Jim Bell, Author at RocketSTEM

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Jim Bell

Jim Bell is a planetary scientist, educator, author, public speaker, and past President (2008-2020) of The Planetary Society. He works at Arizona State University and is heavily involved in NASA solar system exploration missions like those of the Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity. In 2011 he received the Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication from the American Astronomical Society. He is an avid writer for space-related magazines and blogs, and often appears in media interviews on space-related topics (check out Jim Bell's YouTube channel). His popular science and space photography books include Postcards from Mars (2006), Mars 3-D (2008), Moon 3-D (2009), The Space Book (2013), The Interstellar Age (2015), The Earth Book (2019), and most recently Hubble Legacy: 30 Years of Images and Discoveries (2020). Jim is a Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Asteroids

Psyche visit of a metal world may reveal mysteries of Earth’s interior

Jim Bell September 5, 2023

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible. Since then, scientists have long acknowledged that Verne’s literary journey was only science fiction. The extreme temperatures of the Earth’s interior – around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,537 Celsius) at the core – …

Interview Mars

Bringing Mars rocks to Earth; scientist explains the tech, goals

Jim Bell February 11, 2021

In one week, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at the red planet, and hopefully will place the Perseverance Rover on the surface. Jim Bell is the primary investigator leading a team in charge of one of the camera systems on Perseverance. Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration …

Psyche visit of a metal world may reveal mysteries of Earth’s interior

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NASA announces Artemis II crew as rocket’s core stage completes assembly

Relativity Space launches Terran 1, world’s first 3D printed rocket

Orion takes a selfie on way to Sunday splashdown

Artemis era is underway as test flight launches to the Moon

Artemis 1: Here’s what to expect and why it’s important

Who is Artemis? Ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon

Jim Bell

Psyche visit of a metal world may reveal mysteries of Earth’s interior

Bringing Mars rocks to Earth; scientist explains the tech, goals

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