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5-8-18_dust

Podcast: the Value of the Moon

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10-22-19_class

CLASS Fall 2019 Seminar Series

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10-2-19_walker

Rich Walker Awarded Hess Medal at AGU

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10-1-19_LMMP

Cabeus Crater

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9-18-19_farrell

Apollo Moon Soil Radiation Experiment

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9-12-19_speakerseries

Cosmic Explorations Speaker Series

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9-4-19_vikram

Chandrayaan 2 Vikram Landing Site

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9-4-19_starformation

SSERVI Team Studies Binaries to Make Heads or Tails of Planet Formation

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8-15-19_gatech

NASA Administrator Gets Closeup Look at Georgia Tech’s Role in Future Space Missions

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8-1-19_rollingstone

The Moon’s Rolling Stones

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7-29-19

Splashdown 50th Anniversary at U.S.S. Hornet

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7-25-19_jaxa

NASA and JAXA Sign Partnership Agreement

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7-24-19_waterice

Inside Dark, Polar Moon Craters, Water Not as Invincible as Expected, Scientists Argue

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5-1-18_ESFAWARDS

SSERVI Announces 2019 Award Winners

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11-29-18_carbon

AGU Session P005: Carbon Across the Solar System

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6-28-19_newteams

NASA Selects Teams to Study Our Moon, Mars’ Moons, and More

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6-18-19_sun

NASA Scientists Find Sun’s History Buried in Moon’s Crust

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6-18-19_ISRU

Analysis of Lunar Boulder Tracks

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6-10-19_kring

Gravity Assist Podcast: Why So Many Craters on the Moon? With David Kring

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6-4-18_lim

SSERVI Scientist Receives 2019 Women of Discovery Award

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5-31-19_analogue

NASA/SSERVI Analogs Focus Group

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5-21-19_SSTP

Video: SSERVI International Partners Discuss Lunar Landing Sites

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5-16-19_atlas

Lunar South Pole Atlas

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5-26-19_npp

Georgia Tech Welcomes New NPP Fellows

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vesta-bigger

Turkish Meteorite Traced To Impact Crater On Asteroid Vesta

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3-13-19_impact

Impact! Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World

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3-8-19_airglow

NASA Selects Mission to Study Space Weather from Space Station

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3-6-19_swirls

Magnetic Bubbles on the Moon Reveal Evidence of “Sunburn”

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2-20-19_solarwind

NASA Scientists Show How Ingredients for Water Could Be Made on Surface of Moon

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2-11-19_crater

New Research Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Hiding Under Greenland Ice

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1-30-19_impacts

Simulating Meteorite Impacts in the Lab

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1-24-19_hadean

Earth’s Oldest Rock Found on the Moon?

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1-17-19_impactrate

NASA’s Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History

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1-10-19_glacier

Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why.

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12-20-19_landing

SSERVI/CLASS “Planetary Landing Team”

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4-21-15_intern

2019 Exploration Science Summer Intern Program

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11-29-18_carbon

SSERVI-Sponsored ‘Carbon in the Solar System’ DPS Panel Discussion Now Online!

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9-24-18_peakring

Rock Fluidization During Peak-Ring Formation of Large Impact Structures

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9-19-18_dream2

The Moon Is Electric—Especially When It’s Full

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9-18-18_astrobotic

Preparing to Explore Extreme Lunar Environments

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9-10-18_binary

SwRI Scientists Find Evidence for Early Planetary Shake-Up

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9-5-18_hauri

Dr. Erik Hauri (1966-2018)

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9-5-19_gradcourse

The Origin and Evolution of the Moon – Academic Graduate-level Course

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1-5-17_lucy

Join NASA’s L’SPACE Virtual Academy

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7-31-18_posterwinners

2018 SSERVI NESF Student Poster Award Winners

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eclipse_12-9-11

Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of 21st Century Has Begun

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7-11-18_farside

Seeking Our Cosmic Origins on the Far Side of the Moon

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7-11-18_awards

Video: NESF Award Winner Talks

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6-21-18_admin

Video: NASA Administrator Statement on Space Policy Directive-3

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6-18-18_lunar_evo

Lunar Magma Ocean Video

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6-6-18_DAP

Special Issue of Planetary and Space Science

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5-1-18_basalt

Kilauea Volcano’s Lava Fields Offer Scientists a Portal to Mars

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5-31-18_transformsci

Transformative Lunar Science Talks

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5-14-18_vilas

Faith Vilas Receives Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious Service to Planetary Science

