The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) welcomed the HI-SEAS participants on Aug. 28. A group of scientists who have spent a year in isolation atop of Mauna Loa emerged into the public eye on Aug. 28. The six scientists participating in...
This is an artist’s concept of the young Earth being bombarded by asteroids. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Watch this 6-minute animated movie about NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar...
PISCES’ Program Manager Rodrigo Romo will be lecturing a group of visiting Japanese High School students from 9:30 -10:30 a.m. on Aug. 26-27 at the Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo. PISCES is a guest speaker at the first annual Hawaiian Educational Pursuits...
The Earth from the Moon. Credit: NASA Fifty years ago, on August 23, 1966, NASA captured the first images of Earth from the moon. According to a story on Mashable.com, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the above photograph during a mission to locate potential landing spots for...
Dione. Credit: NASA Dione reveals its past via contrasts in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The features visible here are a mixture of tectonics — the bright, linear features — and impact cratering — the round features, which are...
