Planetary Science Institute (PSI)

Happy Friday! 🪐 🐾 This week's #PlanetaryPet is Pepper! According to Mikayla Kelley, PSI’s Public Information Officer, sweet Pepper will make a little nest for herself wherever she goes! Looks like laundry day makes things pretty comfy for her.

It's the last day of #LPSC2026! We have one more talk for you, "Candidate Impact Melt Sampling Sites at Large Lunar Basins from Detailed Geologic Mapping," presented by Kirby Runyon at 10:55am in Montgomery Ballroom.

SUNDAY MARCH 29: PSI will debut a collection of space art by PSI Co-founder and Senior Scientist Emeritus William Hartmann. Stop by 11 a.m.-3 p.m., admission is free, and the Collection is located at 1700 E. Fort Lowell Rd. Tucson, AZ 85745 More: buff.ly/adDxWIW

Kirby Runyon will present "Efficacy of Citizen Scientists Mapping Impact Melt Flows on the Moon for Future Machine Learning and Multiphysics Modeling" ABSTRACT: buff.ly/tjKcNi1

Norbert Schorgofer will present "Adsorption & Diffusion of Water in Space-Weathered Lunar Soil" ABSTRACT: buff.ly/IpeyqQe

Good afternoon #LPSC2026! We have two talks and two posters for you this afternoon! At 2:15pm, Matt Huber will give a talk titled, "The Diverse P-T-t Pathways of Zircon in Response to Shock Disequilibrium" in the Montgomery Ballroom. ABSTRACT: buff.ly/QRlULZ6

Good morning, #LPSC2026! This morning, at 8:35am, Laura Breitenfield will give a talk titled "Oxygen Fugacity Calibration for Feldspar Using Raman Spectroscopy" In Waterway Ballroom 1. ABSTRACT: buff.ly/yaUJMlw

If you're in the northern half of the U.S. tonight, make sure to look up! buff.ly/sCs7hic

Nandita Kumari will present "Quantifying Silica Content Using Multispectral Termal Infrared Dataset: Case Study using THEMIS" at 4:30pm in Waterway Ballroom 4/5. ABSTRACT: buff.ly/32TdyWU

Happy Wednesday #LPSC2026! We have two talks for you this afternoon: Mike Hecht will present "Could aqueous alteration have been mediated by liquid CO2 on early Mars?" at 3:30 in Waterway Ballroom 6. ABSTRACT: buff.ly/NR2BgJC

#JunoCam: This composite image of Jupiter gives us an unfamiliar view of our Solar System's giant. Interested in processing your own JunoCam images? Visit: buff.ly/Tdbhwe1 📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

and "Next Generation Statistical Approach to Dechiphering Mars' North Polar Layered Deposits" presented by Peter Buhler. (ABSTRACT: buff.ly/Q5i7FU2).

"Newly Identified Late-Stage Shield Volcano on the Nearside of the Moon in Russell-Struve Complex" presented by Nandita Kumari (ABSTRACT: buff.ly/dI2Aytg),

Good morning, #LPSC2026! On todays docket are one talk and three posters by PSIers: Laura Breitenfield will present a talk titled, "High Temperature Hemispherical Reflectance Spectra of Venus Analog Samples" at 10:45AM in Waterway Ballroom 4/5. buff.ly/L4I1BUp

"At other times, the height reached over 1,300 feet. Tephra (volcanic debris) was raining down on us, and after about 3 hours, we had to evacuate. The eruptions are quasi-periodic. At this close range, it was one of the most awesome nature experiences in my life."

PSI's Roger Clark is in Hawai'i, where he snapped this photo of the Kilauea eruption. The fountain in this image was about 800 feet high, Clark said.

at a few times is at the telescopes on Cerro Tololo in Chile. Read the full Q&A and subscribe to our newsletter to get all PSI news and more delivered directly to your inbox: buff.ly/b7Ve8Bg

Where is your favorite place to go for observations? Most of my career I used the 2.1m telescope on Kitt Peak (and I even have a painting of it by our own Bill Hartmann) and It will always have a special place in my heart. However, my favorite place I have observed...