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Yes, we just had an earthquake. It looks like it was preceded by a small foreshock sequence(largest M2.5) that began Saturday morning

Visit LPL.Arizona.edu to see the OREX sample return countdown.

The future astronauts of the NASA Artemis III mission to the Moon will perform geology tasks designed by a newly-announced team of 12 lunar scientists led by Johns Hopkins APL: go.nasa.gov/45mAI4E The team will plan moonwalk activities including sampling, imagery, and taking

India becomes the fourth nation ever to land a spacecraft on the moon. The successful attempt comes days after Russia's failed lunar mission. cnn.it/3sqHHej

Proposal submitted, excuse me while I peace out for the next 5 days

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will deliver a sample from asteroid Bennu to scientists waiting in the Utah desert on Sept. 24. news.arizona.edu/story/osiris-r…

Anybody have a blue sky invite code they want to share?

Love to see lunar seismology getting press coverage! Let’s send seismometers back to the Moon! 🌔 cnn.com/2023/09/14/wor…

I have an invite code if anyone needs it

From the independent review on Mars Sample Return: "there is currently no credible, congruent technical, nor properly margined schedule, cost, and technical baseline that can be accomplished with the likely available funding" nasa.gov/sites/default/…

Live Now: #OSIRISREx delivers the US's first pristine asteroid sample after a 3.86 billion-mile journey. Watch landing live from @DeptOfDefense's Utah Test & Training Range. Use #AskNASA to send us your questions. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

South Dakota has a 59% higher gun death rate than California.

🚀BIG news: We School of Earth and Space Exploration have a faculty position in planetary sciences AND 3 (!!!) Presidential Postdoc positions in planetary sciences (incl. Earth & exoplanets) — that will transition to faculty positions after 2 years. Join us! apply.Interfolio.com/131340 apply.interfolio.com/133112

Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission show evidence of water and high-carbon content. bit.ly/3Fa1Loq

WHAT A FREAKING NEW YORK JETS WIN.

Hey seismologists, regarding those back-to-back quakes in Afghanistan: do we have any potential explanations of how you can get four equal-magnitude quakes within just over a week, or is this a case of "nobody knows" at this point?

Don't forget the LPL Evening Lecture happening on Wednesday evening!

One week from tonight we welcome Dr. Dani DellaGiustina to speak at the last evening lecture of the semester: lpl.arizona.edu/events/lpl-eve…