Martian Meteorites Shed Light on Solar System’s Early Dynamics
Dante Lauretta is a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona. Where do meteorites come from? Well, a lot of them come from Mars…:
Read MoreScientists, Explorers Keen to Locate Water-Bearing Asteroids
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA”s OSIRIS-REx mission, which is bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu. Researchers on the mission are keen to find asteroids containing water:
Read MoreA Remarkably Constant History of Meteorite Strikes
Dante Lauretta is a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona. This Eos article talks about how scientists have been able to trace Earth’s history of meteorite impacts from analyzing sea sediments:
Read MoreAsteroid Bennu Is Rotating Faster Over Time
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA”s OSIRIS-REx mission, which is bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu. Here’s a press release about Bennu from 2019 in Eos about its increasing speed:
Read MoreJames Webb Space Telescope
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Eos’s August 2021 issue covered another upcoming NASA mission, the James Webb Space Telescope:
Read MoreGlassy Nodules Pinpoint a Meteorite Impact
Dante Lauretta is waiting to get samples from Asteroid Bennu as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In other asteroid news, scientists think a meteorite struck Chile’s Atacama Desert a long time ago- read why in Eos:
Read MoreBetween a Varnished Rock and a Hard Place
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. How do you study space when you’re on Earth? Check out this Third Pod episode about how rocks in New Mexico can help us understand Mars:
Read MoreExploring Planetary Breadcrumbs One Asteroid at a Time
Dante Lauretta is currently working on bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu through NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Read about the different asteroid missions happening at the moment, including OSIRIS-REx, in Eos:
Read MoreEjecta Discovered Near Site of Ancient Meteorite Impact
Dante Lauretta is currently working on getting samples back from Asteroid Bennu. Back on Earth, researchers in South Africa recently found the first signs of ejecta from a massive meteorite impact.
Read MoreLori Glaze on Nudging Asteroids
Dante Lauretta and Lori Glaze both studied asteroids at NASA. Check out Lori’s Sci and Tell episode here:
Read MoreMission to Venus Could Help Solve an Atmospheric Mystery
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In June, NASA announced a new mission to Venus, the DAVINCI+. Eos wrote about what we could learn from it in this article:
Read MoreUp Close with an Active Asteroid
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which focuses on studying Asteroid Bennu. Dante and his colleagues gave us an in depth look at Asteroid Bennu in this Eos article:
Read MoreEarthly Lava Tubes May Offer Insights into Extraterrestrial Life
Dante Lauretta’s first job at NASA was to search for extraterrestrial life- how cool is that?! This recent Eos article spotlights research done on Earth that gives us insight into potential life on Mars!
Read MoreFinal Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions
Dante Lauretta has been working on the planetary mission OSIRIS-REx since 2004! Curious about other NASA planetary science missions? Check out this Third Pod episode with Fran Benegal:
Read MoreAn Asteroid “Double Disaster” Struck Germany in the Miocene
Dante Lauretta is excited to be analyzing samples from Asteroid Bennu in 2 years! More recently, some scientists studying ground samples in Germany learned some cool stuff about 2 asteroids:
Read MoreHubble Turns 25
Before Ed Weiler became the Associate Administrator at NASA, he was the chief scientist on the Hubble Telescope. Check out this Eos article from 2015 celebrating the Hubble’s 25th anniversary:
Read MoreAn Underwater Telescope to Study Sky and Sea
You’ve heard of telescopes in space-Ed Weiler has worked on a few of them- but have you heard of a telescope under the sea? Check out this Eos article about an underwater telescope:
Read MoreFrom Athlete to Astronaut
Although Ed Weiler wasn’t an astronaut, he certainly helped many of them go to space. Check out this Third Pod interview from last year with Leland Melvin- who’s an athlete turned astronaut!
