Each day in the control room of the Curiosity rover is jam-packed with important scientific decisions, as a NASA project scientist describes.
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A chemical signature in a lunar rock offers new insights into what early oxygen conditions were like on the Moon.
Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future missions to the red planet.
Caves form over millions of years, as a result of flowing water slowly working away at ‘soft’ calcareous rock.
Without a magnetic field, the Moon’s surface is exposed to solar wind. These could have been depositing resources like water and potential rocket fuel on the Moon’s surface for billions of years.
The InSights mission is producing the first evidence-based picture of Mars’s interior.
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Lecturer in Hydrogeology, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Professor of Geophysics, University of Rochester
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Ph.D. Student in Geology, Texas A&M University
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Graduate Student in Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Geology, Macalester College
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Project Scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA