Posts Tagged: Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration
Western’s first steps in getting Canada to the Moon
August 6, 2019
In February, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada is joining the international effort to explore the Moon with robots and, eventually, humans. In order to prepare for these future missions,…
Apollo 11 and Canada ‘re-launch’ to the Moon this Saturday at Western University
July 16, 2019
Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 launched on a mission to the Moon. Five days later, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface…
Bring your personal ‘space oddities’ to Western’s Asteroid Day event
June 26, 2019
Are you desperate to find out, once and for all, if the rock your grandfather found when he was plowing the family farm back in the 1960s actually fell from…
Nearly one year later, Western students recover prized project from space
May 29, 2019
One year ago today, a team of Western University graduate students launched a high-altitude balloon (HAB) 20 km into space with the lofty goal of studying the Earth’s stratosphere to…
Western welcomes CSA astronaut Dave Williams for Space Day
April 10, 2019
This week, astronaut David Saint-Jacques became the fourth Canadian to complete a spacewalk. Today, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration presented the first-ever image of a black hole to…
Western’s CPSX supports new space mission led by CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques
January 22, 2019
While in space, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques is using his vantage point from aboard the International Space Station to explore Earth. Saint-Jacques is observing our planet to…
Western University-led team selected by Canadian Space Agency to study Mars minerals
January 15, 2019
Western University-led team selected by Canadian Space Agency to study Mars minerals “Planetary Instrument Concept Study” to develop a “Miniaturized In-situ X-Ray Diffractometer for Mineralogical Characterization of Planetary Surfaces (ISXRD)”…
Western planetary scientists assist in capturing first full-colour image of NASA InSight using HiRISE space camera
December 13, 2018
Houston, there is no problem here. Eric Pilles assisted in capturing – for the first-time ever – extraordinary and highly significant scientific images of the NASA InSight robotic lander using…
Boy meets world: Life-long space buff and Western graduate student discovers exoplanet
October 11, 2018
Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. With no immediate plans for such a voyage, the Western University graduate student has done the…
Western hosts SPACE OUT! as part of nation-wide Science Literacy Week celebration
September 21, 2018
Science Literacy Week is a nation-wide effort to showcase the excellence and diversity of science outreach institutions around the country. This year’s theme is Space, in large part, to celebrate…
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