Sentences with phrase «lunar science»
A team led by Dr. Simone Marchi, a Fellow of the NASA Lunar Science Institute located at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Boulder, Colo., office, collaborating with the MESSENGER team, including Dr. Clark Chapman of the SwRI Planetary Science Directorate, studied the surface to better understand if the plains were formed by volcanic flows or composed of material ejected from the planet's giant impact basins.
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The work was supported by NASA's Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research (LASER) program and the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI).
With long - term aspirations, both companies are looking to capitalize on 40 + years of pent up demand for lunar science and services.
«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.
Why is he prepared to endorse Ian Plimer's claims, but not those of people who claim that the entire canon of lunar science is wrong and the moon is in fact made of green cheese?
Jeffrey Taylor of the University of Hawaii says it was the final Apollo missions of 1972 that propelled lunar science and transformed our understanding of the moon.
What has reinvigorated lunar science most of all are the discoveries of water made last year by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater...
Such samples, from an unexplored part of the lunar surface, says Neal, «will have a huge impact on lunar science... but will U.S. scientists be allowed to study these?»
«By comparing the measured craters to the number and spatial distribution of large impact basins on Mercury, we found that they started to accumulate at about the same time, suggesting that the resetting of Mercury's surface was global and likely due to volcanism,» said lead author Dr. Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the SwRI in Boulder and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
These talks would be visually augmented by NASA lunar imagery such as high - resolution photographs of the lunar surface, the latest lunar science visualizations, as well as by animations of current and future lunar missions.
A recently launched crowdfunding campaign aims to finance the development of an ambitious and challenging lunar science mission, called «Lunar Mission One,» to the Moon's south pole.
MyMoon Program Evaluation: In partnership with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute, SEDL evaluated a new online website, MyMoon: The Public's Portal to Lunar Science Exploration Through New Media.
As NASA targets other destinations, the potential benefits for lunar science — if Golden Spike can realize its lofty ambitions — are huge.
Funding for the research came from NASA's Cosmochemistry and LASER programs and the NASA Lunar Science Institute.
The NASA LASER and Cosmochemistry programs funded the research, with additional support provided by the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) and the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
«We estimate that there are 15 to 20, or more, expeditions of this type out there,» involving nations interested in lunar science but lacking the capability to send astronauts, he said.
«It would be a fantastic addition to lunar science,» Head says.
Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing, lunar science is again taking the world by storm, upending long - held assumptions about our nearest heavenly neighbor.
Even so, the 2010s are shaping up to be a boom time for lunar science.
The prospect of samples being returned by Chang» e-5 next year — more than four decades since the last ones were snagged by the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976 — is tremendously exciting for lunar science, says Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in London.
«I think we're all a little bit disappointed that we didn't see anything,» David Morrison, director of NASA's Lunar Science Institute, told New Scientist.
NASA's change of direction makes that unlikely in the next couple of decades, but the revolution in lunar science has been a happy by - product.
He has been appointed Deputy Director of SwRI's «Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution,» a part of NASA's Lunar Science Institute.
She is also a Co-Investigator in CLOE, the SwRI led team of NASA's Lunar Science Institute.
Their research topics range from Martian and lunar science, to astrobiology, to the study of planets around other stars.
We've got our usual supporters, which have provided materials for three years now, like the Lunar & Planetary Institute and the NASA Lunar Science Institute.
National Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) Traveling Exhibits for Libraries Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) offers small, three - panel exhibits with colorful images and text to share current lunar science and exploration stories.
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