Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics

Citizen Science
Heliophysics
Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics
Science Activation
The NASA Science Activation Program’s NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) project sponsors a summer internship program for high school students, in which learners on the autism spectrum are matched with NASA Subject Matter Experts. N3 intern Lillian Hall and mentor Dr.
Posted January 11, 2025
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Science & Research
An international team of scientists using data from NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has discovered evidence of caves beneath the Moon’s surface.
Posted July 18, 2024
Earth's Moon
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Science
Mars
Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics
Planetary Science
Science Instruments
The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA’s Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes. The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far side of the Moon. It’s one […]
Posted May 29, 2024
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Magellan
Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Venus
VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography & Spectroscopy)
Volcanoes
An analysis of data from Magellan’s radar finds two volcanoes erupted in the early 1990s. This adds to the 2023 discovery of a different active volcano in Magellan data. Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus has been observed for a second time. Scientists in Italy analyzed archival data from NASA’s Magellan mission […]
Posted May 27, 2024
People of Goddard
Climate Change
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Mars
Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Sedimentary and planetary geologist Michael Thorpe finds the stories rocks have to tell, those on Earth and those from Mars.
Posted January 17, 2024
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