Observations of the surface of the inner planets, the satellites and rings of the outer planets, asteroids and comets across the spectral range from ultraviolet through active and passive microwaves; […]
Education and Outreach
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NASA Ames Office of Education Announces New Cooperative Agreement Opportunity
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., has released a Cooperative Agreement Notice to solicit proposals to administer the Education Associates Program. The EAP is a unique self-sustaining program […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Missions & Hardware
NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: Chemical sensors development for space and terrestrial applications
NASA Ames has developed a nanosensor technology for high sensitive and low power chemical sensing using nanostructure, single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT’s), combined with silicon-based micro fabrication and micromachining process. […]
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NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: In-situ active spectrometry analysis techniques for astrobiology applications
We are developing the remote sensing techniques based on combined Raman spectrometer and UV fluorescence instrument suite for biogenic organics detections and characterizations. Our key step is to target the […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Meteorites & Asteroids
NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: Astromineralogy of Comets and Protoplanetary Disks
Comets are the deep freezers of dust and ices extant in the early solar nebula at the time of the formation of the giant planets. Astromineralogy is the study of […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Mars
NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: Planetary Science – Mars
This research focuses on the general circulation and climate system of Mars. There have been 7 successful spacecraft missions to Mars in the past 10 years returning valuable new data […]
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NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: Astrochemistry Laboratory
Members of the Astrochemistry Laboratory propose and carry out measurements, observations and modeling of key rates and/or fundamental quantities that control important chemical processes in astrophysical and planetary environments or […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: Exoplanet Observations with future space telescopes
We are engaged in developing the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) and mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and are planning on using these instruments to observe transiting […]
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Habitable Zones
NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology in Systems of AstrobiologicalInterest
Our groups work focuses on characterizing microbial ecology and biogeochemistry in natural ecosystems that are relevant in an astrobiological context. We are particularly interested in understanding how the distribution and […]
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ROSES-08 Amendment 33: Additional Proposal Opportunity for ROSES Education and Public Outreach Supplemental Awards
This amendment announces an additional proposal opportunity for Education and Public Outreach supplemental awards. Principal Investigators (PIs) of selected Science Mission Directorate (SMD) research investigations may propose for Education or […]