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Featured Story

The Perseverance Mars Rover: NASA’s Next Giant Leap in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth

Meeting Highlights

Apophis T–9 Years: Knowledge Opportunities for the Science of Planetary Defense

Preventing Harassment in Science

From the Desk of Lori Glaze

Onward and Upward in 2021

News From Space

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid and Collects Samples

NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

Exoplanet Around Distant Star Resembles Reputed ‘Planet Nine’ in Our Solar System

Best Region for Life on Mars Was Far Below Surface

NASA Defines Science Priorities for First Crewed Artemis Landing on Moon

NASA Confirms New SIMPLEx Mission Small Satellite to Blaze Trails Studying Lunar Surface

A Pair of Lonely Planet-Like Objects Born Like Stars

New Near-Earth Object Confirmed to be Space Age Rocket Booster

NASA Approves Heliophysics Missions to Explore Sun, Earth’s Aurora

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Updates Quarter-Century Jupiter Mystery

Spotlight on Education

Public and Scientist Engagement Events at the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Upcoming Public Engagement Opportunities

MSA Grant for Student Research in Mineralogy and Petrology

Nominate a Scientist or Educator for an ASP Education Award

Nominate a Scientist or Educator for an AGU Education Award

In Memoriam

Roger Jay Phillips, 1940–2020

James J. Papike, 1937–2020

New and Noteworthy

Travels with Curiosity: Exploring Mars by Rover

How Cosmologists Explain the Universe to Friends and Family

Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space

Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go

Meteorite Mineralogy

The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System

Terrestrial Impact Structures: The Tan-DEM-X Atlas, Volumes 1 and 2

Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner’s Guide to Life in the Space Age

New Scientist Milky Way Jigsaw Puzzle

The Planets: A Look at Space Science

Bouncing Planets STEM Experiment Kit

Mars’ First Friends: Come on Over, Rovers!

Geology for Kids: A Junior Scientist’s Guide to Rocks, Minerals, and the Earth Beneath Our Feet

Calendar

Habitable Worlds

52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Triple Evolution and Dynamics 3 (TRENDY 3)

Rock, Dust and Ice: Interpreting Planetary Data

Milestones

Cheng Named 2020 Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award Recipient

USRA Announces 2020 Distinguished Undergraduate Award Winners

NASA Names Artemis Team of Astronauts Eligible for Early Moon Missions

NASA, International Partners Advance Cooperation with First Signings of Artemis Accords

NASA, Canadian Space Agency Formalize Gateway Partnership for Artemis Program

NASA, UN Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Peaceful Uses of Space

NASA, NSF Sign Agreement to Advance Space, Earth, Biological, Physical Sciences

NASA Expands Informal Learning Institutions Engaging Next Generation of Explorers

NASA Awards Prizes to Six Startup Companies in Entrepreneur’s Challenge

NASA Selects Companies to Collect Lunar Resources for Artemis Demonstrations

NASA Moves Forward with Campaign to Return Mars Samples to Earth

NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020

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Featured Story

The Perseverance Mars Rover: NASA’s Next Giant Leap in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth

From the Desk of Lori Glaze

Onward and Upward in 2021

Meeting Highlights

Apophis T–9 Years: Knowledge Opportunities for the Science of Planetary Defense

Preventing Harassment in Science

News From Space

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid and Collects Samples

NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

Exoplanet Around Distant Star Resembles Reputed ‘Planet Nine’ in Our Solar System

Best Region for Life on Mars Was Far Below Surface

NASA Defines Science Priorities for First Crewed Artemis Landing on Moon

NASA Confirms New SIMPLEx Mission Small Satellite to Blaze Trails Studying Lunar Surface

A Pair of Lonely Planet-Like Objects Born Like Stars

New Near-Earth Object Confirmed to be Space Age Rocket Booster

NASA Approves Heliophysics Missions to Explore Sun, Earth’s Aurora

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Updates Quarter-Century Jupiter Mystery

Spotlight on Education

Public and Scientist Engagement Events at the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Upcoming Public Engagement Opportunities

MSA Grant for Student Research in Mineralogy and Petrology

Nominate a Scientist or Educator for an ASP Education Award

Nominate a Scientist or Educator for an AGU Education Award

In Memoriam

Roger Jay Phillips, 1940–2020

James J. Papike, 1937–2020

Cheng Named 2020 Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award Recipient

USRA Announces 2020 Distinguished Undergraduate Award Winners

NASA Names Artemis Team of Astronauts Eligible for Early Moon Missions

NASA, International Partners Advance Cooperation with First Signings of Artemis Accords

NASA, Canadian Space Agency Formalize Gateway Partnership for Artemis Program

NASA, UN Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Peaceful Uses of Space

NASA, NSF Sign Agreement to Advance Space, Earth, Biological, Physical Sciences

NASA Expands Informal Learning Institutions Engaging Next Generation of Explorers

NASA Awards Prizes to Six Startup Companies in Entrepreneur’s Challenge

NASA Selects Companies to Collect Lunar Resources for Artemis Demonstrations

NASA Moves Forward with Campaign to Return Mars Samples to Earth

NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020

New and Noteworthy

Travels with Curiosity: Exploring Mars by Rover

How Cosmologists Explain the Universe to Friends and Family

Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space

Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go

Meteorite Mineralogy

The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System

Terrestrial Impact Structures: The Tan-DEM-X Atlas, Volumes 1 and 2

Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner’s Guide to Life in the Space Age

New Scientist Milky Way Jigsaw Puzzle

The Planets: A Look at Space Science

Bouncing Planets STEM Experiment Kit

Mars’ First Friends: Come on Over, Rovers!

Geology for Kids: A Junior Scientist’s Guide to Rocks, Minerals, and the Earth Beneath Our Feet

Habitable Worlds

52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Triple Evolution and Dynamics 3 (TRENDY 3)

Rock, Dust and Ice: Interpreting Planetary Data

7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference

EGU General Assembly 2021

Heliophysics 2050 Workshop

Distributed Volcanism and Distributed Volcanic Hazards

Mercury: Current and Future Science of the Innermost Planet

5th Planetary Data Workshop and Planetary Science Informatics and Data Analytics

2021 Sagan Summer Workshop: Circumstellar Disks and Young Planets

Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy with Extremely Large Telescopes

Martian Geological Enigmas: From the Late Noachian Epoch to the Present Day

Ultraviolet Astronomy in the XXI Century: 5th Workshop of the Network for Ultraviolet Astronomy — Face-to-Face

Brines Across the Solar System: Modern Brines

Gaps, Rings, Spirals, and Vortices: Structure Formation in Planet-Forming Disks

Publication Calendar Heliophysics 2050 Workshop

Heliophysics 2050 Workshop

May 3-5

Virtual

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/

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