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NASA officer commends rise of crowdsourced science
DEEPS Visiting Scientist and NASA Citizen Science Officer Marc Kuchner facilitated a seminar on the growing importance of “citizen science” — an uncoordinated collection of independent volunteers around the world — in advancing the discovery of exoplanets and planet formation.
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New research shows how the impact that created the Moon’s South Pole–Aitken basin is linked to the stark contrast in composition and appearance between the two sides of the Moon.
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Lunar and Planetary Institute
Laura Lark and Erica Nathan receive 2022 Career Development Awards
Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of this award from LPI.
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Geological Society of America
Kierra Wilk won Honorable Mention for Best Undergraduate Poster
Congratulations Kierra!
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Scientists have thought that the asteroid Psyche could be a big ball of pure iron, but new research suggests it’s likely harboring a hidden rocky component.
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Webb Telescope Update
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News from Brown
Researchers propose new explanation for Moon’s magnetic mystery
A new study reveals how the diminutive Moon could have been an occasional magnetic powerhouse early in its history, a question that has confounded researchers since NASA’s Apollo program began returning lunar samples in 1969.
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Heat from a comet exploding just above the ground fused the sandy soil into patches of glass stretching 75 kilometers, a study led by Brown University researchers found.
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Jim Head, a planetary geologist at Brown, is working with colleagues from China to analyze rocks returned from the Chang’e 5 mission, which recently brought to Earth the first lunar samples retrieved in 45 years.
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Brown scientists are analyzing a tiny chunk of the asteroid Ryugu in an effort to better understand the early history of the solar system.
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Brown Alumni Association of Hawaii NASA Event: "Out of this World with NASA’s Perseverance Mars Mission"
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A Brown research scientist and two undergraduate students are working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to spot fresh impact craters on Mars using artificial intelligence.
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Ariel Deutsch, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, will join an astronaut who walked on the Moon and two top NASA scientists for a panel titled “Lunar Geology: Past, Present and Future.”
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John Mustard, Ralph Milliken, and co-authors examined global patterns of landscape shapes and near-surface water ice the orbiters mapped. They concluded a covering of water ice mixed with dust mantled the surface of Mars to latitudes as low as 30 degrees, and is degrading and retreating.
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