Editor’s note: In releasing this image NASA said “This photo was selected by public vote and featured as “Image of the Week” for Week 228 (June 22 – 28, 2025) […]
COVID-19
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Courses, Education and Outreach, Societal Issues, Status Report
Motivation, Demographics, and Engagement During COVID-19 in an Astrobiology Massive Open Online Course
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) experienced a resurgence in popularity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work, we studied participants in an astrobiology MOOC offered on Coursera since April […]
Posted inArctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Astrochemistry, Astrogeology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Icy Worlds, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Meteorites & Asteroids, Status Report
Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program (ANSMET) Report October 2024
Early last February, ANSMET returned home from a short but successful field season: we recovered 208 meteorites in just over two weeks in our first return to Antarctica since the […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, SETI & Technosignatures, Status Report
Technosignatures: Effect Of COVID-19 Global Lockdown On Our Moon
Systematic investigation of lunar night-time temperatures can possibly be thought as a stable platform to study Earth’s radiation budget and climate change as advocated earlier by several researchers.