Date Posted: 2009-09-16
For two weeks in the Arizona desert at Black Point Lava Flow every year, NASA’s Desert Research and Technology Studies group (Desert RATS) conducts technology development tests in anticipation of lunar exploration. Teams of engineers and geolog...
Date Posted: 2009-09-04
What should be the nation's goals and priorities for exploring Mars in the 2013 to 2022 timeframe?
To help answer this question, space scientists from the United States and around the world will gather Sept. 9-11 at the Faculty Club on ASU's Tempe c...
Date Posted: 2009-09-03
Just over a month ago the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) had its first of many opportunities to photograph five of the six Apollo landing sites. The LROC team (short for Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera), r...
Date Posted: 2009-07-20
Kip Hodges, director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and Professor Lawrence Krauss appeared on 8/KAET (Arizona PBS) to discuss the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11.
Watch at: http://www.azpbs.org/horizon/detailvid.php?id=2039...
Date Posted: 2009-07-20
On Monday evening, July 20, abc15 aired a segment highlighting the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and the Apollo images archiving project - both operated from the Tempe campus. Samuel Lawrence, a lunar geologist at the LROC facility, descri...
Date Posted: 2009-07-20
Forty years after the first human being walked on the moon, high-resolution scans of original Apollo flight films are being made available to researchers and the general public on the Internet. The digital archive is being created through a collabora...
Date Posted: 2009-07-17
The imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged five of the six Apollo sites with t...
Date Posted: 2009-07-14
The July 14 issue of New Scientist included an article title, "Dawn of the animals: Solving Darwin's dilemma." Authors Douglas Fox and Michael Le Page seek to answer many perplexing questions such as why animals evolved so late in the day a...
Date Posted: 2009-07-14
We live in a hierarchical Universe where small structures join into larger ones. Earth is a planet in our Solar System, the Solar System resides in the Milky Way Galaxy, and galaxies combine into groups and clusters. Clusters are the largest ...
Date Posted: 2009-07-10
What weighs 2,600 pounds, would fill a Smart Car to overflowing, and comes from all over the world?
Answer: 10,000 rocks.
This summer, the Rock Around the World (RATW) program at Arizona State University received its 10,000th piece of planet Earth ...
