Above: Students of the 2019 STARS Program show their graduation certificates on the last day of the week-long space and science camp at the HI-SEAS habitat on Mauna Loa. The Women’s STARS (STEM Aerospace Research Scholars) program coordinated by PISCES has been...
Above: The Keaʻau High School Cougar Techs team took home the Excellence Award, the highest honor presented during the VEX Robotics State Championship held Jan. 11. Credit: Hawaiian Electric Two Hawaiʻi Island robotics teams will compete in the 2020 VEX World...
Above: The Hawai‘i Space Exploration and Analog Simulation (HI-SEAS) is a dome-shaped habitat nestled on the rugged volcanic landscape of Mauna Loa where teams of scientists research space exploration through simulated off-world missions. PISCES will join a simulated...
Above: Summer-Dawn Chamberlain (left), a STARS program graduate, works alongside PISCES Geologist Kyla Edison to understand how basalt grain size data can be translated into visual formats. A Waiākea High School student who attended the STARS (STEM Aerospace Research...
Last month, PISCES’ research in In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) was featured in a weekly space exploration and spaceflight engineering podcast, The Orbital Mechanics. The episode featured geologist Kyla Edison discussing her work in basalt sintering and how it...
Above: An image of Central Butte inside Gale Crater on Mars captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover. PC: NASA/JPL-Caltech. By: Aaron Roth, Computer Systems Engineer, NASA-JPL The image shown above is one of 24 captured by the Mars Curosity rover during the dust devil...
