... as a potential target to study up close as part of its Discovery Program mission. Running alongside NASA's larger “flagship” planetary science explorations, the agency’s Discovery Programme makes use of smaller missions that use fewer resources and...
...band spectrometer to look at multiple wavelengths instead of just the one. “Understanding volatiles in the solar system is a major planetary-science objective for NASA,” said scientist Noah Petro. “We believe that the best-suited instrument to answer...
... text” is aimed at “graduate-level students and researchers working across the fields of atmospheric science, geochemistry, planetary science, astrobiology and astronomy”. This is undoubtedly a textbook, being filled with equations, line diagrams...
...operations, and telerobotics and telepresence operations on planetary surfaces from orbit. The Transit Configuration ...-placed via SEP to form a unique expedition-class planetary science vehicle capable of supporting human exploration sorties to both ...
... collisions, identifying how and where planets like this form is a very important but as yet unanswered question in planetary science. As such, the TOI-178 system is a key discovery as its planets are in one of the longest chain of resonances...
... physics, solar and stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, extragalactic astronomy, physical cosmology, aerospace engineering, planetary science, astrobiology, forensic astronomy, archaeoastronomy, and space archaeology. APSS 2016 was a valuable and...