Read MoreNew Space Telescope Named for Nancy Roman, Astronomy Pioneer
Ed Weiler was first hired at NASA by legendary scientist Nancy Grace Roman. Last year, NASA honored Nancy by naming a space telescope after her:
Read MoreTraining and Diversifying Space Project Principal Investigators
Want to be a leader at NASA like Ed Weiler was? Check out this Eos article about how NASA is working to diversify their leadership team:
Read MoreFinal Mirror Segment Added to Powerful Future Space Observatory
In his Sci & Tell episode, Ed Weiler described a very public struggle his team faced at NASA while installing the Hubble’s mirrors. Luckily, the process went much more smoothly on the James Webb:
Read MoreFinal Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions
Ed Weiler worked on many projects throughout his career at NASA. Fran Baganel did too, and she discussed them with us on this Third Pod episode:
Read MoreCapturing Pluto’s Heartbeat in a Computer
One of the projects Ed Weiler worked on while at NASA was the New Horizons telescope. Read about some of the data New Horizons collected on Pluto in Eos:
Read MoreThe Unexpected Benefits of Science Communication Training
One of Ed Weiler’s proudest moments at NASA was implementing a public outreach program for both adults and kids. Science communications not only benefits the public- it helps the scientists as well:
Read MoreNew Horizons Sends First Looks of 2014 MU69
One of the projects Ed Weiler worked on while at NASA was the New Horizons telescope. Check out this Eos article about when New Horizons sent us the first look of MU69:
Read MoreFive Spitzer Discoveries About Solar Systems Near and Far
Ed Weiler is probably best known for working on the Hubble Telescope. Last year, at NASA retired another one of its telescopes, the Spitzer, which helped us learn a lot about our solar system:
Read MoreHow Teachers Can Empower the Climate Generation
Ed Weiler spent a lot of time at NASA helping kids understand STEM. Check out this Eos article from 2019 about how K-12 educators incorporated climate change education into their curriculums:
Read MoreNew Book Conveys Details and Flavor of First Mission to Pluto
One of the projects Ed Weiler worked on while at NASA was the New Horizons telescope. Read about this book which details the New Horizons project from the inside:
Read MoreNew Earth Orbiter Provides a Sharper Look at a Changing Planet
Ed Weiler was basically in charge of all science when he was an Associate Administrator at NASA. One of NASA’s big projects is ICESat. Here are some things we’ve learned from the ICESat-2:
Read MoreHow Well Can the Webb Telescope Detect Signs of Exoplanet Life?
John Mather is currently preparing for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope later this year. James Webb is super powerful, but can it detect oxygen on other planets?
Read MoreFinal Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions
John Mather has a pretty cool career trajectory at NASA- he even won a Nobel for it! Fran Bagenal had a cool career at NASA too- listen to Third Pod to see:
Read MoreTeaching the Art and Science of Getting Research Funding
Getting funding for a research project is hard- just ask John Mather. Here’s a nifty guide from Eos to help secure the funding you need:
Read MoreWebb Telescope May Detect Minerals from Shredded Worlds
John Mather is senior scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA, set to launch later this year. How powerful is James Webb? Powerful enough to detect minerals from vaporized exoplanets!
Read MoreNASA scientist Jim Green on space exploration
John Mather is one of the latest NASA scientist we interviewed on Sci & Tell. Our very first episode was with an awesome NASA scientist too- we talked to Jim Green, who’s the current Chief Scientist:
Read MorePhysics Nobel Winners Also Solved Solar Mystery
In 2006, John Mather won the Nobel for mapping the Big Bang. More recently, two physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that neutrinos can change from one form to another:
Read MoreGazing Toward the Universe’s Edge: Hubble’s Deep Field Legacy
The James Webb Space Telescope is supposedly more powerful than the Hubble. Which is impressive considering the Hubble took pics of the birth of galaxies:
Read MoreFinal Mirror Segment Added to Powerful Future Space Observatory
John Mather is currently senior scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch later this year. Check out this Eos article about some of the key features of the telescope:
Read MoreImagers Seek Big Bang Signatures, Also Find Gravity Wave Effects
John Mather won the Nobel for mapping the Big Bang, which he did by sending a balloon into the atmosphere to measure Big Bang radiation. Years later, check out how far that research has gone:
Read MoreA Novel Approach to a Satellite Mission’s Science Team
John Mather is currently senior scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s biggest project in recent times. Another big project NASA is working on- the PACE mission:
Read MoreWorlds Premiere
Excited about the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope? John Mather is….and so is Eos! The latest issue of Eos is all about the James Webb- check it out!
Read MoreBalloon Launches Introduce Students to Space Science
You don’t have to wait until grad school to launch a balloon that conducts research, like John Mather did. Check out this Eos article about high school students who accomplished it!
Read MoreExploring Venus by Balloon
John Mather used a balloon to map the radiation from the Big Bang. More recently, scientists are using balloons to explore Venus:
Read MoreGuardian of the Moon Rocks
John Mather’s map of the Big Bang has spawned countless new discoveries from planetary scientists. The moon landing has also influenced research today. We reflected on it on Third Pod:
Read MoreBallooning on Venus
John Mather mapped the Big Bang by sending a balloon into the atmosphere to measure Big Bang radiation. Check out this Third Pod episode about scientists using balloons to study Venus:
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