Planetary Sciences News

This Knight leaves no stone unturned, not even on the moon. Autumn Shackelford is a physics doctoral student studying planetary bodies without atmospheres. Specifically, she…

The work will inform strategies to keep lunar dust from damaging electronics, solar cells and mechanical equipment during moon missions.

Attendees are invited to listen to space-related presentations at the Southeast’s largest science fiction convention this weekend in Orlando and are encouraged to tag @UCF on social media during the convention and use hashtag #MegaCon2021.

Local teachers work alongside UCF faculty to develop age-appropriate activities with connections to the Artemis program and other NASA missions.

The satellite’s mission is to capture video of small particles colliding in microgravity, which will help scientists understand the earliest stages of planet formation.

Insights from the research will inform missions to land on the moon, asteroids and planets.

The results may help future missions land on and sample asteroids.

A UCF team creates a geological model that will give prospectors a better idea of where the moon may hide its water ice, which may play a role in future human exploration of the solar system.

Metzger, a 30-year veteran of NASA, has witnessed some of earliest Apollo launches, worked on the space shuttle program and helped test and troubleshoot the International Space Station.