Articles tagged with "planetary_geology"

04/23/2013 23:32:56
Mars Science Laboratory: The Search for Habitable Environments
Douglas Smith
John Grotzinger, Caltech’s Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology, is the project scientist for JPL’s newest Mars rover—Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory. The rover is exploring the floor of Gale Crater, and Grotzinger will describe its discoveries so far during a free public lecture at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium.
12/04/2008 08:00:00
Caltech Researchers Find Ancient Climate Cycles Recorded in Mars Rocks
Kathy Svitil

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have found evidence of ancient climate change on Mars caused by regular variation in the planet's tilt, or obliquity. On Earth, similar "astronomical forcing" of climate drives ice-age cycles.

03/13/1997 08:00:00
Caltech Geologists Find New Evidence That Martian Meteorite Could Have Harbored Life
Robert Tindol

PASADENA—Geologists studying Martian meteorite ALH84001 have found new support for the possibility that the rock could once have harbored life.

 
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