June 2015 · Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kīlauea
Hawaii · HI-SEAS
The Big Island's Hard Rock Café
There are 13 microclimates and a continent's range of terrain on the island of Hawaii. Of all of them, it's the lava fields of Kīlauea that draw planetary scientists from around the world — terrain that approximates the Moon and Mars closely enough to rehearse on. In June 2015, the RIS4E field team flew in from Johnson, Goddard, and Stony Brook for a ten-day trial of new geology instruments. A small group of student journalists came with them.
Filed 25 dispatches
From Hawaii.
Searching For Life on the Red Planet
Volcano Love
Goddess of Fire
Going With the Flow
America in Space: The Long Trip Back to the Moon—and Beyond
Astro Dome
Eight Months in the Mars Habitat
A Different Kind of Rock Collector
Never Stop Exploring
A Geologist in the Violin Section
An Odyssey Into Geology
Sage of the Expedition
The Right Hat for the Right Stuff
LIDAR
Lasers at the Lava Flow
The Indefatigable Geologist
Scientist in the Making
Guardian of the LIDAR
Reading Mars’ Story
Science of His Own Design
The Kite Geologist
The Rise of RIS4E: Getting a Grasp on the Solar System
A Down-to-Earth Space Traveler
TIR Remote Sensing
Snapshot Geology
Clash Over a Telescope
Heritage or the Heavens
X-ray Diffraction
Playing the Angles
The Big Island
Hawaii's Hard Rock Café
X-ray Fluorescence
Legacy Tech Rocks