SPACE (Student Partnership for the Advancement of Cosmic Exploration)

NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Longevity Milestone With Assist From the Sun

Liquid water flows on present-day Mars! Researchers using our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious dark streaks are seen on the Red Planet. Scientists say it’s likely a shallow subsurface flow, with enough water wicking to the surface to explain the darkening. This is a significant science discovery on our quest to send humans on a . Details: http://go.nasa.gov/1Lh2Ivw

NASA Mars News: Tune in Monday for new findings from the Red Planet. http://ustream.tv/NASAJPL

New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated

This synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, shows what you would see if you were approximately 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) above Pluto’s equatorial area, looking northeast over the dark, cratered, informally named Cthulhu Regio toward the bright, smooth, expanse of icy plains informally called Sputnik Planum. The entire expanse of terrain seen in this image is 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) across. The images were taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers).

Image Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

More images and info: http://buff.ly/1i1IM29

WVU alumnus finds calling as space news reporter Jason Davis isn?t an engineer but that doesn?t stop him from writing about it.

Join us this Thursday, 9/3, at 6:30PM in the ESB room 801 for our first meeting of the year!

New color images from our New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of Pluto, one with a series of intriguing spots along the equator that are evenly spaced. Scientists have yet to see anything quite like the dark spots, but they hope to learn more as the spacecraft near its July 14 . More: http://go.nasa.gov/1Iu7nHw

It's WVU's turn to present on their mission concept for "An Earth-Independent Lunar Architecture Mission" at the 2015 RASC-AL forum in Cocoa Beach, Florida!

This year's team will be representing the brilliant minds of West Virginia University before an audience of academic peers and industry leaders from NASA, SpaceX, and the like.

And after lunch, we begin with !

WVU Students Win $100,000 in NASA Robotics Challenge WVU engineering students take home a $100,000 prize after being the only team to successfully complete the level 2 challenge in the four-year history of the ...

The Contest will select 1 student to be featured on Xploration Outer Space... Keep an eye on the Xploration Station page for more details soon.

The Contest is a video contest! Students, submit a video of yourself, 3 minutes or less, answering the following questions:

1) WHY DO YOU THINK SPACE EXPLORATION IS IMPORTANT AND WORTHWHILE?

2) WHY ARE SUBORBITAL SPACECRAFT IMPORTANT FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES?

3) HOW DO YOU THINK GOING THROUGH THE POSSUM ACADEMY WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR FUTURE PURSUITS?

4) WHY DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD BE PICKED TO BE FEATURED ON XPLORATION OUTER SPACE?

One winning student will go through a 5-day scientist-astronaut training program with host Emily Calandrelli and be featured on FOX's Xploration Outer Space!

Contest Rules and Regulations at www.StudentAstronaut.com

Check out all the great work the RASC-AL Team is doing!!

http://statler.wvu.edu/news/news-details.php?item=2054

WVU Team to Explore Life on the Moon in NASA/NIA Competition | WVU Statler College Students from WVU will participate in a design competition that challenges them to think about conditions astronauts will face as they venture into space.

Watch ORION launch on the big screen!
EFT-1 Launch Watch Party
Thursday December 4, 6:30 AM
ESB G-102