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Contributing Editor, The Planetary Society

Jatan Mehta is a science writer passionate about exploration of space and humanity’s future in it, and the unique role of our Moon in both. His space blog and lunar exploration newsletter can be found at blog.jatan.space.

Resource Pages Authored by Jatan

VIPER, NASA’s Moon resource mapper

Before it was cancelled, NASA planned to launch the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, to map water on the Moon’s south pole.

Neptune, planet of wind and ice

Neptune, our outermost planet, is a windy blue world with exotic ice, raging storms, rings, and a moon that could have a subsurface ocean.

MAVEN, studying how Mars lost its atmosphere

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, MAVEN, studies how Mars loses its atmosphere to space. The orbiter also relays communications between surface missions and Earth.

TESS, finding new worlds

TESS, or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellites, is a U.S. mission to discover Earth-size worlds around nearby stars.