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5-14-18_exmass

Wisconsin High School Team Earns Top Spot in Solar System Research Competition

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5-8-18_dust

Breathing Lunar Dust Could Pose Health Risk to Future Astronauts

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5-1-18_ESFAWARDS

SSERVI Announces 2018 Award Winners

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5-1-18_oz

SSERVI PI Awarded W.W. Hutchison Medal

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4-25-18_Jan

Lunar Swirl Features Reproduced by Modeling Solar Wind Standoff

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4-23-18_canup

SwRI’S Martian Moons Model Indicates Formation Following Large Impact

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5-30-14_fieldcamp

Student Field Camp Opportunity

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4-10-18_dust

Video: Dust Charging and Mobilization

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4-10-18_crater

CLSE High School Research Team Wins First Place

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3-28-18_ou

Moon’s Violent Birth Offers Clues to Life in Other Solar Systems

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3-27-18_spatter

Homemade “Spatter Blobs” Can Reveal Volcanic Secrets

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3-23-18_LPSC

Video: 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

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2-21-18_transformative

Transformative Lunar Science

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1-24-18_bombardment

Bashing holes in the tale of Earth’s troubled youth

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2-1-18_DSG

Students in Focus: How to Control Lunar Robots from Space

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1-24-18_chem

Catalyst: Radiation Effects on Volatiles and Exploration of Asteroids and the Lunar Surface

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1-17-18_moonplans

Video: Jim Green and Greg Schmidt talk about going back to the Moon

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12-12-17_kilbourne

Video: Exploring a Crater

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12_4_17_marchi

Massive Collisions Delivered Metal to Early Earth

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10-16-14_LPI

Exploration Science Summer Intern Program

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11-27-17_gis

Learning That’s Out of This World

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11-20-17_RIS4E

Engineering a Detector for Airborne Contaminants

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10-18-17_phobos

Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons

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10-5-17_moonatmosphere

New NASA Study Shows Moon Once Had an Atmosphere

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10-2-17_chicxulub

Chicxulub and the Exploration of Large Peak-Ring Impact Craters through Scientific Drilling

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9-25-17_marchi

Large Impacts Could Have Triggered Global Tectonics on Early Earth

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9-22-17_sudbury

Western Rocks the Crater in Unique Sudbury Field Course

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9-12-17_cassini

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft: A Journey’s End

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6-8-17_smallsat

NASA Selects CubeSat, SmallSat Mission Concept Studies

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8-23-17_eclipse2017

The Great American Eclipse of 2017

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sservi_webcover_ESF2017

2017 SSERVI NESF Student Poster Award Winners

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7-26-17_crater

The Dark Side of the Crater: How Light Looks Different on the Moon

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7-25-17_LEAG

2017 LunGradCon

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7-18-17_2016AR

SSERVI 2016 Annual Report

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7-14-17_reportingrise

Reporting RIS4E: Journalism Students Report on NASA Research

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7-13-17_hotearth

Signs of Water in a Moon Rock

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7-6-17_marchi

Simone Marchi Awarded 2017 Paolo Farinella Prize

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6-19-15_shackleton

Laboratory Experiments Investigate Water Ice in Lunar Soil

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6-14-17_italy

NASA, Italy to Collaborate on Planetary Science and Space Exploration

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6-6-17_moon

The new Moon

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3-12-15_awards

SSERVI Announces 2017 Award Winners

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4-4-17_deca

Solar Wind Interactions with Weakly Outgassing Comet

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5-11-17_pit

Lunar Lava Tubes Could Offer Future Moon Explorers a Safe Haven

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5-8-17_COTM

Video: Space Walk at Craters of the Moon

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5-5-17_Chicxulub

Fireball That Killed the Dinosaurs Could Help Us Find Life on Other Planets

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4-25-17_mars

Researchers Discover Lull in Mars’ Giant Impact History

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earthday_4-25-17

Earth Day Origins Traced to the Moon

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Filling in the Missing History of the Universe

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3-20-17_2050

Planetary Science Vision 2050

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3-20-17

2017 Sudbury Field Camp

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5-21-13_hyperwall

NASA Selects New Research Teams to Further Solar System Exploration

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3-6-17_pangaea

New Research ‘Rocks’ Long-held Geological Theory

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3-1-17_ExMass

Application Open for the 2017-18 ExMASS Program

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8-18-15_Ladee

PSS Special Issue Invitation: DAP-2017

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2-2-17_shockwkshp

Shock Workshop 2017

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1-30-17_weathering

Space Weathering on Airless Bodies

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1-23-17_ris4e

Connecting the Next Generation of Science Journalists with Scientists in Action

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10-26-16_DFN

CLASS Student Exchange Program 2017

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1-12-17_artemis

Lunar Sonic Booms

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1-6-17_PSR

NASA Study Finds Solar Storms Could Spark Soils at Moon’s Poles

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1-5-17_lucy

NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System

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11-21-16_DFN2

Curtin Fireball Chasers Recover Fresh Meteorite

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11-17-16_microsymposium

Microsymposium 58

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11-16-16_basalt

NASA Field Test Focuses on Science of Lava Terrains, like Early Mars

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11-9-16_RAS

SSERVI Scientist Elected to Russian Academy of Sciences

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11-8-16_young

“The Future of Planetary Surface Exploration” Discussed at Library of Congress Lecture

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11-1-16_hawke

2016 B. Ray Hawke Award

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10-31-16_orientale

NASA Moon Mission Shares Insights into Giant Impacts

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10-26-16_DFN

Video: The Desert Fireball Network

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10-25-16_szalay

The Dusty Environment of Near Earth Asteroids

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10-20-16_bennu

Asteroids Up Close

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10-20-16_crater

Scientists Use the Moon to Study a Dinosaur Killer

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10-19-16_basalt

Video: NASA BASALT Field Deployment

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10-11-16_HERA

HERA XI: 30 Days in “Space”

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8-26-16_PIXL

Center for Planetary Exploration (CPEx) Opens at Stony Brook University

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8-16-18_tango1

TangoLab-1 Installed on ISS

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8-11-16_fellows

Drs. Pieters, Bottke Named Fellows of the Meteoritical Society

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7-5-17_sample

The Apollo Virtual Microscope

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8-2-16_usteams

SSERVI ESF 2016: Year in Review

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4-26-16_fireball

SSERVI Australian team 2016 Eureka Prize Finalist

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7-25-16_studentaward

ESF 2016 Student Poster Award Winners

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6-28-16_dusttransport

Electrostatic Dust Transport Reshapes Surfaces of Airless Planetary Bodies

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6-30-16_boulder

Rock and Roll at the Apollo 17 Site

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6-23-16article

Scientists find possible solution to “faint young Sun paradox”

