Zircons Survived to Tell the Tale of the Ancient Lunar Crust
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 […]
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New Insights into the Compositional Variability of the Lunar Crust
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 […]
Origin of Small Lake Basins on Titan
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 […]
Gullies on Vesta Suggest Past Water-Mobilized Flows
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 […]
EGU 2014 SESSION: PS2.4 MARS SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION
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 […]