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UrduNASA rover Perseverance landed on the surface of Mars Thursday, Feb. 18, and West Virginia University geologist Kathleen Benison is on the scientific team choosing which Martian rocks to bring back to Earth for study. Benison, an expert on extreme…
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Mars expert available to discuss Perseverance rover landing scheduled for Thursday
CHICAGO — On Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, the Mars Perseverance rover is scheduled to make its descent onto the red planet, landing on the Jezero Crater. The mission is designed to better understand the geology and climate of Mars, and…
Powerful electrical events quickly alter surface chemistry on Mars and other planetary bodies
Thinking like Earthlings may have caused scientists to overlook the electrochemical effects of Martian dust storms. On Earth, dust particles are viewed mainly in terms of their physical effects, like erosion. But, in exotic locales from Mars to Venus to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, electrical effects can affect the chemical composition of a planetary body’s surface and atmosphere in a relatively short time, according to research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Mission to Mars: @UNLV Scientist Gives Insider Glimpse at NASA’s 2020 Rover Mission
Silver, bug-eyed extraterrestrials zooming across the cosmos in bullet-speed spaceships. Green, oval-faced creatures hiding out in a secret fortress at Nevada’s Area 51 base. Cartoonish, throaty-voiced relatives of Marvin the Martian who don armor and Spartan-style helmets. We humans are fascinated with the possibility of life on the Red Planet.
On a mission to Mars
Geologist Kathy Benison has been selected for NASA’s Mars 2020 team.