September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
..., separating the high cleanliness part of the facility from a monitor room. The EURO-CARES consortium is composed of planetary science researchers and curators, biosafety specialists, and engineers, from all parts of Europe (www.euro-cares.eu). There...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... Fellowship and a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to support his planetary atmospheres research team. Dr Fletcher gained a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge, a planetary science PhD from Oxford; and has worked as a research fellow...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... James Green is a magnetospheric scientist. He is currently the NASA Chief Scientist and was previously the director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. He received his PhD in Space Physics from the University of Iowa in 1979 and...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... information system designed for MOONWALK. A team composed of experienced flight controllers for the ISS and experts in planetary science performed real-time operations and supported the mission from a central location. The IAMCC was responsible...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... of JPL’s incubator of new ideas, the Innovation Foundry, working on many mission concepts across Earth Science, Planetary Science and Astrophysics. He also teaches Aerospace Engineering (with a focus on nanosats), Systems Engineering and Program...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... include a connection between the presence of a significant global planetary magnetic field, which Mars no longer has today but Earth... goal. NASA support was enabled through the Planetary Science Division. The author thanks PI Bruce Jakosky ...
