The Space Report
Keaʻau High School Teams Receive Top Honors at State VEX Championship
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 ...
PISCES Prepares for Simulated Moon/Mars Mission at HI-SEAS
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...
Waiakea Student & STARS Alumnus Begins Geology Internship at PISCES
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...
PISCES’ Basalt Research Featured in ‘The Orbital Mechanics’ Podcast
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...
An Eerie View: Imaging Mars with NASA’s Curiosity Rover
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...
STARS Graduate Interns at NASA-JPL to Search for Life on Mars
Above: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa undergrad Schelin Ireland at her NASA-JPL workstation where she ran tests on SHERLOC. Photo: NASA-JPL-Caltech/Kim Orr. Schelin Ireland (left) and Marianna...
PISCES Sinters XL Basalt Tiles for Commercial Testing
Above: A sintered basalt tile measuring 13” x 13” x 1.5” is the largest basalt product created by PISCES so far. The 15-lb. block was made using no additives—just volcanic basalt and heat. As part...
Binsted and Solemsaas Join PISCES Board of Directors
Above: UH Mānoa Professor Kim Binsted (left) and HawCC Chancellor Rachel Solemsaas. Courtesy photos. PISCES is welcoming two new members to its board of directors: Rachel Solemsaas, Chancellor of...
PISCES Shares Basalt Research at 70th IAC Conference
Above: PISCES’ Kyla Edison presents the latest findings of her Hawaiian basalt research using an interactive visual presentation at IAC in Washington D.C. last month. PISCES attended for the first...
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...
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...
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...