New research offer clues to Mars’s history, including what violent collisions it experienced in the past and how it lost its magnetic field. Professor Ingrid Daubar, former member of the InSight science team, commented on these recent studies, saying, “There are connections to our own planet, to how planets form in general and to how we understand different planets outside our solar system.”

A new publication in G3 led by Assistant Professor Emily H. G. Cooperdock untangles the systematics of uranium enrichment for serpentinites from different tectonic settings and explores potential mineral hosts. The researchers found that "uranium enrichment is most common in the upper 100m of the seafloor and is not correlated with degree of serpentinization. We also find a correlation between U concentration and iron-oxidation, which we use to suggest that U is hosted in ferric iron minerals, possibly iron-oxides." The paper also provides insights on using uranium as a tracer for tectonic setting, fluid rock interactions, and redox records in the solid Earth system.

From freshly formed simple craters on the Moon to hydrogen sulfide production in the Salton Sea, DEEPS undergraduate students participated in cutting edge research throughout the 2025 summer break. We are proud to showcase some of these research projects with this photo series.