During the government shutdown on Monday, Oct. 6, a cohort of Planetary Science Institute science staff joined hundreds of others on Capitol Hill for the Save NASA Science Day of Action organized by the Planetary … Read More
Along the southern rim of Mars’ Hellas basin is a large crater, about 75 miles wide (over 120 kilometers), called Barnard. In a new paper, researchers have mapped it and the surrounding area in high … Read More
NASA recently announced that the Martian rover Perseverance discovered a potential biosignature, a substance or structure that might have a biological origin. Dotting the side of a rock formation nicknamed Cheyava Falls is a rock … Read More
“Would you like some curiosity?” Pamela Gay asked passersby at MagicCon: Atlanta last weekend. Most people responded to the Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist with a tentative and slightly confused “yes?” As she handed them … Read More
Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus’ moon Ariel, but new research, published in Icarus, characterizes the possible evolution of this ocean, and found that it may have … Read More
Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist JA Grier was named the next vice chair of the Division for Planetary Science (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Grier’s elected service began on Sept. 7 at the … Read More
From Sept. 7-12, PSI scientists gathered in Helsinki, Finland with planetary science colleagues for a joint science meeting between the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) and the U.S.-based Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS). 2011 marked the … Read More
The winds of Mars sculpt and shape sand into wave-like dunes. Much of what is known about how sand dunes move around the surface is based on images taken by the HiRISE camera onboard the … Read More
The MESSENGER mission to Mercury discovered the unexpected presence of volatile elements – such as sulfur, sodium, chloride and even water hidden in permanently shadowed regions in craters near the poles. Volatiles are those materials … Read More
Mars is more than a dusty, red planet. Some parts of its surface can resemble the folds and ridges of the human brain or ocean corals. Scientists have dubbed such Martian surface features ‘brain coral … Read More
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