Field dispatches from three planetary analogs, one decade, seventy-two stories.
The ground truth for a future on the Moon and Mars is being worked out in places that already look like both: the basaltic flanks of Kīlauea, a maar crater in southern New Mexico, and the lava fields where the RISE 2 program has spent the last decade rehearsing Artemis-era field science.
- Years
- 2013–2022
- Articles
- 72
- Expeditions
- 3
Where the work happens.
The Big Island's Hard Rock Café
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kīlauea
Stony Brook journalists embed for ten days with the RIS4E field team in the basaltic terrain of Mount Kīlauea, where planetary scientists rehearse the next generation of geology instruments.
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Dispatches from the desert
Potrillo Volcanic Field, Doña Ana County
Two miles long, an Apollo astronaut and a maar crater. The RIS4E team relocates to the Potrillo volcanic field of southern New Mexico to test how field geology instruments hold up under simulated EVA conditions.
Read the 32 dispatchesBuilding toward Artemis
Potrillo Volcanic Field, returning
The RISE 2 program returns to Potrillo to integrate years of instrument development into Artemis-era extravehicular activity planning. Sara Ruberg reports on geoscience graduate students, lunar algorithms, and what astronauts will actually need on the Moon.
Read the 15 dispatches