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«There is an urgent need to determine the precise age and composition of the Moon's youngest volcanism,» says James Head, a specialist in planetary exploration at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Looking at the rise and fall of civilizations in terms of their planetary impacts can also affect how researchers approach future explorations of other planets.
«The planetary programme is one of the shining examples of NASA at its best,» says Alan Stern, vice-president of research and development in the space science and engineering division at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who coordinated the nationwide Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bplanetary programme is one of the shining examples of NASA at its best,» says Alan Stern, vice-president of research and development in the space science and engineering division at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who coordinated the nationwide Planetary Exploration Car Wash and BPlanetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale.
«It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements,» says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.
In Richard Kerr's News Focus article, «Pluto, the Last Planetary First,» Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, called the arrival of the New Horizons probe at Pluto — expected in July 2015 — «an epochal milestone in the exploration of the solar system.»
The annual Texas gathering of planetary scientists featured new research from across the solar system, as well as a good deal of anger directed at politicians looking to cut back on planetary exploration
«Because of planetary protection and our desire to go back to Enceladus, go back to Titan, go back to the Saturn system, we must protect those bodies for future exploration,» Jim Green, director of NASA's planetary science division, said at a news conference on September 13.
Lunar and Planetary Exploration Team director Junichiro Kawaguchi said that the moon base would allow two or three astronauts to stay for up to half a year at a time.
If NASA is serious about human exploration of Mars, then science measurements from a NeMO are essential, says Alfred McEwen, director of the Planetary Image Research Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson and principal investigator of MRO's HiRISE.
Today, at a meeting in Washington, D.C., of NASA's planetary science advisory committee, the agency's new planetary protection officer raised the possibility of opening up a few of the planet's most promising regions to more aggressive exploration.
Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco provides a fantastic survey of what we have learned from the famous exploration mission in «Cassini at Saturn.»
But V. Sundararamaiah, ISRO's scientific secretary, says the agency hopes to create a dozen or so junior research fellowships at select institutes and universities to serve the needs of its planetary exploration program.
He added that since President Obama entered office, there has been a «disproportionate increase» in funding for Nasa's earth science programme, which has come at the expense of space exploration as well as planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics.
A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury's surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet's surface.
While at the AAS, Bethany managed the public policy activities including, creating and managing a federal and local grassroots advocacy program designed to work with association members to effectively communicate with policy makers and successfully leading a coalition, working with Congressional leaders, and drafting legislation to secure millions of federal dollars appropriated for the restarting domestic production of Plutonium - 238 as a fuel source for planetary exploration.
Melissa Guzman, Astrobiologist at Nasa Ames, stated: «The image of students building plant growth payloads and communicating virtually from labs in California, Lima, and Dubai is exciting for the future of planetary exploration and astrobiology.
The Obama Administration has allocated «a disproportionate increase in the amount of federal funds» for earth science «at the expense of and compared to Exploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NExploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of Nexploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.»
In a talk entitled, «A Future Mars Environment for Science and Exploration» given at the recent Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop in Washington DC, Green discussed a magnetic shield which would be launched into stable orbit between Mars and the sun at a position known as the Mars L1 Lagrange Point.
We celebrate the Mars Exploration Rovers and their sisters on the red planet at Planetary Radio Live, this week featuring MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres.
The Solar System Exploration Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center hosted two booths at the event, both organized by Andrea Jones of the Planetary Science Institute and NASA GSFC.
Featured Speaker: Philip Skemer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, and Director, Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Associate Director, Institute of Materials Science & Engineering (IMSE); Principal Investigator, Rock Deformation Lab, Washington University in St. Louis Geologist and geophysicist Philip Skemer looks at how rocks can be deformed in the lab and how these experiments are providing new insight into the structure and evolution of Earth and other planets.
Interview with Rob Jagnow: Cloud - based Rendering and Planetary Exploration Steve Peters at StoryForward, September 10, 2014 «Steve talks with Lazy 8 Studios» Rob Jagnow about his innovative game, Extrasolar.»
Looking at the rise and fall of civilizations in terms of their planetary impacts can also affect how researchers approach future explorations of other planets.
«Moon rocks are absolutely unique,» says Dr. David McKay, Chief Scientist for Planetary Science and Exploration at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC).
I'm all for getting more money to planetary exploration, but not at the cost of studying our own planet.