Another Editor’s Highlight published today for the Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets. Nice work by Aussel et al. using machine learning to create a global map of boulders on the Moon.

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I had the opportunity to do some fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic in 2023 with a group of colleagues to study permafrost and other periglacial features as analogues to features observed on Mars. The first paper from the fieldwork was just published (authors.elsevier.com/c/1lRTd4L-Yq...)

The President’s Budget Request has been released and proposes the largest cut to NASA’s budget in US history. This will trigger immediate and irreparable damage to American space science. The Planetary Society has made it easy to contact your members of congress:

www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

Assuming NASA can fund this work, of course.

The White House shared the draft version of its budget request for NASA for the fiscal-year 2026. It calls for a staggering near-50% cut to NASA science. This would seriously jeopardize our national dominance in space while not making a dent in balancing a budget.

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Always nice to get a trail run in with the pups and catch a sunset over the mountains.

LPSC 2025 Poster is up and ready to go for tonight’s poster session! This is part of our work on selecting the Lunar-VISE landing site on the Moon.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera captured an image of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander on the surface of the Moon within Mare Crisium. www.lroc.asu.edu/images/1406

ShadowCam on the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) has been returning amazing images of the permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles. You can see a presentation on some of the ShadowCam results I gave at the European Lunar Symposium in August.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwqi...

Blue Ghost Mission 1 will attempt to land on the surface of the Moon in Mare Crisium this evening. Fingers crossed for a successful landing. Live broadcast starts at 11:30 pm PST.
www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1A...

@firefly-aerospace.bsky.social performed its final orbit maneuver of its Blue Ghost mission today setting it up for its final descent to the lunar surface on March 2. This will be Firefly’s first attempt to land on the Moon and they will be taking our mission, Lunar-VISE, to the Moon in early 2028!

I had my first Editor’s Highlight for the Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets published in EOS today. Nice work by Deutsch et al. studying a really interesting class of features, called hollows, on the planet Mercury.

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