Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing
Program users can tinker with landing and path planning scenarios to identify optimal landing sites for Mars rovers.
Program users can tinker with landing and path planning scenarios to identify optimal landing sites for Mars rovers.
Study finds end-Permian extinction, which wiped out most of Earth’s species, was instantaneous in geological time.
American Geophysical Union honors EAPS professor's “outstanding achievements in research on the constitution and evolution of the Earth and other planets.”
Graduate student Kelsey Moore uses genetic and fossil evidence to study the first stages of evolution on our planet.
Expert in landscape evolution will build upon the work of outgoing associate department head Tim Grove, supporting the EAPS education mission.
Results may help identify ancient climates on Earth or other planets.
Study finds 1–2 percent of Earth’s oldest mantle rocks are made from diamond.
Discovery adds to evidence suggesting that Mars was at one time habitable.
Large concentrations of sulfites and bisulfites in shallow lakes may have set the stage for Earth’s first biological molecules.
Study finds lateral variations in composition at a key depth below the island hotspot, provides scientists a new understanding of mantle mixing.
Findings may lead scientists to reinterpret seismic maps of the Earth's interior.
By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia.
Alison Criscitiello PhD '14 seeks ice cores in inhospitable locations, sometimes camping on ice sheets and sleeping with a shotgun in case of bear attacks.
Higher mantle temperatures caused subducting tectonic plates to sink much further than they do today.