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Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing
…such as open-basin lakes. At the same time, the landing site should not exceed a certain slope, otherwise the vehicle would topple over while attempting to land. The program then…
Paleomagnetic evidence for an outer solar system meteorite (speaker: James Bryson, University of Cambridge)
…the Tagish Lake meteorite does not contain a stable magnetic remanence. Given the ancient aqueous alteration age of this meteorite (10−20 AU where the magnetic field generated by the collapse…
Paleoenvironmental constraints from quantitative sedimentology and geomorphology: Canyon erosion and sand-ripple formation on Mars (Speaker: Mathieu Lapotre, Harvard University)
…a hospitable environment into the barren land we know today. Deciphering Mars′ geologic past using data from orbiting and landed spacecraft requires using and adapting theory and techniques that were…
Past and upcoming important solar eclipses in the continental U.S.: Reviewing circumstances, studies on its environmental effects and future perspectives (speaker:Marcos Peñaloza-Murillo, University of the Andes, Venezuela)
…extent of land touched by the Moon’s shadow may be dubbed as “Great American total solar eclipses”; the same can be applied when the penumbra of an annular solar eclipse…
A sign that aliens could stink
…phosphine, like swamps and marshlands and lake sediments and the farts and intestines of everything,” Sousa-Silva says. “Suddenly this all made sense: It’s a really toxic molecule for anything that…
A sign that aliens could stink
…phosphine, like swamps and marshlands and lake sediments and the farts and intestines of everything,” Sousa-Silva says. “Suddenly this all made sense: It’s a really toxic molecule for anything that…
MIT Astrophysics Colloquium 3/14/2023 — via Zoom only! Galaxies in the distant Universe are now much closer than before: early results from JWST (speaker: Michael Maseda, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
…red is 2.0, 2.77, and 4.44 microns (200W+277W+444W). Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), L. Hustak (STScI). Science: B. Robertson (UCSC), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), E. Curtis-Lake…