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We Are The Explorers UPDATE: funding at 50%!As you might know, NASA cannot advertise itself. This is due to a federal restriction that the government places on itself as a whole. It can reach out publicly to explain what it does for the public, but the advertising landscape for a federal agency is complex. So, as a result NASA cannot advertise itself in a traditional, commercial sense. The AIA (Aerospace Industries Association) is so stoked about what NASA does, that they have decided to advertise on behalf of NASA. AND, they’ve decided to crowdsource this effort with Indiegogo.com. ANNNDDD they are planning on showing the ad with the new Star Trek Into Darkness movie that is coming out this year!This comes at a crucial time when NASA’s own public outreach is threatened due to the Sequestion fight in Washington DC. Indiegogo Link: http://igg.me/at/adspace/cstwSo, as it stands, the effort is a little bit over 50% funded. PLEASE spread the word about this and donate to this effort, because the more eyes that see this ad, the more potential supporters NASA will have in the coming months. View Larger

We Are The Explorers UPDATE: funding at 50%!

As you might know, NASA cannot advertise itself. This is due to a federal restriction that the government places on itself as a whole. It can reach out publicly to explain what it does for the public, but the advertising landscape for a federal agency is complex. So, as a result NASA cannot advertise itself in a traditional, commercial sense. 

The AIA (Aerospace Industries Association) is so stoked about what NASA does, that they have decided to advertise on behalf of NASA. AND, they’ve decided to crowdsource this effort with Indiegogo.com. ANNNDDD they are planning on showing the ad with the new Star Trek Into Darkness movie that is coming out this year!

This comes at a crucial time when NASA’s own public outreach is threatened due to the Sequestion fight in Washington DC. 

Indiegogo Link: http://igg.me/at/adspace/cstw

So, as it stands, the effort is a little bit over 50% funded. PLEASE spread the word about this and donate to this effort, because the more eyes that see this ad, the more potential supporters NASA will have in the coming months.

(Source: pennyfournasa)

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“cool”  rhamphotheca: Lunar Planetary Society Conference 2013: License to Chill (or, the solar system’s icy moons) by Emily Lakdawalla A week ago yesterday, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, I faced a choice between attending the third full session on Curiosity results or a session that covered at least eight entire worlds (including Ganymede, Europa, Dione, Rhea, Mimas, Tethys, Enceladus, and Miranda). If I may editorialize a bit: I do think it’s appropriate at a science meeting to give new missions a somewhat disproportionate share of oral session time. With new data coming in from new kinds of instruments from new locations there is high potential for surprising results, observations that falsify or confirm the hypotheses that sent a spacecraft to a new place. However, I do think that three full oral sessions devoted to Curiosity results was excessive, especially given how much Curiosity was discussed in all the other cross-disciplinary Mars sessions over the course of the rest of the week. So, on Tuesday morning, I attended the icy moons session (amusingly titled “License to Chill”) and enjoyed its variety! By way of introduction, here are those eight worlds I mentioned. Ganymede, on the left, is the largest moon in the solar system, larger than Mercury. Next to it is Europa, the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean satellites. Next to that is Miranda, the smallest of Uranus’ major icy moons and the only one that Voyager 2 got great photos of… (read more: Lunar Planetary Soc.) (images: 1 - NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute; 2 - NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk / Gordan Ugarkovic) “cool”  rhamphotheca: Lunar Planetary Society Conference 2013: License to Chill (or, the solar system’s icy moons) by Emily Lakdawalla A week ago yesterday, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, I faced a choice between attending the third full session on Curiosity results or a session that covered at least eight entire worlds (including Ganymede, Europa, Dione, Rhea, Mimas, Tethys, Enceladus, and Miranda). If I may editorialize a bit: I do think it’s appropriate at a science meeting to give new missions a somewhat disproportionate share of oral session time. With new data coming in from new kinds of instruments from new locations there is high potential for surprising results, observations that falsify or confirm the hypotheses that sent a spacecraft to a new place. However, I do think that three full oral sessions devoted to Curiosity results was excessive, especially given how much Curiosity was discussed in all the other cross-disciplinary Mars sessions over the course of the rest of the week. So, on Tuesday morning, I attended the icy moons session (amusingly titled “License to Chill”) and enjoyed its variety! By way of introduction, here are those eight worlds I mentioned. Ganymede, on the left, is the largest moon in the solar system, larger than Mercury. Next to it is Europa, the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean satellites. Next to that is Miranda, the smallest of Uranus’ major icy moons and the only one that Voyager 2 got great photos of… (read more: Lunar Planetary Soc.) (images: 1 - NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute; 2 - NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk / Gordan Ugarkovic)

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rhamphotheca:

Lunar Planetary Society Conference 2013:

License to Chill (or, the solar system’s icy moons)

by Emily Lakdawalla

A week ago yesterday, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, I faced a choice between attending the third full session on Curiosity results or a session that covered at least eight entire worlds (including Ganymede, Europa, Dione, Rhea, Mimas, Tethys, Enceladus, and Miranda).

If I may editorialize a bit: I do think it’s appropriate at a science meeting to give new missions a somewhat disproportionate share of oral session time. With new data coming in from new kinds of instruments from new locations there is high potential for surprising results, observations that falsify or confirm the hypotheses that sent a spacecraft to a new place.

However, I do think that three full oral sessions devoted to Curiosity results was excessive, especially given how much Curiosity was discussed in all the other cross-disciplinary Mars sessions over the course of the rest of the week. So, on Tuesday morning, I attended the icy moons session (amusingly titled “License to Chill”) and enjoyed its variety!

By way of introduction, here are those eight worlds I mentioned. Ganymede, on the left, is the largest moon in the solar system, larger than Mercury. Next to it is Europa, the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean satellites. Next to that is Miranda, the smallest of Uranus’ major icy moons and the only one that Voyager 2 got great photos of…

(read more: Lunar Planetary Soc.)

(images: 1 - NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute; 2 - NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk / Gordan Ugarkovic)

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