Sentences with phrase «solar system exploration»

He says he would like to see the public more engaged in solar system exploration.

NASA is asking the public to submit tweets and images by means of social media on the subject of solar system exploration in 2014 and what it might be like in 2023, which will then be dispatched on its OSIRIS - REx spacecraft bound for the asteroid Bennu.

«The surface ice is providing us a window into that potentially habitable ocean below,» says Hand, deputy chief scientist for solar system exploration at JPL.

«Prior to approximately four billion years ago, no large region of Earth's surface could have survived untouched by impacts and their effects,» says Simone Marchi, of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute at the Southwest Research Institute.

In a statement not destined to please NATO pilots flying over Yugoslavia, Carl Pilcher, Science Director for Solar System Exploration at NASA, announced at a May 27 press conference that «this incredible database means that we now know the topography of Mars better than many continental regions on Earth.»

PSSS prepares the next generation of engineers and scientists to participate in future solar system exploration missions.

These latter essays discuss the tensions between scientists, administrators, and the politicians who were responsible for the NASA budget, revealing many of the important issues that surround past, current, and future solar system exploration.

In celebration of NASA's Year of the Solar System, this project makes a curated collection of images related to astrobiology and solar system exploration available to educational organizations worldwide.

The book's 14 essays focus on the history of NASA and solar system exploration from the earliest days of the space agency.

Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical Perspective on Programmatic Choice, Success, and Failure in NASA's Solar System Exploration Program

AmericaSpace recently spoke with Dr. Mark Hofstadter as well as Dr. Alan Stern, principal investigator for NASA's New Horizons mission — both experts in the field of outer Solar System exploration — about the prospect of missions to Uranus and Neptune and what it would take to get us there.

This is an ARES education activity to mine and share the stories of past and recent solar system exploration missions and the Antarctic meteorite research program.

Panelists include biologist David Bader, the Aquarium's Director of Education, JPL Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration Kevin Hand, and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

The New Frontiers Program is designed to provide opportunities to conduct several of the medium - class missions identified as top priority objectives in the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey, conducted by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

Be part of the OSIRIS - REx team: Feature your name and send a message about Solar System exploration.

Here's a link to Hubblesite's News Releases about Venus, and here's NASA's Solar System Exploration Guide to Venus.

Brian Day, Lead for Lunar and Planetary Mapping and Modeling, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), NASA Ames Research Center

Lee is chief engineer for solar system exploration at JPL.

Naderi, meanwhile, is a veteran of NASA who in his time there served as director of Solar System Exploration and held other ridiculously impressive jobs.

«Ice isn't conductive enough to create such a field,» explains Dr. Kevin Hand, Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System exploration at JPL.

With exciting new results coming from both exoplanet observations and solar system exploration missions, it sometimes seems that the two fields of «planetary studies» aren't talking to each other.

After a decade - long journey chasing its target, ESA's Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration.

Solar System Exploration Research, Virtual Institute, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.

In the waning days of his administration, the president has been paying unusual attention to space, recently highlighting his accomplishments and further goals for exploration of the solar system

Wes Huntress, director for the Solar System exploration division, says the mission will retain its breadth, but will lose some of its depth.

Andrew Steele uses traditional and biotechnological approaches for the detection of microbial life in astrobiology and solar system exploration.

Later he landed a job at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to JPL, the mecca of solar system exploration.

Radio antennas with NASA's Deep Space Network will occasionally listen for signals from Spirit — just in case — says Dave Lavery, NASA's program executive for solar system exploration.

Kinney comes to Keck Observatory from NASA, where she was most recently the Director of the Solar System Exploration Division at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Regardless of whether you think of Pluto as a planet or not — that debate is still raging among planetary scientists and celebrities alike — the New Horizons flyby was a historic moment for solar system exploration, and it deserved every bit of attention it got.

«While this historic event is still unfolding — with the most exciting Pluto science still ahead of us — a new era of solar system exploration is just beginning.

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.

Join CosmoQuest and the LPI - JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE) the first Tuesday of the month as we chat with folks working with NASA SSERVI (Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute)!

While the plans are still in their infancy, Stern and his team are hopeful that they can get their concept together in time for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a massive report prepared for NASA and Congress by the planetary science community, which helps to set the space agency's priorities for solar system exploration.

Brian Day, Lead for Lunar and Planetary Mapping and Modeling, Solar System Exploration Research...