CSI papers published: Critical Zone is where much of the world's surface water is generated

CZ-TOP: The Critical Zone as a non-steady state biogeochemical reactor by CSI member Louis A. Derry, email: lad9@cornell.eduThe Critical Zone is where much of the world’s surface water is generated, and processes within the Critical Zone play a large role in determining the flux and composition of stream waters, including “water quality.” The...

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CSI papers published: Limits on Clouds and Hazes for the Trappist-1 Planets

Limits on Clouds and Hazes for the Trappist-1 PlanetsLimits on Clouds and Hazes for the Trappist-1 Planets by S.E. Moran, and CSI Member Nikole K. Lewis and colleagues, email:  nikole.lewis@cornell.eduThe TRAPPIST-1 planetary system is an excellent candidate for study of the evolution and habitability of M-dwarf hosted planets. Transmission...

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CSI papers published: Global volcano monitoring

Synthesizing multi-sensor, multi-satellite, multi-decadal datasets for global volcano monitoringSynthesizing multi-sensor, multi-satellite, multi-decadal datasets for global volcano monitoring by M.A. Furtney, CSI member Matthew Pritchard, and colleagues, email: pritchard@cornell.eduOwing to practical limitations less than half of Earth's 1400...

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CSI papers published: Exoplanet occurrence rate

Planet occurrence rate density models including stellar effective temperaturePlanet occurrence rate density models including stellar effective temperature by D. Garrett, CSI member Dmitry Savransky, and R. Belikov, email: ds264@cornell.eduAbstract: We present planet occurrence rate density models fit to Kepler data as a function of semimajor...

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CSI papers published: Mysterious Origin of Enceladus

The Mysterious Origin of Enceladus: A Compositional PerspectiveThe Mysterious Origin of Enceladus: A Compositional Perspective by W. McKinnon, CSI member Jonathan I. Lunine, and colleagues, email: jlunine@astro.cornell.eduEnceladus is the first world beyond Earth for which we have diagnostic observational data concerning the composition of an...

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Talk: Science and Suds Talk

Ocean worlds of the outer solar system: Life as we know it or life as we don’t?by Dr. Alexander Hayes, Cornell Department of AstronomyScience & Suds series, Tuesday, May 29, 7-8pm, Cortland Beer CompanyWe live in a special time where we know enough to design a spacecraft to look for life, either as we know it or possibly in un-Earthly forms...

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Water-powered spacecraft displayed at NASA Tech Day

Cornell’s CubeSat, a water propelled spacecraftCornell’s CubeSat, a water propelled spacecraft weighing less than 25 pounds, was on display for lawmakers and staffers on May 9 at NASA’s Technology Day on Capitol Hill. The event highlighted new technologies in the aerospace industry, including those that may enable future exploratory missions to...

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Public Lecture of the Titan Surface Meeting

Announcing a Public Lecture of the Titan Surface MeetingDragonfly: A Rotorcraft Lander to Explore Saturn's Moon TitanDr. Elizabeth P. TurtleDragonfly Principal InvestigatorJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryThursday, May 10, 7:30 pmSchwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller HallDragonfly is a mission concept under consideration for...

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NASA green lights self-assembling space telescope

A modular space telescope, nearly 100 feet acrossSure, it sounds kind of far out: a modular space telescope, nearly 100 feet across, composed of individual units launched as ancillary payloads on space missions over a period of months and years, units that will navigate autonomously to a pre-determined point in space and self-assemble.But “far...

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A second chance for planets around Red Giant Stars

When a star ages and brightens, the habitable zone moves outward and you're basically giving a second wind to a planetary system.In this Space.com article by Nola Taylor Redd, the Carl Sagan Institute's Ramses Ramirez states "When a star ages and brightens, the habitable zone moves outward and you're basically giving a second wind to a planetary...

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