... present or past form of life. The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) [1] defines five planetary protection categories with.... The EURO-CARES consortium is composed of planetary science researchers and curators, biosafety specialists, and engineers,...
... Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as ...at Europa’s South Pole” 2014. In Science Vol. 343, Issue 6167, pp. 171-174. doi:10.1126/science.124705 W. B. Sparks, B. E. Schmidt,...
... on the surface of Mars. “The deep-space capabilities MarCO is demonstrating will help enable Cubesats to make use of excess launch vehicle capacity and allow NASA and JPL to efficiently add science, data-gathering and technology testbed...
...it may be that these resources would be cheaper to use in space, rather than return them to Earth, which could entice industry ...director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. He received his PhD in Space Physics from the University ...