LPL Spotlight Stories
![Richard Kowalski of the UA-operated Catalina Sky Survey, talks about the discovery of 2018 LA, the small asteroid that exploded over southern Africa on June 2.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/Kowalski-h.jpg?itok=OvsjfhY0)
What it Takes to Discover Small Rocks in Space
By Daniel Stolte, University Communications - June 6, 2018 Once every month, on average, somewhere on Earth a fireball appears![Optical Sciences Student Adriana Mitchell Off to Japan for Space Mission](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/Adriana_Mitchell-h.jpg?itok=wKi6Zxjz)
Optical Sciences Student Off to Japan for Space Mission
By Amee Hennig, UA College of Optical Sciences - May 31, 2018 Adriana Mitchell, an undergraduate in the University of![Satellite flying through space over Earth with sun setting in the distance.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/space_expertise-h.jpg?itok=SNSW4h-w)
Air Force Research Lab, Others Tap UA Space Expertise
By Emily Litvack, UA Research, Discovery and Innovation - May 8, 2018 If we spent 60 years leaving every car![This image of Mercury was created using infrared, red and violet filters that capture wavelengths both visible and invisible to the human eye; the colors shown here are only slightly different from what the human eye would see. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University APL/Carnegie Institute of Washington)](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/mercury-thin-crust-h.jpg?itok=mN-yckFb)
New Estimates of Mercury's Thin, Dense Crust
By Emily Walla, UA/NASA Space Grant Intern, University Communications - April 24, 2018 Mercury is small, fast and close to![Reddy and Campbell examine their animation of a Chinese space station flyby. (Photo: Mari Cleven/Research, Discovery & Innovation)](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/trk_space_station-h.jpg?itok=_oVHyVNC)
UA Researchers Track Chinese Space Station as it Falls to Earth
By Emily Litvack - March 22, 2018 A defunct Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to fall to Earth any![The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin passenger, Starman. This image was captured by cameras onboard the vehicle. (Image: SpaceX)](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/TeslaRoadster-h.jpg?itok=zIrRKtUZ)
LPL Astronomers Track Tesla Roadster in Space
By Emily Walla, UA/NASA Space Grant Communications Intern - February 20, 2018 Earlier this month, the Falcon Heavy rocket successfully![LUMIO mission profile showing launch, parking, transfer, operative and end-of-life phases.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/winningteam-h.jpg?itok=n_mRbm2P)
UA Researchers on Winning Team in Lunar Exploration Competition
By Emily Dieckman, UA College of Engineering - February 9, 2018 Pink Floyd aside, there isn't actually a dark side![A sample of the Michigan meteorite recovered by citizen scientists using maps produced by UA assistant professor Vishnu Reddy’s Doppler radar technique (Photo: Vishnu Reddy)](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/detect_recover-h.jpg?itok=e4Omdp5e)
Rapid Detection and Recovery: The Science of Hunting Meteorites
By Emily Walla, NASA Space Grant Intern, University Communications - February 6, 2018 At 8:10 p.m. on Jan. 16, hundreds![At this pit on Mars, the steep slope at the northern edge (toward the top of the image) exposes a cross section of a thick sheet of underground water ice. The image is from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with an enhanced-color central swath between grayscale on each side. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGS)](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/mars_buried_ice-h.jpg?itok=kwOK_Q23)
Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice
By University Communications - January 12, 2018 Researchers using the University of Arizona-led HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter![The UA's Dante Lauretta: "The work done on CAESAR will ensure that the UA continues to stand at the forefront of extraterrestrial sample analysis for the next 20 years."](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/spotlight/story/caesar_mission-h.jpg?itok=sedxpSmb)
UA in the Running for a New NASA Mission
By University Communications - December 21, 2017 NASA has chosen a planetary mission involving a team from the University ofPagination
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