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Science Jamboree event photos

08/04/2016
The 2016 Science Jamboree was a great success! A collection of 50 photos from the event are available now.

Shawn Domagal-Goldman gives TEDx talk on the search for life on exoplanets

04/12/2016
Shawn Domagal-Goldman’s TEDx MidAtlantic talk is now available for viewing on YouTube. In this presentation, Shawn went over how the last 20 years of exoplanet discovery has confirmed that other potentially habitable worlds exist, and the challenges we’ll need to overcome in order to find out if any exoplanets have signs of life. The talk is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7BL-UI0Rw.

Paul Mahaffy Named Director of the Solar System Exploration Division

12/11/2015
Paul Mahaffy has been named the new Director of Goddard’s Solar System Exploration Division. Paul served for nearly 10 years as Chief of the Planetary Environments Laboratory, leading this group’s study of planetary atmospheres and surface environments with emphases on the modeling of atmospheres and surface environments, advanced instrument development, the study of terrestrial planetary analogs, and the development of space-qualified instruments. Paul is currently Principal Investigator of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) investigation on the Curiosity rover and of the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) on the MAVEN Mars orbiter. He previously participated in a wide range of planetary missions, including those to Jupiter, Saturn, comets, and the moon.

Pamela Conrad - Using Curiosity to Search for Life

02/17/2015
Scientist Pamela Conrad helps give NASA’s Curiosity rover a daily to-do list to look for life’s building blocks on Mars.

Part Two of the interview.

Shawn Domagal-Goldman - Looking for What's 'Out There'

12/09/2014
Do dead planets sometimes appear alive and vice versa? Goddard researcher Shawn Domagal-Goldman uses computer modeling to imagine all kinds of planets and predict how our instruments might see them.

Part Two of the interview.

MAVEN Liveshot Campaign

11/15/2013
Jim Garvin, Pam Conrad and Michelle Thaller were featured on dozens of television stations during a Liveshot campaign for the MAVEN launch. The viewership of the stations included several million people.

Anne Kinney wins a Presidential Rank Award

08/09/2013
Anne Kinney received a 2012 Presidential Rank Award (Meritorious Executive). These awards are given to high-performing senior career employees for "sustained extraordinary accomplishment." Executives from across Government are nominated by their agency heads, evaluated by citizen panels, and designated by the President. Winners of these awards are deemed to be strong leaders, professionals, or scientists who achieve results and consistently demonstrate strength, integrity, industry, and a relentless commitment to excellence in public service.

SSED Scientists featured in CuttingEdge

10/31/2012
For applications from analyzing the chirality of amino acids on icy moons to measuring carbon-cycle gases on the run, researchers in the Solar System Exploration Division are developing advanced technologies to get the job done.
Researchers: Emily Wilson Steel (Code 694)
Stephanie Getty (Code 699)
Daniel Glavin (Code 699)

New SAM Website is Launched!

01/27/2012
The new SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) website has been launched. Visit the page to learn more about the SAM experiment on the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, currently on its way to Mars.

Congratulations to the OSIRIS-REx Team!

05/25/2011
Today we heard that the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission was selected as the next New Frontiers class mission. OSIRIS-Rex is a sample return mission to an asteroid that will launch in 2016, and spend over a year exploring 1999 RQ36, acquire samples while providing geologic context, and return to Earth in 2023. GSFC will manage the mission and provide the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) instrument.

Space Duct Tape and the Mars Rover

03/11/2011
Paul Mahaffy was interviewed by Wired.com about Space Duct Tape on the next Mars rover

Mahaffy, SAM PI giving local seminar

02/24/2011
Paul Mahaffy will be presenting a seminar at Howard University's Department of Physics and Astronomy on March 30, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. The subject for the seminar is "A New Generation of Science on the Surface of Mars with the Curiosity Rover."

Curiousity's SAM and the search for life on Mars

01/20/2011
In this MSNBC article, Jen Eigenbrode discusses the "molecular fossils" that microorganisms can leave behind.

Did meteorites preordain left-loving life?

01/19/2011
Nature News interviewed Danny Glavin (699) on his research that some carbon rich meteorites are high in left-handed amino acids, while others contain an equal balance between these and their mirror-image counterparts.

PEL'ers in the Arctic

08/18/2010
Three members of the Planetary Environments Laboratory are in the arctic participating in the AMASE field campaign. Amy McAdam, Inge ten Kate, and Jennifer Stern are in this unique analog site testing instruments site that either have similar capabilities to SAM, or are under development for future "Search for Life" missions to Mars. Svalbards unique carbonate deposits which formed when a volcano erupted under glacial ice are strikingly similar to those found in the Martian meteorite ALH84001.
Follow along on Inge's blog to see what the crew is up to!

Next Mars Probe Gets Carbon-Sniffing Tool

03/05/2010
Drs. Jennifer Eigenbrode and Paul Mahaffy are quoted commenting on the new Mars probe tool and the current SAM instrument to Discovery News.

Goddard has a role in two proposals as candidates under the New Frontiers program

12/31/2009
NASA selected three proposals as candidates under the New Frontiers program, and Goddard has a role in two of them.

One of the proposals selected for study was the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer mission (OSIRIS-REx). The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft would rendezvous and orbit a primitive asteroid. After extensive measurements, instruments would collect a pristine sample from the asteroid's surface for return to Earth.

The other proposal selected with a Goddard component was the Surface and Atmosphere Geochemical Explorer, or SAGE, mission to Venus. SAGE would release a probe to descend through the planet's atmosphere and obtain meteorological data. The probe then would land on the surface of Venus to measure its composition and mineralogy. Goddard's Dr. Paul Mahaffy and Dr. William Brinckerhoff (Code 699) are co-investigators for a Goddard-led instrument on this mission.
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