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Carol Polanskey
Address: 91109Email: carol.a.polanskey@jpl.nasa.govInstitution Name: JPLDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: Dawn - Science instruments, planning, and operations for small-bodies missions
Readers ask about dust in space, playgrounds, and COVID-19
Not your bookshelf’s dust Dust may explain why the star Betelgeuse suddenly dimmed in 2019, Lisa Grossman reported in “Betelgeuse is not about to explode” (SN: 4/11/20, p. 6). Reader Steve Ostrom was intrigued...
Paul Hayne
Address: 80309Email: Paul.Hayne@Colorado.eduInstitution Name: University of Colorado BoulderDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) - Volatiles
Jim Head
Address: 2912Email: James_Head@brown.eduInstitution Name: Brown UnivDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: Mars Express (MEX) - Geology of Mars (HRSC)Mars Express (MEX) - Martian Glaciers and Paleoclimates (HRSC); Lunar volcanism; Venus geologic history
Chris Hersman
Address: 20723Email: chris.hersman@jhuapl.eduInstitution Name: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL)Division: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: New Horizons - Spacecraft
David Hinson
Address: 94043Email: dhinson@seti.orgInstitution Name: SETIDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: Mars Express (MEX) - Atmosphere of Mars (MaRS, Radio Science)
Shin Huh
Address: 91109Email: shin.m.huh@jpl.nasa.govInstitution Name: JPLDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: MRO Chief Engineer
Dana Hurley
Address: 20723Email: dana.hurley@jhuapl.eduInstitution Name: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL)Division: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) - Lunar Exosphere
David Kass
Address: 91109Email: david.m.kass@jpl.nasa.govInstitution Name: JPLDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: MRO - MCS (climate)
Sam Lawrence
Address: 77058Email: samuel.j.lawrence@nasa.govInstitution Name: JSCDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) - Lunar Volcanism
Steven Lee
Address: 91109Email: steven.w.lee@jpl.nasa.govInstitution Name: JPLDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: Curiosity - Rover system engineering, rover mobility and sampling systems, rover engineering operations, rover management
Janet Luhmann
Address: 94720Email: jgluhman@ssl.berkeley.eduInstitution Name: UC BerkeleyDivision: Planetary ScienceArea of Expertise: MAVEN - Solar Wind Interactions
Brandon Lawton
Address: 21218Email: lawton@stsci.eduInstitution Name: Space Telescope Science InstituteDivision: AstrophysicsArea of Expertise: Astrophysics
Mark Cheung
Address: 94304Email: mark.cheung@gmail.comInstitution Name: Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics LaboratoryDivision: HeliophysicsArea of Expertise: solar interior to solar corona and heliosphere.
Exoplanet aerosols are simpler than astronomers thought
A comprehensive analysis of gas giant atmospheres shows that silicates and hydrocarbons dominate obscuring aerosols
Albino porcupine spotted in southern Yukon
A Watson Lake woman and her boyfriend spotted the albino porcupine last Saturday.
NASA ocean ecosystem mission preparing to make waves
NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, or PACE, has successfully passed its design reviews and moved into its construction and testing phase, preparing to advance the fields of global...
NASA infrared imagery indicates Cristobal's heavy rainmaking capabilities
One of the ways NASA observes tropical cyclones is by using infrared data that provides temperature information and indicates storm strength. The AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathered that...
NASA finds Nisarga's remnants over Central India
Tropical Cyclone Nisarga made landfall in west central India on June 4, and the next day NASA's Terra satellite provided a look at the remnants of the storm.
Watch: 'Lovecraft Country' stars confront horrors in teaser trailer
"Lovecraft Country," a new series starring Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Courtney B. Vance, will premiere on HBO in August.
Crisis in Cosmology
The two main components of the Universe that we’re familiar with are ordinary matter and light. The matter is mostly atoms, and the light mostly microwaves. The matter is strongly...
Researcher discusses discovery of exoplanets and his special method
René Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research already made the scientific community take notice when he and his team discovered no fewer than 18 previously overlooked...
A mirror image of Earth and sun
Among the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, KOI-456.04 is something special: less than twice the size of Earth, it orbits a sun-like star. And it does so with a star-planet...
PTF1J2224+17 is a polar, new study confirms
German astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a cataclysmic variable (CV) star known as PTF1J2224+17. Results of the observational campaign confirm that this object is a polar, as suggested by...
Black holes? They are like a hologram
According to new research by SISSA, ICTP and INFN, black holes could be like holograms, in which all the information to produce a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional...
Image: OSIRIS-REx swoops over sample site Osprey
This view of sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on May 26. A total of 347 PolyCam images were stitched...
A Milky Way flash implicates magnetars as a source of fast radio bursts
Astronomers think they’ve spotted the first example of a superbright blast of radio waves, called a fast radio burst, originating within the Milky Way. Dozens of these bursts have been sighted in other...
ESA moves ahead on low-cost reusable rocket engine
ESA’s Prometheus is the precursor of ultra-low-cost rocket propulsion that is flexible enough to fit a fleet of new launch vehicles for any mission and will be potentially reusable.