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...
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...
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 ...
10 September 2018
IAU wrong about Pluto's planetary status say scientists
... on reasoning that has since been disproven. "The IAU definition would say that the fundamental object of planetary science, the planet, is supposed to be a defined on the basis of a concept that nobody uses in their research. And it would leave...
