Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences

John Mustard

Professor
Lincoln Field
Room 323
Research Interests Environmental Science, Oceans Ice and Atmospheres, Planetary Geoscience

Biography

My research focuses on the processes that modify solid surfaces and the spatial and temporal scales that control environmental processes on the Earth.

Recent News

DEEPS Professor John Mustard recently shared his opinion with Nature about NASA's new considerations for the Perseverance rover's mission, saying the rocks currently on board are “great, but they’re not sufficient to be the transformative samples that we want them to be.”
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NASA

Mars May Be Emerging From an Ice Age

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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