Focus on Alumni

Alumna Explores Existence of New Planet with Wittenberg Series’ Speaker

Sept. 24, 2019

Wittenberg graduate Kathryn Volk is boldly going where few others have gone before – to the Kuiper Belt along the far edges of the solar system in hopes of proving the existence of a few more planets.

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The Dusty Plains of Arcadia Planitia (podcast)

Sept. 23, 2019

SpaceX has been requesting HiRISE images from an area called Arcadia Planitia as potential landing sites for their Starship vehicle. Dr Ali Bramson, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Lab and expert on the region, joins Jake to talk about what’s going on there and why SpaceX might be interested.

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Meet The Nuclear-Powered Self-Driving Drone NASA Is Sending To A Moon Of Saturn

Sept. 17, 2019

On the face of it, NASA's newest probe sounds incredible. Known as Dragonfly, it is a dual-rotor quadcopter (technically an octocopter, even more technically an X8 octocopter); it's roughly the size of a compact car; it's completely autonomous; it's nuclear powered; and it will hover above the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.

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Artist rendition of the Dragonfly drone on Saturn's moon Titan.