15 April 2016
Shifting ice on Europa could be warmer than anticipated
...those surface dynamics seen on Europa. So McCarthy, along with Reid Cooper, professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown, loaded ice samples into a compression apparatus to try to understand this process better. Their experiments...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
... ponded water appears to have emplaced lacustrine sediments, including evaporites," said Alexis Rodriguez of the Planetary Science Institute and co-author of the paper. "As a follow-up investigation we plan to characterise these terrains and assess...
22 June 2016
Does a subsurface ocean exist on Pluto?
... likely has a subsurface ocean today," said Noah Hammond, a graduate student in Brown's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and the study's lead author. These features, that mark Pluto’s mottled surface are deep sinuous...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
... of water that can be used by humans in future missions to the Moon," said Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and lead author of the paper. It was thought that the source of most of the Moon's surface...
24 April 2019
InSight detects first marsquake
... fit the profile of moonquakes detected on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions," said Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division director at NASA Headquarters. Provided for InSight by the French space agency, Centre National d'Études Spatiales...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
...," said Pablo Sobron, a SETI Institute physicist, who along with Laurie Barge at NASA JPL, received a NASA Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research (PSTAR) grant to study underwater hydrothermal systems. "This way, our project...
