New model offers clearer picture of life on Mars
Watching Perseverance’s journey across a dry, dusty river delta on Mars, it’s difficult to imagine that landscape once glistened with flowing water. But geological evidence, including satellite images and observations from Perseverance’s NASA siblings Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity, point to an ancient Mars that was once warm and wet. But much is still unknown about […]
March 12, 2021 • ~5 min
Graduate student lands lunar samples to learn how moon was formed
A fourth-year graduate student in the lab of Professor of Geochemistry Stein Jacobsen, Yaray Ku is working on a project aimed at understanding how the moon formed, and to do it, she’s working with actual lunar samples.
Aug. 20, 2019 • ~5 min
At Harvard, a discussion of twins in space
To understand the strain that space flight places on the body, NASA-affiliated researcher Brinda Rana has been examining the molecular changes in the twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly for five years.
Feb. 6, 2019 • ~6 min
At Harvard, a discussion of twins in space
To understand the strain that space flight places on the body, NASA-affiliated researcher Brinda Rana has been examining the molecular changes in the twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly for five years.
Feb. 6, 2019 • ~6 min
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