It took a lot of work at both JPL and HQ to make it happen this year.
For relevant, interested folks, please apply! I’m one of the science mentors. Feel free to ask questions!
It took a lot of work at both JPL and HQ to make it happen this year.
For relevant, interested folks, please apply! I’m one of the science mentors. Feel free to ask questions!
I learn that the NASA Planetary Science Summer School on spacecraft mission planning will be taking place this year, amid everything else that is happening.
The pre-application webinar is on 2026 March 4:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Full speed ahead to Apophis! 🚀🪨
ESA has awarded two contracts for the development of its Ramses mission, which will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of its once-in-a-millennium flyby of Earth in 2029.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Now that’s a missing element of the Moon-to-Mars architecture: Motorcycles!
21.01.2026 16:21 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
A photograph in the large auditorium at the National Academies building in Washington, D.C. Lori Glaze is at the podium. Behind her is a large projector screen showing Artemis II rolling out of the VAB. The room is packed with people, and you can see probably a hundred heads in the photo. The room is beautifully lit in purples and blues, which cascade across the triangular facets of the ceiling.
Back in DC for this year’s Moon-to-Mars architecture workshop! Dr. Lori Glaze kicked it off to a packed room, excited for Artemis II!
21.01.2026 15:50 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Honestly I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this Orwellian space bullshit.
Putting lipstick on a cosmic space pig about a horribly destructive, wasteful and regressive year at NASA.
🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/news-release...
If the AGs do die, I’d like to see them reformulated as bottoms-up advocacy groups.
31.01.2025 21:04 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0NASA has formally ended support for the AGs science.nasa.gov/planetary-sc...
16.01.2026 23:23 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Reposting for no particular reason…
16.01.2026 23:16 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Meanwhile...we let ours crumble, and we're not rebuilding it.
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A topographic map of the moon in the style of a renaissance map. The palette runs from deep blue-green to an orangey yellow.
A topographic map of the moon.
Image: Eleanor Lutz
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It’s like the Pakled and Ferengi teamed up
15.01.2026 16:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0About time we sample the lunar mantle
15.01.2026 15:25 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1) God, these people are such transparently pathetic losers.
2) I have a goddamn PhD in geological science, and I start training as a barista for $16.40 an hour this Monday, and yet
A photograph of me holding the book “ new views of the moon 2.” it is a large white book, with a picture of the moon on the front, along with a lot of logos and a long list of editors. I’m holding it up in front of my office window, and you can see the grassy mall of JPL behind the book, along with a pretty sunset.
Finally! No more scrounging for PDFs.
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Space artists: don’t forget to submit your work to The Art of Planetary Science exhibition by December 31st! The event is held in Tucson. Anyone can submit—all levels & types of human-made art. I’ll be submitting and attending again. 🐡🔭🧪
More details here: lpl.arizona.edu/art
Attn space artists, there’s still time to submit!*
*I had grand plans to finish a piece in time to enter but, yaknow, it’s the 30th and I haven’t even unwrapped the cradled board I bought so prolly not submitting this year. 😑
I am at poster #2596 with a 3D-printed Pluto! Drop by and talk about the complex tectonics 🛰
#AGU2025
At my poster now! #AGU2025
16.12.2025 14:32 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
I have been neglecting Uranus system for a long time now.
So I decided to change that. Here's Uranus and Miranda visible above the canyons of Ariel.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem #Uranus
A crescent Jupiter from the Galileo orbiter
Io, moon of Jupiter, from the Galileo Orbiter
The rings of Jupiter and Europa, moon of Jupiter, from the Galileo orbiter. In this view, Europa is eclipsed by the planet Jupiter, which is why it is so dim relative to the rings.
Callisto, moon of Jupiter from the Galileo orbiter.
Today in 1989, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft, the first orbiter and entry probe at a giant planet. When I watch it recede from the shuttle, I can't help but want to scream to open the antenna first (it never opened). They were still able to salvage an amazing mission.
08.12.2025 03:42 — 👍 52 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1I zoomed in, added a bit of contrast, and went back and forth over the first few seconds to show how the ground around the vents bulges outward before the lava breaks through and blasts it apart. Remarkable stuff. Nature is neat. #Kilauea
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It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
Deimos is seen by the Hope probe with Mars in the background. Credit: Emirates Mars Mission
More evidence that Mars has a colorful history. In the past, the Red Planet probably had rings at certain times, and a larger moon (or moons) at others.
In the future, Mars will probably have rings again. 🧪🔭
eos.org/articles/sed...
Reminder! My fantastic Department is hiring an Instructional Faculty position in Earth Surface Processes!!!
⚒️🧪🔭
Look at this image (and thread - use the translate service).
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
A photo of a tray shaped like the space shuttle with two bowls of food sitting on top.
Overseas guest? What you need is the children’s menu at the JAXA cafeteria that is served on a space shuttle dinner tray!
(He did in fact agree that this was exactly what was required 😂)
Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch.
Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
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I have a theory that the loss of color TV during Apollo 12 helped to kill Apollo. We wouldn't see new TV of astronauts on the Moon until Apollo 14 (31 January-9 February 1971), by which time crucial decisions about NASA's future had been taken.
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