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Happy Friday! 🪐 🐾 This week's #Planetary Pet is Chance, and he needs help finding a home! If you, or anyone you know, might have a space in your heart and home for this guy, please send an email with the subject line “Chance” to [email protected].

#JunoCam: Zoom out and zoom in! These painterly views of Jupiter were processed by participatory scientist Kevin M. Gill. Interested in processing your own JunoCam images? Visit: buff.ly/9YvnJFy 📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Congratulations to PSI Trustee Dan Dumbacher, who has recently been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)! buff.ly/OWqZSJY

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A message from PSI Director Amanda Hendrix regarding our annual campaign. To learn more about our science, visit: buff.ly/7Ym4iDz or follow us on our socials (if you're not already! 😉) To donate to our annual campaign, visit buff.ly/MA1sh04 Thank you for coming on this journey with us! 🪐 🌃 🌵

#SciArt: PSI Research Scientist Jamie Molaro creates unique science art using a wide variety of methods and materials. This piece was created using source data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

This stunning view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera. What's also exciting is that PSI scientists and an intern chose the target which later became this milestone image! Read more: buff.ly/FhQoeGX

Emily Elizondo of Michigan State University and Sarah Stewart of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, are the winners of the 2026 Betty Pierazzo International Student Travel Award, established by the Planetary Science Institute. Full story: buff.ly/zLNwntH

Hello, #AGU25! This morning, PSI's Steven Hill will present his poster "Jovian Cloud Pressure" in hall EFG. ABSTRACT: buff.ly/SrZVy7s We hope to see you there!

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#JunoCam: "Ganymede through Juno's Eye" Did you know that Ganymede is larger than Mercury and the Earth's moon? In fact, it's the largest moon in our Solar System and hosts its own magnetic field! This means that Ganymede could experience auroras. 🧪 🔭

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Happy Tuesday, #AGU25! PSI's David Grinspoon will present at the "Expectations and Limitations in the Search for Life" at the 1pm Town Hall in 288-290 (NOLA CC) ABSTRACT: buff.ly/DmB81ZU

Good morning, #AGU25! PSI's Claire Mondro will be presenting her poster "Depositional and stratigraphic context of the boxwork horizon, Mount Sharp group, Gale Crater" in hall EFG. ABSTRACT:

Hi, #AGU25! We hope your first day has you energized and inspired! Our PSI colleagues are scheduled for three talks this afternoon, and we hope you can join! Than Putzig will be presenting "20 Years of Radar Sounding at Mars Informs Planning for New Missions" ABSTRACT: buff.ly/0GoAKBj

Good afternoon, #AGU25! This afternoon, we have three more posters to share with you in poster hall EFG! Laura Breitenfield and Darby Dyar will be presenting "Rock Classification Accuracy for Venus Remote Spectroscopy" buff.ly/WlpRZ05

Where is your favorite place for field work?   The Juneau Icefield in Alaska, holds a special place in my heart. This system of temperate glaciers is one of the most beautiful and mysterious places I've seen in my life. I loved collaborating with the amazing people from the...

Good morning, #AGU25! Our PSI scientists have a full day ahead of them, and we hope you can join their talks and poster sessions! This morning, Catherine Neish will be presenting "Impact Cratering as an Astrobiological Process on Titan" in poster hall EFG:

Happy Friday! 🪐 🦌 This week's #PlanetaryPet photo was captured by a wildlife camera in PSI’s Kimberly Foote's backyard! ‘Tis the season! ❄️

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#JunoCam: Io center stage. An image processed by user Ahmed-67 in which he combined to images - one of Jupiter (background) and one of it's moons, Io (foreground). Process your own JunoCam images at buff.ly/9YvnJFy 📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Raihan Mohammad

ICYMI: New SHARAD observations - collected and analyzed by a team led by PSI scientists - suggest Mars’ south pole lacks lake beneath the ice, casting doubts on a 2018 study. Get our stories delivered directly to your inbox when you sign up for our newsletter: buff.ly/12lCv4G

The CosmoQuest (a project of PSI) Hangout-a-thon starts TOMORROW at 11 AM EDT. Learn more below. We hope you can join us!

