Angela Marusiak

One was in the army and then involved in family businesses including a parking garage and the restaurant inside an amusement park. The other spent time in the navy before working at a Shell refinery.

Apply Now: 2025 NASA Planetary Science Summer School - Astrobiology Now through March 18, 2025, NASA is encouraging applications for its 37th Annual Planetary Science Summer School.

Apply Now: 2025 NASA Planetary Science Summer School
astrobiology.com/2025/01/appl... #NASA #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Geology #Education

Hanging out with some flight hardware.

Three years into my faculty job and I was just asked if I’m a student 👩‍🎓. I’m going to optimistic and assume they at least meant a grad student.

February 21, 1993, died on this day aged 105 years, Danish seismologist Inge Lehman.
She discovered that the Earth has a inner core announcing it in 1936 with the shortest title for a paper ever: P' - after the seismic discontinuity between core and mantle shown by the P-waves

Artemis II WDR 2: SLS Core Stage has a bellyful of Liquid Hydrogen and Oxygen, with no issues reported so far!

youtube.com/watch?v=pOAO...

From NASA Administrator Isaacman yesterday: "there are no missions that are being canceled or terminated. This was entirely an information gathering exercise that has been completely routine." He called the original report (in Politico Pro, not Gizmodo) "really incorrect".

The biggest planet in our solar system is a little bit smaller and a little bit flatter than we thought. A new study involving LPL Professor Emeritus William Hubbard updates our understanding of the shape of Jupiter. lpl.arizona.edu/news/2026/ju...

House committee advances NASA authorization bill The House Science Committee unanimously approved a NASA authorization bill Feb. 4 after adopting dozens of amendments.

House committee advances NASA authorization bill

The House Science Committee unanimously approved a NASA authorization bill Feb. 4 after adopting dozens of amendments.

Kudos to LPL's Head and Director, Dr. Mark Marley, for being awarded the 2026 Lecar Prize! science.arizona.edu/news/lunar-p...

We did something similar in grad school where we timed how long it took to interrupt. The record was under a minute. She didn’t get off the title slide.

For folks who are keep track I pinged nasa about FINESST today and still no update except the current roses text

Photo of Uwe Fink.

Black and white photo of Uwe Fink working on an instrument in about 1980.

I am sorry to share the news of the passing of LPL Professor Emeritus Uwe Fink. Uwe was a stalwart member of LPL, joining the lab back in 1967. He worked on many topics, especially spectroscopic studies of planets, satellites, nebulae, asteroids, and comets.

Graphic promoting the EarthScope Student Career Internship Program with the text “Applications now open.” Images show students engaged in geoscience-related activities, including outdoor field data collection, presenting a research poster at a conference, and working at a computer in a lab setting.

Applications are now open for the 2026 EarthScope Student Career Internship Program!

This 11-week internship offers paid, real-world work experience for undergrads, grad students, and recent grads (within 1 year of graduating).

Learn more about each position & apply ➡️ https://loom.ly/6rXaoKw

New NASA Artemis Payloads To Study Moon’s Terrain, Radiation, History - NASA NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. As part of

Congrats to the selected PRISM instruments!
www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Map showing the location of the earthquake in Joshua tree. The location of the earthquake is marked with a star and the different colors indicate areas that had different levels of shaking intensity.

M 4.9 earthquake 19 km NNE of Indio, CA

Did you feel it? Report it!

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Tonight's M4.9 north of Indio is the largest quake in SoCal since the M5.2 near Julian last April.

U of A is mission control for new space probe launched to study distant stars, planets The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant exoplanets and their host stars.

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant exoplanets and their host stars.

It's "very unlikely" NASA will be able to recover the MAVEN Mars orbiter, NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter says at the Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting this morning. Efforts to restore contact will resume Friday, after solar conjunction ends.

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency New data offers the first clear view of the impact of the buyouts and firings.

12 months after the 2024 election:

National Science Foundation lost 29% of its staff.

NOAA lost 20%.

NASA lost 6%.

Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SpaceX has launched the Twilight mission at 5:44am PST (13:44 UTC) aboard Falcon 9 booster B1097-5 from SLC-4E at the Vandenberg SFB in California, sending the Pandora satellite and 39 other rideshares south toward a dawn/dusk sun-synchronous orbit.

[Video Credit 🎥: SpaceX]

Deployment of Pandora

Final Steps Underway for NASA’s First Crewed Artemis Moon Mission - NASA As NASA moves closer to launch of the Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the

Finally, a long-overdue update on Artemis 2 preparations including a rollout date (no earlier than Jan. 17) and launch periods in February, March, and April.

www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Good luck to LPL's Professor Daniel Apai and his team leading the Pandora mission! The mission launches this Sunday, January 11 at 6:19am Tucson time. Launch coverage details can be found at the link below. www.spacex.com/launches/twi...

House Passes Final FY2026 Funding Bill For NASA, Senate is Next spacepolicyonline.com/news/house-p...

Lazuli, a Billionaire-Funded Private Space Telescope, Signals a New Strategy for Astronomy Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private space telescope

The first full-fledged private space telescope could launch as early as 2029--here's a thoughtful look at what that might say about and mean for astronomical science: www.scientificamerican.com/article/schm... 🧪 🔭

House Approps has released a pkg of FY2026 approps bills including CJS (NASA & NOAA).
appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Planetary friends:

The LPSC 2026 abstract deadline is coming up this Tuesday. I will not attend because of LPI's shit anti-DEI policy, but I'm curious as to how many people *will* participate this year.

If you have submitted an abstract and are willing to share its submission number, please DM me.

NASA finally has an administrator