Satellite altimetry has reshaped our vision of the global eddy field, with long-lived, propagating coherent eddies now understood to be a major feature of the ocean circulation. Much of our ...

Today, as PSI gains a new director and CEO, we celebrate the last 21 year of leadership under Mark V. Sykes. Sykes was hired to lead the Planetary Science Institute in 2004 and over the decades he has ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover found siderite, an iron carbonate mineral, within the rocky layers of Mount Sharp in Mars’ Gale Crater. This discovery could provide an answer to the mystery of what happened to ...

1. Johnson – Lead science team in synthesizing suite results, contribute to interpretation of conductivity profile. 2. Siegler – Analyze LISTER data for local heat flow, synthesize global heat flow, ...

Dec. 18, 2024, TUCSON, Ariz. – The Planetary Science Institute has selected University of Arizona graduate student Namya Baijal and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur doctoral candidate Mishal K T ...

A mysterious object discovered in the main asteroid belt in 2021 was determined to be a main-belt comet by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Henry Hsieh, Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie ...

A new geologic map of a portion of Oriental basin where one pixel on the photographic basemap is about the size of a football field (100 m). The stars are locations where future missions could sample ...

Large impacts events deliver vast amounts of heat to planetary surfaces and upper crusts, particularly early in the history of a planet when post-accretionary bombardment rates are high. In addition, ...

Proposed Methodology: We will investigate the ejecta blankets of young lunar craters using a variety of data sets, at a variety of wavelengths, to better understand their emplacement, maturity, and ...

PSI is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, and an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans ...

This proposal seeks funding under the Early Career Fellowship program to support efforts related to the discovery of new main-belt comets (MBCs). These efforts will support a general long-term program ...

Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt that is a rapid rotator (P=3.9 hr) with a pronounced light curve, despite an apparently uniform surface, implying a triaxial ellipsoid shape consistent with ...