#SciArt: PSI's Pamela Gay depicted a hot Jupiter with metal-rich clouds. Each world is a separate acrylic painting created using a fluid pour technique, which is then photographed & layered on a starry background with added shadows using Photoshop.

#ClarkVision: PSI's Roger Clark captures this setting full moon early one morning in the Serengeti of Tanzania. Don't forget to catch the full moon tonight!

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#JunoCam: Jupiter said 👁️ 👄 👁️ This processed JunoCam image of Jupiter is from years ago, but I only just found it and it's too good to not share! If you're interested in processing your own JunoCam images, visit: buff.ly/VpSVTAu 📸: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS/AYYAPPAAS

“This spider-like feature might have formed through the eruption of melted brines following the Manannán impact,” said Elodie Lesage, PSI research scientist and study co-author. Read the full story: buff.ly/J8YWM1P

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Matt Walker recently coauthored a paper about how melting ice on distant moons can cause subsurface oceans to boil! Learn more about Matt:

Happy Friday! 🪐 🐾 This week's #PlanetaryPet is PSI’s Jean-Philippe Combe's English Pointer Aubrey. According to Jean-Philippe, Aubrey likes to explore her environment by climbing to higher elevations, test new grounds, and challenge humans’ point of view.

#JunoCam: Image processing included saturation & contrast enhancement, color normalization of the image with color calibration, background extraction, reducing color artifacts & image sharpness enhancement. Process your own JunoCam images buff.ly/9YvnJFy 📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Raihan Mohammad

A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters casts doubt on a 2018 discovery of a briny lake potentially lurking beneath Mars’s south polar cap. 🧪 🔭 Read the full story: buff.ly/JRpyeku

“Water is pretty important for habitability, so there is a lot of effort in understanding the processes which modify the oceans and the types of histories these environments experience,” said paper coauthor and PSI's Matthew Walker. 🔭 🧪 Read the story: buff.ly/St7Q6an

We have exciting news! We've launched our annual campaign! Learn more about us by reading our '24 annual report, highlighted in this week's newsletter: buff.ly/l4KhPmt If you like what you see, please consider subscribing & making a donation! buff.ly/fym6Lts Thank you from all of us at PSI! 🪐🌵🌌

#SciArt: This week’s featured art is a dramatic digital image by PSI Research Scientist Peter Buhler. He was inspired to create this after being stranded in a snowstorm for a few hours along the Rim of the World Highway (near Big Bear).

Our PSI Annual Campaign is on! You can help us on our journey to pursue cutting-edge Solar System research and to share science with our communities by making a year-end pledge: buff.ly/MINpmxp

#JunoCam: A false color and sharpened image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. Interested in processing your own JunoCam images? Visit: buff.ly/koWEI1e 📸: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Johnathan Brackett

Are you a PhD student interested in attending a planetary science-related conference or workshop? Each year, the Planetary Science Institute bestows two awards: For more information, go to: buff.ly/ragzh93

❓ What hobbies do you enjoy in your spare time? 🎙️I have two young children and a full-time job. What's spare time? If I do have a moment, I love anything outside - particularly running and cycling. Read Carly's Q&A + subscribe to our newsletter: buff.ly/8ieyPmw

Happy Friday! 🪐 🐾 This week's #planetarypet is Grant, who loves riding shotgun alongside PSI's Aileen Yingst. Here he has planted himself in the car to make sure the family doesn’t leave without him - wherever they are going.

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PSI's Pamela Gay caught this beautiful image of the aurora from her home in Illinois! The northern lights were seen as far south as Florida and were caused by coronal mass ejections, solar storms that spew particles, energy, magnetic fields and material into the Solar System.

#JunoCam: Participatory scientist Navaneeth Krishnan S created this hypnotic image by stitching together multiple false color images of Jupiter's northern circumpolar cyclone. Interested in processing your own JunoCam images? Visit: buff.ly/koWEI1e 📸: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS/Navaneeth Krishnan S

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During the week of Nov. 3, six comet experts converged in Tucson, Ariz. for the first international Belton Symposium, hosted by the Planetary Science Institute. Read the full story and learn more about the man who inspired it: buff.ly/ofoKyQA