Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a large non-profit aerospace research corporation invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in planetary science at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), in Houston, Texas. […]