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Inside NASA's Prep For The Moon, Mars, And The Search For life

Analog Studies, Away Teams & Field Reports, Caves, Craters, Mountains & Lava Tubes, Mars, Moon, NASA Astrobiology Program, Video, Audio, Webcasts, Podcasts

Webinar: Inside NASA’s Prep For The Moon, Mars, And The Search For life

by Keith CowingDecember 8, 2025December 8, 2025

International Space Station Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps prepares tubes to collect samples -- NASA

Astrochemistry, Astrogeology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Comets and Asteroids, Moon, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Sample Return

NASA Astromaterials Sample Deadlines Approaching

by Keith CowingDecember 5, 2025December 5, 2025

Extraterrestrial Materials Academy (ETMA)

Artemis & Lunar Exploration, Astrochemistry, Astrogeology, Away Teams & Field Reports, Career Opportunities, Comets and Asteroids, Courses, Mars, Meteorites & Asteroids, Moon, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Sample Return

ETMA: Extraterrestrial Materials Academy

by Keith CowingDecember 4, 2025December 4, 2025

Major icy bodies in the Solar System, with the Earth’s moon to scale. The images are shown at the proper relative size. From NASA’s Planetary Photojournal (https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/), Earth’s Moon (PIA00302), Europa (PIA00502), Ganymede (PIA00716), Callisto (PIA03456), Mimas (PIA06258), Enceladus (PIA06254), Tethys (PIA07738), Dione (PIA08256), Rhea (PIA08256), Titan (PIA08256), Hyperion (PIA07740), Iapetus (PIA08384), Phoebe (PIA06064), Miranda (PIA18185), Ariel (PIA01534), Umbriel (PIA00040), Titania (PIA01979), Oberon (PIA00034), Triton (PIA00317), Pluto (PIA19952). -- astro-ph.EP

Ariel, Astrogeology, Callisto, Ceres, Charon, Dione, Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Iapetus, Ice Giant, Icy Worlds, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Mars, Mimas, Miranda, Missions & Hardware, Moon, Oberon, Phoebe, Pluto, Polar / Alpine Expeditions, Rhea, Tethys, Titan, Titania, Triton, Umbriel, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Icy Worlds: Moons And Dwarf Planets

by Keith CowingDecember 1, 2025December 1, 2025

Evolution of nominal-composition cases across the full range of fO2 and tidal power densities simulated (see Section 2.3). Panel A (left): stages in planet’s lifetime after model initialization. Dotted lines trace cumulative tidal heat dissipation; marker size increases with total dissipated energy. Solid lines indicate tidally-supported GRE states; black vertical bars (||) mark tVMR. Crosses (×) denote solidification, defined at ϕ < 0.005. Panel B (right): volume mixing ratios of volatiles at tVMR -- astro-ph.EP

Astrogeology, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biophysics, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Habitable Zones, Impact events, Lava / magma ocean / Volcanic Worlds, Moon

Onset Of Habitable Conditions On The Hadean Earth Set By Feedback Between Tides And Greenhouse Forcing

by Keith CowingNovember 4, 2025November 4, 2025

Future Human Habitat On the Moon Growing Plants -- ESA

Artemis & Lunar Exploration, Exploration Gear & Tech, Life Support Systems, Moon, Plant Biology, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science

Towards Farming On The Moon

by Keith CowingOctober 29, 2025October 29, 2025

A close-up of Apollo 17 lunar core sample 73001 being taken out of its drive tube for the first time since it was collected by Apollo astronauts in December 1972 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Robert Markowitz larger image

Artemis & Lunar Exploration, Astrochemistry, Astrogeology, Astronauts and Explorers, Away Teams & Field Reports, Exploration Gear & Tech, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Moon, Sample Return

Astrogeology and Astrochemistry: Apollo Samples From 1972 Reveal Exotic Sulfur Hidden In The Moon’s Mantle

by Keith CowingOctober 8, 2025October 8, 2025

Selected examples of observed polarized Earthshine spectra, along with corresponding simulations of reflected and polarized light, as presented in Appendix B. For each spectrum, we include a simulated observation image, fit the power-law slopes γ, and report the RMSE between simulations and observations. -- astro-ph.EP

Astronomy & Telescopes, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Moon

Planet Earth In Reflected And Polarized light – III. Modeling And Analysis Of A Decade-long Catalog Of Earthshine Observations

by Keith CowingSeptember 22, 2025September 22, 2025

Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite's EPIC maintains a constant view of the fully illuminated Earth as it rotates, providing scientific observations of ozone, vegetation, cloud height and aerosols in the atmosphere. About twice a year the camera captures the Moon and Earth together as the orbit of DSCOVR crosses the orbital plane of the Moon. These images were taken between 3:50 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. EDT showing the moon moving over the Pacific Ocean near North America. The North Pole is in the upper left corner of the image. It is in the original orientation as taken by the spacecraft. larger image

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Moon

Initial Conditions For Tidal Synchronisation Of A Planet By Its Moon

by Keith CowingSeptember 16, 2025September 16, 2025

(left) Electromagnetic model showing the suppression of AKR and Earth transmitters on the far side of the Moon (Bassett et al. 2020). (Right) Eight candidate sites on the farside identified in Krolikowski & Elvis 2024 for a lunar radio array considering available area and surface smoothness. Further work is necessary to downselect to a single site, potentially through contributions of human exploration to site surveys. -- astro-ph.IM

Astronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Missions & Hardware, Moon

Identifying Habitable Exoplanets With Radio Telescopes On The Lunar Farside

by Keith CowingAugust 21, 2025August 21, 2025