{"id":226930,"date":"2026-10-08T20:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/world-space-week-story-roundup-penn-today\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:47:41","slug":"world-space-week-story-roundup-penn-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/world-space-week-story-roundup-penn-today\/","title":{"rendered":"World Space Week story roundup &#8211; Penn Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>           2 min. read       <\/p>\n<p><em>Penn Today<\/em> spoke with three Penn experts about the Artemis II crew\u2019s use of social media during the mission, how space images are more than just pretty pictures, and why space continues to fascinate.<br \/>Multiple projects trace mechanical engineer Igor Bargatin\u2019s decade-long commitment to space exploration as they climb from the edge of the atmosphere to the stars\u2014powered, almost every time, by light itself.<br \/>Naomi Blau and Moaz Elgeziry spent the summer conducting research through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring (PURM) program, using AI to modernize and refine the code powering a widely used receiver camera on the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Their research could help astronomers around the world make more effective use of the receiver to better understand how the universe evolves.<br \/>Sleep and chronobiology expert Mathias Basner on what keeps astronauts up at night and why the road to Mars runs through Antarctica.<br \/>                                                 <span>Penn Today Staff<\/span>                                                           <br \/>Arnav Lal collects water at Playa Baquerizo on San Crist\u00f3bal Island as a sea lion watches.<br \/>(Image: Lisa Mattei)<br \/>               Aug 4, 2026            <br \/>nocred<br \/>               Aug 10, 2026            <br \/>nocred<br \/>               Jul 28, 2026            <br \/>Nhlanhla Mavuso of Fluid Silicon at work in the Moore Building.<br \/>nocred<br \/>               May 5, 2026            <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTE9SWi13aXBsNVN6cjRrYjZESFhHVE5yMTduQmNib3FpMnRxVnBzRmF6MGN6QWV0c05haHBjcjdieEN1eThEdWlucC04Q0dyQnZmd0JYOHZxWmszcFdUSGlKVXc2dEpvYUVJMzk0bjV0WWM?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 min. read Penn Today spoke with three Penn experts about the Artemis II crew\u2019s use of social media during the mission, how space images are more than just pretty pictures, and why space continues to fascinate.Multiple projects trace mechanical engineer Igor Bargatin\u2019s decade-long commitment to space exploration as they climb from the edge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}