Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences

Sara Cuevas-Quiñones

Research Interests Planetary Geoscience
Advisor Sam Birch
Pronouns she/her

Recent News

Communications Earth & Environment

Evidence for a composite volcano on the rim of Jezero crater on Mars

DEEPS Graduate Student Sara Cuevas-Quiñones recently published a new paper in Communications Earth & Environment, exploring the morphological, thermophysical, and mineralogical properties of a mountain on the Jezero crater of Mars. Cuevas-Quiñones and her team explain how radioisotope dating of igneous rock samples cached by Perseverance could eventually make this the first volcano of precisely known age on another terrestrial planet.
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