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6-6-16_COTM

Community Day on June 16 to Highlight NASA/ISU Research at Craters of the Moon

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5-6-16_dyar

Dyar wins 2016 GSA Gilbert Award

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6-3-16_lunarwater

New Evidence About Origins of Water on the Moon

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5-31-16_kring

Scientists Identify Source of the Moon’s Water

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5-24-16_France

NASA, France to Collaborate on Planetary Science and Space Exploration

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3-12-15_awards

SSERVI Announces 2016 Award Winners

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5-9-16_Szalay

The Moon as a Large Scale Meteoroid Detector

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5-6-16_KARI

South Korea Selects Payload For Moon Probe

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3-18-15_LRO

Special Issue of Icarus Features LRO Papers

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4-4-16_ExMass

Upper Darby High School Awarded Top Honor for Lunar Research Project

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3-29-16_chicxulub

LPI Announces New Chicxulub Educational Website

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3-11-16_moonaxis

Lunar Polar Ice Reveals Tilting Axis of Earth’s Moon

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6-9-16_Spudis

Paul Spudis to Receive Columbia Medal

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1-27-16_kramer

Satellites Reveal History of Lunar Magma Ocean

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1-12-16_DFN

Desert Fireball Network Tracks and Recovers New Meteorite

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1-8-16_dustcloud

A Close Look at the Moon’s Dust Cloud

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12-1-15_astronauts

Science Training History of the Apollo Astronauts

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11-12-15_mercury

Mercury Gets a Meteoroid Shower from Comet Encke

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moonsmash_3-27-12

Scientists Explain Why Moon Rocks Contain Fewer Volatiles than Earth Rocks

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10-26-15_earthmars

SSERVI Scientists Predict that Rocky Planets Formed from ‘Pebbles’

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10-19-16_SPA

Video: Sampling the Lunar Farside in the South Pole-Aitken’s Schrödinger Basin

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10-19-15_maficmound

Mound Near Lunar South Pole Formed by Unique Volcanic Process

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8-20-15_spacesuits

The Need for Conductive Space Suits

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8-6-15_volcano

Students Send Dispatches from NASA Trip to Volcano

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8-5-15_Marstrek

New Online Tools Bring NASA’s Journey to Mars to New Generation of Explorers

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6-25-15_awards

SSERVI Members Receive NASA Honor Awards

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6-22-15_LDEX

Moon Engulfed in Permanent, Lopsided Dust Cloud

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6-19-15_shackleton

Spillage of Lunar Polar Crater Volatiles

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3-12-15_awards

SSERVI Announces 2015 Award Winners

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5-27-15_horanyi

SSERVI PI’s New Horizon Instrument Featured in The New York Times

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4-21-15_ExMASS

ExMASS Research Program Announces Student Winners

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moonsmash_3-27-12

Evidence for Moon-Forming Impact Found Inside Meteorites

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3-31-15_robbins

Video: The Lunar Crater Chronology

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3-4-15_improv

Attention, All Scientists: Do Improv!

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2-20-15_ranger

How Robotic Probes Helped Humans Explore the Moon—And May Again

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2-17-15_hi-seas

HI-SEAS Mission 3

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1-30-15_schwadron

Next Solar Maximum may be Safest Time for Manned Missions to Mars

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1-22-14_ILN

INFN Laser Retro-Reflector Development

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10-28-14_head

James Head Honored for International Space Science Collaboration

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10-2-14_grail

NASA Mission Points to Origin of “Ocean of Storms” on Earth’s Moon

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9-15-14_INFN

NASA and INFN Sign Affiliate Member Statement

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8-21-14_sparks

Electric Sparks May Alter Evolution of Lunar Soil

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8-13-14_finesse

SSERVI Team Launches Project at Craters of the Moon

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7-30-14_hadeanearth

New NASA Research Shows Giant Asteroids Battered Early Earth

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7-23-14_neowise

NEOWISE Spots a Comet That Looked Like an Asteroid

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4-7-14_pendleton

SSERVI: Serving NASA’s Mission to the Moon and Beyond

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7-21-14_awards

SSERVI Announces Award Winners at Exploration Science Forum

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7-17-14_atlas

On-line Atlas of Lunar Sinuous Rilles

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6-25-14_neaplasma

New NASA Model Gives Glimpse into the Invisible World of Electric Asteroids

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6-16-14_vidsims

Video Simulations of Impact Cratering Processes

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6-4-14_electric_asteroid

Electric Asteroid

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5-5-14_stonybrook

Stony Brook Summer Research Program Alumni Receive Honors

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1-22-14_moonbase

Colonizing the Moon?

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12-6-13_CLSEstudents

High School Team Tackles Lunar Mystery

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11-5-12_Kring

NASA TV Features SSERVI Scientist Dr. David Kring

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3-7-12_grail

NASA’s GRAIL Mission Puts a New Face on the Moon

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10-24-13_SPICEs

Simulating Planetary Igneous Crystallization Environments (SPICEs)

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Sudbury2013WebStory

2013 Impact Cratering Short Course and Field School

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8-27-13_Bullialdus

NASA-Funded Scientists Detect Water Below Moon’s Surface

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4-3-13_M3

Pre-existing Mineralogy May Survive Lunar Impacts

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