Subglacial Runoff Helped Carve the Valley Networks on Early Mars
For the last 40 years, since the valleys of Mars were first discovered, the assumption has been that precipitation and surface water runoff fueled rivers that once flowed on Mars, […]
Monthly Archives: August 2020
Se encuentran superconductores naturales en meteoritos
Los meteoritos pueden contener una amplia variedad de materiales exóticos que rara vez son observados en la Tierra. El estudio de estos materiales es emocionante y atractivo porque ofrece una […]
La escorrentía subglacial ayudó a forjar las redes del valle en los inicios de Marte
Durante los últimos 40 años, desde que se descubrieron por primera vez los valles de Marte, se ha asumido que la precipitación y la escorrentía del agua superficial alimentaron los […]
AGU Virtual Student Travel Grant Applications Due August 25
The 2020 AGU Fall Meeting Virtual Student Travel Grant program is accepting applications for students to be reimbursed for some of the costs to attend #AGU20’s online experience. This year, all […]
ChemCam Continues to Reveal New Discoveries
The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument, and its team, has now been operating on the surface of Mars for eight years, one of the longest streaks of its kind. Only […]
Attend the DPS Meeting this Year!
Please join us at the virtual DPS meeting this year, October 26-30! It’s a great opportunity to attend DPS, perhaps for the first time. Meeting abstracts are due Aug 12. […]
Job Opportunity: Scientific Programmer Position, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Late Accretion onto Terrestrial Planets (TRR 170) is a Transregional Collaborative Research Center funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The scope of TRR 170 is the interdisciplinary study of the […]
Call for Nominations: J. Lawrence Smith Medal
The J. Lawrence Smith Medal is awarded every three years for investigations of meteoric bodies. The award includes a $50,000 prize. Additional information, including past recipients, eligibility requirements, and more, […]
Now on YouTube: Ask An Astrobiologist with Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra
Episode 34: Aired on August 11thEpisode 34 of Ask An Astrobiologist Please join us as we welcome Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra, a research scientist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science! […]
Asteroid Impacts, Volcanism, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs
The mass extinction event 66 million years ago between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods decimated non-avian dinosaurs, although the primary cause of this extinction has been intensely debated. There was […]
IIE Iron Meteorites Suggest a Single Parent Asteroid with a Core Dynamo and Layers of Chondritic and Achondritic Material
Most meteorites in our collection are materials derived from the main asteroid belt. The traditional classification of these meteorites suggests that they come from either primitive, undifferentiated asteroids that have […]
Aperiodic PDS Data Releases in 2020.07
In July 2020, PDS ingested and made available the following data, none of which were regularly released with an ongoing mission: 2020.07.30 Rosetta OSIRIS data from cruise phases […]
51 Pegasi b Fellowship: Application Guidelines
The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program sponsored by the Heising-Simons Foundation provides an opportunity for promising recent doctoral scientists to conduct novel theoretical, experimental, or observational research in planetary astronomy. […]
Impactos de asteroides, vulcanismo y extinción de los dinosaurios
El evento de extinción masiva de hace 66 millones de años, entre los períodos Cretácico y Paleógeno, diezmó la población de dinosaurios no aviares. La causa principal de esta extinción […]
Los meteoritos de hierro del IIE sugieren la existencia de un asteroide monoparental con un dinamo en el núcleo y capas de material condrítico y acondrítico
La mayoría de los meteoritos de nuestra colección son de materiales derivados del cinturón de asteroides principal (MBA por sus siglas en inglés). La clasificación tradicional de estos meteoritos sugiere […]