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Featured Story
Planetary Nomenclature: A Brief History and Overview
News From Space
Robot Spelunkers Go for a Dip
NASA Begins Checkout of Dellingr Spacecraft Designed to Improve Robustness of CubeSat Platforms
An Atmosphere Around the Moon? NASA Research Suggests Significant Atmosphere in Lunar Past and Possible Source of Lunar Water
Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?
NASA Selects Instrument for Future International Mission to Martian Moons
Gadgets for Mars
Solar System’s First Interstellar Visitor Dazzles Scientists
Dawn Finds Possible Ancient Ocean Remnants at Ceres
Astronomers Complete First International Asteroid Tracking Exercise
Powering Saturn’s Active Ocean Moon
Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to Have Atmosphere
Giant Exoplanet Hunters Look for Debris Disks
NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event
From the Desk of Jim Green
To Explore and Name: The Solar System is Ours
 
Meeting Highlights
Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group
New Views of the Moon 2 — Europe
Opportunities for Students
LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science
Applications Now Being Accepted for the Exploration Science Summer Intern Program
LPSC Student Opportunities
NASA’s Planetary Geology and Geophysics Undergraduate Research Program
California Institute of Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Internships, Scholarships, and Fellowships with NASA
SAO Summer Intern Program
Internships Available at APL
Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internships 2017
Spotlight on Education
49th LPSC Education and Public Engagement Activities
Upcoming Public Event Opportunities
Nominate a Scientist or Educator for an ASP Education Award
Nominate a Scientist or Educator for an AGU Education Award
 
Milestones
LPI Announces Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award Recipient
Adler Planetarium Astronomer Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz Named Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress
2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge
AAS Division For Planetary Sciences Announces 2017 Prize Winners
GSA’s Planetary Geology Division Announces 2017 Award Winners
Meteoritical Society Awards
New Space Policy Directive Calls for Human Expansion Across Solar System
NASA Establishes Advisory Group for National Space Council
More Than 2.4 Million Names are Going to Mars
Take a Walk on Mars with Access Mars Experience
New and Noteworthy
To Mars and Beyond, Fast! How Plasma Propulsion Will Revolutionize Space Exploration
Weird Comets and Asteroids: The Strange Little Worlds of the Sun’s Family
Planetary Nebulae: Multi-Wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution
Volatiles in the Martian Crust
The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour of North America’s Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks
2018 Guide to the Night Sky: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above North America
Geological Globe of the World
Space Machines
SolarQuest, The Space-Age Real Estate Game: Mission to Mars Edition
Chasing Space
Sums in Space: An Addition and Subtraction Board Game Adventure
Space Playing Cards
NASA Space Travel Poster Jigsaw Puzzles
In Memoriam
Robert N. Clayton, 1930–2017
Von R. Eshleman, 1924–2017
Elmar K. Jessberger, 1943–2017
 
Calendar
 
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Featured Story
Planetary Nomenclature: A Brief History and Overview
 
From the Desk of Jim Green
To Explore and Name: The Solar System is Ours
 
News From Space
Robot Spelunkers Go for a Dip
NASA Begins Checkout of Dellingr Spacecraft Designed to Improve Robustness of CubeSat Platforms
An Atmosphere Around the Moon? NASA Research Suggests Significant Atmosphere in Lunar Past and Possible Source of Lunar Water
Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?
NASA Selects Instrument for Future International Mission to Martian Moons
Gadgets for Mars
Solar System’s First Interstellar Visitor Dazzles Scientists
Dawn Finds Possible Ancient Ocean Remnants at Ceres
Astronomers Complete First International Asteroid Tracking Exercise
Powering Saturn’s Active Ocean Moon
Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to Have Atmosphere
Giant Exoplanet Hunters Look for Debris Disks
NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event
 
Meeting Highlights
Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group
New Views of the Moon 2 — Europe
 
Opportunities for Students
LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science
Applications Now Being Accepted for the Exploration Science Summer Intern Program
LPSC Student Opportunities
NASA’s Planetary Geology and Geophysics Undergraduate Research Program
California Institute of Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Internships, Scholarships, and Fellowships with NASA
SAO Summer Intern Program
Internships Available at APL
Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Internships 2017
 
Spotlight on Education
49th LPSC Education and Public Engagement Activities
Upcoming Public Event Opportunities
Nominate a Scientist or Educator for an ASP Education Award
Nominate a Scientist or Educator for an AGU Education Award
 
In Memoriam
Robert N. Clayton, 1930–2017
Von R. Eshleman, 1924–2017
Elmar K. Jessberger, 1943–2017
 
Milestones
LPI Announces Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award Recipient
Adler Planetarium Astronomer Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz Named Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress
2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge
AAS Division For Planetary Sciences Announces 2017 Prize Winners
GSA’s Planetary Geology Division Announces 2017 Award Winners
Meteoritical Society Awards
New Space Policy Directive Calls for Human Expansion Across Solar System
NASA Establishes Advisory Group for National Space Council
More Than 2.4 Million Names are Going to Mars
Take a Walk on Mars with Access Mars Experience
 
New and Noteworthy
To Mars and Beyond, Fast! How Plasma Propulsion Will Revolutionize Space Exploration
Weird Comets and Asteroids: The Strange Little Worlds of the Sun’s Family
Planetary Nebulae: Multi-Wavelength Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution
Volatiles in the Martian Crust
The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Aerial Geology: A High-Altitude Tour of North America’s Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks
2018 Guide to the Night Sky: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above North America
Geological Globe of the World
Space Machines
SolarQuest, The Space-Age Real Estate Game: Mission to Mars Edition
Chasing Space
Sums in Space: An Addition and Subtraction Board Game Adventure
Space Playing Cards
NASA Space Travel Poster Jigsaw Puzzles
 
Calendar
 
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