Exploring Planets with NASA’s Solar System Treks Portal

Exploring Planets with NASA’s Solar System Treks Portal

Above: The floor of the Moon’s Schrodinger Crater as visualized with NASA’s Moon Trek portal. PC: NASA-JPL. By: Brian Day, NASA SSERVI, and Emily Law, NASA-JPL Project Science Lead Brian Day of NASA SSERVI (left) and Engineering Lead Emily Law of NASA-JPL. Photo...
Hawaiʻi Explorations Expo Showcases Innovation, Inspires Youth

Hawaiʻi Explorations Expo Showcases Innovation, Inspires Youth

Hundreds from the East Hawaiʻi community turned out for the 3rd Annual Hawaiʻi Explorations Expo on Oct. 27 to celebrate the latest science and technology innovations and enjoy hands-on activities in robotics, programming, astronomy and other STEM disciplines. Henk...
NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover: Mapping Mars in 3D

NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover: Mapping Mars in 3D

Above: Dr. Jim Bell is a professor and planetary scientist in the School of Earth & Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and the Principal Investigator for the Mars 2020 rover’s Mastcam-Z imaging system. He is also an author of popular science...
PISCES Submits NIAC Proposal for ISRU Research

PISCES Submits NIAC Proposal for ISRU Research

The new material could help construct lunar bases like the concept shown above using less energy than current additive manufacturing methods. Image credit: ESA PISCES is launching a new research project in materials science that will address some of the challenges of...
NASA on Track to Return Humans to the Moon by 2024

NASA on Track to Return Humans to the Moon by 2024

Above: An artist rendering shows the Orion spacecraft (left) approaching the orbital lunar gateway station—two key components in NASA’s new plan to return humans to the moon.  NASA’s new Artemis program, the most ambitious space exploration effort to date, is on track...