Articles

Samuel Lawrence

One primary goal of the LRO mission is to acquire the amazing bounty of scientific data necessary to enable future human lunar exploration and utilization. But why should we even bother going back?

Samuel Lawrence

It is a day where when all humans should take time to celebrate the momentous achievement that put two brave explorers on the face of another world. As Sir Arthur Clarke once famously said, the Apollo voyages will likely be the only events for which the 20th century will be remembered in the future, when humans live throughout the Solar System and beyond.

Susan Lendroth

Grab your bell bottoms and Tang, and travel back to 1969 when Apollo 11's journey to the Moon captivated the world, and Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's boot prints in the lunar dust transformed us into a multi-world species.

Timothy Reed

The editors of the site, Nature, have begun their ApolloPlus40 blog.

Susan Lendroth

This summer, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. will commemorate that extraordinary moment in history with a very special Apollo 11 celebration, featuring the mission's original crew members along with former Johnson Space Center Director Chris Kraft.

Alan Stern

Today, I'm kicking the week off with a look at the unusually intense confluence of far flung planetary exploration that's just around the corner, starting the middle of next year.

Jim Bell

Jim Bell describes his proposal to join the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Cameras science team.

Ryan Anderson

Friday was the last day of the field trip, and we spent it at the Petrified Forest National Park.

Ryan Anderson

Today we visited Grand Falls and the nearby dune field. Grand Falls is especially interesting because it combines many of the processes that are active in shaping planetary surfaces.

Ryan Anderson

Today was a long and awesome day. We started out at Meteor Crater, the youngest and best preserved impact crater on Earth!

Ryan Anderson

Today we visited the Grand Canyon. If you haven’t been there before, there is no way to convey what it is like.

Ryan Anderson

Today we made our way from Phoenix north to Flagstaff, and on the way stopped to check out some interesting geology in Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon.

Ryan Anderson

Today was all about volcanoes.

Ryan Anderson

After a hectic week of tying up loose ends and running around like a chicken with its head cut off, I now have my proster done for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, and am in Phoenix for the Planetary Surface Processes field trip, led by my adviser Jim Bell.

ANSMET team

The team returns to civilization, having completed their Antarctic mission.

ANSMET team

The team wraps up their collection activites.

ANSMET team

The season total is at 489, tantalizingly close to the 500 meteorite barrier.

ANSMET team

Writer's block strikes the expedition, as the group continues to collect meteorites.

ANSMET team

Fifty-five meteorites are collected by the team in a single day.

ANSMET team

The team makes progress while facing extreme weather conditions.