PISCES Conducts Simulated Planetary Rover Mission in Hawai’i

PISCES Conducts Simulated Planetary Rover Mission in Hawai’i

PISCES Program Manager Rodrigo Romo is seen here with intern and Hilo native Aaron Roth during Wednesday’s robotic mission. The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) and their team of scientists, geologists and robotic technicians...
MARS ONE Narrows Candidates for Red Planet Colonization

MARS ONE Narrows Candidates for Red Planet Colonization

Above: Artist rendering of a future Mars colony.  Courtesy of Bryan Versteeg, Mars One. After receiving over 202,000 applications from candidates all over the world, the Netherlands-based Mars One nonprofit announced that it has narrowed down its selection to 100...
NASA on Track for Unprecedented Mission to Europa

NASA on Track for Unprecedented Mission to Europa

Image: The latest view of Europa based on information gathered by NASA’s Galileo mission in the 1990s.  The coloring is representative of what the moon might look like to the human eye.  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute.   NASA is planning a spaceflight...
NASA Prepares Next Mars Rover to Seek Out Life

NASA Prepares Next Mars Rover to Seek Out Life

Image Credit: NASA NASA is preparing its next Mars mission for launch in 2020 with a new rover designed to seek out the existence of life on the Red Planet.  The yet-to-be named rover, currently dubbed ‘Mars 2020’, will carry a payload of seven state-of-the-art...