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Featured Story

The Deep Space Network: NASA’s Link to the Solar System

Meeting Highlights

Mars Extant Life: What’s Next?

Exoplanets in Our Backyard: Solar System and Exoplanet Synergies on Planetary Formation, Evolution, and Habitability

Third International Planetary Caves Conference

Sixth International Planetary Dunes Workshop

From the Desk of Lori Glaze

Community Cares

News From Space

Newly Discovered Planet Zips Around Baby Star in a Week

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Discovers Sunlight Can Crack Rocks on Asteroid Bennu

Evidence for Volcanic Craters on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Interstellar Comet Shed Water As It Visited Solar System

New Discovery: First Asteroid Population from Outside Our Solar System

Astronomers Detect Regular Rhythm of Radio Waves, with Origins Unknown

The Nearside of the Moon May Still Be Tectonically Active

Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu Were Formed by the Destruction of a Large Asteroid

Earth-Sized, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data

Spotlight on Education

Virtual Education and Public Engagement Opportunities

Resources for Planetary Scientists Involved in Public Engagement

Submit an Education Abstract for the 2020 Fall AGU Meeting

Seeking Community Comments for Draft Text of Citizen Science Seed Funding Program

Call for Proposals: NASA Office of STEM Engagement

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowships

In Memoriam

James M. Beggs, 1926–2020

Richard “Dick” Pugh, 1940–2020

Michael I. Mishchenko, 1959–2020

New and Noteworthy

The Search for Life on Mars: The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time

The Basic Calculus of Planetary Orbits and Interplanetary Flight: The Missions of the Voyagers, Cassini, and Juno

Oxford Dictionary of Geology & Earth Sciences, Fifth Edition

Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Second Edition

From Cave Man to Cave Martian: Living in Caves on the Earth, Moon and Mars

Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond

100 Things to See in the Night Sky: Your Illustrated Guide to the Planets, Satellites, Constellations, and More, Expanded Edition

The Chart of Cosmic Exploration

Astronomy Fluxx Card Game

Outer Space Magnetic Play Scene

Awesome Space Tech: 40 Amazing Infographics for Kids

Peanuts – Snoopy Goes to Space: Book and Flashlight Set

Calendar

52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (dates tentative)

16th Spacecraft Charging and Technology Conference

Mercury: Current and Future Science of the Innermost Planet

Asteroids, Comets, Meteors Conference

Milestones

Kathy Lueders Selected to Lead NASA’s Human Spaceflight Office

New Director Takes Helm at National Science Foundation

Alabama High School Student Names NASA’s Mars Helicopter

NASA Telescope Named For “Mother of Hubble” Nancy Grace Roman

NASA Names Headquarters After “Hidden Figure” Mary W. Jackson

Barringer Award Recipients Announced

SSERVI Announces 2020 Award Winners

National Academy of Sciences Inductees in Planetary Science

NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon

NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landers for Artemis Moon Missions

NASA Selects Astrobotic to Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the Moon

NASA Invests $51 Million in Innovative Ideas from U.S. Small Businesses

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Featured Story

The Deep Space Network: NASA’s Link to the Solar System

From the Desk of Lori Glaze

Community Cares

Meeting Highlights

Mars Extant Life: What’s Next?

Exoplanets in Our Backyard: Solar System and Exoplanet Synergies on Planetary Formation, Evolution, and Habitability

Third International Planetary Caves Conference

Sixth International Planetary Dunes Workshop

News From Space

Newly Discovered Planet Zips Around Baby Star in a Week

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Discovers Sunlight Can Crack Rocks on Asteroid Bennu

Evidence for Volcanic Craters on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Interstellar Comet Shed Water As It Visited Solar System

New Discovery: First Asteroid Population from Outside Our Solar System

Astronomers Detect Regular Rhythm of Radio Waves, with Origins Unknown

The Nearside of the Moon May Still Be Tectonically Active

Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu Were Formed by the Destruction of a Large Asteroid

Earth-Sized, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data

Spotlight on Education

Virtual Education and Public Engagement Opportunities

Resources for Planetary Scientists Involved in Public Engagement

Submit an Education Abstract for the 2020 Fall AGU Meeting

Seeking Community Comments for Draft Text of Citizen Science Seed Funding Program

Call for Proposals: NASA Office of STEM Engagement

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowships

In Memoriam

James M. Beggs, 1926–2020

Richard “Dick” Pugh, 1940–2020

Michael I. Mishchenko, 1959–2020

Kathy Lueders Selected to Lead NASA’s Human Spaceflight Office

New Director Takes Helm at National Science Foundation

Alabama High School Student Names NASA’s Mars Helicopter

NASA Telescope Named For “Mother of Hubble” Nancy Grace Roman

NASA Names Headquarters After “Hidden Figure” Mary W. Jackson

Barringer Award Recipients Announced

SSERVI Announces 2020 Award Winners

National Academy of Sciences Inductees in Planetary Science

NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon

NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landers for Artemis Moon Missions

NASA Selects Astrobotic to Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the Moon

NASA Invests $51 Million in Innovative Ideas from U.S. Small Businesses

New and Noteworthy

The Search for Life on Mars: The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time

The Basic Calculus of Planetary Orbits and Interplanetary Flight: The Missions of the Voyagers, Cassini, and Juno

Oxford Dictionary of Geology & Earth Sciences, Fifth Edition

Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Second Edition

From Cave Man to Cave Martian: Living in Caves on the Earth, Moon and Mars

Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond

100 Things to See in the Night Sky: Your Illustrated Guide to the Planets, Satellites, Constellations, and More, Expanded Edition

The Chart of Cosmic Exploration

Astronomy Fluxx Card Game

Outer Space Magnetic Play Scene

Awesome Space Tech: 40 Amazing Infographics for Kids

Peanuts – Snoopy Goes to Space: Book and Flashlight Set

52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (dates tentative)

16th Spacecraft Charging and Technology Conference

Mercury: Current and Future Science of the Innermost Planet

Asteroids, Comets, Meteors Conference

Publication Calendar 16th Spacecraft Charging and Technology Conference

16th Spacecraft Charging and Technology Conference

April 12-16

Cocoa Beach, Florida

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/sctc2020/

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