In 2007, NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft to investigate the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn, the first mission to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, entered orbit around Ceres […]
The lunar surface is littered with relicts of impacts large and small that have obfuscated the ancient geologic record of the Moon. Zircon (SiO4) is a mineral often used to look […]
The composition and mineralogy of the lunar surface provides important clues to the formation and evolution of the Moon through geologic time. A group of scientists led by Mélissa Martinot […]
Titan is the only extraterrestrial body in our solar system with persistent lakes and seas filled with liquid hydrocarbons on its surface. Among them, the small lake basins have been […]
Protoplanet Vesta, visited by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2013, was once thought to be completely dry, incapable of retaining water because of the low temperatures and pressures at […]
27 April – 02 May 2014, EGU, Vienna The Mars Science and Exploration Session will address the latest results on the interior, surface, atmosphere and ionosphere of Mars from recent and ongoing […]